As we approach the 96th Academy Awards, Deadline takes a photo-heavy look back at every Best Actress winner since 1927.
Scroll through the images below to see them all.
And if you’re interested in seeing the men who’ve won Best Actor, click here.
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Emma Stone — 2024
Image Credit: Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures/Everett Collection ‘Poor Things’ (2023)
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Michelle Yeoh — 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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2022 – Jessica Chaistain
Image Credit: Daniel C. McFadden /© Searchlight Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ (2021)
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2021 – Frances McDormand
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection ‘Nomadland’ (2020)
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2020 – Renee Zellweger
Image Credit: David Hindley /Roadside Attractions/Everett Collection ‘Judy’ (2019)
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2019 – Olivia Colman
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures/Everett Collection ‘The Favourite’ (2018)
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2018 – Frances McDormand
Image Credit: Searchlight ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ (2017)
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2017 – Emma Stone
Image Credit: Summit Entertainment/courtesy Everett Collection ‘La La Land’ (2016)
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2016 – Brie Larson
Image Credit: A24 ‘Room’ (2015)
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2015 – Julianne Moore
Image Credit: Sony Pictures Classics ‘Still Alice’ (2014)
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2014 – Cate Blanchette
Image Credit: Sony Pictures Classics ‘Blue Jasmine’ (2013)
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2013 – Jennifer Lawrence
Image Credit: The Weinstein Company ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (2012)
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2012 – Meryl Streep
Image Credit: The Weinstein Company ‘The Iron Lady’ (2011)
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2011 – Natalie Portman
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures ‘Black Swan’ (2010)
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2010 – Sandra Bullock
Image Credit: Warner Bros. ‘The Blind Side’ (2009)
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2009 – Kate Winslet
Image Credit: The Weinstein Company ‘The Reader’ (2008)
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2008 – Marion Cotillard
Image Credit: Picturehouse ‘La Vie en Rose’ (2007)
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2007 – Helen Mirren
Image Credit: Miramax ‘The Queen’ (2006)
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2006 – Reese Witherspoon
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox ‘Walk The Line’ (2005)
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2005 – Hillary Swank
Image Credit: Warner Bros. ‘Million Dollar Baby’ (2004)
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2004 – Charlize Theron
Image Credit: Newmarket Films ‘Monster’ (2003)
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2003 – Nicole Kidman
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures ‘The Hours’ (2002)
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2002 – Halle Berry
Image Credit: Lionsgate ‘Monster’s Ball’ (2001)
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2001 – Julia Roberts
Image Credit: Universal Pictures ‘Erin Brockovich’ (2000)
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2000 – Hillary Swank
Image Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ (1999)
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1999- Gwyneth Paltrow
Image Credit: Universal Pictures ‘Shakespeare In Love’ (1998)
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1998 – Helen Hunt
Image Credit: TriStar Pictures ‘As Good As It Gets’ (1997)
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1997 – Frances McDormand
Image Credit: Gramercy Pictures ‘Fargo’ (1996)
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1996 – Susan Sarandon
Image Credit: Gramercy Pictures ‘Dead Man Walking’ (1995)
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1995 – Jessica Lange
Image Credit: Orion Pictures ‘Blue Sky’ (1994)
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1994 – Holly Hunter
Image Credit: Miramax ‘The Piano’ (1993)
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1993 – Emma Thompson
Image Credit: Cohen Media Group ‘Howards End’ (1992)
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1992 – Jodie Foster
Image Credit: Orion Pictures ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991)
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1991 – Kathy Bates
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures ‘Misery’ (1990)
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1990 – Jessica Tandy
Image Credit: Warner Bros. ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ (1989)
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1989 – Jodie Foster
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures ‘The Accused’ (1988)
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1988 – Cher
Image Credit: MGM ‘Moonstruck’ (1987)
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1987 – Marlee Matlin
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures ‘Children of a Lesser God’ (1986)
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1986 – Geraldine Page
Image Credit: Island Pictures ‘The Trip to Bountiful’ (1985)
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1985 – Sally Field
Image Credit: TriStar Pictures ‘Places in the Heart’ (1984)
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1984 – Shirley Maclaine
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures ‘Terms of Endearment’ (1983)
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1983 – Meryl Streep
Image Credit: Associated Film Distribution ‘Sophie’s Choice’ (1982)
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1982 – Katharine Hepburn
Image Credit: Universal Pictures ‘On Golden Pond’ (1981)
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1981 – Sissy Spacek
Image Credit: Universal Pictures ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ (1980)
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1980 – Sally Field
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox ‘Norma Rae’ (1979)
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1979 – Jane Fonda
Image Credit: United Artists ‘Coming Home’ (1978)
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1978 – Diane Keaton
Image Credit: United Artists ‘Annie Hall’ (1977)
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1977 – Faye Dunaway
Image Credit: MGM ‘Network’ (1976)
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1976 – Louise Fletcher
Image Credit: United Artists ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1975)
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1975 – Ellen Burstyn
Image Credit: Warner Bros. ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ (1974)
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1974 – Glenda Jackson
Image Credit: AVCO Embassy Pictures ‘A Touch of Class’ (1973)
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1973 – Liza Minnelli
Image Credit: Allied Artists Pictures ‘Cabaret’ (1972)
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1972 – Jane Fonda
Image Credit: Warner Bros. ‘Klute’ (1971)
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1971 – Glenda Jackson
Image Credit: United Artists ‘Women in Love’ (1970)
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1970 – Maggie Smith
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ (1970)
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1969 – Katharine Hepburn (Tie)
Image Credit: Embassy Pictures ‘The Lion in Winter’ (1968)
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1969 – Barbra Streisand (Tie)
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures ‘Funny Girl’ (1968)
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1968 – Katharine Hepburn
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ (1967)
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1967 – Elizabeth Taylor
Image Credit: Warner Bros. ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ (1966)
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1966 — Julie Christie
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Darling’ (1965)
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1965 — Julie Andrews
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Mary Poppins’ (1964)
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1964 — Patricia Neal
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘Hud’ (1963)
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1963 — Anne Bancroft
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Miracle Worker’ (1962)
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1962 — Sophia Loren
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Two Women’ (1961)
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1961 — Elizabeth Taylor
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Butterfield 8’ (1960)
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1960 — Simone Signoret
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Room At the Top’ (1959)
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1959 — Susan Hayward
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘I Want To Live’ (1958)
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1958 — Joanne Woodward
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp. ‘The Three Faces of Eve’ (1957)
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1957 — Ingrid Bergman
Image Credit: 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation/Everett Collection ‘Anastasia’ (1956)
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1956 — Anna Magnani
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Rose Tattoo’ (1955)
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1955 — Grace Kelly
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Country Girl’ (1954)
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1954 — Audrey Hepburn
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Roman Holiday’ (1953)
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1953 — Shirley Booth
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Come Back, Little Sheba’ (1952)
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1952 — Vivien Leigh
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1951)
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1951 — Judy Holliday
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Born Yesterday’ (1950)
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1950 — Olivia de Havilland
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Heiress’ (1949)
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1949 — Jane Wyman
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Johnny Belinda’ (1948)
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1948 — Loretta Young
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Farmer’s Daughter’ (1947)
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1947 — Olivia de Havilland
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘To Each His Own’ (1946)
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1946 — Joan Crawford
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Mildred Pierce’ (1945)
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1945 — Ingrid Bergman
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Gaslight’ (1944)
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1944 — Jennifer Jones
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection. ‘The Song of Bernadette’ (1943)
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1943 — Greer Garson
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Mrs. Miniver’ (1942)
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1942 — Joan Fontaine
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Suspicion’ (1941)
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1941 — Ginger Rogers
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Kitty Foyle’ (1940)
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1940 — Vivien Leigh
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Gone With the Wind’ (1939)
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1939 — Bette Davis
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Jezebel’ (1938)
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1938 — Luise Rainer
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Great Ziegfeld’ (1937)
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1937 — Luise Rainer
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Good Earth’ (1936)
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1936 — Bette Davis
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Dangerous’ (1935)
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1935 — Claudette Colbert
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘It Happened One Night’ (1934)
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1934/35 — Katharine Hepburn
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Morning Glory’ (1933)
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1933/34 — Helen Hayes
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Sin of Madelon Claudet’ (1931)
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1932/33 — Marie Dressler
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Min and Bill’ (1930)
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1931/32 — Norma Sheaer
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘The Divorcee’ (1930)
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1930/31 — Mary Pickford
Image Credit: Everett Collection ‘Coquette’ (1929)
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1929 — Janet Gaynor
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘Street Angel’ (1928)
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