8 decades of Oscars' Best Actresses
Before a new leading lady is crowned Best Actress, take a look back at all of the previous winners.
2011: Meryl Streep - "The Iron Lady"
2011: Meryl Streep - "The Iron Lady"
2010: Natalie Portman - "Black Swan"
2009: Sandra Bullock - "The Blind Side"
2008: Kate Winslet - "The Reader"
2007: Marion Cotillard - "La Vie En Rose"
2006: Helen Mirren - "The Queen"
2005: Reese Witherspoon - "Walk the Line"
2004: Hilary Swank - "Million Dollar Baby"
2003: Charlize Theron - "Monster"
2002: Nicole Kidman - "The Hours"
2001: Halle Berry - "Monster's Ball"
2000: Julia Roberts - "Erin Brockovich"
1999: Hilary Swank - "Boys Don't Cry"
1998: Gwyneth Paltrow - "Shakespeare in Love"
1997: Helen Hunt - "As Good as It Gets"
1996: Frances McDormand - "Fargo"
1994: Jessica Lange - "Blue Sky"
1993: Holly Hunter - "The Piano"
1992: Emma Thompson - "Howards End"
1991: Jodie Foster - "The Silence of the Lambs"
1990: Kathy Bates - "Misery"
1989: Jessica Tandy - "Driving Miss Daisy"
1988: Jodie Foster - "The Accused"
1987: Cher - "Moonstruck"
1986: Marlee Matlin - "Children of a Lesser God"
1985: Geraldine Page - "The Trip to Bountiful"
1984: Sally Field - "Places in the Heart"
1983: Shirley MacLaine - "Terms of Endearment"
1982: Meryl Streep - "Sophie's Choice"
1981: Katharine Hepburn - "On Golden Pond"
1980: Sissy Spacek - "Coal Miner's Daughter"
1979: Sally Field - "Norma Rae"
1978: Jane Fonda - "Coming Home"
1977: Diane Keaton - "Annie Hall"
1976: Faye Dunaway - "Network"
1975: Louise Fletcher - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
1974: Ellen Burstyn - "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
1973: Glenda Jackson - "A Touch of Class"
1972: Liza Minnelli - "Cabaret"
1971: Jane Fonda - "Klute"
1970: Glenda Jackson - "Women in Love"
1969: Maggie Smith - "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
1968 (tie): Katharine Hepburn - "Lion in Winter"
1968 (tie): Barbra Streisand - "Funny Girl"
1967: Katharine Hepburn - "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner"
1966: Elizabeth Taylor - "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
1965: Julie Christie - "Darling"
1964: Julie Andrews - "Mary Poppins"
1963: Patricia Neal - "Hud"
1962: Anne Bancroft - "The Miracle Worker"
1961: Sophia Loren - "Two Women"
1960: Elizabeth Taylor - "Butterfield 8"
1959: Simone Signoret - "Room at the Top"
1958: Susan Hayward - "I Want to Live!"
1957: Joanne Woodward - "The Three Faces of Eve"
1956: Ingrid Bergman - "Anastasia"
1955: Anna Magnani - "The Rose Tattoo"
1954: Grace Kelly - "The Country Girl"
1953: Audrey Hepburn - "Roman Holiday"
1952: Shirley Booth - "Come Back, Little Sheba"
1951: Vivien Leigh - "A Streetcar Named Desire"
1950: Judy Holliday - "Born Yesterday"
1949: Olivia de Havilland - "The Heiress"
1948: Jane Wyman - "Johnny Belinda"
1947: Loretta Young - "The Farmer's Daughter"
1946: Olivia de Havilland - "To Each His Own"
1945: Joan Crawford - "Mildred Pierce"
1944: Ingrid Bergman - "Gaslight"
1943: Jennifer Jones - "The Song of Bernadette"
1942: Greer Garson - "Mrs. Miniver"
1941: Joan Fontaine - "Suspicion"
1940: Ginger Rogers - "Kitty Foyle"
1939: Vivien Leigh - "Gone with the Wind"
1938: Bette Davis - "Jezebel"
1937: Luise Rainer - "The Great Ziegfeld"
1936: Luise Rainer - "The Good Earth"
1935: Bette Davis - "Funny Girl"
1934: Claudette Colbert - "It Happened One Night"
1933: Katharine Hepburn - "Morning Glory"
1932: Helen Hayes - "The Sin of Madelon Claudet"
1931: Marie Dressler - "Min and Bill"
1930: Norma Shearer - "The Divorcee"
1929: Mary Pickford - "Coquette"
1928: Janet Gaynor won for three films including "Seventh Heaven" ...
... "Street Angel" and ...
... "Sunrise."
