2003
Cate Blanchett in Veronica Guerin
Scarlett Johansson in Girl With a Pearl Earring
Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain
Charlize Theron in Monster
Uma Thurman in Kill Bill (Vol. 1)
Evan Rachel Wood in Thirteen

2002
Salma Hayek in Frida
Nicole Kidman in The Hours
Diane Lane in Unfaithful
Julianne Moore in Far From Heaven
Meryl Streep in The Hours

2001
Halle Berry in Monster's Ball
Judi Dench in Iris
Nicole Kidman in The Others
Sissy Spacek in In the Bedroom
Tilda Swinton in The Deep End

2000
Joan Allen in The Contender
Björk in Dancer In the Dark
Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For a Dream
Laura Linney in You Can Count On Me
Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich

1999
Annette Bening in American Beauty
Julianne Moore in The End Of the Affair
Meryl Streep in Music Of the Heart
Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry
Sigourney Weaver in A Map Of the World

1998
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth
Fernanda Montenegro in Central Station
Susan Sarandon in Stepmom
Meryl Streep in One True Thing
Emily Watson in Hilary and Jackie

1997
Helena Bonham Carter in The Wings Of the Dove
Judi Dench in Mrs Brown
Jodie Foster in Contact
Jessica Lange in A Thousand Acres
Kate Winslet in Titanic

1996
Brenda Blethyn in Secrets & Lies
Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt
Kristin Scott Thomas in The English Patient
Meryl Streep in Marvin's Room
Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves

1995
Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking
Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas
Sharon Stone in Casino
Meryl Streep in The Bridges Of Madison County
Emma Thompson in Sense and Sensibility

1994
Jodie Foster in Nell
Jessica Lange in Blue Sky
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Miranda Richardson in Tom & Viv
Meryl Streep in The River Wild

1993
Juliette Binoche in Blue
Holly Hunter in The Piano
Michelle Pfeiffer in The Age Of Innocence
Emma Thompson in The Remains Of the Day
Debra Winger in A Dangerous Woman

1992
Mary McDonnell in Passion Fish
Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field
Susan Sarandon in Lorenzo's Oil
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
Emma Thompson in Howards End

1991
Annette Bening in Bugsy
Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise
Laura Dern in Rambling Rose
Jodie Foster in The Silence Of the Lambs
Susan Sarandon in Thelma & Louise

1990
Kathy Bates in Misery
Anjelica Huston in The Grifters
Michelle Pfeiffer in The Russia House
Susan Sarandon in White Palace
Joanne Woodward in Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

1989
Sally Field in Steel Magnolias
Jessica Lange in The Music Box
Andie MacDowell in sex, lies, and videotape
Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys
Liv Ullmann in The Rose Garden

1988
Jodie Foster in The Accused
Christine Lahti in Running On Empty
Shirley MacLaine in Madame Sousatzka
Meryl Streep in A Cry In the Dark
Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas In the Mist: The Adventure Of Dian Fossey

1987
Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction
Faye Dunaway in Barfly
Sally Kirkland in Anna
Rachel Levin in Gaby: A True Story
Barbra Streisand in Nuts

1986
Julie Andrews in Duet For One
Anne Bancroft in 'night Mother
Farrah Fawcett in Extremities
Marlee Matlin in Children Of a Lesser god
Sigourney Weaver in Aliens

1985
Anne Bancroft in Agnes Of God
Cher in Mask
Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple
Geraldine Page in The Trip To Bountiful
Meryl Streep in Out Of Africa

1984
Sally Field in Places In the Heart
Diane Keaton in Mrs. Soffel
Jessica Lange in Country
Vanessa Redgrave in The Bostonians
Sissy Spacek in The River

1983
Jane Alexander in Testament
Bonnie Bedelia in Heart Like a Wheel
Shirley MacLaine in Terms Of Endearment
Meryl Streep in Silkwood
Debra Winger in Terms Of Endearment

1982
Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon
Jessica Lange in Frances
Sissy Spacek in Missing
Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice
Debra Winger in An Officer and A Gentleman

1981
Sally Field in Absence Of Malice
Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond
Diane Keaton in Reds
Sissy Spacek in Raggedy Man
Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant's Woman

1980
Ellen Burstyn in Resurrection
Nastassja Kinski in Tess
Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People
Deborah Raffin in Touched By Love
Gena Rowlands in Gloria

1979
Jill Clayburgh in Luna
Lisa Eichhorn in Yanks
Sally Field in Norma Rae
Jane Fonda in The China Syndrome
Marsha Mason in Promises In the Dark

1978
Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata
Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman
Jane Fonda in Coming Home
Glenda Jackson in Stevie
Geraldine Page in Interiors

1977
Anne Bancroft in The Turning Point
Jane Fonda in Julia
Diane Keaton in Looking For Mr. Goodbar
Kathleen Quinlan in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Gena Rowlands in Opening Night

1976
Faye Dunaway in Network
Glenda Jackson in The Incredible Sarah
Sylvia Miles in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Talia Shire in Rocky
Liv Ullmann in Face To Face

1975
Karen Black in The Day Of the Locust
Faye Dunaway in Three Days Of the Condor
Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Marilyn Hassett in The Other Side Of the Mountain
Glenda Jackson in Hedda

1974
Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Faye Dunaway in Chinatown
Valerie Perrine in Lenny
Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence
Liv Ullmann in Scenes From a Marriage

1973
Ellen Burstyn in The Exorcist
Marsha Mason in Cinderella Liberty
Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were
Elizabeth Taylor in Ash Wednesday
Joanne Woodward in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1972
Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues
Cicely Tyson in Sounder
Liv Ullmann in The Emigrants
Trish Van Devere in One Is a Lonely Number
Tuesday Weld in Play It As It Lays
Joanne Woodward in The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-the-Moon Marigolds

1971
Dyan Cannon in Such Good Friends
Jane Fonda in Klute
Glenda Jackson in Mary, Queen Of Scots
Vanessa Redgrave in Mary, Queen Of Scots
Jessica Walter in Play Misty For Me

1970
Faye Dunaway in Puzzle Of a Downfall Child
Glenda Jackson in Women In Love
Ali MacGraw in Love Story
Melina Mercouri in Promise At Dawn
Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter

1969
Geneviève Bujold in Anne Of the Thousand Days
Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo
Jean Simmons in The Happy Ending
Maggie Smith in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

1968
Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
Katharine Hepburn in The Lion In Winter
Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora
Beryl Reid in The Killing Of Sister George
Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel

1967
Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
Edith Evans in The Whisperers
Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark
Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Anne Heywood in The Fox

1966
Anouk Aimée in A Man and A Woman
Ida Kaminska in The Shop On Main Street
Virginia McKenna in Born Free
Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Natalie Wood in This Property Is Condemned

1965
Julie Christie in Darling
Samantha Eggar in The Collector
Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch Of Blue
Simone Signoret in Ship Of Fools
Maggie Smith in Othello

1964
Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater
Ava Gardner in The Night Of the Iguana
Rita Hayworth in Circus World
Geraldine Page in Toys In the Attic
Jean Seberg in Lilith

1963
Polly Bergen in The Caretakers
Leslie Caron in The L-Shaped Room
Geraldine Page in Toys In the Attic
Rachel Roberts in This Sporting Life
Romy Schneider in The Cardinal
Alida Valli in The Paper Man
Marina Vlady in The Conjugal Bed
Natalie Wood in Love With the Proper Stranger

1962
Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker
Bette Davis in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
Katharine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey Into Night
Glynis Johns in The Chapman Report
Melina Mercouri in Phædra
Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird Of Youth
Lee Remick in Days Of Wine and Roses
Susan Strasberg in Adventures Of a Young Man
Shelley Winters in Lolita
Susannah York in Freud

1961
Leslie Caron in Fanny
Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour
Claudia McNeil in A Raisin In the Sun
Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke
Natalie Wood in Splendor In the Grass

1960
Doris Day in Midnight Lace
Greer Garson in Sunrise At Campobello
Nancy Kwan in The World Of Suzie Wong
Jean Simmons in Elmer Gantry
Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8

1959
Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story
Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer
Lee Remick in Anatomy Of a Murder
Simone Signoret in Room At the Top
Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer

1958
Ingrid Bergman in The Inn Of the Sixth Happiness
Susan Hayward in I Want To Live!
Deborah Kerr in Separate Tables
Shirley MacLaine in Some Came Running
Jean Simmons in Home Before Dark

1957
Marlene Dietrich in Witness For the Prosecution
Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Anna Magnani in Wild Is the Wind
Eva Marie Saint in A Hatful Of Rain
Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces Of Eve

1956
Carroll Baker in Baby Doll
Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia
Helen Hayes in Anastasia
Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace
Katharine Hepburn in The Rainmaker

1955
Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo

1954
Grace Kelly in The Country Girl

1953
Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday

1952
Shirley Booth in Come Back, Little Sheba
Joan Crawford in Sudden Fear
Olivia de Havilland in My Cousin Rachel

1951
Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire
Shelley Winters in A Place In the Sun
Jane Wyman in The Blue Veil