1955 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerThe Country GirlGrace KellyA director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.Amazon1955 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesA Star Is BornJudy GarlandAmazonCarmen JonesDorothy DandridgeAmazonMagnificent ObsessionJane WymanAmazonSabrinaAudrey HepburnAmazon

1954 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerRoman HolidayAudrey HepburnA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.Amazon1954 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesFrom Here to EternityDeborah KerrAmazonLiliLeslie CaronAmazonMogamboAva GardnerAmazonThe Moon Is BlueMaggie McNamaraAmazon

1953 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerCome Back, Little ShebaShirley BoothAn emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.Amazon1953 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesSudden FearJoan CrawfordAmazonThe Member of the WeddingJulie HarrisAmazonThe StarBette DavisAmazonWith a Song in My HeartSusan HaywardAmazon

1952 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerA Streetcar Named DesireVivien LeighDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.Amazon1952 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesA Place in the SunShelley WintersAmazonDetective StoryEleanor ParkerAmazonThe African QueenKatharine HepburnAmazonThe Blue VeilJane WymanAmazon

1951 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerBorn YesterdayJudy HollidayA tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.Amazon1951 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesAll About EveAnne BaxterAmazonAll About EveBette DavisAmazonCagedEleanor ParkerAmazonSunset BoulevardGloria SwansonAmazon

1950 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerThe HeiressOlivia de HavillandA young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.Amazon1950 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesCome to the StableLoretta YoungAmazonEdward, My SonDeborah KerrAmazonMy Foolish HeartSusan HaywardAmazonPinkyJeanne CrainAmazon

1949 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerJohnny BelindaJane WymanIn post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.Amazon1949 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesI Remember MamaIrene DunneAmazonJoan of ArcIngrid BergmanAmazonSorry, Wrong NumberBarbara StanwyckAmazonThe Snake PitOlivia de HavillandAmazon

1948 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerThe Farmer's DaughterLoretta YoungAfter leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.Amazon1948 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesGentleman's AgreementDorothy McGuireAmazonMourning Becomes ElectraRosalind RussellAmazonPossessedJoan CrawfordAmazonSmash-Up: The Story of a WomanSusan HaywardAmazon

1947 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerTo Each His OwnOlivia de HavillandAn unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.Amazon1947 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesBrief EncounterCelia JohnsonAmazonDuel in the SunJennifer JonesAmazonSister KennyRosalind RussellAmazonThe YearlingJane WymanAmazon

1946 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role WinnerMildred PierceJoan CrawfordA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.Amazon1946 Academy Awards - Actress in a Leading Role NomineesLeave Her to HeavenGene TierneyAmazonLove LettersJennifer JonesAmazonThe Bells of St. Mary'sIngrid BergmanAmazonThe Valley of DecisionGreer GarsonAmazon