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Best Actress - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Actor, Antagonist, Barnstormer, Character, Feeder, Foil, Heavy, Histrion, Ingenue, Juvenile, Mime, Mimer, Mimic, Monologist, Mummer, Pantomime

The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees.

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1 1920s
2 1930s
3 1940s
4 1950s
5 1960s
6 1970s
7 1980s
8 1990s
9 2000s

1920s

1930s

1940s

13th 1940 Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle
Bette Davis The Letter
Joan Fontaine Rebecca
Katharine Hepburn The Philadelphia Story
Martha Scott Our Town
14th 1941 Joan Fontaine 'Suspicion
Bette Davis The Little Foxes
Olivia de Havilland Hold Back the Dawn
Greer Garson Blossoms in the Dust
Barbara Stanwyck Ball of Fire
15th 1942 Greer Garson Mrs. Miniver
Bette Davis Now, Voyager
Katharine Hepburn Woman of the Year
Rosalind Russell My Sister Eileen
Teresa Wright The Pride of the Yankees
16th 1943 Jennifer Jones The Song of Bernadette
Jean Arthur The More the Merrier
Ingrid Bergman For Whom the Bell Tolls
Joan Fontaine Madame Curie
Greer Garson The Constant Nymph

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s


See also: Best Picture - Best Actor - Best Actress - Best Supporting Actor - Best Supporting Actress - Best Director

List of movies - List of actors - List of directors - List of documentaries - List of Hollywood movie studios

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