Actress Total Wins Nominated films Meryl Streep 21 3 The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie and Julia (2009), The Iron Lady (2011), August: Osage County (2013), Into the Woods (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), The Post (2017) Katharine Hepburn 12 4 Morning Glory (1933), Alice Adams (1935), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), The African Queen (1951), Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), On Golden Pond (1981) Bette Davis 10 2 Dangerous (1935), Jezebel (1938), Dark Victory (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941) Now, Voyager (1942), Mr. Skeffington (1944), All About Eve (1950), The Star (1952), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Cate Blanchett 8 2 Elizabeth (1998), The Aviator (2004), Notes on a Scandal (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Blue Jasmine (2013), Carol (2015), Tár (2022) Judi Dench 8 1 Mrs Brown (1997), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Philomena (2013), Belfast (2021) Geraldine Page 8 1 Hondo (1953), Summer and Smoke (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), You're a Big Boy Now (1966), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), Interiors (1978), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), The Trip to Bountiful (1985) Glenn Close 8 0 The World According to Garp (1982), The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Albert Nobbs (2011), The Wife (2018), Hillbilly Elegy (2020) Ingrid Bergman 7 3 For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Joan of Arc (1948), Anastasia (1956), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Autumn Sonata (1978) Jane Fonda 7 2 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Klute (1971), Julia (1977), Coming Home (1978), The China Syndrome (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), The Morning After (1986) Greer Garson 7 1 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Madame Curie (1943), Mrs. Parkington (1944), The Valley of Decision (1945), Sunrise at Campobello (1960) Kate Winslet 7 1 Sense and Sensibility (1995), Titanic (1997), Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Little Children (2006), The Reader (2008), Steve Jobs (2015) Frances McDormand 6 3 Mississippi Burning (1988), Fargo (1996), Almost Famous (2000), North Country (2005), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Nomadland (2020) Jessica Lange 6 2 Tootsie (1982), Frances (1982), Country (1984), Sweet Dreams (1985), Music Box (1989), Blue Sky (1994) Maggie Smith 6 2 Othello (1965), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Travels with My Aunt (1972), California Suite (1978), A Room with a View (1986), Gosford Park (2001) Ellen Burstyn 6 1 The Last Picture Show (1971), The Exorcist (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Same Time, Next Year (1978), Resurrection (1980), Requiem for a Dream (2000) Vanessa Redgrave 6 1 Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Julia (1977), The Bostonians (1984), Howards End (1992) Sissy Spacek 6 1 Carrie (1976), Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), In the Bedroom (2001) Amy Adams 6 0 Junebug (2005), Doubt (2008), The Fighter (2010), The Master (2012), American Hustle (2013), Vice (2018) Deborah Kerr 6 0 Edward, My Son (1949), From Here to Eternity (1953), The King and I (1956), Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1957), Separate Tables (1958), The Sundowners (1960) Thelma Ritter 6 0 All About Eve (1950), The Mating Season (1951), With a Song in My Heart (1952), Pickup on South Street (1953), Pillow Talk (1959), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) Jodie Foster 5 2 Taxi Driver (1976), The Accused (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Nell (1994), Nyad (2023) Olivia de Havilland 5 2 Gone with the Wind (1939), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), The Heiress (1949) Elizabeth Taylor 5 2 Raintree County (1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), BUtterfield 8 (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Anne Bancroft 5 1 The Miracle Worker (1962), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977), Agnes of God (1985) Susan Hayward 5 1 Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947), My Foolish Heart (1949), With a Song in My Heart (1952), I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), I Want to Live! (1958) Audrey Hepburn 5 1 Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Wait Until Dark (1967) Jennifer Jones 5 1 The Song of Bernadette (1943), Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) Nicole Kidman 5 1 Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Hours (2002), Rabbit Hole (2010), Lion (2016), Being the Ricardos (2021) Shirley MacLaine 5 1 Some Came Running (1958), The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce (1963), The Turning Point (1977), Terms of Endearment (1983) Julianne Moore 5 1 Boogie Nights (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), The Hours (2002), Far From Heaven (2002), Still Alice (2014) Susan Sarandon 5 1 Atlantic City (1980), Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), The Client (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995) Norma Shearer 5 1 The Divorcee / Their Own Desire (1929/30), A Free Soul (1930/31), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), Romeo and Juliet (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938) Annette Bening 5 0 The Grifters (1990), American Beauty (1999), Being Julia (2004), The Kids Are All Right (2010), Nyad (2023) Irene Dunne 5 0 Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939), I Remember Mama (1948) Michelle Williams 5 0 Brokeback Mountain (2005), Blue Valentine (2010), My Week with Marilyn (2011), Manchester by the Sea (2016), The Fabelmans (2022) Glenda Jackson 4 2 Women in Love (1970), Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971), A Touch of Class (1973), Hedda (1976) Emma Stone 4 2 Birdman (2014), La La Land (2016), The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023) Shelley Winters 4 2 A Place in the Sun (1951), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), A Patch of Blue (1965), The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Renée Zellweger 4 2 Bridget Jones' Diary (2001), Chicago (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Judy (2019) Ethel Barrymore 4 1 None But the Lonely Heart (1944), The Spiral Staircase (1946), The Paradine Case (1947), Pinky (1949) Kathy Bates 4 1 Misery (1990), Primary Colors (1998), About Schmidt (2002), Richard Jewell (2019) Julie Christie 4 1 Darling (1965), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Afterglow (1997), Away from Her (2007) Penelope Cruz 4 1 Volver (2006), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Nine (2009), Parallel Mothers (2021) Viola Davis 4 1 Doubt (2008), The Help (2011), Fences (2016), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Lee Grant 4 1 Detective Story (1951), The Landlord (1970), Shampoo (1975), Voyage of the Damned (1976) Holly Hunter 4 1 Broadcast News (1987), The Firm (1993), The Piano (1993), Thirteen (2003) Diane Keaton 4 1 Annie Hall (1977), Reds (1981), Marvin's Room (1996), Something's Gotta Give (2003) Jennifer Lawrence 4 1 Winter's Bone (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Hustle (2013), Joy (2015) Helen Mirren 4 1 The Madness of King George (1994), Gosford Park (2001), The Queen (2006), The Last Station (2009) Julia Roberts 4 1 Steel Magnolias (1989), Pretty Woman (1990), Erin Brockovich (2000), August: Osage County (2013) Maureen Stapleton 4 1 Lonelyhearts (1958), Airport (1970), Interiors (1978), Reds (1981) Emma Thompson 4 1 Howards End (1992), In the Name of the Father (1993), The Remains of the Day (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995) Joanne Woodward 4 1 The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Rachel, Rachel (1968), Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973), Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990) Jane Wyman 4 1 The Yearling (1946), Johnny Belinda (1948), The Blue Veil (1951), Magnificent Obsession (1954) Jane Alexander 4 0 The Great White Hope (1970), All the President's Men (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Testament (1983) Marsha Mason 4 0 Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Goodbye Girl (1977), Chapter Two (1979), Only When I Laugh (1981) Agnes Moorehead 4 0 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Mrs. Parkington (1944), Johnny Belinda (1948), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) Saoirse Ronan 4 0 Atonement (2007), Brooklyn (2015), Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019) Rosalind Russell 4 0 My Sister Eileen (1942), Sister Kenny (1946), Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), Auntie Mame (1958) Barbara Stanwyck 4 0 Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Sally Field 3 2 Norma Rae (1979), Places in the Heart (1984), Lincoln (2012) Dianne Wiest 3 2 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Parenthood (1989), Bullets over Broadway (1994) Julie Andrews 3 1 Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), Victor Victoria (1982) Fay Bainter 3 1 Jezebel (1938), White Banners (1938), The Children's Hour (1961) Jessica Chastain 3 1 The Help (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) Claudette Colbert 3 1 It Happened One Night (1934), Private Worlds (1935), Since You Went Away (1944) Olivia Colman 3 1 The Favourite (2018), The Father (2020), The Lost Daughter (2021) Joan Crawford 3 1 Mildred Pierce (1945), Possessed (1947), Sudden Fear (1952) Laura Dern 3 1 Rambling Rose (1991), Wild (2014), Marriage Story (2019) Faye Dunaway 3 1 Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Chinatown (1974), Network (1976) Joan Fontaine 3 1 Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), The Constant Nymph (1943) Wendy Hiller 3 1 Pygmalion (1938), Separate Tables (1958), A Man for All Seasons (1966) Celeste Holm 3 1 Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Come to the Stable (1949), All About Eve (1950) Anjelica Huston 3 1 Prizzi's Honor (1985), Enemies, A Love Story (1989), The Grifters (1990) Natalie Portman 3 1 Closer (2004), Black Swan (2010), Jackie (2016) Anne Revere 3 1 The Song of Bernadette (1943), National Velvet (1944), Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Octavia Spencer 3 1 The Help (2011), Hidden Figures (2016), The Shape of Water (2017) Charlize Theron 3 1 Monster (2003), North Country (2005), Bombshell (2019) Marisa Tomei 3 1 My Cousin Vinny (1992), In the Bedroom (2001), The Wrestler (2008) Claire Trevor 3 1 Dead End (1937), Key Largo (1948), The High and the Mighty (1954) Teresa Wright 3 1 The Little Foxes (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Joan Allen 3 0 Nixon (1995), The Crucible (1996), The Contender (2000) Gladys Cooper 3 0 Now, Voyager (1942), The Song of Bernadette (1943), My Fair Lady (1964) Edith Evans 3 0 Tom Jones (1963), The Chalk Garden (1964), The Whisperers (1967) Greta Garbo 3 0 Anna Christie / Romance (1930), Camille (1936), Ninotchka (1939) Diane Ladd 3 0 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990), Rambling Rose (1991) Angela Lansbury 3 0 Gaslight (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Piper Laurie 3 0 The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), Children of a Lesser God (1986) Laura Linney 3 0 You Can Count on Me (2000), Kinsey (2004), The Savages (2007) Carey Mulligan 3 0 An Education (2009), Promising Young Woman (2020), Maestro (2023) Eleanor Parker 3 0 Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), Interrupted Melody (1955) Michelle Pfeiffer 3 0 Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Love Field (1992) Gloria Swanson 3 0 Sadie Thompson (1928), The Trespasser (1929), Sunset Boulevard (1950) Sigourney Weaver 3 0 Aliens (1986), Working Girl (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988) Debra Winger 3 0 An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), Shadowlands (1993) Natalie Wood 3 0 Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) Helen Hayes 2 2 The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931/32), Airport (1970) Vivien Leigh 2 2 Gone with the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1950) Luise Rainer 2 2 The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Good Earth (1937) Hilary Swank 2 2 Boys Don't Cry (1999), Million Dollar Baby (2004) Anne Baxter 2 1 The Razor's Edge (1946), All About Eve (1950) Juliette Binoche 2 1 The English Patient (1996), Chocolat (2000) Alice Brady 2 1 My Man Godfrey (1936), In Old Chicago (1938) Sandra Bullock 2 1 The Blind Side (2009), Gravity (2013) Cher 2 1 Silkwood (1983), Moonstruck (1987) Marion Cotillard 2 1 La Vie en Rose (2007), Two Days, One Night (2014) Geena Davis 2 1 The Accidental Tourist (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991) Marie Dressler 2 1 Min and Bill (1930/31), Emma (1931/32) Janet Gaynor 2 1 7th Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927/28), A Star Is Born (1937) Whoopi Goldberg 2 1 The Color Purple (1985), Ghost (1990) Ruth Gordon 2 1 Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968) Gloria Grahame 2 1 Crossfire (1947), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Marcia Gay Harden 2 1 Pollock (2000), Mystic River (2003) Anne Hathaway 2 1 Rachel Getting Married (2009), Les Misérables (2012) Goldie Hawn 2 1 Cactus Flower (1969), Private Benjamin (1980) Eileen Heckart 2 1 The Bad Seed (1956), Butterflies Are Free (1972) Helen Hunt 2 1 As Good as It Gets (1997), The Sessions (2012) Angelina Jolie 2 1 Girl, Interrupted (1999), Changeling (2008) Grace Kelly 2 1 Mogambo (1953), The Country Girl (1954) Melissa Leo 2 1 Frozen River (2008), The Fighter (2010) Sophia Loren 2 1 Two Women (1961), Marriage Italian Style (1964) Anna Magnani 2 1 The Rose Tattoo (1955), Wild Is the Wind (1957) Mercedes McCambridge 2 1 All the King's Men (1949), Giant (1956) Liza Minnelli 2 1 The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), Cabaret (1972) Patricia Neal 2 1 Hud (1963), The Subject Was Roses (1968) Estelle Parsons 2 1 Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Rachel, Rachel (1968) Simone Signoret 2 1 Room at the Top (1959), Ship of Fools (1965) Gale Sondergaard 2 1 Anthony Adverse (1936), Anna and the King of Siam (1946) Barbra Streisand 2 1 Funny Girl (1968), The Way We Were (1973) Jessica Tandy 2 1 Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) Rachel Weisz 2 1 The Constant Gardener (2005), The Favourite (2018) Reese Witherspoon 2 1 Walk the Line (2005), Wild (2014) Loretta Young 2 1 The Farmer's Daughter (1947), Come to the Stable (1949) Isabelle Adjani 2 0 The Story of Adele H. (1975), Camille Claudel (1989) Ann-Margret 2 0 Carnal Knowledge (1971), Tommy (1975) Angela Bassett 2 0 What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Brenda Blethyn 2 0 Secrets & Lies (1996), Little Voice (1998) Beulah Bondi 2 0 The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), Of Human Hearts (1938) Helena Bonham Carter 2 0 The Wings of the Dove (1997), The King's Speech (2010) Dyan Cannon 2 0 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Heaven Can Wait (1978) Leslie Caron 2 0 Lili (1953), The L-Shaped Room (1962) Ruth Chatterton [C] 2 0 Madame X (1929), Sarah and Son (1930) Jill Clayburgh 2 0 An Unmarried Woman (1978), Starting Over (1979) Joan Cusack 2 0 Working Girl (1988), In & Out (1997) Judy Davis 2 0 A Passage to India (1984), Husbands and Wives (1992) Melinda Dillon 2 0 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Absence of Malice (1981) Mildred Dunnock 2 0 Death of a Salesman (1951), Baby Doll (1956) Judy Garland [D] 2 0 A Star Is Born (1954), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Sally Hawkins 2 0 Blue Jasmine (2013), The Shape of Water (2017) Scarlett Johansson 2 0 Jojo Rabbit (2019), Marriage Story (2019) Madeline Kahn 2 0 Paper Moon (1973), Blazing Saddles (1974) Catherine Keener 2 0 Being John Malkovich (1999), Capote (2005) Shirley Knight 2 0 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) Keira Knightley 2 0 Pride & Prejudice (2005), The Imitation Game (2014) Elsa Lanchester 2 0 Come to the Stable (1949), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Rooney Mara 2 0 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Carol (2015) Melissa McCarthy 2 0 Bridesmaids (2011), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) Mary McDonnell 2 0 Dances with Wolves (1990), Passion Fish (1992) Janet McTeer 2 0 Tumbleweeds (1999), Albert Nobbs (2011) Bette Midler 2 0 The Rose (1979), For the Boys (1991) Sylvia Miles 2 0 Midnight Cowboy (1969), Farewell, My Lovely (1975) Samantha Morton 2 0 Sweet and Lowdown (1999), In America (2003) Maria Ouspenskaya 2 0 Dodsworth (1936), Love Affair (1939) Marjorie Rambeau 2 0 Primrose Path (1940), Torch Song (1953) Lynn Redgrave 2 0 Georgy Girl (1966), Gods and Monsters (1998) Joyce Redman 2 0 Tom Jones (1963), Othello (1965) Miranda Richardson 2 0 Damage (1992), Tom & Viv (1994) Margot Robbie 2 0 I Tonya (2017), Bombshell (2019) Gena Rowlands [D] 2 0 A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Gloria (1980) Winona Ryder 2 0 The Age of Innocence (1993), Little Women (1994) Talia Shire 2 0 The Godfather Part II (1974), Rocky (1976) Jean Simmons 2 0 Hamlet (1948), The Happy Ending (1969) Kim Stanley 2 0 Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), Frances (1982) Liv Ullmann 2 0 The Emigrants (1972), Face to Face (1976) Julie Walters 2 0 Educating Rita (1983), Billy Elliot (2000) Emily Watson 2 0 Breaking the Waves (1996), Hilary and Jackie (1998) Naomi Watts 2 0 21 Grams (2003), The Impossible (2012) Jacki Weaver 2 0 Animal Kingdom (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012) May Whitty 2 0 Night Must Fall (1937), Mrs. Miniver (1942)