List of Best Actress winners by age at win

This is a list of winners of the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to an actress who has Delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. More popularly known as the Academy Award (or the Oscar) for Best Actress, this award was initially presented at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony for 1927 and 1928 and was most recently presented at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony for 2006. Throughout the past 79 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 80 Best Actress awards to 66 different actresses. This is a list of winners arranged in descending order by age of the actress on the date of the award ceremony in which she was named Best Actress.

List of winners

Rank	Name	Film	Annual	Year	Date of Birth	Date of Award	Notes
1	Jessica Tandy	Driving Miss Daisy	62nd	1989	June 7, 1909	March 26, 1990
2	Katharine Hepburn	On Golden Pond	54th	1981	May 12, 1907	March 29, 1982
3	Marie Dressler	Min and Bill	4th	1930 / 1931	November 9, 1868	November 10, 1931
4	Katharine Hepburn	The Lion in Winter	41st	1968	May 12, 1907	April 14, 1969	Tie
5	Helen Mirren	The Queen	79th	2006	July 26, 1945	February 25, 2007
6	Geraldine Page	The Trip to Bountiful	58th	1985	November 22, 1924	March 24, 1986
7	Katharine Hepburn	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	40th	1967	May 12, 1907	April 10, 1968
8	Shirley Booth	Come Back, Little Sheba	25th	1952	August 30, 1898	March 19, 1953	Debut
9	Shirley MacLaine	Terms of Endearment	56th	1983	April 24, 1934	April 9, 1984
10	Susan Sarandon	Dead Man Walking	68th	1995	October 4, 1946	March 25, 1996
11	Anna Magnani	The Rose Tattoo	28th	1955	March 7, 1908	March 21, 1956
12	Jessica Lange	Blue Sky	67th	1994	April 20, 1949	March 27, 1995
13	Kathy Bates	Misery	63rd	1990	June 28, 1948	March 25, 1991
14	Ellen Burstyn	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	47th	1974	December 7, 1932	April 8, 1975
15	Cher	Moonstruck	60th	1987	May 20, 1946	April 11, 1988
16	Susan Hayward	I Want to Live!	31st	1958	June 30, 1917	April 6, 1959
17	Louise Fletcher	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	48th	1975	July 22, 1934	March 29, 1976
18	Ingrid Bergman	Anastasia	29th	1956	August 29, 1915	March 27, 1957
19	Jane Fonda	Coming Home	51st	1978	December 21, 1937	April 9, 1979
20	Joan Crawford	Mildred Pierce	18th	1945	March 23, 1905	March 7, 1946
21	Frances McDormand	Fargo	69th	1996	June 23, 1957	March 24, 1997
22	Simone Signoret	Room at the Top	32nd	1959	March 25, 1921	April 4, 1960
23	Greer Garson	Mrs. Miniver	15th	1942	September 29, 1904	March 4, 1943
24	Sally Field	Places in the Heart	57th	1984	November 6, 1946	March 25, 1985
25	Vivien Leigh	A Streetcar Named Desire	24th	1951	November 5, 1913	March 20, 1952
26	Patricia Neal	Hud	36th	1963	January 20, 1926	April 13, 1964
27	Mary Pickford	Coquette	2nd	1928 / 1929	April 8, 1892	April 3, 1930
28	Glenda Jackson	A Touch of Class	46th	1973	May 9, 1936	April 2, 1974
29	Faye Dunaway	Network	49th	1976	January 14, 1941	March 28, 1977
30	Holly Hunter	The Piano	66th	1993	March 20, 1958	March 21, 1994
31	Nicole Kidman	The Hours	75th	2002	June 20, 1967	March 23, 2003
32	Halle Berry	Monster's Ball	74th	2001	August 14, 1966	March 24, 2002
33	Maggie Smith	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	42nd	1969	December 28, 1934	April 7, 1970
34	Loretta Young	The Farmer's Daughter	20th	1947	January 6, 1913	March 20, 1948
35	Elizabeth Taylor	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	39th	1966	February 27, 1932	April 10, 1967
36	Glenda Jackson	Women in Love	43rd	1970	May 9, 1936	April 15, 1971
37	Helen Hunt	As Good As It Gets	70th	1997	June 15, 1963	March 23, 1998
38	Jane Fonda	Klute	44th	1971	December 21, 1937	April 10, 1972
39	Emma Thompson	Howards End	65th	1992	April 15, 1959	March 29, 1993
40	Meryl Streep	Sophie's Choice	55th	1982	June 22, 1949	April 11, 1983
41	Olivia de Havilland	The Heiress	22nd	1949	July 1, 1916	March 23, 1950
42	Sally Field	Norma Rae	52nd	1979	November 6, 1946	April 14, 1980
43	Julia Roberts	Erin Brockovich	73rd	2000	October 28, 1967	March 25, 2001
44	Diane Keaton	Annie Hall	50th	1977	January 5, 1946	April 3, 1978
45	Jane Wyman	Johnny Belinda	21st	1948	January 5, 1917	March 24, 1949
46	Helen Hayes	The Sin of Madelon Claudet	5th	1931 / 1932	October 10, 1900	November 18, 1932
47	Anne Bancroft	The Miracle Worker	35th	1962	September 17, 1931	April 8, 1963
48	Claudette Colbert	It Happened One Night	7th	1934	September 13, 1903	February 27, 1935
49	Sissy Spacek	Coal Miner's Daughter	53rd	1980	December 25, 1949	March 31, 1981
50	Bette Davis	Jezebel	11th	1938	April 5, 1908	February 23, 1939
51	Olivia de Havilland	To Each His Own	19th	1946	July 1, 1916	March 13, 1947
52	Hilary Swank	Million Dollar Baby	77th	2004	July 30, 1974	February 27, 2005
53	Reese Witherspoon	Walk the Line	78th	2005	March 22, 1976	March 5, 2006
54	Judy Holliday	Born Yesterday	23rd	1950	June 21, 1921	March 29, 1951
55	Ginger Rogers	Kitty Foyle	13th	1940	July 16, 1911	February 27, 1941
56	Ingrid Bergman	Gaslight	17th	1944	August 29, 1915	March 15, 1945
57	Julie Andrews	Mary Poppins	37th	1964	October 1, 1935	April 5, 1965	Debut
58	Jodie Foster	The Silence of the Lambs	64th	1991	November 19, 1962	March 30, 1992
59	Elizabeth Taylor	BUtterfield 8	33rd	1960	February 27, 1932	April 17, 1961
60	Charlize Theron	Monster	76th	2003	August 7, 1975	February 29, 2004
61	Norma Shearer	The Divorcee	3rd	1929 / 1930	August 10, 1902	November 5, 1930
62	Luise Rainer	The Good Earth	10th	1937	January 12, 1910	March 10, 1938
63	Joanne Woodward	The Three FACES of Eve	30th	1957	February 27, 1930	March 26, 1958
64	Bette Davis	Dangerous	8th	1935	April 5, 1908	March 5, 1936
65	Sophia Loren	Two Women	34th	1961	September 20, 1934	April 9, 1962
66	Luise Rainer	The Great Ziegfeld	9th	1936	January 12, 1910	March 4, 1937
67	Liza Minnelli	Cabaret	45th	1972	March 12, 1946	March 27, 1973
68	Barbra Streisand	Funny Girl	41st	1968	April 24, 1942	April 14, 1969	Debut / Tie
69	Katharine Hepburn	Morning Glory	6th	1932 / 1933	May 12, 1907	March 16, 1934
70	Gwyneth Paltrow	Shakespeare in Love	71st	1998	September 27, 1972	March 21, 1999
71	Jodie Foster	The Accused	61st	1988	November 19, 1962	March 29, 1989
72	Vivien Leigh	Gone with the Wind	12th	1939	November 5, 1913	February 29, 1940
73	Hilary Swank	Boys Don't Cry	72nd	1999	July 30, 1974	March 26, 2000
74	Grace Kelly	The Country Girl	27th	1954	November 12, 1929	March 30, 1955
75	Julie Christie	Darling	38th	1965	April 14, 1941	April 18, 1966
76	Jennifer Jones	The Song of Bernadette	16th	1943	March 2, 1919	March 2, 1944
77	Audrey Hepburn	Roman Holiday	26th	1953	May 4, 1929	March 25, 1954
78	Joan Fontaine	Suspicion	14th	1941	October 22, 1917	February 26, 1942
79	Janet Gaynor	7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise	1st	1927 / 1928	October 6, 1906	May 16, 1929
80	Marlee Matlin	Children of a Lesser God	59th	1986	August 24, 1965	March 30, 1987	Debut

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