Academy Award for Best Actress | Deservers (1927-2012)

It is called Best Actress "DESERVERS." It is who I think SHOULD have or deserved to win the Oscar, not necessarily who actually won the Oscar. (So much confusion). 1927 -- Janet Gaynor -- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1928 -- Maria Falconetti -- The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 -- Lilian Gish -- The Wind 1929 -- Jeanne Eagles 'The Letter' 1930 -- Marlene Dietrich -- Der Bleu Angel 1931 -- Marie Dressler -- Min and Bill 1932 -- Miriam Hopkins -- Trouble in Paradise 1933 -- Greta Garbo -- Queen Christina 1934 -- Ryan Ling Yu -- The Goddess 1935 -- Greta Garbo -- Anna Karenina 1936 -- Carol Lombard -- My Man Godfrey 1937 -- Beulah Bondi -- Make Way For Tomorrow 1938 -- Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion 1939 -- Vivien Leigh -- Gone With The Wind 1940 -- Joan Fontaine -- Rebecca 1941 -- Vivien Leigh -- That Hamilton Woman 1942 -- Ingrid Bergman -- Casablanca 1943 -- Teresa Wright - Shadow of a Doubt 1944 -- Barbra Stanwyck -- Double Indemnity 1945 -- Celia Johnson -- Brief Encounter 1946 -- Olivia DeHavilland -- To Each His Own 1947 -- Deborah Kerr -- Black Narcissus 1948 -- Joan Fontaine -- Letter from an Unknown Woman 1949 -- Olivia DeHavilland -- The Heiress 1950 -- Gloria Swanson -- Sunset Boulevard 1950 -- Bette Davis -- All About Eve 1951 -- Vivien Leigh -- A Streetcar Named Desire 1952 -- Olivia DeHavilland -- My Cousin Rachel 1953 -- Kinuyo Tanaka -- Ugetsu 1954 -- Judy Garland -- A Star is Born 1955 -- Hideko Takamine -- Floating Clouds 1956 -- Giulietta Masina -- Nights of Cabiria 1957 -- Marlene Dietrich -- Witness for the Prosecution 1958 -- Jeanne Moreau -- Elevator to the Gallows 1959 -- Marilyn Monroe -- Some Like It Hot 1960 -- Shirley Maclaine -- The Apartment 1961 -- Harriet Andersson -- Through a Glass Darkly 1962 -- Bette Davis -- Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? 1963 -- Ingrid Thulin -- The Silence 1964 -- Madhabi Mukherjee - Charulata 1965 -- Julie Andrews -- The Sound of Music 1966 -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf 1967 -- Anne Bancroft -- The Graduate 1968 -- Katharine Hepburn -- The Lion In Winter 1969 -- Maggie Smith -- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1970 -- Carrie Snodgress -- Diary of a Mad Housewife 1971 -- Ruth Gordon -- Harold and Maude 1972 -- Liza Minelli -- Cabaret 1973 -- Barbra Streisand -- The Way We Were 1974 -- Faye Dunaway -- Chinatown 1975 -- Louise Fletcher -- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1976 -- Sissy Spacek -- Carrie 1977 -- Diane Keaton - Annie Hall 1978 -- Ingrid Bergman -- Autumn Sonata 1979 -- Hanna Schygulla -- The Marriage of Maria Braun 1980 -- Mary Tyler Moore -- Ordinary People 1981 -- Isabelle Adjani -- Possession 1982 -- Meryl Streep -- Sophie's Choice 1983 -- Shirley MacLaine -- Terms of Endearment 1984 -- Karen Allen -- Starman 1985 -- Geraldine Page -- The Trip To Bountiful 1986 -- Sigourney Weaver -- Aliens 1987 -- Meryl Streep -- Ironweed 1988 -- Glenn Close -- Dangerous Liaisons 1989 -- Jessica Tandy -- Driving Miss Daisy 1990 -- Kathy Bates -- Misery 1991 -- Jodie Foster -- The Silence of the Lambs 1992 -- Emma Thompson -- Howard's End 1993 -- Holly Hunter -- The Piano 1994 -- Toni Collette -- Muriel's Wedding, 1994 -- Ruth Cracknell -- Spider and Rose 1995 -- Kathy Bates -- Dolores Clairborne 1996 -- Brenda Blethyn - Secrets and Lies 1997 -- Kate Winslet -- Titanic 1998 -- Cate Blanchett -- Elizabeth 1999 -- Hilary Swank -- Boys Don't Cry 2000 -- Ellen Burstyn -- Requiem For A Dream 2001 -- Naomi Watts -- Mulholland Dr. 2002 -- Nicole Kidman -- The Hours 2003 -- Charlize Theron -- Monster 2004 -- Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake 2005 -- Felicity Huffman -- Transamerica 2006 -- Helen Mirren -- The Queen 2007 -- Marion Cotillard -- La vie En Rose 2008 -- Kate Winslet -- The Reader 2009 -- Carey Mulligan -- An Education 2010 -- Yoon Jeong-hee -- Poetry 2011 -- Glenn Close -- Albert Nobbs 2012 -- Naomi Watts -- The Impossible