Best Actress Oscar Winners
Silent-era sweethearts, Golden Age icons and modern scene-stealers have all clutched the golden statuette. How many of Hollywood's Best Actress winners can you name?
About this quiz
The Academy Award for Best Actress has been handed out at every ceremony since the very first one in 1929, and its winners trace the whole history of film acting. Silent-screen stars, Golden Age legends, Method-era dramatic heavyweights, musical-comedy favourites and recent breakout performers all appear on the list, along with a handful of surprise winners whose names have faded far faster than their films.
This quiz asks you to name every winner, ceremony by ceremony. Each slot shows the year of the ceremony as its clue, and the film that won appears once the name is found or revealed. Several actresses won more than once, and typing one of their names fills all of their slots at the same time. One year ended in a tie, so it has two slots.
There is one shared answer box and you can type names in any order. A surname on its own is accepted when only one winner carries it; otherwise you need the full name. Accents and punctuation don't matter. With fifteen minutes on the clock, recent decades are a good place to start, but a strong score depends on the 1930s and 1940s.
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