Best Actress winners (in chronological order):

Norma Shearer (“The Divorcee,” 1930) Ginger Rogers (“Kitty Foyle,” 1940) Jennifer Jones (“The Song of Bernadette,” 1943) Loretta Young (“The Farmer’s Daughter,” 1947) Shirley Booth (“Come Back, Little Sheba,” 1952) Maggie Smith (“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” 1969) Louise Fletcher (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” 1975) Sally Field (“Norma Rae,” 1979/“Places in the Heart,” 1984) Geraldine Page (“The Trip to Bountiful,” 1985) Jodie Foster (“The Accused,” 1988/“The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991) Kathy Bates (“Misery,” 1990) Holly Hunter (“The Piano,” 1993) Helen Hunt (“As Good as it Gets,” 1997) Hilary Swank (“Boys Don’t Cry,” 1999/“Million Dollar Baby,” 2004) Halle Berry (“Monster’s Ball,” 2001) Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side,” 2009) Emma Stone (“La La Land,” 2016)