Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees.

1960s

• 1960 Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8
• Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
• Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners
• Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
• Melina Mercouri - Never on Sunday
• 1961 Sophia Loren - Two Women
• Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Piper Laurie - The Hustler
• Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
• Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass
• 1962 Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
• Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
• Lee Remick - Days of Wine and Roses
• 1963 Patricia Neal - Hud
• Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
• Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce
• Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life
• Natalie Wood - Love with the Proper Stranger
• 1964 Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
• Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater
• Sophia Loren - Marriage Italian Style
• Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• Kim Stanley - Seance on a Wet Afternoon
• 1965 Julie Christie - Darling
• Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music
• Samantha Eggar - The Collector
• Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue
• Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools
• 1966 Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Anouk Aimée - A Man and a Woman
• Ida Kaminska - The Shop on Main Street
• Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl
• Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan!
• 1967 Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
• Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde
• Edith Evans - The Whisperers
• Audrey Hepburn - Wait Until Dark
• 1968 Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl
• Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses
• Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora
• Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel
• 1969 Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days
• Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo
• Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending