1970 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Winner
![The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Maggie Smith](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie-ronald-neame-image.jpg)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Maggie Smith
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
1970 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
![Anne of the Thousand Days Geneviève Bujold](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/anne-of-the-thousand-days-charles-jarrott-image.jpg)
Anne of the Thousand Days
Geneviève Bujold
![The Happy Ending Jean Simmons](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-happy-ending-richard-brooks-image.jpg)
The Happy Ending
Jean Simmons
![The Sterile Cuckoo Liza Minnelli](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sterile-cuckoo-image.jpg)
The Sterile Cuckoo
Liza Minnelli
![They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Jane Fonda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/they-shoot-horses-dont-they-sydney-pollack-image.jpg)