Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. 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 – Drama.

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
The 2024 recipient: Demi Moore
Awarded for	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Location	United States
Currently held by	Demi Moore for The Substance (2024)
Website	goldenglobes.com

The formal title has varied since its inception. In 2005, it was officially called "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical".^[1] The current wording is "Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy".^[1]

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

Judy Holliday won for Born Yesterday (1950)

Ethel Merman won for Call Me Madam (1953)

Judy Garland won for A Star is Born (1954)

Marilyn Monroe won for Some Like It Hot (1959)

Shirley MacLaine won twice for The Apartment (1960) and Irma la Douce (1963)

Rosalind Russell won three times, twice consecutive, for Auntie Mame (1958), A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962)

Julie Andrews won three times for Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965) and Victor/Victoria (1982)

Anne Bancroft won for The Graduate (1967)

Barbra Streisand won twice for Funny Girl (1968) and A Star Is Born (1976)

Liza Minnelli won for Cabaret (1972)

Diane Keaton won twice for Annie Hall (1977) and Something's Gotta Give (2003)

Glenda Jackson won for A Touch of Class (1973)

Ann-Margret won for Tommy (1975)

Maggie Smith won for California Suite (1978)

Ellen Burstyn won for Same Time, Next Year (1978)

Bette Midler won twice for The Rose (1979) and For the Boys (1991)

Sissy Spacek won twice for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Crimes of the Heart (1986)

Julie Walters won for Educating Rita (1983)

Cher won for Moonstruck (1987)

Melanie Griffith won for Working Girl (1988)

At age 80, Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner in this category for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Julia Roberts won for Pretty Woman (1990)

Angela Bassett won for Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)

Jamie Lee Curtis won for True Lies (1994)

Nicole Kidman won twice for To Die For (1995) and Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Madonna won for playing Eva Perón in Evita (1996)

Helen Hunt won for As Good as It Gets (1997)

Gwyneth Paltrow won for Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Janet McTeer won for Tumbleweeds (1999)

Renée Zellweger won twice for Nurse Betty (2000) and Chicago (2002)

Annette Bening won twice for her Being Julia (2004) and The Kids Are All Right (2010)

Reese Witherspoon won playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005)

Meryl Streep won twice for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009)

Marion Cotillard won for playing Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (2007)

Sally Hawkins won for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Michelle Williams won for playing Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Jennifer Lawrence won twice for Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and for Joy (2015)

Amy Adams won twice for American Hustle (2013) and Big Eyes (2014)

Emma Stone won twice for La La Land (2016) and Poor Things (2023)

Saoirse Ronan won for Lady Bird (2017)

Olivia Colman won for The Favourite (2018)

Awkwafina won for The Farewell (2019)

Rosamund Pike won for I Care a Lot (2020)

Rachel Zegler won for West Side Story (2021)

Michelle Yeoh won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

1950s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1950	Judy Holliday	Emma "Billie" Dawn	Born Yesterday	[1]
	Spring Byington	Louisa Norton	Louisa
	Betty Hutton	Annie Oakley	Annie Get Your Gun
1951	June Allyson	Cynthia Potter	Too Young to Kiss	[1]
1952	Susan Hayward	Jane Froman	With a Song in My Heart	[1]
	Katharine Hepburn	Pat Pemberton	Pat and Mike
	Ginger Rogers	Edwina Fulton	Monkey Business
1953	Ethel Merman	Sally Adams	Call Me Madam	[1]
1954	Judy Garland	Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester	A Star Is Born	[1]
1955	Jean Simmons	Sarah Brown	Guys and Dolls	[1]
1956	Deborah Kerr	Anna Leonowens	The King and I	[1]
	Judy Holliday	Laura Partridge	The Solid Gold Cadillac
	Machiko Kyō	Lotus Blossom	The Teahouse of the August Moon
	Marilyn Monroe	Chérie	Bus Stop
	Debbie Reynolds	Polly Parish	Bundle of Joy
1957	Taina Elg	Angele Ducros	Les Girls	[1]
	Kay Kendall	Sybil Wren
	Cyd Charisse	Nina "Ninotchka" Yoschenko	Silk Stockings
	Audrey Hepburn	Ariane Chavasse	Love in the Afternoon
	Jean Simmons	Anne Leeds	This Could Be the Night
1958	Rosalind Russell	Mame Dennis	Auntie Mame	[1]
	Ingrid Bergman	Anna Kalman	Indiscreet
	Leslie Caron	Gigi	Gigi
	Doris Day	Isolde Poole	The Tunnel of Love
	Mitzi Gaynor	Nellie Forbush	South Pacific
1959	Marilyn Monroe	Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk	Some Like It Hot	[1]
	Dorothy Dandridge	Bess	Porgy and Bess
	Doris Day	Jan Morrow	Pillow Talk
	Shirley MacLaine	Meg Wheeler	Ask Any Girl
	Lilli Palmer	Kathryn Ward	But Not for Me

1960s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1960 (18th)	Shirley MacLaine	Fran Kubelik	The Apartment	[1]
	Lucille Ball	Kitty Weaver	The Facts of Life
	Capucine	Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein	Song Without End
	Judy Holliday	Ella Peterson	Bells Are Ringing
	Sophia Loren	Lucia Curcio	It Started in Naples
1961 (19th)	Rosalind Russell	Bertha Jacoby	A Majority of One	[1]
	Bette Davis	Apple Annie	Pocketful of Miracles
	Audrey Hepburn	Holly Golightly	Breakfast at Tiffany's
	Hayley Mills	Susan Evers / Sharon McKendrick	The Parent Trap
	Miyoshi Umeki	Mei Li	Flower Drum Song
1962 (20th)	Rosalind Russell	Rose Hovick	Gypsy	[1]
	Doris Day	Kitty Wonder	Billy Rose's Jumbo
	Jane Fonda	Isabel Haverstick	Period of Adjustment
	Shirley Jones	Marian Paroo	The Music Man
	Natalie Wood	Louise Hovick / Gypsy Rose Lee	Gypsy
1963 (21st)	Shirley MacLaine	Irma la Douce	Irma la Douce	[1]
	Molly Picon	Sophie Baker	Come Blow Your Horn
	Jill St. John	Peggy John
	Ann-Margret	Kim MacAffee	Bye Bye Birdie
	Doris Day	Ellen Wagstaff Arden	Move Over, Darling
	Audrey Hepburn	Regina "Reggie" Lampert	Charade
	Hayley Mills	Nancy Carey	Summer Magic
	Joanne Woodward	Sam Blake / Mimi	A New Kind of Love
1964 (22nd)	Julie Andrews	Mary Poppins	Mary Poppins	[1]
	Audrey Hepburn	Eliza Doolittle	My Fair Lady
	Sophia Loren	Filumena Marturano	Marriage Italian Style
	Melina Mercouri	Elizabeth Lipp	Topkapi
	Debbie Reynolds	Molly Brown	The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1965 (23rd)	Julie Andrews	Maria von Trapp	The Sound of Music	[1]
	Jane Fonda	Cat Ballou	Cat Ballou
	Barbara Harris	Dr. Sandra Markowitz	A Thousand Clowns
	Rita Tushingham	Nancy Jones	The Knack ...and How to Get It
	Natalie Wood	Daisy Clover	Inside Daisy Clover
1966 (24th)	Lynn Redgrave	Georgy	Georgy Girl	[1]
	Jane Fonda	Ellen Gordon	Any Wednesday
	Elizabeth Hartman	Barbara Darling	You're a Big Boy Now
	Shirley MacLaine	Nicole Chang	Gambit
	Vanessa Redgrave	Leonie Delt	Morgan!
1967 (25th)	Anne Bancroft	Mrs. Robinson	The Graduate	[1]
	Julie Andrews	Millie Dillmount	Thoroughly Modern Millie
	Audrey Hepburn	Joanna "Jo" Wallace	Two for the Road
	Shirley MacLaine	Paulette / Maria Teresa / Linda / Edith / Eve Minou / Marie / Jeanne	Woman Times Seven
	Vanessa Redgrave	Guenevere	Camelot
1968 (26th)	Barbra Streisand	Fanny Brice	Funny Girl	[1]
	Julie Andrews	Gertrude Lawrence	Star!
	Lucille Ball	Helen North	Yours, Mine and Ours
	Petula Clark	Sharon McLongeran	Finian's Rainbow
	Gina Lollobrigida	Carla Campbell	Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1969 (27th)	Patty Duke	Natalie Miller	Me, Natalie	[1]
	Ingrid Bergman	Stephanie Dickinson	Cactus Flower
	Dyan Cannon	Alice Henderson	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
	Kim Darby	Doris Bolton Owen	Generation
	Mia Farrow	Mary	John and Mary
	Shirley MacLaine	Charity Hope Valentine	Sweet Charity
	Anna Magnani	Rose Bombolini	The Secret of Santa Vittoria
	Barbra Streisand	Dolly Levi	Hello, Dolly!

1970s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1970 (28th)	Carrie Snodgress	Tina Balser	Diary of a Mad Housewife	[1]
	Julie Andrews	Lili Smith	Darling Lili
	Sandy Dennis	Gwen Kellerman	The Out-of-Towners
	Angela Lansbury	Countess Erthe Van Orstein	Something for Everyone
	Barbra Streisand	Doris	The Owl and the Pussycat
1971 (29th)	Twiggy	Polly Browne	The Boy Friend	[1]
	Sandy Duncan	Amy Cooper	Star Spangled Girl
	Ruth Gordon	Maude Chardin	Harold and Maude
	Angela Lansbury	Eglantine Price	Bedknobs and Broomsticks
	Elaine May	Henrietta Lowell	A New Leaf
1972 (30th)	Liza Minnelli	Sally Bowles	Cabaret	[1]
	Carol Burnett	Tillie Schlaine	Pete 'n' Tillie
	Goldie Hawn	Jill Tanner	Butterflies Are Free
	Juliet Mills	Pamela Piggott	Avanti!
	Maggie Smith	Augusta Bertram	Travels with My Aunt
1973 (31st)	Glenda Jackson	Vicky Allesio	A Touch of Class	[1]
	Yvonne Elliman	Mary Magdalene	Jesus Christ Superstar
	Cloris Leachman	Nettie Appleby	Charley and the Angel
	Tatum O'Neal	Addie Loggins	Paper Moon
	Liv Ullmann	Ann Stanley	40 Carats
1974 (32nd)	Raquel Welch	Constance Bonacieux	The Three Musketeers	[1]
	Lucille Ball	Mame Dennis	Mame
	Diahann Carroll	Claudine Price	Claudine
	Helen Hayes	Mrs. Steinmetz	Herbie Rides Again
	Cloris Leachman	Frau Blücher	Young Frankenstein
1975 (33rd)	Ann-Margret	Nora Walker	Tommy	[1]
	Julie Christie	Jackie Shawn	Shampoo
	Goldie Hawn	Jill Haynes
	Liza Minnelli	Claire	Lucky Lady
	Barbra Streisand	Fanny Brice	Funny Lady
1976 (34th)	Barbra Streisand	Esther Hoffman	A Star Is Born	[1]
	Barbara Harris	Blanche Tyler	Family Plot
		Ellen Andrews	Freaky Friday
	Jodie Foster	Annabelle Andrews
	Goldie Hawn	Amanda "Duchess" Quaid	The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
	Rita Moreno	Googie Gomez	The Ritz
1977 (35th)	Diane Keaton	Annie Hall	Annie Hall	[1]
	Marsha Mason	Paula McFadden	The Goodbye Girl
	Sally Field	Carrie ("Frog")	Smokey and the Bandit
	Liza Minnelli	Francine Evans	New York, New York
	Lily Tomlin	Margo Sperling	The Late Show
1978 (36th)	Ellen Burstyn	Doris	Same Time, Next Year	[1]
	Maggie Smith	Diana Barrie	California Suite
	Jacqueline Bisset	Natasha O'Brien	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
	Goldie Hawn	Gloria Mundy	Foul Play
	Olivia Newton-John	Sandy Olsson	Grease
1979 (37th)	Bette Midler	Mary Rose Foster	The Rose	[1]
	Julie Andrews	Samantha Taylor	10
	Jill Clayburgh	Marilyn Holmberg	Starting Over
	Shirley MacLaine	Eve Rand	Being There
	Marsha Mason	Jennie MacLaine	Chapter Two

1980s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1980 (38th)	Sissy Spacek	Loretta Lynn	Coal Miner's Daughter	[2]
	Irene Cara	Coco Hernandez	Fame
	Goldie Hawn	Judy Benjamin	Private Benjamin
	Bette Midler	Herself / The Divine Miss M	Divine Madness
	Dolly Parton	Doralee Rhodes	9 to 5
1981 (39th)	Bernadette Peters	Eileen Everson	Pennies from Heaven	[3]
	Blair Brown	Dr. Nell Porter	Continental Divide
	Carol Burnett	Kate Burroughs	The Four Seasons
	Jill Clayburgh	Ruth Loomis	First Monday in October
	Liza Minnelli	Linda Marolla	Arthur
1982 (40th)	Julie Andrews	Victoria Grant / Victor Grezhinski	Victor/Victoria	[4]
	Carol Burnett	Miss Hannigan	Annie
	Sally Field	Kay Villano	Kiss Me Goodbye
	Goldie Hawn	Paula McCullen	Best Friends
	Dolly Parton	Mona Stangley	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
	Aileen Quinn	Annie	Annie
1983 (41st)	Julie Walters	Susan "Rita" White	Educating Rita	[5]
	Anne Bancroft	Anna Bronski	To Be or Not to Be
	Jennifer Beals	Alex Owens	Flashdance
	Linda Ronstadt	Mabel	The Pirates of Penzance
	Barbra Streisand	Yentl Mendel	Yentl
1984 (42nd)	Kathleen Turner	Joan Wilder	Romancing the Stone	[6]
	Anne Bancroft	Estelle Rolfe	Garbo Talks
	Mia Farrow	Tina Vitale	Broadway Danny Rose
	Shelley Long	Lucy Brodsky	Irreconcilable Differences
	Lily Tomlin	Edwina Cutwater	All of Me
1985 (43rd)	Kathleen Turner	Irene Walker	Prizzi's Honor	[7]
	Rosanna Arquette	Roberta Glass	Desperately Seeking Susan
	Glenn Close	Jan Chaney / Maxie Malone	Maxie
	Mia Farrow	Cecelia	The Purple Rose of Cairo
	Sally Field	Emma Moriarty	Murphy's Romance
1986 (44th)	Sissy Spacek	Rebecca Magrath / Babe Botrelle	Crimes of the Heart	[8]
	Julie Andrews	Gillian Fairchild	That's Life!
	Melanie Griffith	Audrey Hankel	Something Wild
	Bette Midler	Barbara Whiteman	Down and Out in Beverly Hills
	Kathleen Turner	Peggy Sue	Peggy Sue Got Married
1987 (45th)	Cher	Loretta Castorini	Moonstruck	[9]
	Jennifer Grey	Frances "Baby" Houseman	Dirty Dancing
	Holly Hunter	Jane Craig	Broadcast News
	Diane Keaton	J.C. Wiatt	Baby Boom
	Bette Midler	Sandy Bronzinsky	Outrageous Fortune
1988 (46th)	Melanie Griffith	Tess McGill	Working Girl	[10]
	Jamie Lee Curtis	Wanda Gershwitz	A Fish Called Wanda
	Amy Irving	Isabelle Grossman	Crossing Delancey
	Michelle Pfeiffer	Angela DeMarco	Married to the Mob
	Susan Sarandon	Annie Savoy	Bull Durham
1989 (47th)	Jessica Tandy	Daisy Werthan	Driving Miss Daisy	[11]
	Pauline Collins	Shirley Valentine-Bradshaw	Shirley Valentine
	Meg Ryan	Sally Albright	When Harry Met Sally...
	Meryl Streep	Mary Fisher	She-Devil
	Kathleen Turner	Barbara Rose	The War of the Roses

1990s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1990 (48th)	Julia Roberts	Vivian Ward	Pretty Woman	[12]
	Mia Farrow	Alice Tate	Alice
	Andie MacDowell	Bronte Mitchell	Green Card
	Demi Moore	Molly Jensen	Ghost
	Meryl Streep	Suzanne Vale	Postcards from the Edge
1991 (49th)	Bette Midler	Dixie Leonard	For the Boys	[13]
	Ellen Barkin	Amanda Brooks	Switch
	Kathy Bates	Evelyn Couch	Fried Green Tomatoes
	Anjelica Huston	Morticia Addams	The Addams Family
	Michelle Pfeiffer	Frankie	Frankie and Johnny
1992 (50th)	Miranda Richardson	Rose Arbuthnot	Enchanted April	[14]
	Geena Davis	Dottie Hinson	A League of Their Own
	Whoopi Goldberg	Deloris van Cartier	Sister Act
	Shirley MacLaine	Pearl Berman	Used People
	Meryl Streep	Madeline Ashton	Death Becomes Her
1993 (51st)	Angela Bassett	Tina Turner	What's Love Got to Do with It	[15]
	Stockard Channing	Ouisa Kittredge	Six Degrees of Separation
	Anjelica Huston	Morticia Addams	Addams Family Values
	Diane Keaton	Carol Lipton	Manhattan Murder Mystery
	Meg Ryan	Annie Reed	Sleepless in Seattle
1994 (52nd)	Jamie Lee Curtis	Helen Tasker	True Lies	[16]
	Geena Davis	Julia Mann	Speechless
	Andie MacDowell	Carrie	Four Weddings and a Funeral
	Shirley MacLaine	Tess Carlisle	Guarding Tess
	Emma Thompson	Dr. Diana Redding	Junior
1995 (53rd)	Nicole Kidman	Suzanne Stone-Maretto	To Die For	[17]
	Annette Bening	Sydney Ellen Wade	The American President
	Sandra Bullock	Lucy Eleanor Moderatz	While You Were Sleeping
	Toni Collette	Muriel Heslop	Muriel's Wedding
	Vanessa Redgrave	Miss Bentley	A Month by the Lake
1996 (54th)	Madonna	Eva Perón	Evita	[18]
	Glenn Close	Cruella de Vil	101 Dalmatians
	Frances McDormand	Marge Gunderson	Fargo
	Debbie Reynolds	Beatrice Henderson	Mother
	Barbra Streisand	Rose Morgan	The Mirror Has Two Faces
1997 (55th)	Helen Hunt	Carol Connelly	As Good as It Gets	[19]
	Joey Lauren Adams	Alyssa Jones	Chasing Amy
	Pam Grier	Jackie Brown	Jackie Brown
	Jennifer Lopez	Selena Quintanilla-Pérez	Selena
	Julia Roberts	Julianne Potter	My Best Friend's Wedding
1998 (56th)	Gwyneth Paltrow	Viola de Lesseps	Shakespeare in Love	[20]
	Cameron Diaz	Mary Jensen	There's Something About Mary
	Jane Horrocks	Laura Hoff	Little Voice
	Christina Ricci	Deedee Truitt	The Opposite of Sex
	Meg Ryan	Kathleen Kelly	You've Got Mail
1999 (57th)	Janet McTeer	Mary Jo Walker	Tumbleweeds	[21]
	Julianne Moore	Mrs. Laura Cheveley	An Ideal Husband
	Julia Roberts	Anna Scott	Notting Hill
	Sharon Stone	Sarah Little	The Muse
	Reese Witherspoon	Tracy Flick	Election

2000s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2000 (58th)	Renée Zellweger	Betty Sizemore	Nurse Betty	[22]
	Juliette Binoche	Vianne Rocher	Chocolat
	Brenda Blethyn	Grace Trevethyn	Saving Grace
	Sandra Bullock	Gracie Hart	Miss Congeniality
	Tracey Ullman	Frenchy Jackson	Small Time Crooks
2001 (59th)	Nicole Kidman	Satine	Moulin Rouge!	[23]
	Thora Birch	Enid	Ghost World
	Cate Blanchett	Kate Wheeler	Bandits
	Reese Witherspoon	Elle Woods	Legally Blonde
	Renée Zellweger	Bridget Jones	Bridget Jones's Diary
2002 (60th)	Renée Zellweger	Roxie Hart	Chicago	[24]
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	Lee Holloway	Secretary
	Goldie Hawn	Suzette Crooks	The Banger Sisters
	Nia Vardalos	Fotoula "Toula" Portokalos	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Velma Kelly	Chicago
2003 (61st)	Diane Keaton	Erica Barry	Something's Gotta Give	[25]
	Jamie Lee Curtis	Dr. Tess Coleman	Freaky Friday
	Scarlett Johansson	Charlotte Riley	Lost in Translation
	Diane Lane	Frances Mayes	Under the Tuscan Sun
	Helen Mirren	Chris Harper	Calendar Girls
2004 (62nd)	Annette Bening	Julia Lambert	Being Julia	[26]
	Ashley Judd	Linda Porter	De-Lovely
	Emmy Rossum	Christine Daaé	The Phantom of the Opera
	Kate Winslet	Clementine Kruczynski	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	Renée Zellweger	Bridget Jones	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2005 (63rd)	Reese Witherspoon	June Carter Cash	Walk the Line	[27]
	Judi Dench	Laura Henderson	Mrs Henderson Presents
	Keira Knightley	Elizabeth Bennet	Pride & Prejudice
	Laura Linney	Joan Berkman	The Squid and the Whale
	Sarah Jessica Parker	Meredith Morton	The Family Stone
2006 (64th)	Meryl Streep	Miranda Priestly	The Devil Wears Prada
	Annette Bening	Deirdre Burroughs	Running with Scissors
	Toni Collette	Sheryl Hoover	Little Miss Sunshine
	Beyoncé Knowles	Deena Jones	Dreamgirls
	Renée Zellweger	Beatrix Potter	Miss Potter
2007 (65th)	Marion Cotillard	Édith Piaf	La Vie en Rose	[28]
	Amy Adams	Giselle	Enchanted
	Nikki Blonsky	Tracy Turnblad	Hairspray
	Helena Bonham Carter	Mrs. Lovett	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Elliot Page	Juno MacGuff	Juno
2008 (66th)	Sally Hawkins	Pauline "Poppy" Cross	Happy-Go-Lucky	[29]
	Rebecca Hall	Vicky Marielle	Vicky Cristina Barcelona
	Frances McDormand	Linda Litzke	Burn After Reading
	Meryl Streep	Donna Sheridan	Mamma Mia!
	Emma Thompson	Kate Walker	Last Chance Harvey
2009 (67th)	Meryl Streep	Julia Child	Julie & Julia	[30]
	Meryl Streep	Jane Adler	It's Complicated
	Sandra Bullock	Margaret Tate	The Proposal
	Marion Cotillard	Luisa Acari Contini	Nine
	Julia Roberts	Claire Stenwick	Duplicity

2010s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2010 (68th)	Annette Bening	Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood	The Kids Are All Right	[31]
	Anne Hathaway	Maggie Murdock	Love & Other Drugs
	Angelina Jolie	Elise Clifton-Ward	The Tourist
	Julianne Moore	Jules Allgood	The Kids Are All Right
	Emma Stone	Olive Penderghast	Easy A
2011 (69th)	Michelle Williams	Marilyn Monroe	My Week with Marilyn	[32]
	Jodie Foster	Penelope Longstreet	Carnage
	Charlize Theron	Mavis Gary	Young Adult
	Kristen Wiig	Annie Walker	Bridesmaids
	Kate Winslet	Nancy Cowan	Carnage
2012 (70th)	Jennifer Lawrence	Tiffany Maxwell	Silver Linings Playbook	[33]
	Emily Blunt	Harriet Chetwode-Talbot	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
	Judi Dench	Evelyn Greenslade	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
	Maggie Smith	Jean Horton	Quartet
	Meryl Streep	Kay Soames	Hope Springs
2013 (71st)	Amy Adams	Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly	American Hustle	[34]
	Julie Delpy	Céline Wallace	Before Midnight
	Greta Gerwig	Frances Halladay	Frances Ha
	Julia Louis-Dreyfus	Eva Henderson	Enough Said
	Meryl Streep	Violet Weston	August: Osage County
2014 (72nd)	Amy Adams	Margaret Keane	Big Eyes	[35]
	Emily Blunt	The Baker's Wife	Into the Woods
	Helen Mirren	Madame Mallory	The Hundred-Foot Journey
	Julianne Moore	Havana Segrand	Maps to the Stars
	Quvenzhané Wallis	Annie Bennett	Annie
2015 (73rd)	Jennifer Lawrence	Joy Mangano	Joy	[36]
	Melissa McCarthy	Susan Cooper	Spy
	Amy Schumer	Amy Townsend	Trainwreck
	Maggie Smith	Mary Shepherd / Margaret Fairchild	The Lady in the Van
	Lily Tomlin	Elle Reid	Grandma
2016 (74th)	Emma Stone	Mia Dolan	La La Land	[37]
	Annette Bening	Dorothea Fields	20th Century Women
	Lily Collins	Marla Mabrey	Rules Don't Apply
	Hailee Steinfeld	Nadine Franklin	The Edge of Seventeen
	Meryl Streep	Florence Foster Jenkins	Florence Foster Jenkins
2017 (75th)	Saoirse Ronan	Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson	Lady Bird	[38]
	Judi Dench	Queen Victoria	Victoria & Abdul
	Helen Mirren	Ella Spencer	The Leisure Seeker
	Margot Robbie	Tonya Harding	I, Tonya
	Emma Stone	Billie Jean King	Battle of the Sexes
2018 (76th)	Olivia Colman	Queen Anne	The Favourite	[39]
	Emily Blunt	Mary Poppins	Mary Poppins Returns
	Elsie Fisher	Kayla Day	Eighth Grade
	Charlize Theron	Marlo Moreau	Tully
	Constance Wu	Rachel Chu	Crazy Rich Asians
2019 (77th)	Awkwafina	Billi Wang	The Farewell	[40]
	Ana de Armas	Marta Cabrera	Knives Out
	Cate Blanchett	Bernadette Fox	Where'd You Go, Bernadette
	Beanie Feldstein	Molly Davidson	Booksmart
	Emma Thompson	Katherine Newbury	Late Night

2020s

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2020 (78th)	Rosamund Pike	Marla Grayson	I Care a Lot	[41]
	Maria Bakalova	Tutar Sagdiyev	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
	Kate Hudson	Kazu Gamble	Music
	Michelle Pfeiffer	Frances Price	French Exit
	Anya Taylor-Joy	Emma Woodhouse	Emma
2021 (79th)	Rachel Zegler	María	West Side Story	[42]
	Marion Cotillard	Ann Defrasnoux	Annette
	Alana Haim	Alana Kane	Licorice Pizza
	Jennifer Lawrence	Kate Dibiasky	Don't Look Up
	Emma Stone	Estella / Cruella	Cruella
2022 (80th)	Michelle Yeoh	Evelyn Quan Wang	Everything Everywhere All At Once	[43]
	Lesley Manville	Ada Harris	Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
	Margot Robbie	Nellie LaRoy	Babylon
	Anya Taylor-Joy	Margot Mills / Erin	The Menu
	Emma Thompson	Nancy Stokes / Susan Robinson	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
2023 (81st)	Emma Stone	Bella Baxter	Poor Things	[44]
	Fantasia Barrino	Miss Celie Harris Johnson	The Color Purple
	Jennifer Lawrence	Maddie Barker	No Hard Feelings
	Natalie Portman	Elizabeth Berry	May December
	Alma Pöysti	Ansa	Fallen Leaves
	Margot Robbie	Barbie Roberts	Barbie
2024 (82nd)	Demi Moore	Elisabeth Sparkle	The Substance	[45][46]
	Amy Adams	Mother	Nightbitch
	Cynthia Erivo	Elphaba Thropp	Wicked
	Karla Sofía Gascón	Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte	Emilia Pérez
	Mikey Madison	Anora "Ani" Mikheeva	Anora
	Zendaya	Tashi Duncan	Challengers

Multiple nominees

10 nominations Meryl Streep 9 nominations Shirley MacLaine 8 nominations Julie Andrews 7 nominations Goldie Hawn Barbra Streisand 5 nominations Annette Bening Audrey Hepburn Bette Midler Emma Stone Renée Zellweger 4 nominations Amy Adams Doris Day Mia Farrow Diane Keaton Jennifer Lawrence Liza Minnelli Julia Roberts Maggie Smith Emma Thompson Kathleen Turner

3 nominations Lucille Ball Anne Bancroft Emily Blunt Sandra Bullock Carol Burnett Marion Cotillard Jamie Lee Curtis Judi Dench Sally Field Jane Fonda Barbara Harris Helen Mirren Julianne Moore Michelle Pfeiffer Vanessa Redgrave Debbie Reynolds Margot Robbie Rosalind Russell Meg Ryan Lily Tomlin Reese Witherspoon

2 nominations Ann-Margret Ingrid Bergman Cate Blanchett Jill Clayburgh Glenn Close Toni Collette Geena Davis Jodie Foster Melanie Griffith Judy Holliday Anjelica Huston Nicole Kidman Angela Lansbury Cloris Leachman Sophia Loren Andie MacDowell Marsha Mason Frances McDormand Hayley Mills Marilyn Monroe Demi Moore Dolly Parton Jean Simmons Sissy Spacek Anya Taylor-Joy Charlize Theron Kate Winslet Natalie Wood

Multiple wins

3 awards Julie Andrews (2 consecutive) Rosalind Russell (2 consecutive)

2 awards Amy Adams (consecutive) Annette Bening Diane Keaton Nicole Kidman Jennifer Lawrence Shirley MacLaine Bette Midler Sissy Spacek Emma Stone Meryl Streep Barbra Streisand Kathleen Turner (consecutive) Renée Zellweger

Firsts

• Angela Bassett became the first actress of African descent to win when she won in 1993.
• Marion Cotillard became the first actress to win for a non-English language performance when she won in 2007.
• Awkwafina became the first actress of Asian descent to win when she won in 2020.^[47]
• Rachel Zegler became the youngest winner in that category at 20 years old when she won in 2022.
• Michelle Yeoh became the first Malaysian actress to win when she won in 2023.^[48][49]
• Emma Stone became the first actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress twice for her two winning performances in this category in 2017 (La La Land) and 2024 (Poor Things)

See also

• Academy Award for Best Actress
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
• BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role