Academy Award for Best Actress | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
First awarded | 1929 |
Most recent winner | Emma Stone, Poor Things (2024) |
Most awards | Katharine Hepburn (4) |
Most nominations | Meryl Streep (17) |
Website | oscars |
The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Actor winner.
The Best Actress award has been presented 96 times, to 79 actresses. The first winner was Janet Gaynor for her roles in 7th Heaven , Street Angel , and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans . The most recent winner is Emma Stone for her role in Poor Things (2023); she had previously won the award for her role in La La Land (2016). The record for most wins is four, held by Katharine Hepburn. Frances McDormand has won three times, and thirteen other actresses have won the award twice. Meryl Streep has received the most nominations in the category—seventeen—and has won twice. With six nominations Deborah Kerr is the most nominated actress without a single win in this category. At the 41st Academy Awards, Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn received the same number of votes and thus tied for Best Actress (the only time this has occurred).
Nominees are currently determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. [1]
In the first three years of the awards, actors and actresses were nominated as the best individuals in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. [2] Despite this, at the 3rd Academy Awards, held in 1930, only one film was cited in each winner's award regardless of how many they were eligible to be considered for during that span. [3] The current system, in which an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film, was introduced for the 4th Academy Awards. [2] Starting with the 9th Academy Awards, held in 1937, the category was limited to a maximum five nominations per year. [2]
In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County; the ceremonies are always held the following year. [4] For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31. [5] For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. [5] Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. [5]
‡ | Indicates the winner |
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† | Indicates a posthumous nominee |
Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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1927/28 (1st) | Janet Gaynor ‡ | Diane | 7th Heaven | [6] |
Angela | Street Angel | |||
The Wife | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | |||
Louise Dresser | Mrs. Pleznik | A Ship Comes In | ||
Gloria Swanson | Sadie Thompson | Sadie Thompson | ||
1928/29 (2nd) [note 1] | Mary Pickford ‡ | Norma Besant | Coquette | [7] |
Ruth Chatterton | Jacqueline Floriot | Madame X | ||
Betty Compson | Carrie | The Barker | ||
Jeanne Eagels † | Leslie Crosbie | The Letter | ||
Corinne Griffith | Emma Hamilton | The Divine Lady | ||
Bessie Love | Hank Mahoney | The Broadway Melody |
The following individuals received two or more Best Actress awards:
Wins | Actress | Nominations |
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4 | Katharine Hepburn | 12 |
3 | Frances McDormand | 3 |
2 | Meryl Streep | 17 |
Bette Davis | 11 | |
Ingrid Bergman | 6 | |
Jane Fonda | ||
Elizabeth Taylor | 5 | |
Olivia de Havilland | 4 | |
Glenda Jackson | ||
Jodie Foster | 3 | |
Sally Field | 2 | |
Vivien Leigh | ||
Luise Rainer | ||
Emma Stone | ||
Hilary Swank |
The following individuals received three or more Best Actress nominations:
Record | Actor | Film | Year | Age | Ref. |
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Oldest Winner | Jessica Tandy | Driving Miss Daisy | 1990 | 80 | [104] |
Oldest Nominee | Emmanuelle Riva | Amour | 2013 | 85 | [104] |
Youngest Winner | Marlee Matlin | Children of a Lesser God | 1987 | 21 | [104] |
Youngest Nominee | Quvenzhané Wallis | Beasts of the Southern Wild | 2013 | 9 | [104] |
Winners are in bold.
The following were nominated for their portrayals of the same fictional or non-fictional character in separate films (including variations of the original).
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