Best Actress 2022

Janet Gaynor
Street Angel/7th Heaven/Sunrise:A Song of Two Humans
As Diane Angela, The Wife

Mary Pickford
Coquette
As Norma Besant

Norma Shearer
The Divorcee
As Jerry Bernard Martin

Marie Dressler
Min and Bill
As Min Divot

Helen Hayes
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
As Madelyn Claudet

Katharine Hepburn (1st of 4)
Morning Glory
As Eva Lovelace

Claudette Colbert
It Happened One Night
As Ellie Andrews

Bette Davis (1st of 2)
Dangerous
As Joyce Heath

Luise Rainer (1st of 2)
The Great Ziegfeld
As Anna Held

Luise Rainer (2nd of 2)
The Good Earth
As O-lan

Bette Davis (2nd of 2)
Jezebel
As Julie Marsden

Vivien Leigh (1st of 2)
Gone With the Wind
As Scarlett O’Hara

Ginger Rogers
Kitty Foyle
As Kitty Foyle

Joan Fontaine
Suspicion
As Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth

Greer Garson
Mrs. Miniver
As Kay Miniver

Jennifer Jones
The Song of Bernadette
As Bernadette Soubirous

Ingrid Bergman
Gaslight
(1st of 2)
As Paula Alquist Anton

Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
As Mildred Pierce Beragon

Olivia de Havilland
To Each His Own
(1st of 2)
As Josephine “Jody” Norris

Loretta Young
The Farmer's Daughter
As Katie Holstrom

Jane Wyman
Johnny Belinda
As Belinda McDonald

Olivia de Havilland
The Heiress
(2nd of 2)
As Catherine Sloper

Judy Holliday
Born Yesterday
As Emma “Billie” Dawn

Vivien Leigh (2nd of 2)
A Streetcar Named Desire
As Blanche DuBois

Shirley Booth
Come Back, Little Sheba
As Lola Delaney

Audrey Hepburn
Roman Holiday
As Princess Ann

Grace Kelly
The Country Girl
As Georgie Elgin

Anna Magnani
The Rose Tattoo
As Serafina Delle Rose

Ingrid Bergman
Anastasia
(2nd of 2)
As Anna Koreff/ Anastasia

Joanne Woodward
The Three Faces of Eve
As Eve White/Eve Black/Jane

Susan Hayward
I Want to Live
As Barbara Graham

Simone Signoret
Room at the Top
As Alice Aisgill

Elizabeth Taylor (1st of 2)
Butterfield 8
As Gloria Wandrous

Sophia Loren
Two Women
As Cesira

Anne Bancroft
The Miracle Worker
As Annie Sullivan

Patricia Neal
Hud
As Alma Brown

Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
As Mary Poppins

Julie Christie
Darling
As Diana Scott

Elizabeth Taylor (2nd of 2)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
As Martha

Katharine Hepburn (2nd of 4)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
As Christina Drayton

Katharine Hepburn (3rd of 4)
As Eleanor of Aquitaine (tie) Barbra Streisand
The Lion in Winter - Funny Girl
As Fanny Brice

Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
As Jean Brodie

Glenda Jackson (1st of 2)
Women in Love
As Gudrun Brangwen

Jane Fonda (1st of 2)
Klute
As Bree Daniels

Liza Minnelli
Cabaret
As Sally Bowles

Glenda Jackson (2nd of 2)
A Touch of Class
As Vickie Allessio

Ellen Burstyn
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
As Alice Hyatt

Louise Fletcher
One Flow Over the Cuckoo's Nest
As Nurse Mildred Ratched

Faye Dunaway
Network
As Diana Christensen

Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
As Annie Hall

Jane Fonda (2nd of 2)
Coming Home
As Sally Hyde

Sally Field (1st of 2)
Norma Rae
As Norma Rae Webster

Sissy Spacek
Coal Miner's Daughter
As Loretta Lynn

Katharine Hepburn (4th of 4)
On Golden Pond
As Ethel Thayer

Meryl Streep (1st of 2)
Sophie's Choice
As Sophie Zawistowski

Shirley MacLaine
Terms of Endearment
As Aurora Greenway

Sally Field (2nd of 2)
Places in the Heart
As Edna Spalding

Geraldine Page
The Trip to Bountiful
As Carrie Watts

Marlee Maitlin
Children of a Lesser God
As Sarah Norman

Cher
Moonstruck
As Loretta Castorini

Jodie Foster (1st of 2)
The Accused
As Sarah Tobias

Jessica Tandy
Driving Miss Daisy
As Daisy Werthan

Kathy Bates
Misery
As Annie Wilkes

Jodie Foster (2nd of 2)
Silence of the Lambs
As Clarice Starling

Emma Thompson
Howard's End
As Margaret Schlegel

Holly Hunter
The Piano
As Ada McGrath

Jessica Lange
Blue Sky
As Carly Marshall

Susan Sarandon
Dead Man Walking
As Helen Prejean

Frances McDormand
Fargo
(1st of 3)
As Marge Gunderson

Helen Hunt
As Good as It Gets
As Carol Connelly

Gwyneth Paltrow
Shakespeare in Love
As Viola de Lesseps/Thomas Kent

Hilary Swank (1st of 2)
Boys Don't Cry
As Brandon Teena

Julia Roberts
Erin Brockovich
As Erin Brockovich

Hallie Berry
Monster's Ball
As Leticia Musgrove

Nicole Kidman
The Hours
As Virginia Woolf

Charlize Theron
Monster
As Aileen “Lee” Wournos

Hilary Swank (2nd of 2)
Million Dollar Baby
As Maggie Fitzgerald

Reese Witherspoon
Walk the Line
As June Carter Cash

Helen Mirren
The Queen
As Queen Elizabeth II

Marion Cotillard
La Vie en Rose
As Édith Piaf

Kate Winslet
The Reader
As Hanna Schmitz

Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
As Leigh Anne Tuohy

Natalie Portman
The Black Swan
As Nina Sayers

Meryl Streep (2nd of 2)
The Iron Lady
As Margaret Thatcher

Jennifer Lawrence
Silver Linings Playbook
As Tiffany Maxwell

Cate Blanchett
Blue Jasmine
As Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis

Julianne Moore
Still Alice
As Alice Howard

Brie Larson
Room
As Joy “Ma” Newsome

Emma Stone
La La Land
As Mia Dolan

Frances McDormand
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(2nd of 3)
As Mildred Hayes

Olivia Colman
The Favourite
As Queen Anne

Renée Zellweger
Judy
As Judy Garland

Frances McDormand
Nomadland
(3rd of 3)
As Fern

Jessica Chastain
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
As Tammy Faye Baker

Michelle Yeoh
Everything Everywhere All at Once
As Evelyn Quan Wang