2003
Maria Bello in The Cooler
Patricia Clarkson in Pieces Of April
Hope Davis in American Splendor
Holly Hunter in Thirteen
Renée Zellweger in Cold Mountain

2002
Kathy Bates in About Schmidt
Cameron Diaz in Gangs Of New York
Queen Latifah in Chicago
Susan Sarandon in Igby Goes Down
Meryl Streep in Adaptation

2001
Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind
Cameron Diaz in Vanilla Sky
Helen Mirren in Gosford Park
Maggie Smith in Gosford Park
Marisa Tomei in In the Bedroom
Kate Winslet in Iris

2000
Judi Dench in Chocolat
Kate Hudson in Almost Famous
Frances McDormand in Almost Famous
Julie Walters in Billy Elliot
Catherine Zeta-Jones in Traffic

1999
Cameron Diaz in Being John Malkovich
Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted
Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich
Samantha Morton in Sweet and Lowdown
Natalie Portman in Anywhere But Here
Chloë Sevigny in Boys Don't Cry

1998
Kathy Bates in Primary Colors
Brenda Blethyn in Little Voice
Judi Dench in Shakespeare In Love
Lynn Redgrave in Gods and Monsters
Sharon Stone in The Mighty

1997
Kim Basinger in L. A. Confidential
Joan Cusack in In & Out
Julianne Moore in Boogie Nights
Gloria Stuart in Titanic
Sigourney Weaver in The Ice Storm

1996
Joan Allen in The Crucible
Lauren Bacall in The Mirror Has Two Faces
Juliette Binoche in The English Patient
Barbara Hershey in The Portrait Of a Lady
Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Secrets & Lies
Marion Ross in The Evening Star

1995
Anjelica Huston in The Crossing Guard
Kathleen Quinlan in Apollo 13
Kyra Sedgwick in Something To Talk About
Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite
Kate Winslet in Sense and Sensibility

1994
Kirsten Dunst in Interview With the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles)
Sophia Loren in Ready To Wear
Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction
Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway
Robin Wright Penn in Forrest Gump

1993
Penelope Ann Miller in Carlito's Way
Anna Paquin in The Piano
Rosie Perez in Fearless
Winona Ryder in The Age Of Innocence
Emma Thompson in In the Name Of the Father

1992
Geraldine Chaplin in Chaplin
Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives
Joan Plowright in Enchanted April
Miranda Richardson in Damage
Alfre Woodard in Passion Fish

1991
Nicole Kidman in Billy Bathgate
Diane Ladd in Rambling Rose
Juliette Lewis in Cape Fear
Mercedes Ruehl in The Fisher King
Jessica Tandy in Fried Green Tomatoes

1990
Lorraine Bracco in GoodFellas
Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost
Diane Ladd in Wild At Heart
Shirley MacLaine in Postcards From the Edge
Mary McDonnell in Dances With Wolves
Winona Ryder in Mermaids

1989
Bridget Fonda in Scandal
Brenda Fricker in My Left Foot
Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias
Laura San Giacomo in sex, lies, and videotape
Dianne Wiest in Parenthood

1988
Sonia Braga in Moon Over Parador
Barbara Hershey in The Last Temptation Of Christ
Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Diane Venora in Bird
Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl

1987
Norma Aleandro in Gaby: A True Story
Anne Archer in Fatal Attraction
Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck
Anne Ramsey in Throw Momma From the Train
Vanessa Redgrave in Prick Up Your Ears

1986
Linda Kozlowski in "Crocodile" Dundee
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Color Of Money
Maggie Smith in A Room With a View
Cathy Tyson in Mona Lisa
Dianne Wiest in Hannah and Her Sisters

1985
Sonia Braga in Kiss Of the Spider Woman
Anjelica Huston in Prizzi's Honor
Amy Madigan in Twice In a Lifetime
Kelly McGillis in Witness
Meg Tilly in Agnes Of God
Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple

1984
Peggy Ashcroft in A Passage To India
Drew Barrymore in Irreconcilable Differences
Kim Basinger in The Natural
Jacqueline Bisset in Under the Volcano
Melanie Griffith in Body Double
Christine Lahti in Swing Shift
Lesley Ann Warren in Songwriter

1983
Barbara Carrera in Never Say Never Again
Cher in Silkwood
Tess Harper in Tender Mercies
Linda Hunt in The Year Of Living Dangerously
Joanna Pacula in Gorky Park

1982
Cher in Come Back To the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Lainie Kazan in My Favorite Year
Jessica Lange in Tootsie
Kim Stanley in Frances
Lesley Ann Warren in Victor/Victoria

1981
Jane Fonda in On Golden Pond
Joan Hackett in Only When I Laugh
Kristy McNichol in Only When I Laugh
Maureen Stapleton in Reds
Mary Steenburgen in Ragtime

1980
Lucie Arnaz in The Jazz Singer
Beverly D'Angelo in Coal Miner's Daughter
Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull
Mary Steenburgen in Melvin and Howard
Debra Winger in Urban Cowboy

1979
Jane Alexander in Kramer vs. Kramer
Kathleen Beller in Promises In the Dark
Candice Bergen in Starting Over
Valerie Harper in Chapter Two
Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer

1978
Carol Burnett in A Wedding
Dyan Cannon in Heaven Can Wait
Maureen Stapleton in Interiors
Meryl Streep in The Deer Hunter
Mona Washbourne in Stevie

1977
Ann-Margret in Joseph Andrews
Joan Blondell in Opening Night
Leslie Browne in The Turning Point
Quinn Cummings in The Goodbye Girl
Vanessa Redgrave in Julia
Lilia Skala in Roseland

1976
Lee Grant in Voyage Of the Damned
Marthe Keller in Marathon Man
Piper Laurie in Carrie
Bernadette Peters in Silent Movie
Katharine Ross in Voyage Of the Damned
Shelley Winters in Next Stop, Greenwich Village

1975
Ronee Blakley in Nashville
Geraldine Chaplin in Nashville
Lee Grant in Shampoo
Barbara Harris in Nashville
Lily Tomlin in Nashville
Brenda Vaccaro in Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough

1974
Beatrice Arthur in Mame
Karen Black in The Great Gatsby
Jennifer Jones in The Towering Inferno
Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstein
Diane Ladd in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1973
Linda Blair in The Exorcist
Valentina Cortese in Day For Night
Madeline Kahn in Paper Moon
Kate Reid in A Delicate Balance
Sylvia Sidney in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1972
Marisa Berenson in Cabaret
Jeannie Berlin in The Heartbreak Kid
Helena Kallianiotes in Kansas City Bomber
Geraldine Page in Pete 'n' Tillie
Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure

1971
Ann-Margret in Carnal Knowledge
Ellen Burstyn in The Last Picture Show
Cloris Leachman in The Last Picture Show
Diana Rigg in The Hospital
Maureen Stapleton in Plaza Suite

1970
Karen Black in Five Easy Pieces
Tina Chin in The Hawaiians
Lee Grant in The Landlord
Sally Kellerman in M*A*S*H
Maureen Stapleton in Airport

1969
Goldie Hawn in Cactus Flower
Marianne McAndrew in Hello, Dolly!
Siân Phillips in Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Brenda Vaccaro in Midnight Cowboy
Susannah York in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1968
Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby
Barbara Hancock in Finian's Rainbow
Abbey Lincoln in For Love Of Ivy
Sondra Locke in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Jane Morrow in The Lion In Winter

1967
Carol Channing in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Quentin Dean in In the Heat Of the Night
Lillian Gish in The Comedians
Lee Grant in In the Heat Of the Night
Pruenella Ransome in Far From the Madding Crowd
Beah Richards in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

1966
Sandy Dennis in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Jocelyn Lagarde in Hawaii
Vivien Merchant in Alfie
Geraldine Page in You're a Big Boy Now
Shelley Winters in Alfie

1965
Joan Blondell in The Cincinnati Kid
Ruth Gordon in Inside Daisy Clover
Joyce Redman in Othello
Thelma Ritter in Boeing Boeing
Peggy Wood in The Sound Of Music

1964
Elizabeth Ashley in The Carpetbaggers
Grayson Hall in The Night Of the Iguana
Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek
Agnes Moorehead in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Ann Sothern in The Best Man

1963
Diane Baker in The Prize
Joan Greenwood in Tom Jones
Wendy Hiller in Toys In the Attic
Linda Marsh in America, America
Patricia Neal in Hud
Liselotte Pulver in A Global Affair
Margaret Rutherford in The V. I. P.'s
Lilia Skala in Lilies Of the Field

1962
Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker
Hermione Gingold in Meredith Willson's The Music Man
Shirley Knight in Sweet Bird Of Youth
Susan Kohner in Freud
Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate
Gabriella Pallotta in The Pigeon That Took Rome
Martha Raye in Billy Rose's Jumbo
Kay Stevens in The Interns
Jessica Tandy in Adventures Of a Young Man
Tarita in Mutiny On the Bounty

1961
Fay Bainter in The Children's Hour
Judy Garland in Judgment At Nuremberg
Lotte Lenya in The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone
Rita Moreno in West Side Story
Pamela Tiffin in One, Two, Three

1960
Ina Balin in From the Terrace
Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry
Shirley Knight in The Dark At the Top Of the Stairs
Janet Leigh in Psycho
Mary Ure in Sons and Lovers

1959
Edith Evans in The Nun's Story
Estelle Hemsley in Take a Giant Step
Susan Kohner in Imitation Of Life
Juanita Moore in Imitation Of Life
Shelley Winters in The Diary Of Anne Frank

1958
Peggy Cass in Auntie Mame
Hermione Gingold in Gigi
Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables
Maureen Stapleton in Lonelyhearts
Cara Williams in The Defiant Ones

1957
Mildred Dunnock in Peyton Place
Elsa Lanchester in Witness For the Prosecution
Hope Lange in Peyton Place
Heather Sears in The Story Of Esther Costello
Miyoshi Umeki in Sayonara

1956
Mildred Dunnock in Baby Doll
Eileen Heckart in The Bad Seed
Marjorie Main in Friendly Persuasion
Dorothy Malone in Written On the Wind
Patty McCormack in The Bad Seed

1955
Marisa Pavan in The Rose Tattoo

1954
Jan Sterling in The High and the Mighty

1953
Grace Kelly in Mogambo

1952
Mildred Dunnock in Viva Zapata!
Gloria Grahame in The Bad and The Beautiful
Katy Jurado in High Noon

1951
Lee Grant in Detective Story
Kim Hunter in A Streetcar Named Desire
Thelma Ritter in The Mating Season

1950
Judy Holliday in Adam's Rib
Josephine Hull in Harvey
Thelma Ritter in All About Eve

1949
Miriam Hopkins in The Heiress
Mercedes McCambridge in All the King's Men

1948
Ellen Corby in I Remember Mama

1947
Celeste Holm in Gentleman's Agreement

1946
Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge

1945
Angela Lansbury in The Picture Of Dorian Gray

1944
Agnes Moorehead in Mrs. Parkington