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(67 Items) Complete list of Academy Award for Best Actress winners since its inception. Photos are included for almost every Academy Award for Best Actress winner. Winners of the Academy Award for Best Actress in every year are listed here alphabetically, but you can sort this Academy Award for Best Actress list by any column. This list contains items like Charlize Theron,  Diane Keaton, and Susan Sarandon.(67 Items)You may copy this fact-based list to build your own just like it, re-rank it to fit your views, then publish it to share it on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networks you use on a regular basis.

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Anna Magnani is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Nastro d'Argento Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress, David di Donatello for Best Actress Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose ...more

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Anne Bancroft is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Cannes Best Actress Award, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, known professionally as Anne Bancroft, was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, which she had studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her ...more

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Audrey Hepburn is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Film Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as ...more

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Barbra Streisand is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Golden Globe Award for Best Film - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, songwrighter, actress, director, writer, composer, producer, designer, author, photographer, and activist. During a career spanning six decades, she ...more

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Bette Davis is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Cannes Best Actress Award, Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known as Bette Davis, was an American actress of film, television and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actors in cinema history, she was noted for her willingness ...more

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Charlize Theron is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Silver Bear for Best Actress, Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Charlize Theron (born 7 August 1975) is a South African-American actress and film producer. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the ...more

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Cher is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Film, Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Cher is an American singer, songwriter, actress, model, fashion designer, television host, comedian, dancer, businesswoman, philanthropist, author, film producer, director, and record producer. ...more

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Claudette Colbert is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Academy Award for Actress in a Leading Role Claudette Colbert was a French-born American actress, and a leading lady for two decades. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent ...more

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Diane Keaton is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical Diane Keaton is an actress, television director and producer and screenwriter.

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Elizabeth Taylor is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Golden Globe Special Achievement Award, AFI Life Achievement Award Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-born American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of ...more

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Ellen Burstyn is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Ellen Burstyn is an American actress. Her career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next decade included several films and television series. Burstyn's performance in the ...more

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Emma Thompson is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Original Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture, British Academy Television Award for Best Leading Actress Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedienne, screenwriter and author. Cited as one of the greatest British actresses of her generation, she is known for her portrayals of reticent women in ...more

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Faye Dunaway is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series Dorothy Faye Dunaway is an Academy Award-winning American actress who rose to prominence in the late 1960s with the films Bonnie and Clyde and The Thomas Crown Affair. She began her acting ...more

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Frances McDormand is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
London Film Critics Circle Award for Actress of the Year, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Frances Louise McDormand is an American actress. She married director and writer Joel Coen in 1984 and has starred in several of the Coen brothers' films, including Blood Simple, Raising ...more

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Geraldine Page is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress best known for her work in the American theater. She was nominated for an Academy Award eight times before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress ...more

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Ginger Rogers is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Academy Award for Actress in a Leading Role, Kennedy Center Honor Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer and singer who appeared in films, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century. During her long career, she made 73 ...more

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Glenda Jackson is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, David di Donatello Special Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series Glenda May Jackson, CBE is a British Labour Party politician and former actress. She first became a Member of Parliament in 1992, and represented Hampstead and Kilburn until 2015. As a ...more

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Grace Kelly is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Film, Academy Award for Actress in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Film Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, after marrying Prince Rainier III, became Princess of Monaco. After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Kelly appeared in ...more

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Greer Garson is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Academy Award for Actress in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Film, National Board of Review Award for Best Actress Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson Fogelson, CBE, was a English-American actress who was very popular during WWII, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws ...more

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Gwyneth Paltrow is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress, singer, and food writer. Paltrow gained early notice for her work in films such as the psychological thriller Seven, opposite Brad Pitt and the ...more

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Halle Berry is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Halle Maria Berry is an American actress and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball, becoming the first ...more

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Helen Hayes is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award For Best Actress, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album Helen Hayes MacArthur was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve ...more

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Helen Hunt is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Helen Hunt was a hair stylist in Hollywood movies from the 1930s up to 1967, when she worked on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. She was the chief hair stylist for Columbia Pictures. She was ...more

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Helen Mirren is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Volpi Cup for Best Actress, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress, Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, DBE, is an English actor. Mirren has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress ...more

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Hilary Swank is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list All Academy Award for Best Actress Winners
Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Hilary Ann Swank is an American actress and producer. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Actress and has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. Swank made her film debut in ...more