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The Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
 for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama
was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an organization comprising journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside of the United States....
 as a separate category in 1951
1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events....
. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
.

The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama".

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The Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
 for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama
was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an organization comprising journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside of the United States....
 as a separate category in 1951
1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events....
. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
.

The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama".

Notes: "†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award. "‡" indicates a Golden Globe Award winner who wasn't nominated for an Academy Award.

Past winners


"Best Actress - Motion Picture"

  • 1944 - Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette
    The Song of Bernadette (film)

    The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
  • 1945 - Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
    , Gaslight
    Gaslight (1944 film)

    Gaslight is a 1944 in film Mystery film-Thriller adapted from Patrick Hamilton 's play Angel Street. It was the second version to be filmed; the Gaslight , released in United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier....
  • 1946 - Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
    , The Bells of St. Mary's
    The Bells of St. Mary's

    The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down....
  • 1947 - Rosalind Russell
    Rosalind Russell

    Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
    , Sister Kenny
    Sister Kenny

    Sister Kenny is a 1946 biographical film about Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian bush nurse, who fought to help people who suffered from polio, despite opposition from the medical establishment....
  • 1948 - Rosalind Russell
    Rosalind Russell

    Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
    , Mourning Becomes Electra
    Mourning Becomes Electra (film)

    Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1947 film by Dudley Nichols adapted from the 1931 Eugene O'Neill Mourning Becomes Electra. The film stars Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn and Kirk Douglas....
  • 1949 - Jane Wyman
    Jane Wyman

    Jane Wyman was an American actor. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda , and later achieved success during the 1980s for her leading role in the television series Falcon Crest....
    , Johnny Belinda
    Johnny Belinda (1948 film)

    Johnny Belinda is a 1948 in film drama film based on the Play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and film director by Jean Negulesco....
  • 1950 - Olivia de Havilland
    Olivia de Havilland

    Olivia Mary de Havilland is a two-time Academy Awards-winning actor. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner....
    , The Heiress
    The Heiress

    The Heiress is a 1949 drama film by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 The Heiress that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James....


"Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama"


1950s
  • 1951 - Gloria Swanson
    Gloria Swanson

    Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
    , Sunset Boulevard
  • 1952 - Jane Wyman
    Jane Wyman

    Jane Wyman was an American actor. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda , and later achieved success during the 1980s for her leading role in the television series Falcon Crest....
    , The Blue Veil
    The Blue Veil

    The Blue Veil is a drama film made by Jerry Wald/Norman Krasna Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It tells the story of a child torn between the competing claims of his birth mother and his adoptive mother....
  • 1953 - Shirley Booth
    Shirley Booth

    Shirley Booth was an American actress.Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway theatre career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba , for which she received a Tony Award in 1950....
    , Come Back, Little Sheba
    Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)

    Come Back, Little Sheba is a 1952 in film drama film made by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house....
  • 1954 - Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn

    Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
    , Roman Holiday
  • 1955 - Grace Kelly
    Grace Kelly

    Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
    , The Country Girl
    The Country Girl (1954 film)

    The Country Girl is a 1954 in film drama film adapted by George Seaton from a Clifford Odets play of the same name, which tells the story of a wikt:has-been singer/actor who is given one last chance to star in a musical, only to have his alcoholism hinder his chances....
  • 1956 - Anna Magnani
    Anna Magnani

    Anna Magnani was an Academy Award-winning Italy stage and film actress. Magnani won the Oscar for her lusty portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo ....
    , The Rose Tattoo
    The Rose Tattoo (film)

    The Rose Tattoo is a 1955 film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo. It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet....
  • 1957 - Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
    , Anastasia
    Anastasia (1956 film)

    Anastasia is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes....
  • 1958 - Joanne Woodward
    Joanne Woodward

    Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
    , The Three Faces of Eve
    The Three Faces of Eve

    The Three Faces of Eve is a 1957 book and film, loosely based on the true story of Chris Costner Sizemore, a woman who suffered from dissociative identity disorder....


1958: Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 in the hope of playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ....
 – I Want to Live!
I Want to Live!

I Want to Live! is a Drama film film noir directed by Robert Wise which tells the story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution....
  • Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
     – The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
    The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

    The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 in film 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious United Kingdom maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II....
  • Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr

    Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
     – Separate Tables
    Separate Tables (film)

    Separate Tables is a 1958 in film American drama film based on Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name....
  • Shirley MacLaine
    Shirley MacLaine

    Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
     – Some Came Running
    Some Came Running

    Spurred on by the sales and the critical acclaim of his best-selling From Here to Eternity , James Jones set out to write yet another great American novel....
  • Jean Simmons
    Jean Simmons

    Jean Merilyn Simmons, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Awards-nominated English actress. Simmons was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2003....
     – Home Before Dark
    Home Before Dark

    Home Before Dark is a studio album released by American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond in 2008. It became his first U.S. number-one album ever on the Billboard 200 chart, with sales of over 146,000 copies in its first week....


1959: Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
 – Suddenly, Last Summer
Suddenly, Last Summer (film)

Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 in film drama film made by Columbia Pictures, based on Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. The film was directed by Joseph L....
  • Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn

    Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
     – The Nun's Story
    The Nun's Story (film)

    The Nun's Story is the title of a dramatic film that was released by Warner Bros. in 1959 in film....
  • Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
     – Suddenly, Last Summer
    Suddenly, Last Summer (film)

    Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 in film drama film made by Columbia Pictures, based on Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. The film was directed by Joseph L....
  • Lee Remick
    Lee Remick

    Lee Ann Remick was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder , Days of Wine and Roses , and The Omen ....
     – Anatomy of a Murder
    Anatomy of a Murder

    Anatomy of a Murder is an Cinema of the United States trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger and written by Wendell Mayes based on the best-selling novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D....
  • Simone Signoret
    Simone Signoret

    Simone Signoret is a beloved Academy Award winning legend of French cinema and widely hailed as the greatest France actress in film history. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award in 1959 for her role in Room at the Top....
     – Room at the Top


1960s
1960: Greer Garson
Greer Garson

'Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson', Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom-born actor who was very popular during the years of World War II. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress award for Mrs....
 – Sunrise at Campobello
Sunrise at Campobello

Sunrise at Campobello is a 1960 in film biographical film made by Dore Schary Productions and Warner Bros. It tells the story of the initial struggle by future President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family when he was stricken with paralysis at the age of 39 in August 1921....


1961: Geraldine Page
Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
 – Summer and Smoke
Summer and Smoke (film)

Summer and Smoke is a drama film directed by Peter Glenville and was based on the play of the Summer and Smoke.It starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman....
  • Leslie Caron
    Leslie Caron

    Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood Musical film stars in the 1950s....
     – Fanny
    Fanny (film)

    Fanny is a 1961 in film film drama about a young woman and the man she loves. He is torn between leaving his boring life for adventures at sea or staying behind with the girl....
  • Shirley MacLaine
    Shirley MacLaine

    Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
     – The Children's Hour
  • Claudia McNeil
    Claudia McNeil

    Claudia McNeil was an actress best known for premiering the role of matriarch Lena Younger in both the stage and screen productions of A Raisin in the Sun....
     – A Raisin in the Sun
    A Raisin in the Sun (film)

    A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 in film drama film starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett, Jr.. The adaptation was based on the A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry....
  • Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood

    Natalie Wood was an American actress.Following her film debut at the age of four, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street ....
     – Splendor in the Grass
    Splendor in the Grass

    Splendor in the Grass, an United States movie from 1961 in film, tells a story of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak. Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman, the film was directed by Elia Kazan....


1962: Geraldine Page
Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
 - Sweet Bird of Youth
Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 in literature play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town with a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis, hoping she can help him to break into the movies....


1963: Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood Musical film stars in the 1950s....
 - The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room

The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 in film UK drama film, film director by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young France woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London apartment building, befriending a young man in the building....
  • Polly Bergen
    Polly Bergen

    Polly Bergen is an United States Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, and entrepreneur....
     - The Caretakers
    The Caretakers

    The Caretakers is a United Artists feature film starring Joan Crawford and Robert Stack in a story about a mental hospital. The screenplay was adapted by Henry F....
  • Geraldine Page
    Geraldine Page

    Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
     - Toys in the Attic
    Toys in the Attic (film)

    Toys in the Attic is a 1963 in film film starring Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Gene Tierney and Wendy Hiller. The film was directed by George Roy Hill and is based on a Tony Award-winning Play by Lillian Hellman....
  • Rachel Roberts
    Rachel Roberts

    Rachel Roberts may refer to:*Rachel Roberts *Rachel Victoria Roberts, British actress sometimes credited as Rachel Roberts*Rachel Roberts ...
     - This Sporting Life
    This Sporting Life

    This Sporting Life is a 1963 Cinema of the United Kingdom based on a novel of the same name by David Storey which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award....
  • Romy Schneider
    Romy Schneider

    Romy Schneider was a Austrian-born, Austrian-German actress. Born in Vienna, she also held French citizenship and died in Paris at the age of 43....
     - The Cardinal
    The Cardinal

    The Cardinal is a 1963 in film film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
  • Alida Valli
    Alida Valli

    Alida Valli , sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in over 100 films, including Carol Reed The Third Man and Luchino Visconti Senso ....
     - The Paper Man (El hombre de papel)
  • Marina Vlady
    Marina Vlady

    Marina Vlady is a France actress.She won the Best Actress Award Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed. She was married to Russian poet and song-writer Vladimir Vysotsky from 1970 until his death in 1980....
     - The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina)
    The Conjugal Bed

    The Conjugal Bed is a 1963 in film cinema of Italy comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival where Marina Vlady won the award for Best Actress Award ....
  • Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood

    Natalie Wood was an American actress.Following her film debut at the age of four, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street ....
     - Love with the Proper Stranger
    Love with the Proper Stranger

    Love with the Proper Stranger is a romantic comedy drama film made by Alan Pakula-Robert Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....


1964: Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
 - The Pumpkin Eater
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 in film United Kingdom film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself with unfaithful husband number two and pregnant with child number six, unsure of where life is taking her....
  • Ava Gardner
    Ava Gardner

    Ava Lavinia Gardner was an Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years......
     - The Night of the Iguana
    The Night of the Iguana (film)

    The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 in film film based on the play by Tennessee Williams. Set in 1940s Mexico, the main character is an ex-Episcopalian minister turned tour guide, the Reverend Dr....
  • Rita Hayworth
    Rita Hayworth

    Rita Hayworth , was an American actress who attained fame during the 1940s not only as one of the era's top musical stars, but also as the era's defining sex symbol, most notably in the 1946 film Gilda....
     - Circus World
    Circus World

    Circus World was a theme park built north of Haines City, Florida in Polk County, Florida, on the east corner of the intersection of U.S. Highway 27 and Interstate 4....
  • Geraldine Page
    Geraldine Page

    Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
     - Toys in the Attic
    Toys in the Attic (film)

    Toys in the Attic is a 1963 in film film starring Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Gene Tierney and Wendy Hiller. The film was directed by George Roy Hill and is based on a Tony Award-winning Play by Lillian Hellman....
  • Jean Seberg
    Jean Seberg

    Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in France. Seberg became even more of an icon after her roles in numerous French films and the tragedy of her turbulent life and eventual suicide....
     - Lilith
    Lilith (film)

    Lilith is a film screenplay and Film director by Robert Rossen. It is based on a novel by J. R. Salamanca and stars Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter and Gene Hackman....


1965: Samantha Eggar
Samantha Eggar

Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning England actress.She was born to an English father and a mother of Dutch people and Portuguese people descent and was educated at a convent....
 - The Collector
The Collector (film)

The Collector is a film based on the 1963 novel The Collector by John Fowles. The film was adapted by Stanley Mann and John Kohn and was directed by William Wyler, who turned down The Sound of Music to do it....
 as Miranda Grey
  • Julie Christie
    Julie Christie

    Julie Frances Christie is a British actor. She was a pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, and has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Screen Actors Guild Awards....
     - Darling
    Darling (film)

    Darling is a 1965 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom which tells the story of an amoral model who sleeps her way to success. It stars Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey....
     as Diana Scott
  • Elizabeth Hartman
    Elizabeth Hartman

    Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an United States actress, best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, a role for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress....
     - A Patch of Blue
    A Patch of Blue

    A Patch of Blue is a 1965 in film film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between an African American man, Gordon , and a Blindness White people female teenager, Selina , and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America....
     as Selina D'Arcey
  • Simone Signoret
    Simone Signoret

    Simone Signoret is a beloved Academy Award winning legend of French cinema and widely hailed as the greatest France actress in film history. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award in 1959 for her role in Room at the Top....
     - Ship of Fools
    Ship of Fools (film)

    Ship of Fools is a 1965 in film film which tells the overlapping stories of several passengers aboard an ocean liner during the 1930s. It stars Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jos? Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner, Michael Dunn, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, Jos? Greco and Heinz R?hmann....
     as La Condesa
  • Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith

    Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
     - Othello
    Othello (1965 film)

    Othello is a 1965 in film film based on the William Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman....
     as Desdemona


1966: Anouk Aimée
Anouk Aimée

Anouk Aim?e is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning France film actor.Aim?e was born Fran?oise Sorya Dreyfus in Paris, France, the daughter of another actress, Genevi?ve Sorya, and Henri Dreyfus....
 - A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme)
A Man and a Woman

A Man and a Woman is a 1966 in film French film. The movie was written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, and directed by Lelouch. It is notable for its lush photography , which features frequent segues between full color, black-and-white, and Sepia tone shots, and for its memorable musical score by Francis Lai....
 as Anne Gauthier
  • Ida Kaminska
    Ida Kaminska

    Ida Kaminska was a Jewish Poles actress.Born in Odessa, Russia she was the daughter of Yiddish stage actress Esther Rachel Kaminska and stage producer, Avram Izhak Kashe....
     - The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze)
    The Shop on Main Street

    The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 Czechoslovakia film about the Aryanization programme during World War II in the Slovak State.The film was written by Ladislav Grosman and directed by J?n Kad?r and Elmar Klos....
     as Rozalie Lautmann
  • Virginia McKenna
    Virginia McKenna

    Virginia McKenna Order of the British Empire is an England stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner.McKenna trained as an actress at the Central School of Speech and Drama then worked on stage in London's West End of London theatres before making her motion picture debut in 1952....
     - Born Free
    Born Free

    Born Free is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy Adamson and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of Kenya....
     as Joy
  • Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor

    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
     - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 film adaptation of the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. It was the first film directed by Mike Nichols, and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha and Richard Burton as George, with George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey....
     as Martha †
  • Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood

    Natalie Wood was an American actress.Following her film debut at the age of four, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street ....
     - This Property Is Condemned
    This Property is Condemned

    This Property Is Condemned is a 1966 United States film starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson and Mary Badham and directed by Sydney Pollack....
     as Alva Starr


1967: Edith Evans
Edith Evans

Dame Edith Mary Evans Order of the British Empire was an actress who had a long and distinguished career on the British stage. Later in her career, she appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award....
 - The Whisperers
The Whisperers

The Whisperers is a 1961 novel by Robert Nicolson. The book was published as Mrs Ross in the UK. It was made into a 1967 in film film by Bryan Forbes....
 as Maggie Ross
  • Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway

    Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
     - Bonnie and Clyde
    Bonnie and Clyde (film)

    Bonnie and Clyde is a Cinema of the United States crime film about Bonnie and Clyde, the bank robbers who operated in the central United States during the Great Depression....
     as Bonnie Parker
  • Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn

    Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
     - Wait Until Dark
    Wait Until Dark (film)

    Wait Until Dark is a suspense thriller starring Audrey Hepburn and directed by Terence Young .In 1966 Warner Bros.-Seven Arts purchased the rights to Frederick Knott's play and in 1967 made the famous film adaptation....
     as Susy Hendrix
  • Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
     - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Katharine Houghton....
     as Christina Drayton †
  • Anne Heywood
    Anne Heywood

    Anne Heywood is a British film actress.Born as Violet Pretty in Handsworth, West Midlands, Birmingham, England, she won the Miss Great Britain title under her real name in 1950, and also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art....
     - The Fox as Ellen March


1968: Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
 - Rachel, Rachel
Rachel, Rachel

Rachel, Rachel is a 1968 film which tells the story of a repressed school teacher, living with her overbearing mother, who suddenly gets a man in her life during her summer vacation....
 as Rachel Cameron
  • Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow

    Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
     - Rosemary's Baby
    Rosemary's Baby (film)

    Rosemary's Baby is a United States Horror film/thriller film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling novel Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin....
     as Rosemary Woodhouse
  • Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
     - The Lion in Winter
    The Lion in Winter (1968 film)

    The Lion in Winter is a 1968 in film historical film costume drama made by Embassy Pictures, based on the Broadway theatre play by James Goldman....
     as Eleanor of Aquitaine
    Eleanor of Aquitaine

    Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.Eleanor succeeded her father as suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitiers at the age of fifteen, and thus became the most eligible bride in Europe....
     †
  • Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave

    Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
     - Isadora as Isadora Duncan
    Isadora Duncan

    Isadora Duncan was an American dancer. She was born Angela Isadora Duncan in San Francisco, California. Isadora Duncan is considered by many to be the mother of Modern Dance....
  • Beryl Reid
    Beryl Reid

    Beryl Elizabeth Reid OBE was a Great Britain actress of stage and screen....
     - The Killing of Sister George
    The Killing of Sister George

    The Killing of Sister George is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was adapted as a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich.Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series Applehurst, a nurse who ministers to the medical needs and personal problems of the local villagers....
     as June "George" Buckridge


1969: Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold

Genevi?ve Bujold is an Academy Award-nominated Canada actor....
 - Anne of the Thousand Days
Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 in film film genre made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B....
 as Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn was List of English consorts as the Wives of Henry VIII of Henry VIII of England. She was also Earl of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation....
  • Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
     - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

    They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1969 in film United States drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by James Poe and Robert E....
     as Gloria Beatty
  • Liza Minneli - The Sterile Cuckoo
    The Sterile Cuckoo

    The Sterile Cuckoo released in the UK as Pookie, is a theatrical release feature film released by Paramount Pictures. It tells the story of an eccentric young couple whose relationship deepens despite their differences and disabilities, and stars Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, and Tim McIntire....
    as "Pookie" Adams
  • Jean Simmons
    Jean Simmons

    Jean Merilyn Simmons, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Awards-nominated English actress. Simmons was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2003....
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    The Happy Ending
    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending is a 1969 film which tells the story of a repressed housewife who longs for liberation from her marriage....
    as Mary Wilson
  • Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith

    Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
     -
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a short book by Muriel Spark, by far the best known of her works. It first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan Publishers in 1961....
    as Jean Brodie
    Jean Brodie

    Jean Brodie is a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; and in the play and film of the same name - both by Jay Presson Allen - which were based on the novel, but radically depart from it in the interest of theatre and poetic licence....
     †


1970s
1970: Ali MacGraw
Ali MacGraw

Alice "Ali" MacGraw is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning United States actress....
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Love Story
Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 in film romantic drama film written by Erich Segal based on his 1970 best-seller Love Story . It was directed by Arthur Hiller....
as Jennifer Cavalleri
  • Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway

    Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
     -
    Puzzle of a Downfall Child
  • Glenda Jackson
    Glenda Jackson

    Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
     -
    Women in Love
    Women in Love (film)

    Women in Love is a 1969 in film Great Britain film directed by Ken Russell which tells the story of the relationships between men and women during the early part of the 20th century....
    as Gudrun Brangwen †
  • Melina Mercouri
    Melina Mercouri

    Melina Mercouri , born Maria Amalia Mercouri , was an Academy Award-nominated Greeks Actor, Singing and politician. She is considered one of the greatest female figures of modern era in Greece, being an actress of international fame and a politician who left her mark on Culture of Greece....
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    Promise at Dawn
    Promise at Dawn

    Promise at Dawn is a 1970 in film drama film directed by Jules Dassin....
  • Sarah Miles
    Sarah Miles

    Sarah Miles is an England theatre and film actress....
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    Ryan's Daughter
    Ryan's Daughter

    Ryan's Daughter is David Lean's 1970 film which is set in 1916 and tells the story of an Ireland girl who has an affair with a United Kingdom officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours....
    as Rosy Ryan


1971: Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
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Klute
Klute

Klute is a 1971 in film film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a mystery. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Dorothy Tristan, Vivian Nathan, and Roy Scheider....
as Bree Daniels
  • Dyan Cannon
    Dyan Cannon

    Dyan Cannon is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film and television actor, Film director, screenwriter, Film editing#Film Editor, and Film producer....
     -
    Such Good Friends
  • Glenda Jackson
    Glenda Jackson

    Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
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    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)

    Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 in film British film directed by John Schlesinger. It tells the story of a young bisexual designer and his simultaneous relationships with a recruitment consultant and a Jewish doctor ....
    as Alex Greville
  • Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave

    Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
     -
    Mary, Queen of Scots
    Mary, Queen of Scots (film)

    Mary, Queen of Scots is a Universal Pictures biographical feature film based on the life of Queen Mary I of Scotland. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave as the titular character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I....
    as Queen Mary I
    Mary I of Scotland

    Mary I was Queen of Scots from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.She was the only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland. She was only six days old when her father died and left her Queen of Scots....
  • Jessica Walter
    Jessica Walter

    Jessica Walter is an United States Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for the film Play Misty for Me and for her role as Lucille Bluth on the acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development ....
     -
    Play Misty for Me
    Play Misty for Me

    Play Misty for Me is a 1971 in film psychological thriller film, film director by and starring Clint Eastwood, in his directorial debut. The original music score was composed by Dee Barton....


1972: Liv Ullmann
Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actor and was the muse of Swedish Academy Award winning director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for both the Palme d'Or and twice for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award....
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The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) as Kristina
  • Diana Ross
    Diana Ross

    Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
     -
    Lady Sings the Blues
    Lady Sings the Blues

    Lady Sings The Blues is a semi-factual 1972 film about jazz singer Billie Holiday loosely based on her 1956 autobiography of the same name....
    as Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday

    Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
  • Cicely Tyson
    Cicely Tyson

    Cicely Tyson is an United States Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots ....
     -
    Sounder
    Sounder (film)

    Sounder is a 1972 in film film starring Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal , and Eric Hooks. It was adapted by Lonne Elder III and directed by Martin Ritt from the 1970 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sounder by William H....
    as Rebecca Morgan
  • Trish Van Devere
    Trish Van Devere

    Trish Van Devere is an United States actress.Van Devere was born Patricia Louise Dressel in Tenafly, New Jersey. She was married to the actor George C....
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    One is a Lonely Number
    One Is a Lonely Number

    One Is a Lonely Number is a 1972 film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Trish Van Devere, Janet Leigh and Melvyn Douglas. The story was written by Rebecca Morris and David Seltzer....
  • Tuesday Weld
    Tuesday Weld

    Tuesday Weld is an American actress.Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award in 1960....
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    Play It As It Lays
    Play It As It Lays

    Play It as It Lays is a 1970 in literature novel by the United States writer Joan Didion.Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005....
  • Joanne Woodward
    Joanne Woodward

    Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
     -
    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1964 Play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher. Zindel received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work....


1973: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason

Marsha Mason is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress and television director....
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Cinderella Liberty
Cinderella Liberty

Cinderella Liberty is a 1973 in film film which tells the story of a sailor who falls in love with a prostitute and becomes a surrogate father for her 11-year-old mixed race son....
as Maggie Paul
  • Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn

    Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Awards-winning American actress....
     -
    The Exorcist
    The Exorcist (film)

    The Exorcist is a 1973 in film United States horror film, adapted from the 1971 The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother?s desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests....
    as Chris MacNeil
  • Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
     -
    The Way We Were
    The Way We Were

    The Way We Were is a 1973 in film Cinema of the United States Romance film drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by Arthur Laurents was based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee....
    as Katie Morosky
  • Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor

    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
     -
    Ash Wednesday
    Ash Wednesday (film)

    Ash Wednesday is a 2002 drama film starring Edward Burns, Elijah Wood, and Rosario Dawson. The film is set in the Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob....
    as Barbara Sawyer
  • Joanne Woodward
    Joanne Woodward

    Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
     -
    Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
    Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

    Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams is a 1973 film which tells the story of a New York City homemaker who rethinks her relationships with her husband, her children and her mother....
    as Rita Walden


1974: Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands is an American award nominated actress....
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A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman Under the Influence

A Woman Under the Influence is an Academy Award nominated film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a young wife and mother's uninhibited, erratic, psychotic behavior which leads her violent, confused husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment, leaving the family even more dysfunctional than before....
as Mabel Longhetti
  • Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn

    Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Awards-winning American actress....
     -
    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    .Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 in film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner....
    as Alice Hyatt †
  • Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway

    Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
     -
    Chinatown
    Chinatown (film)

    Chinatown is a Cinema of the United States neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski. The film features many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part Mystery fiction and part psychology drama....
    as Evelyn Cross Mulwray
  • Valerie Perrine
    Valerie Perrine

    Valerie Ritchie Perrine is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress and model....
     -
    Lenny
    Lenny (film)

    Lenny is a 1974 in film film about the life of the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman. Directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Julian Barry is based on his play Lenny....
    as Honey Bruce
  • Liv Ullmann
    Liv Ullmann

    Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actor and was the muse of Swedish Academy Award winning director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for both the Palme d'Or and twice for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award....
     -
    Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap)
    Scenes from a Marriage

    Scenes from a Marriage is a 1973 in film Swedish cinema film and mini-series written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The story follows the relationship between Marianne and Johan over the course of a number of years....


1975: Louise Fletcher
Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher is an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe-winning United States actress....
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an Cinema of the United States drama film film director by Milo? Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey....
as Nurse Ratched
  • Karen Black
    Karen Black

    Karen Black is an United States actor, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. She is noted for films such as Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby and Nashville in a career that has spanned five decades....
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    The Day of the Locust
    The Day of the Locust (film)

    The Day of the Locust is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Schlesinger. The screenplay by Waldo Salt is based on the The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West....
  • Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway

    Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
     -
    Three Days of the Condor
    Three Days of the Condor

    Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 in film United States thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr....
  • Marilyn Hassett
    Marilyn Hassett

    Marilyn Hassett is an United States film and television actor....
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    The Other Side of the Mountain
    The Other Side of the Mountain

    The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 in film USA film based on a true story of Alpine skiing champion Jill Kinmont.In early 1955, Kinmont was the national champion in Slalom skiing and was a top U.S....
  • Glenda Jackson
    Glenda Jackson

    Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
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    Hedda
    Hedda (film)

    Hedda is a 1975 film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. It stars Peter Eyre, Glenda Jackson and Patrick Stewart.The movie was adapted by directed by Trevor Nunn....
    as Hedda Gabler


1976: Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway

Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
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Network
Network (film)

Network is a satire about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor Nielsen Ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight....
as Diana Christensen
  • Glenda Jackson
    Glenda Jackson

    Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
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    The Incredible Sarah
    The Incredible Sarah

    The Incredible Sarah is a 1976 in film drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Glenda Jackson....
  • Sarah Miles
    Sarah Miles

    Sarah Miles is an England theatre and film actress....
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    The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
    The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

    The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea , is a novel written by Yukio Mishima, published in Japanese in 1963 and translated into English by John Nathan in 1965....
  • Talia Shire
    Talia Shire

    Talia Shire is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
     -
    Rocky
    Rocky

    Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa , an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia....
    as Adrian Pennino
  • Liv Ullman - Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte)
    Face to Face (1976 film)

    Face to Face is a 1976 in film Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness....


1977: Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
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Julia
Julia (film)

Julia is a 1977 in film film drama made by 20th Century Fox. It is based on Lillian Hellman's book Pentimento , a portion of which purports to tell the story of her relationship with her lifelong friend, "Julia," who worked as an anti-nazism in the years prior to World War II....
as Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman was an United States playwright, linked throughout her life with many Left-wing politics causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery novel and crime novel writer Dashiell Hammett , and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker....
  • Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft

    Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
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    The Turning Point
    The Turning Point (1977 film)

    The Turning Point was written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell ....
    as Emma Jacklin
  • Diane Keaton
    Diane Keaton

    Diane Keaton is an United Statesn Cinema of the United States actress, film director and film producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970....
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    Looking for Mr. Goodbar
    Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1975 novel by Judith Rossner. Rossner based the novel on the events surrounding the brutal murder of Roseann Quinn, a 28-year-old New York City schoolteacher in 1973....
  • Kathleen Quinlan
    Kathleen Quinlan

    Kathleen Denise Quinlan is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-nominated United States actress, mostly seen on television and in motion pictures....
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    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (film)

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a 1977 film based on the Joanne Greenberg novel of the same name.In the wake of the success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Roger Corman was able to get funding for a movie version of Rose Garden. Bibi Andersson played Dr....
  • Gena Rowlands
    Gena Rowlands

    Gena Rowlands is an American award nominated actress....
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    Opening Night
    Opening Night

    Opening Night is a drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The film stars Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, and Zohra Lampert....


1978: Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
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Coming Home
Coming Home

Coming Home is a 1978 in film drama film which tells the story of an injured Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life after his return from the war....
as Sally Hyde
  • Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman

    was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
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    Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)
    Autumn Sonata

    Autumn Sonata is a 1978 Academy Award nominated Sweden language film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman....
    as Charlotte Andergast
  • Jill Clayburgh
    Jill Clayburgh

    Jill Clayburgh is an United States actress....
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    An Unmarried Woman
    An Unmarried Woman

    An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 American drama film that tells the story of the wealthy New York wife Erica whose ?perfect? life is shattered when her stockbroker husband Martin leaves her for a younger woman....
    as Erica
  • Glenda Jackson
    Glenda Jackson

    Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
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    Stevie
    Stevie (play)

    Stevie is a 1977 play by Hugh Whitemore, about the life of poet Stevie Smith. The play was filmed in 1978 by Robert Enders, with Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen and Trevor Howard....
    as Stevie Smith
    Stevie Smith

    Stevie Smith was an United Kingdom poet and novelist....
  • Geraldine Page
    Geraldine Page

    Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
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    Interiors
    Interiors

    Interiors is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. Featured performers are Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G....
    as Eve


1979: Sally Field
Sally Field

Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
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Norma Rae
Norma Rae

Norma Rae is a 1979 in film film which tells the story of a woman from a small town in the Southern United States who becomes involved in the trade union activities at the textile factory where she works....
as Norma Rae Webster
  • Jill Clayburgh
    Jill Clayburgh

    Jill Clayburgh is an United States actress....
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    La luna
    La Luna

    La Luna can refer to* La Luna , a 1979 film by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci.* La Luna , a 2000 album by English soprano Sarah Brightman....
  • Lisa Eichhorn
    Lisa Eichhorn

    Lisa Eichhorn is an US actress born February 4, 1952, in Reading, Pennsylvania. She was divorced from John Curless in 1979....
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    Yanks
    Yanks

    Yanks is a 1979 in film John Schlesinger film, set in World War II in the village of Dobcross, in Greater Manchester, England. Starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn, Rachel Roberts and Tony Melody....
  • Jane Fonda
    Jane Fonda

    Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
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    The China Syndrome
    The China Syndrome

    The China Syndrome is a 1979 in film thriller film which tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant....
  • Marsha Mason
    Marsha Mason

    Marsha Mason is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress and television director....
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    Promises in the Dark


1980s
1980: Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore is an United States Actor and comedian, primarily known for her roles in sitcoms and television.Moore is arguably best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and for her earlier role as L...
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Ordinary People
Ordinary People

Ordinary People is a 1980 in film United States motion picture drama that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. The story concerns the disintegration of an upper middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of the oldest son....
as Beth Jarrett
  • Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn

    Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Awards-winning American actress....
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    Resurrection
    Resurrection (1980 film)

    Resurrection is a 1980 film which tells the story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people....
    as Edna Mae McCauley
  • Gena Rowlands
    Gena Rowlands

    Gena Rowlands is an American award nominated actress....
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    Gloria
    Gloria (film)

    Gloria is a 1980 film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have....
    as Gloria Swenson
  • Nastassja Kinski
    Nastassja Kinski

    'Nastassja Kinski' is a German Actor, who has appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film Tess, her roles in two erotic films , and her parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move, Paris, Texas , and Faraway, So Close!...
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    Tess
    Tess

    For other uses, see Tess Tess is a 1979 in film English language romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles....
    as Tess Durbeyfield
  • Deborah Raffin
    Deborah Raffin

    Deborah Iona Raffin is an American film and television actress.Raffin was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Trudy Marshall, a Brooklyn-born former movie actress, and Phillip Jordan Raffin, a restaurateur and meat/brokerage executive....
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    Touched by Love
    Touched by Love

    Touched by Love is a 1980 in film drama film about a therapist who tries a novel approach with a girl afflicted with cerebral palsy; she has her charge become a pen pal with the girl's favorite singer, Elvis Presley....
    as Lena Canada


1981: Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 in film film directed by Karel Reisz and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter. It is based on the The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles....
as Sarah/Anna
  • Sally Field
    Sally Field

    Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
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    Absence of Malice
    Absence of Malice

    Absence of Malice is a 1981 film which tells the story of Michael Gallagher , the son of a dead Mafia boss who discovers that he has become a front-page story in the local Miami newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated for a murder he didn't commit....
    as Megan Carter
  • Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn

    Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
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    On Golden Pond
    On Golden Pond (1981 film)

    On Golden Pond is a 1981 in film cinema of the United States drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was adapted from his On Golden Pond ....
    as Ethel Thayer †
  • Diane Keaton
    Diane Keaton

    Diane Keaton is an United Statesn Cinema of the United States actress, film director and film producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970....
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    Reds as Louise Bryant
    Louise Bryant

    Louise Bryant was an United States journalist and writer, was best known for her Marxist and Anarchism beliefs and her essays on radical political and feminist themes....
  • Sissy Spacek
    Sissy Spacek

    Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
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    Raggedy Man
    Raggedy Man

    Raggedy Man is a 1981 film starring Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek. Itwas filmed in Lockhart, Texas.The story is about people in the small Texas town of Gregory during World War II....
    as Nita Longley


1982: Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice (film)

Sophie's Choice is a 1982 in film United States drama film that tells the story of a Poles immigrant, Sophie, and her tempestuous lover who share a boarding house with a young writer in Brooklyn....
as Sophie Zawistowska
  • Diane Keaton
    Diane Keaton

    Diane Keaton is an United Statesn Cinema of the United States actress, film director and film producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970....
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    Shoot the Moon
    Shoot the Moon

    Shoot the Moon is the title of the fourth album by singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, her first since leaving Elton John's label Rocket Records, released in 1982....
    as Faith Dunlap
  • Jessica Lange
    Jessica Lange

    Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
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    Frances
    Frances

    Frances is a 1982 in film Universal Studios drama film starring Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard. When it was released this film was advertised as a purportedly true account of actress Frances Farmer's life but the script was largely fictional and sensationalized....
    as Frances Farmer
  • Sissy Spacek
    Sissy Spacek

    Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
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    Missing
    Missing (film)

    Missing is a 1982 in film film directed by Costa Gavras, starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea and Charles Cioffi. It is based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed President Salvador Allende....
    as Beth Horman
  • Debra Winger
    Debra Winger

    Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
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    An Officer and a Gentleman
    An Officer and a Gentleman

    An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 in film film which tells the story of a United States Navy aviation Officer Candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him....
    as Paula Pokrifki


1983: Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
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Terms of Endearment as Aurora Greenway
  • Jane Alexander
    Jane Alexander

    Jane Alexander is an award-winning American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of c...
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    Testament
    Testament (film)

    Testament is a 1983 drama film directed by Lynne Littman and starring Jane Alexander. Originally produced for PBS television's American Playhouse series, it was given a theatrical release instead ....
    as Carol Amen
  • Bonnie Bedelia
    Bonnie Bedelia

    Bonnie Bedelia is an United States actress....
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    Heart Like a Wheel
    Heart Like a Wheel (film)

    Heart Like a Wheel is a 1983 in film biographical film based on the life of drag racing driver Shirley Muldowney. It stars Bonnie Bedelia and Beau Bridges....
    as Shirley Roque
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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    Silkwood
    Silkwood

    Silkwood is a 1983, Academy Award-nominated film which dramatizes the story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a car accident under suspicious circumstances while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked....
    as Karen Silkwood
    Karen Silkwood

    Karen Gay Silkwood was an United States labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States....
  • Debra Winger
    Debra Winger

    Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
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    Terms of Endearment as Emma Greenway Horton


1984: Sally Field
Sally Field

Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
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Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....
as Edna Spalding
  • Diane Keaton
    Diane Keaton

    Diane Keaton is an United Statesn Cinema of the United States actress, film director and film producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970....
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    Mrs. Soffel
    Mrs. Soffel

    Mrs. Soffel is a 1984 in film American film drama based on the true Buck McGovern and the Biddle Boys case of 1901 Pittsburgh, starring Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson....
    as Kate Soffel
  • Jessica Lange
    Jessica Lange

    Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
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    Country
    Country (film)

    Country is a 1984 film which follows the trials and tribulations of the Ivy family as they struggle to hold onto their farm in trying economic times....
    as Jewell Ivy
  • Vanessa Redgrave
    Vanessa Redgrave

    Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
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    The Bostonians
    The Bostonians

    The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885?1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of fictional character: Basil Ransom, an unbending political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a zealous Bosto...
    as Olive Chancellor
  • Sissy Spacek
    Sissy Spacek

    Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
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    The River
    The River (1984 film)

    The River is a 1984 in film film which tells the story of a struggling farm family in the Tennessee valley trying keep its farm going in the face of bank foreclosures, floods, and other hard times....
    as Mae Garvey


1985: Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple (film)

The Color Purple is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple by Alice Walker....
as Celie
  • Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft

    Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
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    Agnes of God
    Agnes of God (film)

    Agnes of God is a United States film starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly. It was adapted by John Pielmeier from his own Agnes of God, and directed by Norman Jewison....
    as Miriam Ruth
  • Cher
    Cher

    Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
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    Mask
    Mask (film)

    Mask is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Cher and Eric Stoltz. Sam Elliott and Laura Dern are featured in supporting roles....
    as Florence "Rusty" Dennis
  • Geraldine Page
    Geraldine Page

    Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
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    The Trip to Bountiful
    The Trip to Bountiful

    The Trip to Bountiful is a 1985 in film film starring Geraldine Page, John Heard , Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay.The movie was adapted by Horton Foote from his play....
    as Carrie Watts +
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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    Out of Africa as Karen Blixen
    Karen Blixen

    Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke , n?e Karen Dinesen, was a Denmark author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish language and in English language....


1986: Marlee Matlin
Marlee Matlin

Marlee Beth Matlin is an American actress who is Hearing impairment. She is the youngest woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, which she won at the age of 21....
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Children of a Lesser God
Children of a Lesser God

Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 in film film that tells the story of a speech teacher at a school for deaf students who falls in love with a deaf woman who also works there....
as Sarah Norman
  • Julie Andrews
    Julie Andrews

    Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
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    Duet for One
    Duet for One

    Duet for One is a film based on an award-winning British play by Tom Kempinski about a world-famous concert violinist named Stephanie Anderson who is suddenly struck with multiple sclerosis....
    as Stephanie Anderson
  • Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft

    Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
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    'night, Mother
    'night, Mother (film)

    'night, Mother is a 1986 in film drama film written by Marsha Norman. The film, which stars Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft, is based on Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the 'night, Mother....
    as Thelma Cates
  • Farrah Fawcett
    Farrah Fawcett

    Ferrah Leni Fawcett is an United States actress. She became a noted pop culture figure and sex symbol of the 1970s and into the 1980s, shaping the landscape of fashion and pop culture....
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    Extremities
    Extremities (film)

    Extremities is a 1986 film starring Farrah Fawcett, Alfre Woodard, Diana Scarwid and James Russo. It was adapted from the successful, yet controversial, Extremities by William Mastrosimone....
    as Marjorie
  • Sigourney Weaver
    Sigourney Weaver

    Sigourney Weaver is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, best known for her roles as Lt. Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies....
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    Aliens
    Aliens (film)

    Aliens is a 1986 science fiction film/action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, and Bill Paxton....
    as Ellen Ripley


1987: Sally Kirkland
Sally Kirkland

Sally Kirkland is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
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Anna
Anna (film)

Anna is a 1987 in film film which tells the story of a Czechoslovakia actress, looking for work in New York City, who sees her proteg?e shine while she herself struggles....
as Anna
  • Rachel Chagall
    Rachel Chagall

    Rachel Chagall is an American Golden Globe-nominated actress.Chagall was born Rachel Levin. She chose to be billed as Rachel Chagall because there was already another Rachel Levin in the industry....
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    Gaby: A True Story
    Gaby: A True Story

    Gaby: A True Story is a 1987 United States-Mexican film directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Michael Love and Mart?n Salinas....
    as Gaby
  • Glenn Close
    Glenn Close

    Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
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    Fatal Attraction
    Fatal Attraction

    Fatal Attraction is a 1987 Thriller film about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes Obsession with him....
    as Alex Forrest
  • Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway

    Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
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    Barfly
    Barfly (film)

    Barfly is a film which is a autobiography of poet Charles Bukowski during the time he spent alcoholic beverage heavily in Los Angeles, California....
    as Wanda Wilcox
  • Barbara Streisand – Nuts
    Nuts (film)

    Nuts is a film about a strong-willed, high-class call girl who kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent....
    as Claudia Draper


1988: tie
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
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The Accused as Sarah Tobias † and
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, best known for her roles as Lt. Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies....
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Gorillas in the Mist as Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey was an American Ethology who completed an extended study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She observed them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontology Louis Leakey....
and
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an United States Academy Awards-winning film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation....
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Madame Sousatzka
Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka is a film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the Madame Sousatzka by Bernice Rubens....
as Yuvline Sousatzka
  • Christine Lahti
    Christine Lahti

    Christine Lahti is an United States Emmy Award- and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning actress and Academy Awards-winning film director....
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    Running on Empty
    Running on Empty (film)

    Running on Empty is a 1988 in film featuring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, and Martha Plimpton, directed by Sidney Lumet, and was produced by Lorimar....
    as Annie Pope/Cynthia Manfield
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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    A Cry in the Dark
    A Cry in the Dark

    A Cry in the Dark is a 1988 Australian/American docudrama film directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay by Schepisi and Robert Caswell is based on John Bryson 's 1985 book Evil Angels, the title under which the film was released in Australia....
    as Lindy Chamberlain
    Lindy Chamberlain

    Alice Lynne Chamberlain-Creighton was at the centre of one of Australia's most publicised murder trials, in which she was convicted of killing her baby daughter, Azaria Chamberlain disappearance....


1989: Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
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The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Fabulous Baker Boys

The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 in film film written and directed by Steven Kloves about two brothers who perform a duo piano show together in small Seattle clubs....
as Susie Diamond
  • Jessica Lange
    Jessica Lange

    Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
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    Music Box
    Music Box (film)

    Music Box is a 1989 film that tells the story of a Hungarian-American immigrant who is accused of having been a war criminal. His daughter, an Lawyer, tries to defend him, succeeds, and then learns he actually committed the crimes....
    as Ann Talbot
  • Liv Ullman – The Rose Garden
    The Rose Garden

    The Rose Garden may refer to:*Rose Garden , the home Basketball Court of the Portland Trail Blazers in Portland, Oregon.*White House Rose Garden--The White House Rose Garden located in Washington, D.C.....
    as Gabriele
  • Andie MacDowell
    Andie MacDowell

    Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell is an American model and actress. She is the winner of two Golden Globe Awards....
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    sex, lies and videotape as Ann Bishop Mullany
  • Sally Field
    Sally Field

    Sally Margaret Field is an United States two-time Academy Awards-winning actress. She is also a three-time Emmy Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award winner who became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun....
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    Steel Magnolias
    Steel Magnolias

    Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling , is a 1987 off-Broadway Play , made into a film in 1989. Based on the author's experience with the death of his sister, Steel Magnolias is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern United States women in northwest Louisiana....
    as M'Lynn Eatenton


1990s
1990: Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates

Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an Academy Awards-, two-time Golden Globe-, and two-time Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American theatrical, film and television actress, and a stage and television director....
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Misery
Misery (film)

Misery is a 1990 in film Cinema of the United States Horror film/Thriller from Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment, based on the Misery by Stephen King....
as Annie Wilkes
  • Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston

    Anjelica Huston is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning United Statesn actor and former fashion model.Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Oscar for her performance in 1985 in film's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston....
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    The Grifters
    The Grifters (film)

    The Grifters is a 1990 neo-noir film directed by Stephen Frears and produced by Martin Scorsese. It is based upon The Grifters, a pulp novel by Jim Thompson ....
    as Lilly Dillon
  • Joanne Woodward
    Joanne Woodward

    Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
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    Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
    Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

    Mr. and Mrs. Bridge is a 1990 Merchant Ivory Productions based on the novels by Evan S. Connell of the same name. It is directed by James Ivory , with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and produced by Ismail Merchant....
    as India Bridge
  • Michelle Pfeiffer
    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
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    The Russia House
    The Russia House (film)

    The Russia House was a 1990 film starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer, an adaptation of the The Russia House by John le Carr?. It was directed by Fred Schepisi....
    as Katya Orlova
  • Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
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    White Palace as Nora Baker


1991: Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
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The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling
  • Annette Bening
    Annette Bening

    Annette Francine Bening is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning United States actor....
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    Bugsy
    Bugsy

    Bugsy is a 1991 in film film which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel. It stars Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth and Bill Graham ....
    as Virginia Hill
    Virginia Hill

    Virginia Hill was a Chicago Outfit courier who was famous for being the steady girlfriend of Los Angeles mob boss and Genovese crime family associate Bugsy Siegel, following the breakdown of his marriage....
  • Laura Dern
    Laura Dern

    Laura Elizabeth Dern is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress, film director and film producer. Dern is well known for numerous roles in major films, including Smooth Talk , Blue Velvet , Fat Man and Little Boy , Wild at Heart , Jurassic Park , October Sky and others....
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    Rambling Rose
    Rambling Rose (film)

    Rambling Rose is a 1991 film set in 1930s Georgia starring Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. Ladd and Dern in real life are mother and daughter, and both earned Academy Award nominations for their performances in this film....
    as Rose
  • Geena Davis
    Geena Davis

    Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis is an Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor, Film producer, writer, former fashion model and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist ....
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    Thelma and Louise
    Thelma and Louise

    Thelma & Louise is a 1991 in film Cinema of the United States road movie which breaks with tradition by featuring two female leads. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled caged lives....
    as Thelma Yvonne Dickinson
  • Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
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    Thelma and Louise
    Thelma and Louise

    Thelma & Louise is a 1991 in film Cinema of the United States road movie which breaks with tradition by featuring two female leads. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled caged lives....
    as Louise Elizabeth Sawyer


1992: Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson is a two-time Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council....
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Howards End
Howards End (film)

Howards End is a 1992 in film film adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1910 in literature novel Howards End, a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England....
as Margaret Schlegel
  • Sharon Stone
    Sharon Stone

    Sharon Yvonne Stone is an United Statesn actress, film producer and former Model . She first acheived international recognition for her performance in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct....
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    Basic Instinct
    Basic Instinct

    Basic Instinct is a 1992 in film United States Thriller /neo-noir film, Film director by Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter by Joe Eszterhas, starring Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn and George Dzundza....
    as Catherine Tramell
  • Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
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    Lorenzo's Oil
    Lorenzo's oil

    Lorenzo's oil is a 4:1 mixture of glycerol trioleate and glycerol trierucate used in the preventive treatment of adrenoleukodystrophy . The oil was formulated by Augusto and Michaela Odone after their son Lorenzo Odone was diagnosed with the disease in 1984, at the age of five....
    as Michaela Odone
  • Michelle Pfeiffer
    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
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    Love Field
    Love Field (film)

    Love Field is a 1992 independent film drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and written by Don Roos. It stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert....
    as Lurene Hallett
  • Mary McDonnell
    Mary McDonnell

    Mary McDonnell is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is famous for her Oscar-nominated role as Stands With Fist in Dances with Wolves, and for starring as President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica ....
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    Passion Fish
    Passion Fish

    Passion Fish is an United States film released in 1992 in film, written and directed by John Sayles. The movie was stars Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Vondie Curtis-Hall, David Strathairn and Leo Burmester....
    as May-Alice Culhane


1993: Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter

Holly P. Hunter is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She is best known for films such as Raising Arizona, Broadcast News , Always and The Piano....
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The Piano
The Piano

The Piano is a 1993 film about a mute female pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier New Zealand backwater....
as Ada McGrath
  • Michelle Pfeiffer
    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
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    The Age of Innocence
    The Age of Innocence (film)

    The Age of Innocence is a 1993 in film film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder, released by Columbia Pictures....
    as Ellen Olenska
  • Debra Winger
    Debra Winger

    Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
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    A Dangerous Woman as Martha Horgan
  • Emma Thompson
    Emma Thompson

    Emma Thompson is a two-time Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council....
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    The Remains of the Day
    The Remains of the Day (film)

    The Remains of the Day is a Merchant Ivory Productions adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was directed by James Ivory , produced by Ismail Merchant, and starred Anthony Hopkins as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, with James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant, and Ben Chaplin....
    as Mary Kenton
  • Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche

    Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award-winning France film Actor. Binoche is well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The English Patient and Chocolat as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue and Cach? ....
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    Three Colours: Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu)
    Three Colors: Blue

    Three Colours: Blue is a 1993 French film written, produced and directed by the acclaimed Poland director Krzysztof Kieslowski. Blue is the first in the Three Colors trilogy, themed on the Libert?, ?galit?, Fraternit?; it is followed by Three Colors: White and Three Colors: Red....
    as Julie Vignon (de Courcy)


1994: Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange

Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
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Blue Sky as Carly Marshall
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Jennifer Jason Leigh

    Jennifer Jason Leigh is a Golden Globe Awards-nominated and two-time New York Film Critics Circle Awards-winning United States actress.Her work has drawn high critical praise....
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    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle was a 1994 in film. It was written and directed by Alan Rudolph and starred Jennifer Jason Leigh as the writer Dorothy Parker....
    as Dorothy Parker
  • Jodie Foster
    Jodie Foster

    Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
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    Nell as Nell Kellty
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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    The River Wild
    The River Wild

    The River Wild is a 1994 in film United States thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, John C....
    as Gail Hartman
  • Miranda Richardson
    Miranda Richardson

    Miranda Jane Richardson is an England stage, film and television actor....
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    Tom & Viv
    Tom & Viv

    Tom & Viv is a 1994 film which tells the story of the true-life relationship between T. S. Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood. They were married in 1915 after a very brief courtship and separated in 1933 though they never divorced....
    as Vivienne Haigh-Wood


1995: Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone

Sharon Yvonne Stone is an United Statesn actress, film producer and former Model . She first acheived international recognition for her performance in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct....
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Casino
Casino (film)

Casino is an Academy Award nominated 1995 in film crime film drama film film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese....
as Ginger McKenna
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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    The Bridges of Madison County
    The Bridges of Madison County (film)

    The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 in film romance film based on The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. It was made by Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions and Warner Bros....
    as Francesca Johnson
  • Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
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    Dead Man Walking
    Dead Man Walking (film)

    Dead Man Walking is a 1995 film based on the Dead Man Walking, which tells the story of Sister Helen Prejean , who establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet, a prisoner on death row ....
    as Helen Prejean
    Helen Prejean

    Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ is a vowed Roman Catholic Church religious sister, one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille, who has become a leading United States advocate for the abolition of the death penalty....
     †
  • Elisabeth Shue
    Elisabeth Shue

    Elisabeth Judson Shue is an Academy Award-nominated United States film actor....
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    Leaving Las Vegas
    Leaving Las Vegas

    Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 in film romantic drama film about a relationship between a suicidal alcoholism and a prostitute from Las Vegas, Nevada, starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue....
    as Sera
  • Emma Thompson
    Emma Thompson

    Emma Thompson is a two-time Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, BAFTA Award- and Golden Globe-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council....
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    Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood


1996: Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Blethyn Order of the British Empire is a Golden Globe-winning England actress and author. Blethyn began her career on stage as part of the Royal National Theatre, and made her late television debut in 1980....
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Secrets and Lies
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...
as Cynthia Rose Purley
  • Emily Watson
    Emily Watson

    Emily Anita Watson is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress. She made an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves....
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    Breaking the Waves
    Breaking the Waves

    Breaking the Waves is a 1996 in film film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband....
    as Bess McNeill
  • Kristin Scott Thomas
    Kristin Scott Thomas

    Kristin A. Scott Thomas, Order of British Empire is a highly acclaimed Olivier Award- and BAFTA-winning, two-time Golden Globe-, Academy Award-, and Cesar Award-nominated British actress with French citizenship....
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    The English Patient
    The English Patient (film)

    The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
    as Katharine Clifton
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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    Marvin's Room as Lee
  • Courtney Love
    Courtney Love

    Courtney Michelle Love is an United States rock musician and actress. Love is known as lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain....
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    The People vs. Larry Flynt
    The People vs. Larry Flynt

    The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 film directed by Milo? Forman about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, and his subsequent clash with the law....
    as Althea Leasure
    Althea Flynt

    Althea Flynt , n?e Leasure, was the fourth wife of Larry Flynt and the co-publisher of Flynt's notorious adult magazine, Hustler.Leasure was born November 6, 1953 in Marietta, Ohio, Ohio....


1997: Judi Dench
Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
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Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Brown

Mrs. Brown is a 1997 in film United Kingdom drama film starring Dame Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer , Antony Sher, and Gerard Butler....
as Queen Victoria
  • Jodie Foster
    Jodie Foster

    Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
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    Contact
    Contact (film)

    Contact is a 1997 science fiction film drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and adapted from the Carl Sagan Contact . Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact and also served as co-producers....
    as Eleanor Arroway
  • Jessica Lange
    Jessica Lange

    Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
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    A Thousand Acres
    A Thousand Acres (film)

    A Thousand Acres is a 1997 film, based on the A Thousand Acres of the same title by United States author Jane Smiley....
    as Ginny Cook Smith
  • Kate Winslet
    Kate Winslet

    'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
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    Titanic as Rose DeWitt Bukater
  • Helena Bonham Carter
    Helena Bonham Carter

    Helena Bonham Carter is an Academy Award-nominated England actor. Bonham Carter made her screen debut in the K. M. Peyton film, A Pattern of Roses, before appearing in her first leading role in Lady Jane ....
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    The Wings of the Dove
    The Wings of the Dove (film)

    The Wings of the Dove is a 1997 in film United States/Great Britain drama film directed by Iain Softley. The screenplay by Hossein Amini is based on the The Wings of the Dove by Henry James....
    as Kate Croy


1998: Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett

Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
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Elizabeth
Elizabeth (film)

Elizabeth is a 1998 in film film loosely based on the early reign of Elizabeth I of England. The film was written by Michael Hirst and directed by Shekhar Kapur....
as Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
  • Fernanda Montenegro
    Fernanda Montenegro

    Fernanda Montenegro is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominated, Silver Bear for Best Actress winning Brazilian stage, television and film actress, mostly recognized for her leading roles in Central Station , The Other Side of The Street and The House of Sand....
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    Central Station (Central do Brasil)
    Central Station

    Central Station can refer to:*Central station, the main railway station in a city....
    as Dora
  • Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon is an Academy Award-winning American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film, Dead Man Walking ....
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    Stepmom
    Stepmom (film)

    Stepmom is a 1998 in film United States comedy-drama film directed by Chris Columbus . The film stars Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon....
    as Jackie Harrison
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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    One True Thing
    One True Thing

    One True Thing is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by Carl Franklin. It tells the story of a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to carer for her mother who is dying of cancer....
    as Kate Gulden
  • Emily Watson
    Emily Watson

    Emily Anita Watson is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress. She made an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves....
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    Hilary and Jackie
    Hilary and Jackie

    Hilary and Jackie is a 1998 in film United Kingdom biographical film directed by Anand Tucker. The screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce is based on the memoir A Genius in the Family by Piers and Hilary du Pr?, which chronicles the life and career of their sister, cello Jacqueline du Pr?....
    as Hilary du Pré
    Hilary du Pré

    Hilary du Pr? is a United Kingdom flautist and memoirist famous for her involvement in the book A Genius in the Family and film Hilary and Jackie, both of which relate the family story around her sister, the famous cellist, Jacqueline du Pr?....


1999: Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank

Hilary Ann Swank is an United States actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid , where she played Julie Pierce, the first female prot?g? of the sensei Mr....
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Boys Don't Cry
Boys Don't Cry (film)

Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 in film independent film drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transman who was raped and murdered on December 31, 1993 by his male friends after they found out he had vagina....
as Brandon Teena
Brandon Teena

Brandon Teena was a transman who was raped and murdered. Teena was born biologically female but lived as male, making him a trans man; his later life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry , which was based on the documentary film The Brandon Teena Story....
  • Annette Bening
    Annette Bening

    Annette Francine Bening is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning United States actor....
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    American Beauty as Carolyn Burnham
  • Julianne Moore
    Julianne Moore

    Julianne Moore is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning and four time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
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    The End of the Affair
    The End of the Affair

    The End of the Affair is a novel by United Kingdom author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films that were adapted for the screen based on the novel....
    as Sarah Myles
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
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    Music of the Heart
    Music of the Heart

    Music of the Heart is a 1999 dramatic film. This film was produced by Craven-Maddalena Films and Miramax Films, and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution....
    as Roberta Guaspari
  • Sigourney Weaver
    Sigourney Weaver

    Sigourney Weaver is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, best known for her roles as Lt. Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies....
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    A Map of the World
    A Map of the World

    A Map of the World is a novel by Jane Hamilton. It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chlo? Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny....
    as Alice Goodwin


2000s
2000: Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress and former fashion model. She became well known during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere, which grossed $463 million worldwide....
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Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich (film)

Erin Brockovich is a 2000 in film docudrama which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against the West Coast of the United States energy giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company known as PG&E....
as Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich-Ellis is an United States Paralegal and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California in 1993....
  • Joan Allen
    Joan Allen

    Joan Allen is an American actress.Allen worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway theatre debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989....
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    The Contender as Laine Hanson
  • Björk
    Björk

    Bj?rk Gu?mundsd?ttir is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, actor and record producer, whose work includes seven solo albums and two film soundtracks....
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    Dancer in the Dark
    Dancer in the Dark

    Dancer in the Dark is an award-winning musical film drama released in 2000 in film. It was directed by Lars von Trier and stars Bj?rk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse , Vladica Kostic, Cara Seymour and Peter Stormare....
    as Selma Jezkova
  • Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn

    Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Awards-winning American actress....
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    Requiem for a Dream
    Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 film adaptation of the Requiem for a Dream . The novel was written by Hubert Selby, Jr.; the film adaptation was directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starred Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans....
    as Sara Goldfarb
  • Laura Linney
    Laura Linney

    Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress. Throughout her career in film, television, and theatre, Linney has won three Emmy Award Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award Award and has also been nominated for three Oscars and a BAFTA Award....
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    You Can Count on Me
    You Can Count on Me

    You Can Count on Me is a 2000 in film movie, starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin and Matthew Broderick, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan....
    as Samantha 'Sammy' Prescott


2001: Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
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In The Bedroom
In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom is a 2001 American film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus whose short story Killings is the source material from which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based....
as Ruth Fowler
  • Halle Berry
    Halle Berry

    Halle Berry is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African-American descent to have won the a...
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    Monster's Ball
    Monster's Ball

    Monster's Ball is a 2001 in film drama film Film director by Marc Forster and screenwriter by Milo Addica and Will Rokos. It was produced by Lions Gate and Lee Daniels Entertainment....
    as Leticia Musgrove †
  • Judi Dench
    Judi Dench

    Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
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    Iris as Iris Murdoch
  • Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman

    Nicole Mary Kidman, Order of Australia is an Academy Award-winning Hawaiian-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer, United Nations Citizen of the World award-winning humanitarian, and a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador....
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    The Others as Grace Stewart
  • Tilda Swinton
    Tilda Swinton

    Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is an Academy Award, BAFTA, and Coppa Volpi award-winning United Kingdom actor known for both art film and Mainstream#In film....
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    The Deep End
    The Deep End

    The Deep End may refer to:In music:* The Deep End , by Madrugada* The Deep End * The Deep End, Volume 1, a 2001 album by Gov't Mule...
    as Margaret Hall


2002: Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, Order of Australia is an Academy Award-winning Hawaiian-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer, United Nations Citizen of the World award-winning humanitarian, and a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador....
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The Hours
The Hours (film)

The Hours is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film directed by Stephen Daldry. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours by Michael Cunningham....
as Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
  • Salma Hayek
    Salma Hayek

    Salma Valgarma Hayek Jim?nez is a Mexico and United States actress, Television director, and television producer and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than 30 films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in Mexico and Spain....
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    Frida as Frida Kahlo
    Frida Kahlo

    Frida Kahlo born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calder?n was a Mexico Painting, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences that include realism , Symbolism , and Surrealism....
  • Diane Lane
    Diane Lane

    Diane Lane is an American Cinema of the United States actress born and raised in New York City. Her parents are Colleen Farrington, a night club singer and Playboy centerfold , and Burton Eugene Lane, a Manhattan drama coach who ran an acting workshop with John Cassavetes....
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    Unfaithful
    Unfaithful

    Unfaithful may refer to:* Unfaithful , a 2002 film starring Diane Lane and Richard Gere* Unfaithful , a 2006 song by Rihanna* The Unfaithful a 1947 film noir...
     as Connie Summer
  • Julianne Moore
    Julianne Moore

    Julianne Moore is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning and four time Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
     – Far From Heaven
    Far from Heaven

    Far from Heaven is a 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Ryan Ward, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson....
     as Cathy Whitaker
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
     – The Hours
    The Hours (film)

    The Hours is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film directed by Stephen Daldry. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours by Michael Cunningham....
     as Clarissa Vaughan


2003: Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is an Academy Award-winning South African-American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young , The Devil's Advocate , and The Cider House Rules ....
 – Monster
Monster (film)

Monster is a 2003 in film biographical film-crime film-drama film-thriller film about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitution who was execution in 2002 for killing seven men in the late 1980s and early 1990s....
 as Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Carol Wuornos was an United States serial killer who killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, later claiming they raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute....
  • Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett

    Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
     – Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin (film)

    Veronica Guerin is a 2003 film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The movie is based on the true story of Irish people journalist Veronica Guerin....
     as Veronica Guerin
    Veronica Guerin

    Veronica Guerin was an Ireland crime reporter who was murdered in 1996 by drug dealers, turning her into "a modern-day Irish saint"....
  • Scarlett Johansson
    Scarlett Johansson

    Scarlett I. Johansson is an American actor and singer. Johansson rose to fame with her role in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in Ghost World , Lost in Translation , and Girl with a Pearl Earring , the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003....
     – Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)

    Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 United Kingdom/Luxembourg drama film Film director by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed based on Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier....
     as Griet
  • Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman

    Nicole Mary Kidman, Order of Australia is an Academy Award-winning Hawaiian-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer, United Nations Citizen of the World award-winning humanitarian, and a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador....
     – Cold Mountain
    Cold Mountain (film)

    Cold Mountain is a 2003 film written and directed by Anthony Minghella, and stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Ren?e Zellweger, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ray Winstone and Natalie Portman....
     as Ada Monroe
  • Uma Thurman
    Uma Thurman

    Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
     – Kill Bill: Vol. 1 as The Bride
  • Evan Rachel Wood
    Evan Rachel Wood

    Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress and singer.Wood began her acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic and Once and Again....
     – thirteen
    Thirteen (film)

    Thirteen is a 2003 in film drama film co-written by Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed . It is an autobiographical film based on Reed's experiences as a 12 and 13-year-old....
     as Tracy Louise Freeland


2004: Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank

Hilary Ann Swank is an United States actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid , where she played Julie Pierce, the first female prot?g? of the sensei Mr....
 – Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 in film film film director, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman....
 as Maggie Fitzgerald
  • Scarlett Johansson
    Scarlett Johansson

    Scarlett I. Johansson is an American actor and singer. Johansson rose to fame with her role in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in Ghost World , Lost in Translation , and Girl with a Pearl Earring , the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003....
     – A Love Song for Bobby Long
    A Love Song for Bobby Long

    A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States drama film written and directed by Shainee Gabel. The screenplay is based on the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps....
     as Pursy Will
  • Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman

    Nicole Mary Kidman, Order of Australia is an Academy Award-winning Hawaiian-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer, United Nations Citizen of the World award-winning humanitarian, and a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador....
     – Birth
    Birth (film)

    Birth is a 2004 in film film Film director by Jonathan Glazer and starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Danny Huston and Cameron Bright. The story is about a young widow from a prominent Manhattan-based family named Anna who slowly becomes convinced that her husband, Sean, who died ten years previously, has been reincarnated in the form of...
     as Anna
  • Imelda Staunton
    Imelda Staunton

    Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, Order of the British Empire, is an Academy Award-nominated England actor best known for her performances in the United Kingdom comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and Vera Drake....
     – Vera Drake
    Vera Drake

    Vera Drake is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom Film director by Mike Leigh. It tells the story of a working class woman in London in 1950, whose values conflict with the social mores of the period....
     as Vera
  • Uma Thurman
    Uma Thurman

    Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
     – Kill Bill: Vol. 2 as Beatrix Kiddo/The Bride


2005: Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman

Felicity Kendall Huffman is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress. She is known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the American Broadcasting Company hit show Desperate Housewives, which earned her an Emmy Award....
 – Transamerica
Transamerica (film)

Transamerica is a 2005 in film independent film Comedy-drama produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. The film tells the story of Bree, a transsexual , who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby ....
 as Bree Osbourne
  • Maria Bello
    Maria Bello

    Maria Elena Bello born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA,is a Golden Globe-nominated United States actor....
     – A History of Violence
    A History of Violence (film)

    A History of Violence is an Academy Award-nominated 2005 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of Germany crime film-thriller film directed by David Cronenberg, and written by Josh Olson, based on the graphic novel A History of Violence by John Wagner and Vince Locke....
     as Edie Stall
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
    Gwyneth Paltrow

    Gwyneth Kate Paltrow born September 27, 1972) is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe- and double Screen Actors Guild Award- winning United States actress....
     – Proof
    Proof (2005 film)

    Proof is a 2005 in film film starring Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hope Davis. The film was directed by John Madden , who also directed Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love ....
     as Catherine
  • Charlize Theron
    Charlize Theron

    Charlize Theron is an Academy Award-winning South African-American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young , The Devil's Advocate , and The Cider House Rules ....
     – North Country
    North Country (film)

    North Country is a 2005 in film United States drama film directed by Niki Caro. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of Jenson v....
     as Josey Aimes
  • Ziyi Zhang – Memoirs of a Geisha
    Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

    Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and directed by Rob Marshall....
     as Chiyo/Sayuri


2006: Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren, Order of the British Empire is a multi-award winnning English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career....
 – The Queen
The Queen (film)

The Queen is a 2006 in film United Kingdom drama film Film director by Stephen Frears, screenwriter by Peter Morgan and stars Helen Mirren in the title role, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....
 as Queen Elizabeth II
  • Penélope Cruz
    Penélope Cruz

    Pen?lope Cruz S?nchez , better known as Pen?lope Cruz, is a Spain actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jam?n, Jam?n, La Ni?a de tus ojos, and Belle ?poque ....
     – To Return (Volver)
    Volver

    Volver is a 2006 in film Spain film by director Pedro Almod?var.Volver was one of the films competing for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival....
     as Raimunda
  • Judi Dench
    Judi Dench

    Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
     – Notes on a Scandal
    Notes on a Scandal (film)

    Notes on a Scandal is an Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated 2006 in film United Kingdom film adapted from the 2003 novel Notes on a Scandal by Zo? Heller....
     as Barbara Covett
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal
    Maggie Gyllenhaal

    Margaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal is an American stage and screen actor. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal....
     – SherryBaby
    Sherrybaby

    Sherrybaby is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Laurie Collyer. It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2006 and received a limited release in the United States on September 8, 2006....
     as Sherry Swanson
  • Kate Winslet
    Kate Winslet

    'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
     – Little Children
    Little Children (film)

    Little Children is a 2006 in film drama film directed by Todd Field. It is based on the Little Children by Tom Perrotta, who along with Field wrote the screenplay....
     as Sarah Pierce


2007: Julie Christie
Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie is a British actor. She was a pop icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, and has won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Screen Actors Guild Awards....
 – Away from Her
Away From Her

Away from Her is a Canada film which debuted at the 2006 in film Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival....
 as Fiona Anderson
  • Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett

    Catherine ?lise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian Actor and theatre director. She has won multiple acting awards, most notably two Screen Actors Guild Awardss, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, an Academy Award, as well as the Volpi Cup at 64th Venice International Film Festival....
     – Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Queen Elizabeth I
    Elizabeth I of England

    Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
  • Jodie Foster
    Jodie Foster

    Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
     – The Brave One
    The Brave One (2007 film)

    The Brave One is a police procedural/psychological thriller film 2007 in film, directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Joel Silver, and starring Jodie Foster....
     as Erica Bain
  • Angelina Jolie
    Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie is an American film actor and a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported....
     – A Mighty Heart
    A Mighty Heart (film)

    A Mighty Heart is a 2007 in film film directed by Michael Winterbottom; It is an adaptation of Mariane Pearl's memoir, A Mighty Heart. Although initially a financial failure, A Mighty Heart was met with relatively positive reviews from both critics and viewers alike....
     as Mariane Pearl
    Mariane Pearl

    Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl is a French people freelance journalist and a reporter and columnist for Glamour magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was Kidnapping and murdered by Terrorism in Pakistan in early 2002....
  • Keira Knightley
    Keira Knightley

    Keira Christina Knightley is a Golden Globe Award-, British Academy of Film and Television Arts-, and Academy Award-nominated English film and television actress....
     – Atonement
    Atonement (film)

    Atonement is a 2007 in film film adaptation of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed Atonement , directed by Joe Wright, and based on a screenplay by Christopher Hampton....
     as Cecilia Tallis


2008: Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet

'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
 – Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road (film)

Revolutionary Road is a 2008 in film United Kingdom-United States drama film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet....
 as April Wheeler ‡
  • Anne Hathaway
    Anne Hathaway (actress)

    Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the 1999 television series Get Real , but her first prominent role was in Walt Disney Productions family comedy The Princess Diaries , which established her career....
     – Rachel Getting Married
    Rachel Getting Married

    Rachel Getting Married is a drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway , Rosemarie DeWitt, and Debra Winger. The film was released in the U.S....
     as Kym
  • Angelina Jolie
    Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie is an American film actor and a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported....
     – Changeling
    Changeling (film)

    Changeling is a 2008 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Set in 1928 Los Angeles, the film is based on the true story of a woman who is reunited with her kidnapped son?only to realize he is an impostor....
     as Christine Collins
  • Kristin Scott Thomas
    Kristin Scott Thomas

    Kristin A. Scott Thomas, Order of British Empire is a highly acclaimed Olivier Award- and BAFTA-winning, two-time Golden Globe-, Academy Award-, and Cesar Award-nominated British actress with French citizenship....
     – I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) as Juliette Fontaine
  • Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep

    Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as being one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era....
     – Doubt
    Doubt (film)

    Doubt is a 2008 in film film adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley stage play Doubt: A Parable. Written and directed by Shanley and produced by Scott Rudin, the film stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis....
     as Sister Aloysius Beauvier