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Leading Actress

1st Academy Awards - 1927/1928​ ​

  • Louise Dresser (A Ship Comes In) - 21:46 / 31.04%

  • Janet Gaynor (Sunrise) - 41:05 / 43.56%

  • Gloria Swanson (Sadie Thompson) - 51:21 / 56.33%

  • Janet Gaynor (Street Angel) - 52:59 / 52.31%

  • Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven) - 59:42 / 50.34%

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2nd Academy Awards - 1928/1929​ ​

  • Jeanne Eagels (The Letter) - 39:19 / 65.64%

  • Corinne Griffith (The Divine Lady) - 44:48 / 45.84%

  • Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody) - 46:28 / 46.36%

  • Mary Pickford (Coquette) - 57:28 / 75.93%

  • Ruth Chatterton (Madame X) - 58:42 / 61.69%

  • Betty Compson (The Barker) - unknown (unavailable film)

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3rd Academy Awards - 1929/1930​ ​

  • Nancy Carroll (The Devil's Holiday) - 47:13 / 63.25%

  • Ruth Chatterton (Sarah and Son) - 47:34 / 62.48%

  • Norma Shearer (Their Own Desire) - 48:57 / 76.01%

  • Greta Garbo (Romance) - 51:22 / 67.53%

  • Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) - 56:09 / 68.32%

  • Greta Garbo (Anna Christie) - 57:51 / 64.75%

  • Gloria Swanson (The Trespasser) - 1:06:59 / 75.28%

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4th Academy Awards - 1930/1931​ ​​

  • Marie Dressler (Min and Bill) - 47:52 / 73.28%

  • Marlene Dietrich (Morocco) - 48:03 / 52.27%

  • Ann Harding (Holiday) - 57:56 / 63.79%

  • Irene Dunne (Cimarron) - 58:33 / 47.43%

  • Norma Shearer (A Free Soul) - 1:06:25 / 71.03%

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5th Academy Awards - 1931/1932 ​

  • Lynn Fontanne (The Guardsman) - 48:08 / 58.89%

  • Marie Dressler (Emma) - 55:29 / 77.69%

  • Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet) - 57:56 / 77.35%

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6th Academy Awards - 1932/1933 ​

  • Diana Wynyard (Cavalcade) - 34:23 / 30.70%

  • May Robson (lady for a Day) - 35:11 / 36.62%

  • Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory) - 44:14 / 60.06%

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7th Academy Awards - 1934 ​

  • Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage) - 30:53 / 37.50% (write-in nomination)

  • Grace Moore (One Night of Love) - 55:32 / 66.49%

  • Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) - 1:02:56 / 59.95%

  • Norma Shearer (The Barretts of Wimpole Street) - 1:23:36 / 76.34%

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8th Academy Awards - 1935

  • Bette Davis (Dangerous) - 43:49 / 55.90%

  • Merle Oberon (The Dark Angel) - 45:24 / 42.94%

  • Claudette Colbert (Private Worlds) - 46:11 / 56.49%

  • Miriam Hopkins (Becky Sharp) - 55:38 / 66.55%

  • Elisabeth Bergner (Escape Me Never) - 58:39 / 63.00%

  • Katharine Hepburn (Alice Adams) - 1:05:44 / 66.14%

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9th Academy Awards - 1936​

  • Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld) - 35:43 / 19.27%

  • Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey) - 42:10 / 45.38%

  • Norma Shearer (Romeo and Juliet) - 53:25 / 42.93%

  • Irene Dunne (Theodora Goes Wild) - 1:00:33 / 64.39%

  • Gladys George (Valiant is the Word for Carrie) - 1:08:55 / 63.59%

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10th Academy Awards - 1937​

  • Luise Rainer (The Good Earth) - 58:17 / 42.23%

  • Janet Gaynor (A Star Is Born) - 1:03:27 / 57.32%

  • Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth) - 1:03:44 / 70.33%

  • Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas) - 1:10:55 / 67.08%

  • Greta Garbo (Camille) - 1:20:20 / 73.79%

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11th Academy Awards - 1938

  • Fay Bainter (White Banners) - 47:50 / 52.86%

  • Wendy Hiller (Pygmalion) - 49:07 / 51.32%

  • Margaret Sullavan (Three Comrades) - 51:25 / 52.16%

  • Bette Davis (Jezebel) - 56:32 / 54.29%

  • Norma Shearer (Marie Antoinette) - 1:41:04 / 64.33%

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12th Academy Awards - 1939

  • Greer Garson (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) - 21:54 / 19.20%

  • Irene Dunne (Love Affair) - 56:59 / 65.47%

  • Greta Garbo (Ninotchka) - 1:12:21 / 65.55%

  • Bette Davis (Dark Victory) - 1:17:08 / 74.20%

  • Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind) - 2:23:32 / 61.61%

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13th Academy Awards - 1940​

  • Martha Scott (Our Town) - 32:52 / 36.72%

  • Bette Davis (The Letter) - 1:03:29 / 66.79%

  • Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story) - 1:07:46 / 60.29%

  • Joan Fontaine (Rebecca) - 1:30:44 / 69.49%

  • Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle) - 1:31:41 / 85.29%

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14th Academy Awards - 1941

  • Barbara Stanwyck (Ball of Fire) - 45:56 / 41.19%

  • Olivia de Havilland (Hold Back the Dawn) - 47:03 / 40.68%

  • Bette Davis (The Little Foxes) - 53:49 / 46.28%

  • Greer Garson (Blossoms in the Dust) - 1:09:16 / 69.64%

  • Joan Fontaine (Suspicion) - 1:18:48 / 79.25%

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15th Academy Awards - 1942

  • Teresa Wright (The Pride of the Yankees) - 39:08 / 30.47%

  • Rosalind Russell (My Sister Eileen) - 1:08:27 / 70.75%

  • Katharine Hepburn (Woman of the Year) - 1:15:13 / 65.77%

  • Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver) - 1:25:55 / 64.37%

  • Bette Davis (Now, Voyager) - 1:36:16 / 81.95%

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16th Academy Awards - 1943​

  • Ingrid Bergman (For Whom the Bell Tolls) - 55:48 / 33.80%

  • Joan Fontaine (The Constant Nymph) - 58:09 / 51.94%

  • Jean Arthur (The More the Merrier) - 1:09:02 / 66.31%

  • Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette) - 1:10:08 / 44.47%

  • Greer Garson (Madame Curie) - 1:31:27 / 74.01%

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17th Academy Awards - 1944

  • Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity) - 39:48 / 37.01%

  • Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) - 1:12:53 / 64.12%

  • Claudette Colbert (Since You Went Away) - 1:26:53 / 49.09%

  • Greer Garson (Mrs. Parkington) - 1:27:00 / 70.32%

  • Bette Davis (Mr. Skeffington) - 1:36:26 / 65.98%

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18th Academy Awards - 1945

  • Jennifer Jones (Love Letters) - 50:16 / 49.79%

  • Gene Tierney (Leave Her to Heaven) - 1:02:38 / 57.00%

  • Ingrid Bergman (The Bells of St. Mary's) - 1:03:13 / 50.25%

  • Greer Garson (The Valley of Decision) - 1:17:30 / 65.47%

  • Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) - 1:26:17 / 77.93%

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19th Academy Awards - 1946

  • Jane Wyman (The Yearling) - 35:50 / 28.02%

  • Jennifer Jones (Duel in the Sun) - 1:03:11 / 43.82%

  • Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) - 1:12:25 / 83.93%

  • Rosalind Russell (Sister Kenny) - 1:35:36 / 82.33%

  • Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own) - 1:36:55 / 82.66%

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20th Academy Awards - 1947

  • Dorothy McGuire (Gentleman's Agreement) - 44:00 / 37.24%

  • Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter) - 54:37 / 55.98%

  • Susan Hayward (Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman) - 1:10:56 / 68.91%

  • Joan Crawford (Possessed) - 1:18:22 / 72.54% 

  • Rosalind Russell (Mourning Becomes Electra) - 1:30:22 / 56.94%

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21st Academy Awards - 1948

  • Barbara Stanwyck (Sorry, Wrong Number) - 35:38 / 40.22%

  • Jane Wyman (Johny Belinda) - 44:42 / 43.74%

  • Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit) - 1:19:33 / 73.76%

  • Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama) - 1:21:20 / 60.64%

  • Ingrid Bergman (Joan of Arc) - 1:34:39 / 65.03%

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22nd Academy Awards - 1949

  • Deborah Kerr (Edward, My Son) - 37:43 / 33.44%

  • Loretta Young (Come to the Stable) - 58:04 / 61.51%

  • Jeanne Crain (Pinky) - 1:19:41 / 78.44%

  • Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress) - 1:21:52 / 70.96%

  • Susan Hayward (My Foolish Heart) - 1:22:10 / 83.07%

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23rd Academy Awards - 1950

  • Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard) - 44:37 / 40.49%

  • Anne Baxter (All About Eve) - 53:00 / 38.37%

  • Eleanor Parker (Caged) - 56:46 / 58.89%

  • Bette Davis (All About Eve) - 59:47 / 43.28%

  • Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday) - 1:14:08 / 72.56%

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24th Academy Awards - 1951

  • Eleanor Parker (Detective Story) - 20:10 / 19.53%

  • Shelley Winters (A Place in the Sun) - 34:25 / 28.25%

  • Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen) - 1:13:00 / 69.38%

  • Jane Wyman (The Blue Veil) - 1:15:29 / 66.49%

  • Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire) - 1:33:04 / 74.61%

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25th Academy Awards - 1952​

  • Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba) - 1:06:32 / 69.45%

  • Julie Harris (The Member of the Wedding) - 1:11:01 / 79.47%

  • Bette Davis (The Star) - 1:17:49 / 86.18%

  • Joan Crawford (Sudden Fear) - 1:21:59 / 73.88%

  • Susan Hayward (With a Song in My Heart) - 1:22:18 / 70.49%

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26th Academy Awards - 1953

  • Deborah Kerr (From Here to Eternity) - 20:32 / 17.42%

  • Ava Gardner (Mogambo) - 54:05 / 46.64%

  • Leslie Caron (Lili) - 57:47 / 71.57%

  • Maggie McNamara (The Moon Is Blue) - 1:09:47 / 70.09%

  • Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday) - 1:14:12 / 62.85%

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27th Academy Awards - 1954

  • Grace Kelly (The Country Girl) - 45:46 / 44.00%

  • Jane Wyman (Magnificent Obsession) - 46:14 / 42.85%

  • Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina) - 1:01:14 / 53.97%

  • Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones) - 1:06:38 / 63.68%

  • Judy Garland (A Star Is Born) - 1:56:12 / 65.90%

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28th Academy Awards - 1955

  • Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo) - 1:22:07 / 70.41%

  • Eleanor Parker (Interrupted Melody) - 1:23:11 / 78.75%

  • Katharine Hepburn (Summertime) - 1:25:41 / 85.58%

  • Jennifer Jones (Love is a Many-Splendored Thing) - 1:27:47 / 86.19%

  • Susan Hayward (I'll Cry Tomorrow) - 1:37:19 / 82.02%

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29th Academy Awards - 1956

  • Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia) - 55:44 / 53.00%

  • Carroll Baker (Baby Doll) - 1:05:09 / 56.79%

  • Katharine Hepburn (The Rainmaker) - 1:09:59 / 57.69%

  • Nancy Kelly (The Bad Seed) - 1:25:23 / 66.19%

  • Deborah Kerr (The King and I) - 1:27:38 / 60.65%

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30th Academy Awards - 1957

  • Lana Turner (Peyton Place) - 43:51 / 27.96%

  • Deborah Kerr (Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison) - 53:19 / 50.28%

  • Elizabeth Taylor (Raintree County) - 56:11 / 35.25%

  • Anna Magnani (Wild is the Wind) - 1:12:05 / 65.44%

  • Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) - 1:12:56 / 79.93%

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31st Academy Awards - 1958​

  • Deborah Kerr (Separate Tables) - 29:32 / 29.56%

  • Shirley MacLaine (Some Came Running) - 38:46 / 28.55%

  • Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) - 48:16 / 44.73%

  • Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!) - 1:15:26 / 62.26%

  • Rosalind Russell (Auntie Mame) - 1:48:23 / 75.59%

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32nd Academy Awards - 1959

  • Katharine Hepburn (Suddenly, Last Summer) - 37:44 / 33.06%

  • Simone Signoret (Room at the Top) - 38:07 / 32.55%

  • Elizabeth Taylor (Suddenly, Last Summer) - 58:21 / 51.12%

  • Doris Day (Pillow Talk) - 1:07:11 / 65.64%

  • Audrey Hepburn (The Nun's Story) - 1:52:50 / 74.49%

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33rd Academy Awards - 1960

  • Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment) - 51:02 / 40.80%

  • Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday) - 1:01:29 / 66.21%

  • Deborah Kerr (The Sundowners) - 1:04:27 / 48.47%

  • Elizabeth Taylor (BUtterfield 8) - 1:10:36 / 65.14%

  • Greer Garson (Sunrise at Campobello) - 1:17:07 / 53.66%

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34th Academy Awards - 1961​

  • Piper Laurie (The Hustler) - 49:55 / 37.09%

  • Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass) - 58:35 / 47.32%

  • Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke) - 1:14:02 / 62.31%

  • Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's) - 1:14:35 / 65.30%

  • Sophia Loren (Two Women) - 1:16:54 / 77.61%

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35th Academy Awards - 1962​

  • Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth) - 45:57 / 38.36%

  • Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses) - 1:00:45 / 51.85%

  • Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) - 1:13:15 / 54.85%

  • Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker) - 1:21:18 / 76.29%

  • Katharine Hepburn (Long Day's Journey Into Night) - 1:21:37 / 48.01%

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36th Academy Awards - 1963

  • Patricia Neal (Hud) - 21:51 / 19.58%

  • Rachel Roberts (This Sporting Life) - 32:54 / 24.50%

  • Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger) - 1:01:37 / 61.43%

  • Shirley MacLaine (Irma La Douce) - 1:10:00 / 49.00%

  • Leslie Caron (The L-Shaped Room) - 1:26:57 / 72.40%

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37th Academy Awards - 1964

  • Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) - 46:37 / 33.51%

  • Sophia Loren (Marriage Italian Style) - 1:01:01 / 60.08%

  • Kim Stanley (Seance on a Wet Afternoon) - 1:06:08 / 57.07%

  • Anne Bancroft (The Pumpkin Eater) - 1:27:44 / 79.87%

  • Debbie Reynolds (The Unsinkable Molly Brown) - 1:35:47 / 70.71%

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38th Academy Awards - 1965​

  • Simone Signoret (Ship of Fools) - 27:04 / 18.12%

  • Elizabeth Hartman (A Patch of Blue) - 1:22:32 / 78.47%

  • Samantha Eggar (The Collector) - 1:24:47 / 71.20%

  • Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music) - 1:27:16 / 50.03%

  • Julie Christie (Darling) - 1:30:00 / 70.69%

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39th Academy Awards - 1966

  • Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street) - 31:58 / 25.31%

  • Vanessa Redgrave (Morgan!) - 32:36 / 33.67%

  • Anouk Aimee (A Man and a Woman) - 46:06 / 44.75%

  • Lynn Redgrave (Georgy Girl) - 1:05:29 / 66.32%

  • Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) - 1:18:29 / 60.02%

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40th Academy Awards - 1967

  • Anne Bancroft (The Graduate) - 29:42 / 28.15%

  • Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) - 43:26 / 40.20%

  • Audrey Hepburn (Wait Until Dark) - 1:02:14 / 57.83%

  • Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde) - 1:04:55 / 58.28%

  • Edith Evans (The Whisperers) - 1:09:09 / 65.18%

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41st Academy Awards - 1968

  • Patricia Neal (The Subject Was Roses) - 59:36 / 55.13%

  • Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) - 1:10:38 / 52.56%

  • Joanne Woodward (Rachel, Rachel) - 1:22:49 / 81.94%

  • Vanessa Redgrave (Isadora) - 1:43:27 / 77.24%

  • Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) - 2:01:02 / 78.03%

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42nd Academy Awards - 1969

  • Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) - 48:30 / 40.54%

  • Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) - 1:08:17 / 59.04%

  • Geneviève Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days) - 1:09:19 / 47.75%

  • Jean Simmons (The Happy Ending) - 1:16:30 / 68.24%

  • Liza Minnelli (The Sterile Cuckoo) - 1:26:29 / 80.62%

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43rd Academy Awards - 1970

  • Jane Alexander (The Great White Hope) - 38:45 / 37.71%

  • Glenda Jackson (Women in Love) - 50:03 / 38.28%

  • Ali MacGraw (Love Story) - 55:30 / 55.40%

  • Carrie Snodgress (Diary of a Mad Housewife) - 1:11:11 / 75.05%

  • Sarah Miles (Ryan's Daughter) - 1:22:30 / 40.00%

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44th Academy Awards - 1971

  • Julie Christie (McCabe and Mrs. Miller) - 25:02 / 20.71%

  • Glenda Jackson (Sunday Bloody Sunday) - 43:55 / 39.84%

  • Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandra) - 54:08 / 28.75%

  • Vanessa Redgrave (Mary, Queen of Scots) - 1:03:37 / 48.55%

  • Jane Fonda (Klute) - 1:20:53 / 71.03%

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45th Academy Awards - 1972

  • Cicely Tyson (Sounder) - 37:15 / 35.36%

  • Liv Ullmann (The Emigrants) - 56:20 / 29.45%

  • Liza Minnelli (Cabaret) - 1:03:10 / 51.16%

  • Maggie Smith (Travels with My Aunt) - 1:14:38 / 68.25%

  • Diana Ross (Lady Sings the Blues) - 2:01:38 / 84.56%

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46th Academy Awards - 1973

  • Marsha Mason (Cinderella Liberty) - 46:51 / 40.17%

  • Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist) - 49:03 / 40.33%

  • Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class) - 1:02:57 / 59.41%

  • Joanne Woodward (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams) - 1:10:27 / 79.94%

  • Barbra Streisand (The Way We Were) - 1:21:49 / 69.26%

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47th Academy Awards - 1974

  • Valerie Perrine (Lenny) - 35:12 / 31.65%

  • Faye Dunaway (Chinatown) - 38:23 / 29.43%

  • Diahann Carroll (Claudine) - 1:02:46 / 68.00%

  • Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore) - 1:25:51 / 76.66%

  • Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence) - 1:27:17 / 59.44%

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48th Academy Awards - 1975

  • Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) - 22:37 /16.96%

  • Carol Kane (Hester Street) - 36:19 / 40.77%

  • Ann-Margret (Tommy) - 36:50 / 33.07%

  • Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H.) - 1:02:29 / 64.04%

  • Glenda Jackson (Hedda) - 1:18:52/ 77.42%

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49th Academy Awards - 1976​

  • Talia Shire (Rocky) - 26:44 / 22.39%

  • Marie-Christine Barrault (Cousin, Cousine) - 40:58 / 42.79%

  • Faye Dunaway (Network) - 42:02 / 34.64%

  • Sissy Spacek (Carrie) - 46:36 / 47.63%

  • Liv Ullmann (Face to Face) - 1:58:06 / 86.74%

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50th Academy Awards - 1977

  • Anne Bancroft (The Turning Point) - 39:42 / 33.30%

  • Shirley MacLaine (The Turning Point) - 48:29 / 40.66%

  • Diane Keaton (Annie Hall) - 51:42 / 55.57%

  • Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) - 1:16:15 / 69.01%

  • Jane Fonda (Julia) - 1:31:08 / 77.70%

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51st Academy Awards - 1978

  • Geraldine Page (Interiors) - 20:30 / 22.34%

  • Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata) - 55:20 / 59.70%

  • Jane Fonda (Coming Home) - 1:13:20 / 57.39%

  • Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year) - 1:34:05 / 79.37%

  • Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman) - 1:46:37 / 85.92%

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52nd Academy Awards - 1979

  • Jill Clayburgh (Starting Over) - 43:28 / 41.21%

  • Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome) - 56:19 / 46.07%

  • Marsha Mason (Chapter Two) - 1:11:45 / 59.25%

  • Sally Field (Norma Rae) - 1:20:46 / 70.56%

  • Bette Midler (The Rose) - 1:51:31 / 82.89%

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53rd Academy Awards - 1980

  • Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People) - 32:46 / 26.44%

  • Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection) - 1:15:54 / 73.50%

  • Gena Rowlands (Gloria) - 1:22:35 / 68.00%

  • Goldie Hawn (Private Benjamin) - 1:22:46 / 75.44%

  • Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter) - 1:30:58 / 73.25%

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54th Academy Awards - 1981

  • Susan Sarandon (Atlantic City) - 45:47 / 44.20%

  • Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond) - 50:08 / 46.04%

  • Meryl Streep (The French Lieutenant's Woman) - 55:31 / 44.90%

  • Diane Keaton (Reds) - 1:31:26 / 46.88%

  • Marsha Mason (Only When I Laugh) - 1:37:04 / 80.92%

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55th Academy Awards - 1982

  • Debra Winger (An Officer and a Gentleman) - 32:41 / 26.34%

  • Sissy Spacek (Missing) - 1:05:07 / 53.14%

  • Julie Andrews (Victor/Victoria) - 1:12:17 / 54.11%

  • Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice) - 1:41:14 / 67.09%

  • Jessica Lange (Frances) - 1:44:04 / 74.54%

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56th Academy Awards - 1983​

  • Jane Alexander (Testament) - 48:47 / 54.36%

  • Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment) - 54:20 / 41.26%

  • Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment) - 1:04:06 / 48.67%

  • Julie Walters (Educating Rita) - 1:13:36 / 66.39%

  • Meryl Streep (Silkwood) - 1:43:17 / 78.92%

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57th Academy Awards - 1984

  • Sissy Spacek (The River) - 40:51 / 33.03%

  • Sally Field (Places in the Heart) - 45:14 / 40.70%

  • Vanessa Redgrave (The Bostonians) - 46:54 / 38.48%

  • Judy Davis (A Passage to India) - 53:06 / 32.44%

  • Jessica Lange (Country) - 1:00:24 / 55.17%

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58th Academy Awards - 1985

  • Anne Bancroft (Agnes of God) - 33:26 / 33.94%

  • Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple) - 1:01:19 / 39.88%

  • Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful) - 1:18:39 / 73.07%

  • Jessica Lange (Sweet Dreams) - 1:21:57 / 71.32%

  • Meryl Streep (Out of Africa) - 1:52:57 / 70.24%

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59th Academy Awards - 1986

  • Sissy Spacek (Crimes of the Heart) - 51:53 / 49.49%

  • Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God) - 1:02:47 / 52.84%

  • Sigourney Weaver (Aliens) - 1:13:14 / 53.44%

  • Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue Got Married) - 1:16:11 / 73.92%

  • Jane Fonda (The Morning After) - 1:19:48 / 77.71%

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60th Academy Awards - 1987​

  • Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction) - 45:30 / 38.14%

  • Meryl Streep (Ironweed) - 45:32 / 31.83%

  • Cher (Moonstruck) - 46:57 / 46.08%

  • Sally Kirkland (Anna) - 1:08:32 / 68.54%

  • Holly Hunter (Broadcast News) - 1:11:21 / 53.98%

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61st Academy Awards - 1988

  • Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons) - 40:49 / 34.07%

  • Jodie Foster (The Accused) - 51:44 / 46.86%

  • Meryl Streep (A Cry in the Dark) - 1:07:29 / 55.47%

  • Melanie Griffith (Working Girl) - 1:27:48 / 77.43%

  • Sigourney Weaver (Gorillas in the Mist) - 1:29:40 / 69.47%

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62nd Academy Awards - 1989

  • Michelle Pfeiffer (The Fabulous Baker Boys) - 50:15 / 44.19%

  • Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy) - 55:11 / 55.82%

  • Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine) - 1:19:25 / 73.16%

  • Jessica Lange (Music Box) - 1:23:48 / 66.92%

  • Isabelle Adjani (Camille Claudel) - 1:37:45 / 61.89%

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63rd Academy Awards - 1990

  • Anjelica Huston (The Grifters) - 42:48 / 38.91%

  • Kathy Bates (Misery) - 50:53 / 47.39%

  • Joanne Woodward (Mr. and Mrs. Bridge) - 1:02:23 / 50.00%

  • Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) - 1:20:00 / 66.87%

  • Meryl Streep (Postcards from the Edge) - 1:28:14 / 86.90%

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64th Academy Awards - 1991​

  • Laura Dern (Rambling Rose) - 50:22 / 44.92%

  • Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs) - 56:02 / 47.32%

  • Geena Davis (Thelma and Louise) - 1:09:36 / 53.82%

  • Susan Sarandon (Thelma and Louise) - 1:12:42 / 56.22%

  • Bette Midler (For the Boys) - 1:24:06 / 58.10%

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65th Academy Awards - 1992

  • Catherine Deneuve (Indochine) - 1:01:27 / 38.95%

  • Emma Thompson (Howards End) - 1:02:31 / 43.98%

  • Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil) - 1:10:01 / 51.81%

  • Michelle Pfeiffer (Love Field) - 1:10:02 / 67.08%

  • Mary McDonnell (Passion Fish) - 1:17:54 / 57.70%

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66th Academy Awards - 1993

  • Emma Thompson (The Remains of the Day) - 42:05 / 31.37%

  • Debra Winger (Shadowlands) - 57:11 / 43.56%

  • Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation) - 1:02:32 / 55.95%

  • Holly Hunter (The Piano) - 1:08:01 / 56.28%

  • Angela Bassett (What's Love Got to Do with It) - 1:23:31 / 71.13%

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67th Academy Awards - 1994

  • Susan Sarandon (The Client) - 37:55 / 31.41%

  • Jodie Foster (Nell) - 52:58 / 47.00%

  • Jessica Lange (Blue Sky) - 56:18 / 55.80%

  • Miranda Richardson (Tom and Viv) - 56:53 / 49.26%

  • Winona Ryder (Little Women) - 1:14:11 / 62.67%

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68th Academy Awards - 1995

  • Sharon Stone (Casino) - 51:58 / 29.17%

  • Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas) - 1:07:01 / 59.91%

  • Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) - 1:13:56 / 60.53%

  • Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) - 1:14:28 / 54.70%

  • Meryl Streep (The Bridges of Madison County) - 1:32:54 / 69.10%

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69th Academy Awards - 1996​

  • Frances McDormand (Fargo) - 26:29 / 27.01%

  • Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) - 47:38 / 29.48%

  • Diane Keaton (Marvin's Room) - 51:30 / 52.46%

  • Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies) - 1:01:16 / 43.23%

  • Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves) - 1:33:44 / 58.90%

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70th Academy Awards - 1997

  • Judi Dench (Mrs. Brown) - 41:29 / 39.60%

  • Julie Christie (Afterglow) - 41:40 / 36.56%

  • Helena Bonham Carter (The Wings of the Dove) - 50:07 / 49.32%

  • Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets) - 59:00 / 42.59%

  • Kate Winslet (Titanic) - 1:26:29 / 44.41%

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71st Academy Awards - 1998

  • Meryl Streep (One True Thing) - 43:25 / 34.09%

  • Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) - 50:16 / 40.70%

  • Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth) - 56:41 / 45.91%

  • Emily Watson (Hilary and Jackie) - 1:06:03 / 54.94%

  • Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) - 1:17:39 / 70.66%

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72nd Academy Awards - 1999​

  • Annette Bening (American Beauty) - 28:04 / 23.10%

  • Julianne Moore (The End of the Affair) - 46:39 / 45.98%

  • Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) - 1:06:08 / 64.47%

  • Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) - 1:13:02 / 61.63%

  • Meryl Streep (Music of the Heart) - 1:34:26 / 76.59%

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73rd Academy Awards - 2000

  • Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream) - 35:47 / 35.41%

  • Joan Allen (The Contender) - 45:48 / 36.19%

  • Juliette Binoche (Chocolat) - 52:11 / 42.96%

  • Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me) - 1:01:03 / 55.12%

  • Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) - 1:35:45 / 73.01%

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74th Academy Awards - 2001

  • Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom) - 38:42 / 29.56%

  • Judi Dench (Iris) - 44:11 / 48.72%

  • Halle Berry (Monster's Ball) - 49:13 / 44.05%

  • Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge!) - 1:05:27 / 51.26%

  • Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones's Diary) - 1:08:40 / 70.13%

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75th Academy Awards - 2002

  • Nicole Kidman (The Hours) - 23:30 / 20.49%

  • Renée Zellweger (Chicago) - 56:01 / 49.43%

  • Diane Lane (Unfaithful) - 1:15:03 / 60.77%

  • Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven) - 1:18:15 / 72.96%

  • Salma Hayek (Frida) - 1:26:36 / 70.61%

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76th Academy Awards - 2003​

  • Samantha Morton (In America) - 30:33 / 29.00%

  • Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) - 44:04 / 43.38%

  • Naomi Watts (21 Grams) - 48:08 / 38.66%

  • Diane Keaton (Something's Gotta Give) - 1:15:11 / 58.74%

  • Charlize Theron (Monster) - 1:23:11 / 76.50%

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77th Academy Awards - 2004

  • Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) - 46:29 / 43.17%

  • Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) - 59:56 / 47.98%

  • Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) - 1:07:10 / 50.74%

  • Annette Bening (Being Julia) - 1:10:15 / 67.59%

  • Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace) - 1:15:51 / 75.26%

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78th Academy Awards - 2005

  • Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) - 46:23 / 34.17%

  • Judi Dench (Mrs. Henderson Presents) - 51:29 / 49.96%

  • Charlize Theron (North Country) - 1:03:36 / 50.39%

  • Felicity Huffman (Transamerica) - 1:17:29 / 74.83%

  • Keira Knightley (Pride and Prejudice) - 1:27:10 / 68.02%

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79th Academy Awards - 2006

  • Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) - 28:39 / 26.22%

  • Kate Winslet (Little Children) - 45:13 / 33.09%

  • Helen Mirren (The Queen) - 47:15 / 45.74%

  • Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal) - 55:46 / 60.83%

  • Penélope Cruz (Volver) - 1:12:50 / 60.20%

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80th Academy Awards - 2007

  • Julie Christie (Away from Her) - 47:53 / 43.64%

  • Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) - 51:39 / 45.01%

  • Elliot Page (Juno) - 1:12:54 / 75.94%

  • Laura Linney (The Savages) - 1:16:06 / 66.68%

  • Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) - 1:21:14 / 57.88%

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81st Academy Awards - 2008

  • Kate Winslet (The Reader) - 41:55 / 33.85%

  • Meryl Streep (Doubt) - 51:40 / 49.73%

  • Melissa Leo (Frozen River) - 57:53 / 59.80%

  • Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married) - 1:05:59 / 58.61%

  • Angelina Jolie (Changeling) - 1:16:04 / 53.65%

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82nd Academy Awards - 2009

  • Helen Mirren (The Last Station) - 38:09 / 33.86%

  • Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia) - 54:03 / 43.89%

  • Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) - 55:54 / 43.55%

  • Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) - 1:12:34 / 66.10%

  • Carey Mulligan (An Education) - 1:13:55 / 73.72%

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83rd Academy Awards - 2010

  • Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right) - 42:31 / 40.00%

  • Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) - 1:00:15 / 65.93%

  • Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) - 1:05:40 / 65.70%

  • Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) - 1:18:57 / 70.52%

  • Natalie Portman (Black Swan) - 1:29:18 / 82.67%

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84th Academy Awards - 2011

  • Viola Davis (The Help) - 46:10 / 31.60%

  • Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn) - 48:25 / 49.00%

  • Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) - 1:01:38 / 39.02%

  • Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) - 1:04:35 / 56.95%

  • Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) - 1:11:35 / 68.26%

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85th Academy Awards - 2012

  • Naomi Watts (The Impossible) - 47:16 / 41.62%

  • Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) - 50:14 / 41.18%

  • Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) - 55:53 / 59.94%

  • Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) - 57:15 / 36.51%

  • Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) - 1:08:11 / 53.59%

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86th Academy Awards - 2013

  • Amy Adams (American Hustle) - 49:50 / 36.13%

  • Judi Dench (Philomena) - 51:28 / 52.55%

  • Meryl Streep (August: Osage County) - 53:08 / 43.97%

  • Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) - 1:07:31 / 68.66%

  • Sandra Bullock (Gravity) - 1:12:26 / 79.70%

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87th Academy Awards - 2014

  • Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) - 56:45 / 38.12%

  • Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) - 1:00:14 / 48.85%

  • Julianne Moore (Still Alice) - 1:21:08 / 80.22%

  • Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) - 1:24:51 / 88.99%

  • Reese Witherspoon (Wild) - 1:41:45 / 88.13%

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88th Academy Awards - 2015

  • Cate Blanchett (Carol) - 1:04:45 / 54.71%

  • Brie Larson (Room) - 1:05:46 / 55.96%

  • Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) - 1:27:03 / 91.20%

  • Jennifer Lawrence (Joy) - 1:30:01 / 72.65%

  • Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) - 1:31:29 / 82.20%

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89th Academy Awards - 2016

  • Ruth Negga (Loving) - 52:19 / 42.57%

  • Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins) - 59:38 / 53.90%

  • Natalie Portman (Jackie) - 1:16:29 / 76.47%

  • Emma Stone (La La Land) - 1:20:41 / 63.19%

  • Isabelle Huppert (Elle) - 1:49:55 / 83.87%

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90th Academy Awards - 2017

  • Meryl Streep (The Post) - 46:10 / 39.86%

  • Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) - 53:19 / 46.27%

  • Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) - 59:01 / 47.90%

  • Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) - 1:05:41 / 54.80%

  • Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) - 1:10:51 / 75.37%

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91st Academy Awards - 2018

  • Olivia Colman (The Favourite) - 49:48 / 41.72%

  • Glenn Close (The Wife) - 1:02:02 / 61.80%

  • Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) - 1:22:52 / 77.99%

  • Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born) - 1:30:12 / 66.52%

  • Yalitza Aparicio (Roma) - 1:37:30 / 72.28%

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92nd Academy Awards - 2019

  • Charlize Theron (Bombshell) - 37:16 / 34.31%

  • Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story) - 1:05:19 / 47.69%

  • Saoirse Ronan (Little Women) - 1:15:01 / 55.62%

  • Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) - 1:25:12 / 68.17%

  • Renée Zellweger (Judy) - 1:27:29 / 74.01%

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93rd Academy Awards - 2020/2021

  • Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) - 26:41 / 28.36%

  • Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) - 1:18:32 / 61.53%

  • Frances McDormand (Nomadland) - 1:20:56 / 75.21%

  • Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) - 1:23:09 / 73.36%

  • Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday) - 1:27:42 / 67.38%

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94th Academy Awards - 2021​​

  • Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) - 1:08:08 / 55.41%

  • Kristen Stewart (Spencer) - 1:18:15 / 67.03%

  • Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos) - 1:23:55 / 63.52%

  • Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) - 1:28:40 / 72.19%

  • Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) - 1:36:42 / 76.45%

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95th Academy Awards - 2022​​​

  • Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans) - 52:24 / 34.76%

  • Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) - 1:33:04 / 77.87%

  • Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) - 1:35:16 / 68.38%

  • Ana de Armas (Blonde) - 1:53:44 / 67.91%

  • Cate Blanchett (TÁR) - 2:15:15 / 85.49%

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96th Academy Awards - 2023​​​​​

  • Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) - 56:13 / 27.29%

  • Carey Mulligan (Maestro) - 1:04:15 / 48.96%

  • Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) - 1:14:39 / 49.25%

  • Annette Bening (Nyad) - 1:20:21 / 66.32%

  • Emma Stone (Poor Things) - 1:37:19 / 68.77%

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