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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 97 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 thrice, while thirteen other actresses have won the award twice. Meryl Streep has received the most nominations in this category—seventeen—and has won twice. Deborah Kerr holds the record in this category for most nominations (six) without a win—albeit in 1993, she was an Honorary Oscar recipient. 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). Italian actress Sophia Loren became the first actor, in any category, to win for a foreign language performance in Two Women (1960).
Nominations process
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.
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. 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. The current system, in which an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film, was introduced for the 4th Academy Awards. Starting with the 9th Academy Awards, held in 1937, the category was limited to a maximum five nominations per year.
Winners and nominees
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. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months, from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
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=Multiple wins and nominations
The following individuals received two or more Best Actress awards:
The following individuals received three or more Best Actress nominations:
Age superlatives
Films with multiple Leading Actress nominations
Winners are in bold.
All About Eve (1950) – Anne Baxter and Bette Davis
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) – Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor
The Turning Point (1977) – Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine
Terms of Endearment (1983) – Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger
Thelma & Louise (1991) – Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon
Multiple character nominations
The following were nominated for their portrayals of the same fictional or non-fictional character in separate films (including variations of the original).
Billie Holiday from Lady Sings the Blues (Diana Ross, 1972) & The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Andra Day, 2021)
Josephine "Jo" March from Little Women (Winona Ryder, 1994) & Little Women (Saoirse Ronan, 2019)
Leslie Crosbie from The Letter (Jeanne Eagels, 1929) & The Letter (Bette Davis, 1940)
Marilyn Monroe from My Week with Marilyn (Michelle Williams, 2011) & Blonde (Ana de Armas, 2022)
Queen Elizabeth I from Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett, 1998) & Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Cate Blanchett, 2007)
Vicki Lester (née Esther (Victoria) Blodgett) from A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, 1937) & A Star Is Born (Judy Garland, 1954)
Ally Maine (née Campano) from A Star Is Born (Lady Gaga, 2018)
See also
Academy Award for Best Actor
All Academy Award acting nominees
List of actors with more than one Academy Award nomination in the acting categories
List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
César Award for Best Actress
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical
Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
List of Academy Award–nominated films
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links
Oscars.org Archived January 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine (official Academy site)
The Academy Awards Database (official site)
Oscar.com Archived September 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (official ceremony promotional site)
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