1936 : Gale Sondergaard in "ANTHONY ADVERSE"
1937 : Alice Brady in "IN OLD CHICAGO"
1938 : Fay Bainter in "JEZEBEL"
1939 : Hattie McDaniel in "GONE WITH THE WIND"
1940 : Jane Darwell in "THE GRAPES OF WRATH"
1941 : Mary Astor in "THE GREAT LIE"
1942 : Teresa Wright in "MRS. MINIVER"
1943 : Katina Paxinou in "FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS"
1944 : Ethel Barrymore in "NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART"
1945 : Anne Revere in "NATIONAL VELVET"
1946 : Anne Baxter in "THE RAZOR'S EDGE"
1947 : Celeste Holm in "GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT"
1948 : Claire Trevor in "KEY LARGO"
1949 : Mercedes McCambridge in "ALL THE KING'S MEN"
1950 : Josephine Hull in "HARVEY"
1951 : Kim Hunter in "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE"
1952 : Gloria Grahame in "THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL"
1953 : Donna Reed in "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY"
1954 : Eva Marie Saint in "ON THE WATERFRONT"
1955 : Jo Van Fleet in "EAST OF EDEN"
1956 : Dorothy Malone in "WRITTEN ON THE WIND"
1957 : Miyoshi Umeki in "SAYONARA"
1958 : Wendy Hiller in "SEPARATE TABLES"
1959 : Shelley Winters in "THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK"
1960 : Shirley Jones in "ELMER GANTRY"
1961 : Rita Moreno in "WEST SIDE STORY"
1962 : Patty Duke in "THE MIRACLE WORKER"
1963 : Margaret Rutherford in "THE V.I.P.S"
1964 : Lila Kedrova in "ZORBA THE GREEK"
1965 : Shelley Winters in "A PATCH OF BLUE"
1966 : Sandy Dennis in "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?"
1967 : Estelle Parsons in "BONNIE AND CLYDE"
1968 : Ruth Gordon in "ROSEMARY'S BABY"
1969 : Goldie Hawn in "CACTUS FLOWER"
1970 : Helen Hayes in "AIRPORT"
1971 : Cloris Leachman in "THE LAST PICTURE SHOW"
1972 : Eileen Heckart in "BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE"
1973 : Tatum O'Neal in "PAPER MOON"
1974 : Ingrid Bergman in "MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS"
1975 : Lee Grant in "SHAMPOO"
1976 : Beatrice Straight in "NETWORK"
1977 : Vanessa Redgrave in "JULIA"
1978 : Maggie Smith in "CALIFORNIA SUITE"
1979 : Meryl Streep in "KRAMER VS. KRAMER"
1980 : Mary Steenburgen in "MELVIN AND HOWARD"
1981 : Maureen Stapleton in "REDS"
1982 : Jessica Lange in "TOOTSIE"
1983 : Linda Hunt in "THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY"
1984 : Peggy Ashcroft in "A PASSAGE TO INDIA"
1985 : Anjelica Huston in "PRIZZI'S HONOR"
1986 : Dianne Wiest in "HANNAH AND HER SISTERS"
1987 : Olympia Dukakis in "MOONSTRUCK"
1988 : Geena Davis in "THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST"
1989 : Brenda Fricker in "MY LEFT FOOT"
1990 : Whoopi Goldberg in "GHOST"
1991 : Mercedes Ruehl in "THE FISHER KING"
1992 : Marisa Tomei in "MY COUSIN VINNY"
1993 : Anna Paquin in "THE PIANO"
1994 : Dianne Wiest in "BULLETS OVER BROADWAY"
1995 : Mira Sorvino in "MIGHTY APHRODITE"
1996 : Juliette Binoche in "THE ENGLISH PATIENT"
1997 : Kim Basinger in "L.A. CONFIDENTIAL"
1998 : Judi Dench in "SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE"
1999 : Angelina Jolie in "GIRL, INTERRUPTED"
2000 : Marcia Gay Harden, "POLLOCK"
2001 : Jennifer Connelly, "A BEAUTIFUL MIND"
2002 : Catherine Zeta-Jones "CHICAGO"
2003 : Renee Zellweger, "COLD MOUNTAIN"
2004 : Cate Blanchett, "The Aviator"