Oscar Winning Actresses
Clip from Blue Jasmine
2013
Cate Blanchett as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis
Movie: Blue Jasmine
Box Office: $97.5 million
Other Cate Blanchett Movies: "The Talented Mr. Ripley", "Shipping News", "The Many Who Cried", "Bandits", "Heaven", "The Lord of the Rings: Movies", "The Hobbit movies", "The Missing", "Little Fish", "Robin Hood", "Hanna", "Cinderella", "I'm Not There", "Ponyo", "Coffee and Cigarettes", "Pushing Tin", and "Thank God He Met Lizzie"
Clip from Silver Linings Playbook
2012
Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell
Movie: Silver Linings Playbook
Box Office: $236 million
Other Jennifer Lawrence Movies: "Hunger Games movies", "Garden Party", "Like Crazy", "The Burning Plain", "The Poker House", "Winter's Bone", "The Beaver", "Serena", "Dumb and Dumber To", "American Hustle", and "X-Men movies"
Clip from The Iron Lady
2011
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
Movie: The Iron Lady
Box Office: $68 million
Other Meryl Streep Movies: "Sophie's Choice","Julia", "The Deer Hunter", "Still of the Night", "Falling In Love", "Plenty", "Out of Africa", "A Cry in the Dark", "Before and After", "Marvin's Room", "The River Wild", "Music of the Heart", "The Hours", "Prime", "The Ant Bully", "Lions for Lambs", "Mama Mia", "The Giver", "It's Complicated", "Hope Springs", "Into the Woods", "The Homesman", and "Ricki and the Flash"
Clip from Black Swan
2010
Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers
Movie: Black Swan
Box Office: $329 million
Other Natalie Portman Movies:"Heat", "Beautiful Girls", "Mars Attacks", "Anywhere But Here", "Where the Heart Is", "Leon: The Professional", "Garden State", "Cold Mountain", "The Phantom Menace", "Star Wars Episode III", "Free Zone", "Goya's Ghost", "V for Vendetta", "My Blueberry Nights", "The Other Boleyn Girl", "New York, I Love You", "The Other Woman", "Brothers", "No Strings Attached", "Thor", "Thor: The Dark World", "Jane Got a Gun", "Knight of Cups"
Clip from the Blind Side
2009
Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy
Movie: The Blind Side
Box Office: $309 million
Other Sandra Bullock Movies: "Hangmen", "Love Potion Number 9", "The Vanishing", "Speed",
"The Thing Called Love", "Demolition Man", "Fire on the Amazon", "Who Do I Gotta Kill?", "Speed 2", "While You Were Sleeping", "The Net", " A Time To Kill", "In Love and War", "Hope Floats", "Making Sandwiches", "Forces of Nature", "Murder By Numbers", "Gun Shy", "28 Days", "Two Weeks Notice", "Crash", "The Proposal", "Lover Boy", "Miss Congeniality", "The Lake House", "Premonition", "All About Steve", "Gravity", "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", "The Heat", "Minions", and "Brownie Wise"
Clip from The Reader
2008
Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz
Movie: The Reader
Box Office: $108 million
Other Kate Winslet Movies: "Heavenly Creatures", "Sense and Sensibility", "Jude", "Hamlet', "Titanic", "Holy Smoke", "Iris", "Enigma", "War Game", "Finding Neverland", "Flushed Away", "Little Children", "The Holiday", "Carnage", "Contagion", "Labor Day", "Revolutionary Road", "Divergent", "A Little Chaos", and "Triple Nine"
Clip from La Vie en Rose
2007
Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf
Movie: La Vie en Rose
Box Office: $86 million
Other Marion Cotillard Movies: "Chloe", "Taxi 2", "La Sentence", "War in the Highlands", "Blue Away to America", "Lisa", "Pretty Things", "Big Fish", "Love Me If You Dare", "Love is in the Air", "The Black Box", "Mary", "You and Me", "A Good Year", "Nine", "Inception", "Little White Lies", "Contagion", "Midnight in Paris", "The Dark Knight Rises", "Blood Ties", "Two Days, One Night", "Unity", "The Little Prince", and "Macbeth"
Clip from The Queen
2006
Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II
Movie: The Queen
Box Office: $123 million
Other Helen Mirren Movies: "Press for Time", "Hamlet", "Age of Consent", "As You Like It", "Cal", "2010", "White Nights", "When the Whales Came", "The Hawk", "Teaching Mrs. Tingle", "The Pledge", "No Such Thing", "Prime Suspect", "Door to Door", "Last Orders", "Calendar Girls", "The Clearing", "Raising Helen", "Shadow Boxer", "The Queen", "Red", "The Debt", "Phil Spector", "Unity", "The Hundred Foot Journey", and "The Woman in Gold"
Clip from Walk the Line
2005
Reese Witherspoon as June Carter
Movie: Walk the Line
Box Office: $186 million
Other Reese Witherspoon Movies: "The Man In The Moon", "Wildflower", "Jack The Bear", "A Far Off Place", "Freeway", "Fear", "Overnight Delivery", "Pleasantville", "Election", "Cruel Intentions", "Best Laid Plans", "American Psycho", "Legally Blonde", "Sweet Home Alabama", "Vanity Fair", "Water for Elephants", "Penelope", "Rendition", "Four Christmases", "How Do you Know", "Mud", "The Good Lie", "Wild", and "Don't Mess With Texas"
Clip from Million Dollar Baby
2004
Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald
Movie: Million Dollar Baby
Box Office: $216 million
Other Hilary Swank Movies: "Boys Don't Cry", "The Core", "The Audition", "Red Dust", "Insomnia", "The Reaping", "The Black Dahlia", "P.S. I Love You", "The Resident", "Conviction", "Freedom Writers", "Amelia", "New Year's Eve", "Mary and Martha", "You're Not You", and "The Homesman"
Clip from Monster
2003
Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos
Movie: Monster
Box Office: $60 million
Other Charlize Theron Movies: "That Thing You Do", "Trail and Error", "Hollywood Confidential", "The Cider House Rules", "Mighty Joe Young", "Celebrity", "Reindeer Games", "Men of Honor", "The Yards", "The Legend of Bagger Vance", "Sweet November", "Trapped", "15 Minutes", "The Italian Job", "North Country", "Aeon Flux", "Sleepwalking", "Hancock", "The Burning Plain", "The Road", "Astro Boy", "Snow White and the Huntsman", "Prometheus", "A Million Ways to Die in the West", "Dark Places" and "Mad Max"
Clip from The Hours
2002
Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf
Movie: The Hours
Box Office: $108 millions
Other Nicole Kidman Movies: "Bush Christmas", "The Bit Part", "Emerald City", "Dead Calm", "Days of Thunder", "Far and Away", "Malice", "My Life", "To Die For", "Batman Forever", "The Peacemaker", "Eyes Wide Shut", "Moulin Rouge", "The Others", "Dogville", "Cold Mountain", "Stepford Wives", "Birth", "Fur", "Australia", "The Golden Compass", "Nine", "Rabbit Hole", "The Paperboy", "Just Go With It", "The Railway Man", "Queen of the Desert", "Strangerland", "The Family Fang", and "Genius"
Clip from Monster's Ball
2001
Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove
Movie: Monster's Ball
Box Office: $44 million
Other Halle Berry Movies:" Jungle Fever", "Father Hood", "The Last Boyscout", "The Program", "The Flintstones", "Race the Sun", "Swordfish", "Why Do Fools Fall In Love", "X-Men movies", "Die Another Day", "Gothika", "Catwoman", "Robots", "Perfect Stranger", "New Year's Eve", "Dark Tide", "Cloud Atlas", and "The Call"
Clip from Erin Brockavich
2000
Julie Roberts as Erin Brockovich
Movie: Erin Brockovich
Box Office: $256 million
Other Julie Roberts Movies: "Mystic Pizza", "Pretty Woman", "Steel Magnolias", "Blood Red", "Flatliners", "Sleeping with the Enemy", "Dying Young", "Hook", "The Player", "Mary Reilly", "My Best Friend's Wedding", "Runaway Bride", "Something to Talk About", "Notting Hill", "America's Sweethearts", "The Mexican", "Full Frontal", "Mona Lisa Smile", "Ocean's Twelve", "Closer", "Charlie Wilson's War", "Eat Pray Love", "Mirror, Mirror", "Larry Crowne" and "The Normal Heart"
Clip from Boys Don't Cry
1999
Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena
Movie: Boys Don't Cry
Box Office: $11 million
Clip from Shakespeare in Love
1998
Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola De Lesseps
Movie: Shakespeare In Love
Box Office: $289 million
Clip from As Good As It Gets
1997
Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly
Movie: As Good As It Gets
Box Office: $314 million
Clip from Fargo
1996
Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson
Movie: Fargo
Box Office: $60 million
Clip from Dead Man Walking
1995
Susan Sarandon as Sister Helen Prejean
Movie: Dead Man Walking
Box Office: $83 million
Clip from Blue Sky
1994
Jessica Lange as Carly Marshall
Movie: Blue Sky
Box Office: $3 million
Clip from The Piano
1993
Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath
Movie: The Piano
Box Office: $140 million
Clip from Howard's End
1992
Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel
Movie: Howard's End
Box Office: $25 million
Clip from The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling
Movie: The Silence of the Lambs
Box Office: $272 million
Clip from Misery
1990
Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes
Movie: Misery
Box Office: $61 million
Clip from Driving Miss Daisy
1989
Jessica Tandy as Daisy Werthan
Movie: Driving Miss Daisy
Box Office: $145 million
Clip from The Accused
1988
Jodie Foster as Sarah Tobias
Movie: The Accused
Box Office: $32 million
Clip from Moon Struck
1987
Cher as Loretta Castorini
Movie: Moon Struck
Box Office:$ 91 million
Clip from Children of a Lesser God
1986
Marlee Matlin as Sarah Norman
Movie: Children of a Lesser God
Box Office: $31 million
Clip from The Trip to Bountiful
1985
Geraldine Page as Carrie Watts
Movie: The Trip to Bountiful
Box Office: $7 million
Clip from Places in the Heart
1984
Sally Field as Edna Spalding
Movie: Places in the Heart
Box Office: $34 million
Clip from Terms of Endearment
1983
Shirley MacLaine as Aurora Greenway
Movie: Terms of Endearment
Box Office: $108 million
Clip from Sophie's Choice
1982
Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowska
Movie: Sophie's Choice
Box Office: $30 million
Clip from On Golden Pond
1981
Katharine Hepburn as Ethel Thayer
Movie: On Golden Pond
Box Office: $119 million
Clip from Coal Miner's Daughter
1980
Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn
Movie: Coal Miner's Daughter
Box Office: $67 million