My best actress winners

1. Charlotte Rampling

Tessa Charlotte Rampling was born 5 February 1946 in Sturmer, England, to Isabel Anne (Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Lionel Rampling, an Olympic gold medalist, army officer, and colonel, who became a NATO commander. She was educated at Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles, ...

2015 - 45 Years

Nominees:

Brie Larson - Room Rooney Mara - Carol Cate Blanchett - Carol Jennifer Lawrence - Joy

2. Julianne Moore

Actress | Far from Heaven

Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...

2014 - Still Alice

Nominees:

Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl Bárbara Lennie - Magical Girl Marion Cotillard - Deux Jours, Une Nuit Reese Witherspoon - Wild

3. Cate Blanchett

Actress | Carol

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...

2013 - Blue Jasmine

Nominees:

Adèle Exarchopoulos - La vie d'Adèle Julia Roberts - August: Osage County Meryl Streep - August: Osage County Judi Dench - Philomena

4. Emmanuelle Riva

Actress | Hiroshima mon amour

An only child, Emmanuelle was born Paulette Germaine Riva in Cheniménil, but eventually grew up in Remiremont. Her mother, Jeanne Fernande Nourdin, was a seamstress. Her father, René Alfred "Alfredo" Riva, was a sign writer. Her paternal grandfather was Italian. She dreamed of becoming an actress ...

2012 - Amour

Nominees:

Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild Maribel Verdú - Blancanieves

5. Meryl Streep

Actress | Out of Africa

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...

2011 - The Iron Lady

Nominees:

Viola Davis - The Help Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs

6. Natalie Portman

Actress | Black Swan

Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).

Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...

2010 - Black Swan

Nominees:

Annette Bening - The Kids Are Alright Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole

7. Carey Mulligan

Actress | Never Let Me Go

Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. She was born May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England, to Nano (Booth), a university lecturer, and Stephen Mulligan, a hotel manager. Her mother is from Llandeilo, Wales, and Carey also has Irish and English ancestry.

Her first major appearance was ...

2009 - An Education

Nominees:

Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones Gabourey Sidibe - Precious Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia Penélope Cruz - Los abrazos rotos

8. Kate Winslet

Actress | Titanic

Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...

2008 - tie The Reader and Revolutionary Road

Nominees:

Meryl Streep - Doubt Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married Melissa Leo - Frozen River Nerea Camacho - Camino Angelina Jolie - Changeling

9. Marion Cotillard

Actress | La Môme

Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.

Raised in Orléans, France, she ...

2007 - La vie en Rose

Nominees:

Julie Christie - Away from her Belén Rueda - El Orfanato Ellen Page - Juno Laura Linney - The Savages

10. Helen Mirren

Actress | The Queen

Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...

2006 - The Queen

Nominees:

Penélope Cruz - Volver Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal Kate Winslet - Little Children Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada

11. Reese Witherspoon

Producer | Wild

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...

2005 - Walk the Line

Nominees:

Felicity Huffman - Transamerica Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice Ziyi Zhang - Memoirs of a Geisha Charlize Theron - North Country

12. Hilary Swank

Actress | Million Dollar Baby

Hilary was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Judith Kay (Clough), a secretary, and Stephen Michael Swank, who served in the National Guard and was also a traveling salesman. Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Dominguez, was of Mexican descent, and her other roots include German, English, and ...

2004 - Million Dollar Baby

Nominees:

Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria full of grace Annette Bening - Being Julia

13. Charlize Theron

Producer | Monster

Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...

2003 - Monster

Nominees:

Scarlett Johansson - Lost in Translation Naomi Watts - 21 Grams Jennifer Connelly - House of Sand and Fog Nicole Kidman - Dogville

14. Nicole Kidman

Actress | Moulin Rouge!

Elegant Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas.

Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical ...

2002 - The Hours

Nominees:

Julianne Moore - Far From Heaven Renée Zellweger - Chicago Salma Hayek - Frida Meryl Streep - The Hours

15. Isabelle Huppert

Actress | Elle

Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then...

2001 - La Pianiste

Nominees:

Audrey Tautou - Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge! Reneé Zellweger - Bridget Jones's Diary Sissy Spacek - In the bedroom Judi Dench - Iris

16. Julia Roberts

Actress | Pretty Woman

Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her ...

2000 - tie Erin Brokovich and Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream

Nominees:

Björk - Dancer in the Dark Juliette Binoche - Chocolat Laura Linney - You can count on me

17. Ellen Burstyn

Actress | Requiem for a Dream

Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...

2000 - tie Requiem for a Dream and Julia Roberts in Erin Brokovich

Nominees:

Björk - Dancer in the Dark Juliette Binoche - Chocolat Laura Linney - You can count on me

18. Hilary Swank

Actress | Million Dollar Baby

Hilary was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Judith Kay (Clough), a secretary, and Stephen Michael Swank, who served in the National Guard and was also a traveling salesman. Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Dominguez, was of Mexican descent, and her other roots include German, English, and ...

1999 - Boys don't cry

Nominees:

Cecilia Roth - Todo sobre mi madre Annette Bening - American Beauty Reese Witherspoon - Election Nicole Kidman - Eyes Wide Shut

19. Gwyneth Paltrow

Actress | Shakespeare in Love

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where ...

1998 - Shakespeare in Love

Nominees:

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie Penélope Cruz - La niña de tus ojos Najwa Nimri - Los amantes del círculo polar

20. Helen Hunt

Actress | As Good as It Gets

Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.

1997 - As good as it gets

Nominees:

Kate Winlset - Titanic Julie Christie - Afterglow Julia Roberts - My best friend's wedding Cecilia Roth - Martín (Hache)

21. Frances McDormand

Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...

1996 - Fargo

Nominees:

Brenda Blethyn - Secrets and Lies Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves Diane Keaton - Marvin's Room Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient

22. Susan Sarandon

Actress | Thelma & Louise

It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...

1995 - Dead Man Walking

Nominees:

Elizabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility Meryl Streep - The Bridges over Madison County Sharon Stone - Casino

23. Toni Collette

Actress | The Sixth Sense

Toni Collette is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actress, best known for her roles in The Sixth Sense (1999) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

Collette was born Toni Collett (she later added an "e") on November 1, 1972, in Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is the first of three...

1994 - Muriel's Wedding

Nominees:

Melanie Lynskey - Heavenly Creatures Winona Ryder - Little Women Irène Jacob - Trois Coleurs: Rouge Kate Winslet - Heavenly Creatures

24. Holly Hunter

Actress | Broadcast News

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first...

1993 - The Piano

Nominees:

Angela Bassett - What's Love got to do with? Emma Thompson - The Remains of the Day Juliette Binoche - Trois Coleurs: Bleu Debra Winger - Shadowlands

25. Emma Thompson

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...

1992 - Howards End

Nominees:

Catherine Deneuve - Indochine Sharon Stone - Basic Instinct Regina Torné - Como agua para chocolate Ariadna Gil - Belle Epoque

26. Jodie Foster

Actress | The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...

1991 - The Silence of the Lambs

Nominees:

Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise Victoria Abril - Tacones Lejanos Marisa Paredes - Tacones Lejanos

27. Kathy Bates

Actress | Misery

Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates...

1990 - Misery

Nominees:

Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman Meryl Streep - Postcards from Edge Mia Farrow - Alice Carmen Maura - ¡Ay, Carmela!

28. Jessica Tandy

Actress | Driving Miss Daisy

A beloved, twinkly blue-eyed doyenne of stage and screen, actress Jessica Tandy's career spanned nearly six and a half decades. In that span of time, she enjoyed an amazing film renaissance at age 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and nubile beauty. She was born Jessie Alice ...

1989 - Driving Miss Daisy

Nominees:

Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally... Sally Field - Steel Magnolias Kathleen Turner - War of the Roses

29. Glenn Close

Actress | Fatal Attraction

Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.

Glenn was a noted ...

1988 - Dangerous Liasons

Nominees:

Jodie Foster - The Accused Melanie Griffith - Working Girl Carmen Maura - Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios Gena Rowlands - Another Woman

30. Cher

Actress | Moonstruck

The beat goes on ... and on ... and as strong as ever for this superstar entertainer who has well surpassed the half-century mark while improbably transforming herself from an artificial, glossy "flashionplate" singer into a serious, Oscar-worthy, dramatic actress ... and back again! With more ups ...

1987 - Moonstruck

Nominees:

Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction Anjelica Huston - The Dead Mia Farrow - Radio Days Robin Wright - The Princess Bride

31. Marlee Matlin

Actress | CODA

Marlee Beth Matlin was born on August 24, 1965 in Morton Grove, Illinois, to Libby (Hammer) and Donald Matlin, an automobile dealer. She has two older brothers. Her family is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.

Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months. That did not stop...

1986 - Children of a Lesser God

Nominees:

Sigourney Weaver - A room with a view Helena Bonham Carter - A Room with a View Isabella Rossellini - Blue Velvet Barbara Hershey - Hannah and her sisters

32. Whoopi Goldberg

Actress | Ghost

Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in...

1985 - The Color Purple

Nominees:

Meryl Streep - Out of Africa Mia Farrow - The Purple Rose of Cairo Kathleen Turner - Prizzi's Honor Ana Belén - La corte de Faraón

33. Carmen Maura

Actress | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de "nervios"

Descendant of the conservative Spanish politician Antonio Maura, Carmen lead an art gallery and appeared in various roles in night- clubs. With Tigres de papel (1977) she had her first successful appearance on the movie screen and thereafter she worked at the theatre, the movies and in TV ...

1984 - ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!

Nominees:

Terele Pávez - Los santos inocentes Linda Hamilton - Terminator Mia Farrow - Broadway Danny Rose Frances McDormand - Blood Simple

34. Shirley MacLaine

Actress | Terms of Endearment

Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...

1983 - Terms of Endearment

Nominees:

Debra Winger - Terms of Endearment Icíar Bollaín - El sur Barbra Streisand - Yentl Jennifer Beals - Flashdance

35. Meryl Streep

Actress | Out of Africa

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...

1982 - Sophie's Choice

Nominees:

Sissy Spacek - Missing Debra Winger - An Officer and a Gentleman Encarna Paso - Volver a Empezar Cecilia Roth - Laberinto de pasiones

36. Diane Keaton

Actress | Annie Hall

Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New ...

1981 - Reds

Nominees:

Katherine Hepburn - On Golden Pond Susan Sarandon - Atlantic City Karen Allen - Raiders of the Lost Ark Carole Bouquet - For your eyes only

37. Mary Tyler Moore

Actress | Ordinary People

Mary Tyler Moore was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on December 29, 1936. Moore's family relocated to California when she was eight. Her childhood was troubled, due in part to her mother's alcoholism. The eldest of three siblings, she attended a Catholic high school and married upon her graduation, in...

1980 - Ordinary People

Nominees:

Natassja Kinski - Tess Vera Alentova - Moscow does not believe in tears Shelley Duvall - The Shining Carmen Maura - Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón

38. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

1979 - Alien

Nominees:

Diane Keaton - Manhattan Shirley MacLaine - Being There Jane Fonda - The electric Horseman Beverly d'Angelo - Hair

39. Geraldine Page

Actress | Sweet Bird of Youth

Considered by many to be one of the greatest American actresses of all time, Geraldine Page was a master craftswoman who seemed to bring out the most inner detail of the character she was playing. Her dedication to her craft has earned her the respect of many of today's great actors including Meryl...

1978 - Interiors

Nominees:

Olivia Newton-John - Grease Julie Christie - Heaven can wait Diane Keaton - Interiors Mary Beth Hurt - Interiors

40. Diane Keaton

Actress | Annie Hall

Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New ...

1977 - Annie Hall

Nominees:

Liza Minnelli - New York, New York Teri Garr - Close Encounters of the Third Kind Fiorella Faltoyano - Asignatura pendiente Karen Lynn Gorney - Saturday Night Fever

41. Faye Dunaway

Actress | Bonnie and Clyde

An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, enormously popular actress Faye Dunaway starred in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age." During her tenure at the top of the box office, she was a more than ...

1976 - Network

Nominees:

Sissy Spacek - Carrie Talia Shire - Rocky Lee Remick - The Prophecy Cybill Shepherd - Taxi Driver

42. Louise Fletcher

Actress | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to Episcopal minister Robert Fletcher and his wife Estelle, both of whom were deaf, Louise Fletcher was introduced to performing at a young age by the aunt who taught her to speak. After graduating from the University of North Carolina, she took a trip out west with her...

1975 - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Nominees:

Ana Torrent - Cría Cuervos Geraldine Chaplin - Cría Cuervos Brigitte Mira - Mütter Kusters Fahrt zum Himmel Monique van den Ven - Katty Tippel

43. Ellen Burstyn

Actress | Requiem for a Dream

Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...

1974 - Alice Doesn't live here anymore

Nominees:

Faye Dunaway - Chinatown Brigitte Mira - Angst essen Seele auf Cloris Leachman - Young Frankenstein Ana Belén - Vida conyugal sana

44. Ana Torrent

Actress | El nido

Ana Torrent was born on July 12, 1966 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for The Nest (1980), Thesis (1996) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008).

1973 - El espíritu de la colmena

Nominees:

Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist Ingrid Thulin - Cries and Whispers Liv Ullman - Cries and Whispers Maria Schneider - Last tango in Paris

45. Liza Minnelli

Soundtrack | Cabaret

Liza Minnelli was born on March 12, 1946, the daughter of Judy Garland and movie director Vincente Minnelli. She was practically raised at MGM studios while her parents worked long hours there and she made her film debut at 14 months of age in the movie In the Good Old Summertime (1949). Her ...

1972 - Cabaret

Nominees:

Julieta Serrano - Mi querida señorita Helena Rojo - Aguirre, der Zorn des Gottes

46. Susan George

Actress | Straw Dogs

Susan George was born on July 26, 1950 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Straw Dogs (1971), Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) and Mandingo (1975). She was previously married to Simon MacCorkindale.

1971 - Straw Dogs

Nominees:

Louise Lasser - Bananas

47. Ali MacGraw

Actress | Love Story

Ali was educated at Wellesley College, where she studied art history. After graduating, she worked on fashion magazines. Her interest in fashion photography led her to become a top model, a profession she carried on until 1968, when she made a late start in what was to be a sporadic film career, ...

1970 - Love Story

Nominees:

none

48. Jane Fonda

Actress | Klute

Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was ...

1969 - They Shoot horses, don't they?

Nominees:

Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Years Marie-Christine Barrault - Ma nuit chez Maud Françoise Fabian - Ma nuit chez Maud Janet Margolin - Take the money and run

49. Barbra Streisand

Actress | Yentl

Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...

1968 - Funny Girl

Nominees:

Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby Olivia Hussey - Romeo and Juliet Kim Hunter - Planet of the Apes Faye Dunaway - The Thomas Crown Affair

50. Anne Bancroft

Actress | The Graduate

Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...

1967 - The Graduate

Nominees:

Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde Catherine Deneuve - Belle de Jour Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's coming to dinner François Dorléac - Les demoiselles de Rochefort

51. Liv Ullmann

Actress | Viskningar och rop

Liv Ullmann's father was a Norwegian engineer who used to work abroad, so as a child she lived in Tokyo, Canada, New York and Oslo. In the mid-1950s she made her stage debut and in 1957 made her film debut. She really became successful, however, when she began to work for Swedish director Ingmar ...

1966 - Persona

Nominees:

Bibi Andersson - Persona Shelley Winters - Alfie Julie Christie - Fahrenheit 451 Julie Andrews - Torn Curtain

52. Julie Andrews

Actress | The Sound of Music

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...

1965 - The Sound of Music

Nominees:

Catherine Deneuve - Repulsion Claire Bloom - The Spy who came in from cold

53. Julie Andrews

Actress | The Sound of Music

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...

1964 - Mary Poppins

Nominees:

Audrey Hepburn - My fair lady Catherine Deneuve - Les parapluies de Cherbourg Sophia Loren - Yesterday, today and tomorrow Honor Blackman - Goldfinger

54. Ingrid Thulin

Actress | Smultronstället

Ingrid trained as a ballet dancer and attended Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre. She came to fame thanks to Bergman's "Wild Strawberries". She acted in 9 Ingmar Bergman's films. Her fame allowed her to act in Luchino Visconti's "The Damned" in 1969. Ingrid Thulin lived in Rome since the 1960's. ...

1963 - The Silence

Nominees:

Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce Tippi Hedren - The Birds Delphine Seyrig - Muriel Audrey Hepburn - Charade

55. Monica Vitti

Actress | L'avventura

Monica Vitti was born on November 3, 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Red Desert (1964) and L'Eclisse (1962). She was married to Roberto Russo. She died on February 2, 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

1962 - L'Eclisse

Nominees:

Corinne Marchand - Cleo de 5 à 7 Jolanta Umecka - Knife in the water Sue Lyon - Lolita Ursulla Andress - Dr.No

56. Sophia Loren

Actress | La ciociara

Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...

1961 - Two Women (La ciociara)

Nominees:

Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass Silvia Pinal - Viridiana Natalie Wood - West Side Story

57. Monica Vitti

Actress | L'avventura

Monica Vitti was born on November 3, 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Red Desert (1964) and L'Eclisse (1962). She was married to Roberto Russo. She died on February 2, 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

1960 - L'avventura

Nominees:

Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment Jean Seberg - A bout de souffle Capucine - Song without end Moira Shearer - Pepping Tom

58. Marilyn Monroe

Actress | Some Like It Hot

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. Monroe is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. She became one of the world's most enduring iconic figures and is remembered both for her winsome embodiment of the Hollywood sex symbol and her tragic personal and ...

1959 - Some like it hot

Nominees:

Emmanuelle Riva - Hiroshima, mon amour Doris Day - Pillow Talk Eva Marie Saint - North by northwest

59. Elizabeth Taylor

Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...

1958 - Cat on a hot tin roof

Nominees:

Kim Novak - Vertigo Janet Leigh - Touch of Evil

60. Deborah Kerr

Actress | The King and I

Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...

1957 - An affair to remember

Nominees:

Marylin Monroe - The Prince and the Showgirl Audrey Hepburn - Funny Face Bibi Andersson - Seventh Seal

61. Lauren Bacall

Actress | To Have and Have Not

Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in New York City. She was the daughter of Natalie Weinstein-Bacal, a Romanian Jewish immigrant, and William Perske, who was born in New Jersey, to Polish Jewish parents. Her family was middle-class, with her father working as a ...

1956 - Written on a wind

Nominees:

Doris Day - The man who knew too much Shirley MacLaine - Around the world in 80 days

62. Jane Wyman

Actress | Falcon Crest

Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield on January 5, 1917, in St. Joseph, Missouri (she was also known later as Sarah Jane Fulks). When she was only eight years old, and after her parents filed for divorce, she lost her father prematurely. After graduating high school she attempted, with the help ...

1955 - All that heaven allows

Nominees:

Marylin Monroe - The seven year itch Brigitte Federspiel - Ordet Shelley Winters - Night of the hunter

63. Judy Garland

Actress | The Wizard of Oz

One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals.

She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in ...

1954 - A star is born

Nominees:

Ingrid Bergman - Viaggio in Italia Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina Grace Kelly - Rear Window Alida Valli - Senso

64. Audrey Hepburn

Actress | Breakfast at Tiffany's

Audrey Hepburn was born as Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Baroness Ella Van Heemstra, was a Dutch noblewoman, while her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia, to English and Austrian parents.

After her parents' divorce, ...

1953 - Roman Holiday

Nominees:

Ava Garnder - Mogambo Chyieko Higashiyama - Tokyo Story Jane Russell - Gentlemen prefer blondes Marylin Monroe - Niagara

65. Grace Kelly

Actress | Dial M for Murder

On November 12, 1929, Grace Patricia Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to wealthy parents. Her girlhood was uneventful for the most part, but one of the things she desired was to become an actress which she had decided on at an early age. After her high school graduation in 1947, Grace ...

1952 - High Noon

Nominees:

Marylin Monroe - Don't bother to knock

66. Vivien Leigh

Actress | A Streetcar Named Desire

If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time ...

1951 - A streetcar named desire

Nominees:

Shelley Winters - A place in the sun Elizabeth Taylor - A place in the sun Leslie Caron - An American in Paris Virginia Mayo - Captain Horatio Hornblower

67. Bette Davis

Actress | All About Eve

Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...

1950 - All about Eve

Nomiees:

Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard Ann Baxter - All about Eve Peggy Dow - Harvey Estela Inda - Los olvidados

68. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

1949 - The Heiress

Nominees:

Katharine Hepburn - Adam's Rib Ann Sothern - A Letter to Three Wives Linda Darnell - A Letter To Three Wives Jeanne Crain - A Letter To Three Wives

69. Marlene Dietrich

Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution

Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...

1948 - A foreign Affair

Nominees:

Jean Arthur - A foreign Affair

70. Deborah Kerr

Actress | The King and I

Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...

1947 - Black Narcisus

Nominees:

Rita Hayworth - The Lady from Shanghai

71. Rita Hayworth

Actress | Gilda

Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers. Her father, Eduardo Cansino Reina, was a dancer as was his father before him. He emigrated from Spain in 1913. Rita's American mother, Volga Margaret (Hayworth), who was of mostly ...

1946 - Gilda

Nominees:

Ingrid Bergman - Notorious Donna Reed - It's a wonderful life Lauren Bacall - The Big Sleep Alexis Smith - Night and day

72. Anna Magnani

Actress | Roma città aperta

Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as some biographies claim), on March 7, 1908. She was the child of Marina Magnani and an unknown father often said to be from Alexandria, Egypt, but whom Anna herself claimed was from the Calabria region of Italy although she never knew his name. ...

1945 - Roma, città aperta

Nominees:

Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter Ingrid Bergman - Spellbound

73. Barbara Stanwyck

Actress | Double Indemnity

Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the ...

1944 - Double Indemnity

Nominees:

Lauren Bacall - To have and to have not

74. Ingrid Bergman

Actress | Casablanca

Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...

1943 - Casablanca

Nominees:

Clara Calamai - Ossessione Teresa Wright - Shadow of a doubt

75. Clara Calamai

Actress | L'adultera

Clara Calamai was born on September 7, 1909 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. She was an actress, known for L'adultera (1946), Deep Red (1975) and Obsession (1943). She was married to Leonardo Bonzi. She died on September 21, 1998 in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

1942 - Ossessione

Nominees:

Carole Lombard - To be or not to be Joan Leslie - Yankee Doodle Dandy

76. Merle Oberon

Actress | Wuthering Heights

Estelle Merle Thompson was born in India on February 19, 1911 of Welsh and Ceylonese (now Sri Lankan) descent. She was educated in that country until the age of 17, when she left for London. She began her career in British films with mostly forgettable roles or bit parts. She appeared in an ...

1941 - That uncertain feeling

Nominees:

Maureen O'Hara - How green was my valley

77. Katharine Hepburn

Actress | The Lion in Winter

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...

1940 - The Philadelphia Story

Nominees:

Joan Fontaine - Rebecca Rosalind Russell - His girl Friday Paulette Goddard - The Great Dictator

78. Vivien Leigh

Actress | A Streetcar Named Desire

If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time ...

1939 - Gone with the wind

Nominees:

Nora Gregor - La regle du jeu

79. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

1938 - The adventures of Robin Hood

Nominees:

none

80. Luise Rainer

Actress | The Great Ziegfeld

Luise Rainer, the first thespian to win back-to-back Oscars, was born on January 12, 1910 in Dusseldorf, Germany, into a prosperous Jewish family. Her parents were Emilie (Königsberger) and Heinrich Rainer, a businessman. She took to the stage, and plied her craft on the boards in Germany. As a ...

1936 - The Great Ziegfeld

Nominees:

Myrna Loy - The Great Ziegfeld Paulette Goddard - Modern Times

81. Margaret Dumont

Actress | A Night at the Opera

Margaret Dumont would not consider it a tragedy that she is best-known for her performances as the ultimate straight woman in seven of the Marx Brothers' films (including most of their best). It is a popular myth that she never understood their jokes (offscreen and on); restored footage of ...

1935 - A Night at the Opera

Nominees:

none

82. Claudette Colbert

Actress | It Happened One Night

One of the brightest film stars to grace the screen was born Emilie Claudette Chauchoin on September 13, 1903, in Saint Mandé, France where her father owned a bakery at 57, rue de la République (now Avenue Général de Gaulle). The family moved to the United States when she was three. As Claudette ...

1934 - It happened one night

Nominees:

none

83. Margaret Dumont

Actress | A Night at the Opera

Margaret Dumont would not consider it a tragedy that she is best-known for her performances as the ultimate straight woman in seven of the Marx Brothers' films (including most of their best). It is a popular myth that she never understood their jokes (offscreen and on); restored footage of ...

1933 - Duck Soup

Nominees:

none

84. Greta Garbo

Actress | Ninotchka

Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Anna Lovisa (Johansdotter), who worked at a jam factory, and Karl Alfred Gustafsson, a laborer. She was fourteen when her father died, which left the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and ...

1932 - Grand Hotel

Nominees:

Leila Hyams - Freaks

85. Virginia Cherrill

Actress | City Lights

Actress in US and UK films of the early 1930s. Born on a farm, Cherrill was discovered by Charles Chaplin while sitting beside him at a boxing match in Los Angeles; he introduced himself at intermission and hired her for her debut in City Lights (1931). She met husband Cary Grant at the premiere of ...

1931 - City Lights

Nominees:

none

86. Lya Lys

Actress | L'âge d'or

This blonde stunner and German-born foreign import started life on May 18, 1908, in Berlin as Nathalie Margoulis (or perhaps Natalia Lyech) the daughter of a Russian banker and French pediatrician. The family moved to Paris when she was young where she received her schooling both there and in ...

1930 - L'Age d'Or

Nominees:

none

87. Anny Ondra

Actress | Blackmail

Anny Ondra was a Polish-Czech-Austrian-German-French singer and a film and stage actress. As a child she lived in Prague, where her father was a colonel in the Austro-Hungarian army. After graduating from convent school in Prague, she studied to be an actress with Professor Bor. She was already a ...

1929 - Blackmail

Nominees:

Simone Mareil - Un chien Andalou

88. Eleanor Boardman

Actress | Souls for Sale

Philadelphia-born Eleanor Boardman had always wanted to be an actress, and as soon as she graduated high school she headed for New York to conquer Broadway. When Broadway proved not quite ready to be conquered yet, she took whatever jobs she could find, including one as an artist's model. In that ...

1928 - The crowd

Nominees:

none

89. Brigitte Helm

Actress | Metropolis

Born in Berlin, Germany. After her role in Metropolis (1927) she made a string of movies in which she almost always had the starring role, easily making the transition to sound films. Her last film was An Ideal Spouse (1935) which was released in 1935. She died on June 11th 1996 of heart failure in...

1927 - Metropolis

Nominees:

Janet Gaynor - Sunrise Gina Manès - Napoleon

90. Vera Baranovskaya

Actress | Takový je zivot

Vera Baranovskaya was born on March 7, 1885 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Takový je zivot (1930), Mother (1926) and Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927). She died on December 7, 1935 in Paris, France.

1926 - Mother

Nominees:

none

91. Mae Murray

Actress | The Merry Widow

Dubbed "The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen," silent screen star Mae Murray was born in New York City as Marie Adrienne Koenig on May 10, 1885. The middle of three children born to French and German émigrés, she began studying dance at a young age.

Mae's professional ...

1925 - The Merry Widow

Nominees:

none

92. Kathryn McGuire

Actress | The Navigator

Kathryn McGuire was born on December 6, 1903 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Navigator (1924), Sherlock Jr. (1924) and The Big Diamond Robbery (1929). She was married to George Landy. She died on October 10, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1924 - Sherlock Jr.

Nominees:

Maly Delschaft - Der Letzte Mann

93. Greta Schröder

Actress | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

Greta Schröder was a German actress. She is best known for the role of Thomas Hutter's wife in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu. In the fictionalized 2000 film, Shadow of the Vampire, she is portrayed as having been a famous actress during the making of Nosferatu, but in fact she was little known.

The...

1922 - Nosferatu

Nominees:

None

94. Lillian Gish

Actress | The Night of the Hunter

Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused, was rarely at home, and left the family to, more or less, fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish, and their mother, Mary Gish, ...

1919 - Broken Blossoms

Nominees:

none

95. Mae Marsh

Actress | The Birth of a Nation

Mae Marsh's father was an auditor for the railroad who died when she was four. Her family moved to San Francisco, where her stepfather was killed in the 1906 earthquake. Her great-aunt then took Mae and her sister to Los Angeles. With her show business background, Mae's aunt took them to the ...

1915 - The birth of a Nation

Nominees:

Lillian Gish - The birth of a Nation