Best Actress
| Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Mary Pickford | Coquette | Winner | The first Canadian-born person to be nominated for an acting Oscar. | |
| 1930 | Norma Shearer | The Divorcee | Winner | ||
| Norma Shearer | Their Own Desire | Nominee | |||
| 1931 | Marie Dressler | Min and Bill | Winner | ||
| Norma Shearer | A Free Soul | Nominee | |||
| 1932 | Marie Dressler | Emma | Nominee | ||
| Lynn Fontanne | The Guardsman | Nominee | |||
| 1933 | May Robson | Lady for a Day | Nominee | The first Australian-born person to be nominated for an acting Oscar | |
| Diana Wynyard | Cavalcade | Nominee | |||
| 1934 | Norma Shearer | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Nominee | ||
| 1935 | Merle Oberon | The Dark Angel | Nominee | ||
| 1936 | Norma Shearer | Romeo and Juliet | Nominee | ||
| 1938 | Norma Shearer | Marie Antoinette | Nominee | ||
| Wendy Hiller | Pygmalion | Nominee | |||
| 1939 | Vivien Leigh | Gone with the Wind | Winner | ||
| Greer Garson | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Nominee | |||
| 1940 | Joan Fontaine | Rebecca | Nominee | ||
| 1941 | Joan Fontaine | Suspicion | Winner | ||
| Greer Garson | Blossoms in the Dust | Nominee | |||
| Olivia de Havilland | Hold Back the Dawn | Nominee | |||
| 1942 | Greer Garson | Mrs. Miniver | Winner | ||
| 1943 | Joan Fontaine | The Constant Nymph | Nominee | ||
| Greer Garson | Madame Curie | Nominee | |||
| 1944 | Greer Garson | Mrs. Parkington | Nominee | ||
| 1945 | Greer Garson | The Valley of Decision | Nominee | ||
| 1946 | Olivia de Havilland | To Each His Own | Winner | ||
| Celia Johnson | Brief Encounter | Nominee | |||
| 1948 | Olivia de Havilland | The Snake Pit | Nominee | ||
| 1949 | Olivia de Havilland | The Heiress | Winner | ||
| Deborah Kerr | Edward, My Son | Nominee | The first Scottish-born person to be nominated for an acting Oscar. | ||
| 1951 | Vivien Leigh | A Streetcar Named Desire | Winner | ||
| 1953 | Audrey Hepburn | Roman Holiday | Winner | Hepburn was a Belgian-born English actress | |
| Deborah Kerr | From Here to Eternity | Nominee | |||
| 1954 | Audrey Hepburn | Sabrina | Nominee | ||
| 1956 | Deborah Kerr | The King and I | Nominee | ||
| 1957 | Deborah Kerr | Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | Nominee | ||
| 1958 | Deborah Kerr | Separate Tables | Nominee | ||
| 1959 | Audrey Hepburn | The Nun's Story | Nominee | ||
| 1960 | Greer Garson | Sunrise at Campobello | Nominee | ||
| Deborah Kerr | The Sundowners | Nominee | |||
| 1961 | Audrey Hepburn | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Nominee | ||
| 1963 | Rachel Roberts | This Sporting Life | Nominee | ||
| 1964 | Julie Andrews | Mary Poppins | Winner | ||
| 1965 | Julie Andrews | The Sound of Music | Nominee | ||
| Julie Christie | Darling | Winner | Christie is an Indian-born English actress. | ||
| 1966 | Lynn Redgrave | Georgy Girl | Nominee | ||
| 1967 | Edith Evans | The Whisperers | Nominee | ||
| Audrey Hepburn | Wait Until Dark | Nominee | |||
| 1968 | Vanessa Redgrave | Isadora | Nominee | ||
| 1969 | Maggie Smith | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Winner | ||
| Geneviève Bujold | Anne of the Thousand Days | Nominee | |||
| Jean Simmons | The Happy Ending | Nominee | |||
| 1970 | Glenda Jackson | Women in Love | Winner | ||
| Sarah Miles | Ryan's Daughter | Nominee | |||
| 1971 | Glenda Jackson | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Nominee | ||
| Julie Christie | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Nominee | |||
| 1972 | Maggie Smith | Travels with My Aunt | Nominee | ||
| 1973 | Glenda Jackson | A Touch of Class | Winner | ||
| 1975 | Glenda Jackson | Hedda | Nominee | ||
| 1982 | Julie Andrews | Victor Victoria | Nominee | ||
| 1983 | Julie Walters | Educating Rita | Nominee | ||
| 1984 | Vanessa Redgrave | The Bostonians | Nominee | ||
| Judy Davis | A Passage to India | Nominee | |||
| 1989 | Jessica Tandy | Driving Miss Daisy | Winner | ||
| Pauline Collins | Shirley Valentine | Nominee | |||
| 1992 | Emma Thompson | Howards End | Winner | ||
| 1993 | Emma Thompson | The Remains of the Day | Nominee | ||
| 1994 | Miranda Richardson | Tom and Viv | Nominee | ||
| 1995 | Emma Thompson | Sense and Sensibility | Nominee | ||
| 1996 | Brenda Blethyn | Secrets & Lies | Nominee | ||
| Kristin Scott-Thomas | The English Patient | Nominee | |||
| Emily Watson | Breaking the Waves | Nominee | |||
| 1997 | Helena Bonham Carter | The Wings of the Dove | Nominee | ||
| Julie Christie | Afterglow | Nominee | |||
| Judi Dench | Mrs. Brown | Nominee | |||
| Kate Winslet | Titanic | Nominee | |||
| 1998 | Emily Watson | Hilary and Jackie | Nominee | ||
| Cate Blanchett | Elizabeth | Nominee | |||
| 1999 | Janet McTeer | Tumbleweeds | Nominee | ||
| 2001 | Judi Dench | Iris | Nominee | ||
| Nicole Kidman | Moulin Rouge! | Nominee | Kidman is a US-born Australian actress. | ||
| 2002 | Nicole Kidman | The Hours | Winner | ||
| 2003 | Keisha Castle-Hughes | Whale Rider | Nominee | ||
| Samantha Morton | In America | Nominee | |||
| Charlize Theron | Monster | Winner | Theron is a South African-American actress. | ||
| Naomi Watts | 21 Grams | Nominee | Watts is an English-born Australian actress. | ||
| 2004 | Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | Nominee | ||
| Kate Winslet | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Nominee | |||
| 2005 | Judi Dench | Mrs Henderson Presents | Nominee | ||
| Charlize Theron | North Country | Nominee | |||
| Keira Knightley | Pride and Prejudice | Nominee | |||
| 2006 | Judi Dench | Notes on a Scandal | Nominee | ||
| Helen Mirren | The Queen | Winner | |||
| Kate Winslet | Little Children | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | Julie Christie | Away from Her | Nominee | ||
| Cate Blanchett | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Nominee | |||
| 2008 | Kate Winslet | The Reader | Winner | ||
| 2009 | Helen Mirren | The Last Station | Nominee | ||
| Carey Mulligan | An Education | Nominee | |||
| 2010 | Nicole Kidman | Rabbit Hole | Nominee | ||
| 2012 | Naomi Watts | The Impossible | Nominee |
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“An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.”
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