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Best Actress Dossier

A performance ledger for leading women: the winning turns, career pivots, star-making races, and ceremony trails that carry the category.

Latest Winner Jessie Buckley
Span 1927/28-2025
Nominations 486
Ceremonies 98

Jessie Buckley

Most recent winning record: 98th ceremony (2025). Hamnet

Best Actress Through the Eras

98 ceremonies, 99 winners, 387 other nominees across the full Academy Awards span. Fast view shows every winner and keeps older nominee trails linked through each ceremony ledger.

Hamnet poster

2020s

Judy poster

2010s

The Blind Side poster

2000s

Boys Don't Cry poster

1990s

Driving Miss Daisy poster

1980s

Norma Rae poster

1970s

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie poster

1960s

Room at the Top poster

1950s

The Heiress poster

1940s

Gone with the Wind poster

1930s

The Divorcee poster

1920s

Sortable ledger

Every nomination in this category as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.