Highlights and clips of every single movie to ever win Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards, from Janet Gaynor (1st), to Michelle Yeoh (95th).

EVERY Oscar Best Picture Winner: https://youtu.be/kL9LGf0qdVU
EVERY Oscar Best Director Winner: https://youtu.be/tOEo8YCPhaU
EVERY Oscar Best Actress Winner: https://youtu.be/O1rCHGluPNg
EVERY Oscar Best Actor Winner: https://youtu.be/hKBNaLY3yYw
EVERY Oscar Best Supporting Actress Winner: https://youtu.be/bln4ZM98dk0
EVERY Oscar Best Supporting Actor Winner: https://youtu.be/bG_ln2SH-Hc
EVERY Oscar Best Animated Feature Winner: https://youtu.be/qWjLc8l6j5M

1927-28 - Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise)
1928-29 - Mary Pickford (Coquette)
1929-30 - Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)
1930-31 - Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
1931-32 - Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
1932-33 - Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)
1934 - Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
1935 - Bette Davis (Dangerous)
1936 - Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)
1937 - Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)
1938 - Bette Davis (Jezebel)
1939 - Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind)
1940 - Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)
1941 - Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)
1942 - Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)
1943 - Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)
1944 - Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
1945 - Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
1946 - Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)
1947 - Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter)
1948 - Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)
1949 - Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)
1950 - Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
1951 - Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952 - Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba)
1953 - Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
1954 - Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)
1955 - Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)
1956 - Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
1957 - Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)
1958 - Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!)
1959 - Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
1960 - Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8)
1961 - Sophia Loren (Two Women)
1962 - Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)
1963 - Patricia Neal (Hud)
1964 - Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)
1965 - Julie Christie (Darling)
1966 - Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
1967 - Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1968 - Katharine Hepburn; Barbra Streisand (The Lion in Winter; Funny irl)
1969 - Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1970 - Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)
1971 - Jane Fonda (Klute)
1972 - Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)
1973 - Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class)
1974 - Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
1975 - Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
1976 - Faye Dunaway (Network)
1977 - Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
1978 - Jane Fonda (Coming Home)
1979 - Sally Field (Norma Rae)
1980 - Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter)
1981 - Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
1982 - Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
1983 - Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
1984 - Sally Field (Places in the Heart)
1985 - Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)
1986 - Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)
1987 - Cher (Moonstruck)
1988 - Jodie Foster (The Accused)
1989 - Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy)
1990 - Kathy Bates (Misery)
1991 - Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
1992 - Emma Thompson (Howards End)
1993 - Holly Hunter (The Piano)
1994 - Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)
1995 - Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking)
1996 - Frances McDormand (Fargo)
1997 - Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets)
1998 - Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)
1999 - Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry)
2000 - Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)
2001 - Halle Berry (Monster's Ball)
2002 - Nicole Kidman (The Hours)
2003 - Charlize Theron (Monster)
2004 - Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)
2005 - Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
2006 - Helen Mirren (The Queen)
2007 - Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
2008 - Kate Winslet (The Reader)
2009 - Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
2010 - Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
2011 - Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
2012 - Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
2013 - Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
2014 - Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
2015 - Brie Larson (Room)
2016 - Emma Stone (La La Land)
2017 - Frances McDormand (Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri)
2018 - Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
2019 - Renée Zellweger (Judy)
2020 - Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
2021 - Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
2022 - Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

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