Best Actress Oscar Winners

Congratulations to Lily Gladstone for Oscar win as Best Actress
Congratulations to Lily Gladstone for Oscar win as Best Actress

Want to know the best Best Actress Oscar Winners?  How about the worst Best Actress Oscar Winners?  Curious about Best Actress Oscar Winners box office grosses or which Best Actress Oscar Winners picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Best Actress Oscar Winners got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which one got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information.

Since 1927, there have been 90 Best Actress Oscar Winners. This page will rank all 90 Best Actress Oscar Winning movies from Best to Worst in five different sortable columns of information.  If you use the sort and search buttons the massive table becomes very interactive.

Best Actress Oscar Winners Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In The Table Below

The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Best Actress Oscar Winners by the winners
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  • Sort Best Actress Oscar® Winning Movies by critic reviews and audiences voting.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Best Actress Oscar Winning Movie received.
  • Sort Best Actress Oscar Winning Movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Movie Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.  The ceiling to earn points for box office is $200 million…once a movie passes that mark it stops earning points in that category.
 
Audrey Hepburn in 1953's Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn in 1953’s Roman Holiday

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Conspiracy Theory:  The time…the 59th Academy Awards®.  As is the custom the previous year’s Best Actor winner was the presenter of the Best Actress Award.  In this case that meant William Hurt had the duty to announce the category.  At the time Hurt was in a relationship Marlee Matlin.  Hurt and Matlin had starred in Children Of A Lesser God together and had become an off screen couple.  What if Sigourney Weaver’s name was really the winner and Hurt called the love of his life…Marlee Matlin? Only three people in the entire world would know the truth…..Hurt and the two accountants responsible for keeping the results secret.  Would the two accountants really rush on to the stage during one of the most heart felt Oscar® acceptance speeches and take the Oscar® away from the hearing impaired Matlin?

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89 thoughts on “Best Actress Oscar Winners

  1. Hey Cogerson, as you know I have a VHS player – come over any time and watch the movie – I would watch it with you – that was a good movie…a good love story…I am impressed with this HUB – such interesting facts. I have seen quite a few of these movies but not all once again. Are you going with all the actors who won OSCARS too? GOOD WORK ONCE AGAIN. As far as notification if you do not call me I get notification in my JUNK MAIL…do not know why. I pulled up this HUB in the Junk Mail – you called me and told me it was out there. GOOD WORK SON, BRUCE, COGERSON…

    1. Hey BERN1960…..thanks for the offer for the VCR usage….I will remember that when I will finally watch To Each His Own…I just saw the VHS tape you taped for me when we were putting the DVD rack back after the Christmas tree went away. I appreciate your comment and your compliment…sorry one of your favorites ended up being so low on the charts. I Want To Live came in at #48 which is just a little above average…but all of these movies are pretty good. I have already done all the actors…the link is at the top of the page.

  2. Bruce, I received an email notification for this page 13 minutes ago. And you published it hours ago! I don’t understand why notifications aren’t instant here, I get email notices for comments in my hub up to 2 hours after someone posts them, so by the time I reply other people have commented too. On my forum email notifications are almost instantaneous, which is how it should be.

    Sorry for the rant Bruce I just had to get it off my chest.

    Another interesting film hub, packed with facts and figures, good work my friend.

    Not sure Liza Minnelli should be in the top 10 with all those great ladies but she was fun in Arthur. 🙂

    My Sandra’s favourite actress is Jodie Foster I don’t think she’s even heard of Vivien Leigh [cue Flora groaning]. 😉

    Okay let’s see… Katharine the Great isn’t even in the top 10. [bites fist] 🙂

    You’re well ahead of me here Bruce I’ve only seen 43 of the 84 films you’ve listed. I guess the subject matter of most of these didn’t interest me much.

    I’ve seen 7 from the box office chart and 8 from the critics chart.

    My favourite is probably Vivien leigh as the awful Scarlett O’Hara, I actually felt sorry for the silly girl. Fantastic performance by Viv. Scarlett is arguably the greatest and most famous female role in Hollywood history.

    Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs was great too.

    Looking forward to seeing Meryl Streep as the much hated ex-PM and Michelle Williams as Norma Jean Baker.

    1. Hey Steve….sorry for the delay in notification…but I hope your rant helped….it can not hurt…lol.

      Thanks for the compliment…I agree Liza Minnelli seems out of place with all of these great actresses…but she did hit a massive homerun with Cabaret. As for the Great Kate…she is everywhere in this hub…and her finally rankings are pretty good as well….12th, 18th, 30th….and we will not mention Morning Glory which is all the way down in 70th spot. Amazingly she has two of the Top 5 box office movies and none of the critic audience Top 10…I would have thought the opposite would have happened.

      So I assume you are happy with the Top Two….and I think Nurse Ratchett in third place is in a pretty good spot as well…..she did after all win out over Jack in the movie…maybe he should not have messed with her…lol.

      So is the UK excited about The Iron Lady? I was until I read about the whole imaginary friend part. Thanks as always for stopping by…and surely Sandra is familiar with Scarlett O’Hara.

      1. Not sure if she is familar with Scarlett, Bruce. I don’t think she’s watched that film with me, it’s too old!

        Streep is getting good reviews as Thatcher but some of the MP’s and the Prime Minister have criticised the film for showing her suffering with dementia, especially since she’s still alive.

        I’m happy with your top 3 moviescore actresses films, not sure about Liza and Julia Andrews though, wait a sec Julia Andrews? Julia? JULIA! You’ve got Julie Roberts on your mind eh? 😉

        1. Hey Steve….wow she might be the only woman on Earth not familiar with Gone With The Wind. Thanks for the catch on Julia Andrews…the error has been fixed. I thought everybody had Julie Roberts on their mind….lol.

  3. I’m hoping Meryl Streep takes it this year. As much as I admire the work of Natalie Portman and Sandra Bullock, I feel like the Academy was trying to court the popular attention by picking box office successes. That being said, I’m interested to see how The Help does in the Oscar race too. Interesting Movie Page!

    1. Hey Alecia….thanks for stopping by…I think Meryl Streep’s reward will be her 14th nomination for Best Actress(17th overall)…but The Iron Lady is getting some pretty bad reviews…and I heard they included a imaginary friend for the Prime Minister…what is up with that? I do agree that the Oscar voters are trying to appear hipper…if Kristen Wiig gets a nomination for Bridesmaids then I think it is official..they have gone too far. I do think Viola Davis has an excellent chance for not only a nomination but a Oscar win. I will be doing an Oscar nomination prediction hub in about a week…and she will be one of the sure shots for a nomination.

    1. Hey AnkushKohli…. well The Silence of the Lambs and Jodie Foster almost knocked off Vivien Leigh and Gone With The Wind….so it is up there with some quality movies…thanks for stopping by.

  4. I’ll never get to sleep if I read this and properly comment on your hub now. But I will say this. I have seen over 50% of the total films, and not all of the movies I have seen were made before I was born. I have seen 48 of them which is 57% of them. My lowest ranked film is #79 – Dangerous, which means I have seen 60% of the top 80.

    I have seen 68% of the top 40 films (27).

    I have seen 15 of the top 20 which is 75% of them. That is my highest total of any grouping.

    I have seen 6 of the the top ten.

    I will discuss which films these are and what I loved/hated tomorrow.

    1. Hey Flora…I can not believe you picked sleep over leaving a more detailed comment….lol. 48 is a pretty impressive number….I am only missing 6 of the movies….they are Room at the Top(very hard one to find), To Each His Own(my mom taped it for me….now all I have to do is find a VHS player), The Sin of Madelon Claudet, Coquette, Dangerous and Min and Bill(the highest rated one I have not seen). I look forward to your comments. Interesting timing once again…I think it is awesome that Luise Rainer will be 102 tomorrow….maybe she reads the internet every day.

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