 | 2007 | Tilda Swinton Michael Clayton | 
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| 2006 | Jennifer Hudson Dreamgirls | 
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| 2005 | Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener | 
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| 2004 | Cate Blanchett The Aviator | 
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| 2003 | Renée Zellweger Cold Mountain | 
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| 2002 | Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago | 
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| 2001 | Jennifer Connelly A Beautiful Mind | 
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| 2000 | Marcia Gay Harden Pollock | 
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| 1999 | Angelina Jolie Girl, Interrupted | 
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| 1998 | Dame Judi Dench Shakespeare in Love | 
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| 1997 | Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential | 
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| 1996 | Juliette Binoche The English Patient | 
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| 1995 | Mira Sorvino Mighty Aphrodite | 
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| 1994 | Dianne Wiest Bullets Over Broadway | 
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| 1993 | Anna Paquin The Piano | 
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| 1992 | Marisa Tomei My Cousin Vinny | 
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| 1991 | Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King | 
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| 1990 | Whoopi Goldberg Ghost | 
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| 1989 | Brenda Fricker My Left Foot | 
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| 1988 | Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist | 
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| 1987 | Olympia Dukakis Moonstruck | 
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| 1986 | Dianne Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters | 
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| 1985 | Anjelica Huston Prizzi's Honor | 
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| 1984 | Dame Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India | 
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| 1983 | Linda Hunt The Year of Living Dangerously | 
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| 1982 | Jessica Lange Tootsie | 
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| 1981 | Maureen Stapleton Reds | 
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| 1980 | Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard | 
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| 1979 | Meryl Streep Kramer vs. Kramer | 
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| 1978 | Maggie Smith California Suite | 
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| 1977 | Vanessa Redgrave Julia | 
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| 1976 | Beatrice Straight Network | 
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| 1975 | Lee Grant Shampoo | 
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| 1974 | Ingrid Bergman Murder on the Orient Express | 
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| 1973 | Tatum O'Neal Paper Moon | 
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| 1972 | Eileen Heckart Butterflies Are Free | 
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| 1971 | Cloris Leachman The Last Picture Show | 
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| 1970 | Helen Hayes Airport | 
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| 1969 | Goldie Hawn Cactus Flower | 
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| 1968 | Ruth Gordon Rosemary's Baby | 
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| 1967 | Estelle Parsons Bonnie and Clyde | 
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| 1966 | Sandy Dennis Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 
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| 1965 | Shelley Winters A Patch of Blue | 
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| 1964 | Lila Kedrova Zorba the Greek | 
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| 1963 | Dame Margaret Rutherford The V.I.P.s | 
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| 1962 | Patty Duke The Miracle Worker | 
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| 1961 | Rita Moreno West Side Story | 
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| 1960 | Shirley Jones Elmer Gantry | 
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| 1959 | Shelley Winters The Diary of Anne Frank | 
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| 1958 | Dame Wendy Hiller Separate Tables | 
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| 1957 | Miyoshi Umeki Sayonara | 
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| 1956 | Dorothy Malone Written on the Wind | 
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| 1955 | Jo Van Fleet East of Eden | 
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| 1954 | Eva Marie Saint On the Waterfront | 
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| 1953 | Donna Reed From Here to Eternity | 
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| 1952 | Gloria Grahame The Bad and the Beautiful | 
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| 1951 | Kim Hunter A Streetcar Named Desire | 
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| 1950 | Josephine Hull Harvey | 
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| 1949 | Mercedes McCambridge All the King's Men | 
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| 1948 | Claire Trevor Key Largo | 
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| 1947 | Celeste Holm Gentleman's Agreement | 
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| 1946 | Anne Baxter The Razor's Edge | 
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| 1945 | Anne Revere National Velvet | 
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| 1944 | Ethel Barrymore None But the Lonely Heart | 
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| 1943 | Katina Paxinou For Whom the Bell Tolls | 
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| 1942 | Teresa Wright Mrs. Miniver | 
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| 1941 | Mary Astor The Great Lie | 
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| 1940 | Jane Darwell The Grapes of Wrath | 
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| 1939 | Hattie McDaniel Gone With the Wind | 
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| 1938 | Fay Bainter Jezebel | 
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| 1937 | Alice Brady In Old Chicago | 
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| 1936 | Gale Sondergaard Anthony Adverse | 
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