Browse Namesakes
This is a list of namesakes in which the category is Oscar Award Winners; and the gender is female
| Name | Year | Category | Movie | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet Gaynor | 1929 | actress | Seventh Heaven |  | |
| Mary Pickford | 1930 | actress | Coquette | | |
| Norma Shearer | 1931 | actress | The Divorcee | | |
| Marie Dressler | 1932 | actress | Min and Bill | | |
| Helen Hayes | 1933 | actress | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | | |
| Katharine Hepburn | 1934 | actress | Morning Glory | | |
| Claudette Colbert | 1935 | actress | It Happened One Night | | |
| Bette Davis | 1936 | actress | Dangerous | (Ruth, Elizabeth) | |
| Gale Sondergaard | 1937 | actress | Anthony Adverse | | |
| Luise Rainer | 1937 | actress | The Great Ziegfeld | | |
| Alice Brady | 1938 | actress | In Old Chicago | | |
| Luise Rainer | 1938 | actress | The Good Earth | | |
| Bette Davis | 1939 | actress | Jezebel | (Ruth, Elizabeth) | |
| Fay Bainter | 1939 | actress | Jezebel | | |
| Hattie McDaniel | 1940 | actress | Gone with the Wind | | |
| Vivien Leigh | 1940 | actress | Gone with the Wind | | |
| Ginger Rogers | 1941 | actress | Kitty Foyle | | |
| Jane Darwell | 1941 | actress | The Grapes of Wrath | | |
| Joan Fontaine | 1942 | actress | Suspicion | | |
| Mary Astor | 1942 | actress | The Great Lie | | |
| Greer Garson | 1943 | actress | Mrs. Miniver | | |
| Teresa Wright | 1943 | actress | Mrs. Miniver | | |
| Jennifer Jones | 1944 | actress | The Song of Bernadette | | |
| Katina Paxinou | 1944 | actress | For Whom the Bell Tolls | | |
| Ethel Barrymore | 1945 | actress | None But the Lonely Heart | | |
| Ingrid Bergman | 1945 | actress | Gaslight | | |
| Anne Revere | 1946 | actress | National Velvet | | |
| Joan Crawford | 1946 | actress | Mildred Pierce | (Lucille, Fay) | |
| Anne Baxter | 1947 | actress | The Razor's Edge | | |
| Olivia de Havilland | 1947 | actress | To Each His Own | (Mary) | |
| Celeste Holm | 1948 | actress | Gentleman's Agreement | | |
| Loretta Young | 1948 | actress | The Farmer's Daughter | | |
| Claire Trevor | 1949 | actress | Key Largo | | |
| Jane Wyman | 1949 | actress | Johnny Belinda | | |
| Mercedes McCambridge | 1950 | actress | All the King's Men | | |
| Olivia de Havilland | 1950 | actress | The Heiress | (Mary) | |
| Josephine Hull | 1951 | actress | Harvey | | |
| Judy Holliday | 1951 | actress | Born Yesterday | | |
| Kim Hunter | 1952 | actress | A Streetcar Named Desire | (Janet) | |
| Vivien Leigh | 1952 | actress | A Streetcar Named Desire | | |
| Gloria Grahame | 1953 | actress | The Bad and the Beautiful | | |
| Shirley Booth | 1953 | actress | Come Back, Little Sheba | (Marjory) | |
| Donna Reed | 1954 | actress | From Here to Eternity | | |
| Audrey Hepburn | 1954 | actress | Roman Holiday | (Kathleen) | |
| Eva Marie Saint | 1955 | actress | On the Waterfront | | |
| Grace Kelly | 1955 | actress | The Country Girl | (Patricia) | |
| Anna Magnani | 1956 | actress | The Rose Tattoo | | |
| Jo Van Fleet | 1956 | actress | East of Eden | (Catherine, Josephine) | |
| Dorothy Malone | 1957 | actress | Written on the Wind | (Mary) | |
| Ingrid Bergman | 1957 | actress | Anastasia | | |
| Joanne Woodward | 1958 | actress | The Three Faces of Eve | | |
| Miyoshi Umeki | 1958 | actress | Sayonara | | |
| Susan Hayward | 1959 | actress | I Want to Live! | | |
| Wendy Hiller | 1959 | actress | Separate Tables | | |
| Shelley Winters | 1960 | actress | The Diary of Anne Frank | | |
| Simone Signoret | 1960 | actress | Room at the Top | | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 1961 | actress | Butterfield 8 | | |
| Shirley Jones | 1961 | actress | Elmer Gantry | | |
| Rita Moreno | 1962 | actress | West Side Story | | |
| Sophia Loren | 1962 | actress | La Ciociara | | |
| Anne Bancroft | 1963 | actress | The Miracle Worker | (Anna, Maria, Louisa) | |
| Patty Duke | 1963 | actress | The Miracle Worker | (Anna, Marie) | |
| Margaret Rutherford | 1964 | actress | The V.I.P.s | | |
| Patricia Neal | 1964 | actress | Hud | | |
| Julie Andrews | 1965 | actress | Mary Poppins | | |
| Lila Kedrova | 1965 | actress | Alexis Zorbas | | |
| Julie Christie | 1966 | actress | Darling | | |
| Shelley Winters | 1966 | actress | A Patch of Blue | | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 1967 | actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | | |
| Sandy Dennis | 1967 | actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | (Sandra, Dale) | |
| Estelle Parsons | 1968 | actress | Bonnie and Clyde | | |
| Katharine Hepburn | 1968 | actress | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | | |
| Barbra Streisand | 1969 | actress | Funny Girl | (Barbara, Joan) | |
| Carol Reed | 1969 | director | Oliver! | | |
| Katharine Hepburn | 1969 | actress | The Lion in Winter | | |
| Ruth Gordon | 1969 | actress | Rosemary's Baby | | |
| Goldie Hawn | 1970 | actress | Cactus Flower | | |
| Maggie Smith | 1970 | actress | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | (Margaret, Natalie) | |
| Glenda Jackson | 1971 | actress | Women in Love | (May) | |
| Helen Hayes | 1971 | actress | Airport | | |
| Cloris Leachman | 1972 | actress | The Last Picture Show | | |
| Jane Fonda | 1972 | actress | Klute | | |
| Eileen Heckart | 1973 | actress | Butterflies Are Free | | |
| Liza Minnelli | 1973 | actress | Cabaret | | |
| Glenda Jackson | 1974 | actress | A Touch of Class | (May) | |
| Tatum O'Neal | 1974 | actress | Paper Moon | | |
| Ellen Burstyn | 1975 | actress | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | (Edna, Rae) | |
| Ingrid Bergman | 1975 | actress | Murder on the Orient Express | | |
| Lee Grant | 1976 | actress | Shampoo | | |
| Louise Fletcher | 1976 | actress | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | | |
| Beatrice Straight | 1977 | actress | Network | | |
| Faye Dunaway | 1977 | actress | Network | | |
| Diane Keaton | 1978 | actress | Annie Hall | | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | 1978 | actress | Julia | | |
| Jane Fonda | 1979 | actress | Coming Home | | |
| Maggie Smith | 1979 | actress | California Suite | (Margaret, Natalie) | |
| Meryl Streep | 1980 | actress | Kramer vs. Kramer | | |
| Sally Field | 1980 | actress | Norma Rae | | |
| Mary Steenburgen | 1981 | actress | Melvin and Howard | | |
| Sissy Spacek | 1981 | actress | Coal Miner's Daughter | | |
| Katharine Hepburn | 1982 | actress | On Golden Pond | | |
| Maureen Stapleton | 1982 | actress | Reds | (Lois) | |
| Jessica Lange | 1983 | actress | Tootsie | (Phyllis) | |
| Meryl Streep | 1983 | actress | Sophie's Choice | | |
| Linda Hunt | 1984 | actress | The Year of Living Dangerously | | |
| Shirley MacLaine | 1984 | actress | Terms of Endearment | | |
| Peggy Ashcroft | 1985 | actress | A Passage to India | (Edith, Margaret, Emily) | |
| Sally Field | 1985 | actress | Places in the Heart | | |
| Anjelica Huston | 1986 | actress | Prizzi's Honor | | |
| Geraldine Page | 1986 | actress | The Trip to Bountiful | | |
| Dianne Wiest | 1987 | actress | Hannah and Her Sisters | | |
| Marlee Matlin | 1987 | actress | Children of a Lesser God | | |
| Cher | 1988 | actress | Moonstruck | (Cherilyn) | |
| Olympia Dukakis | 1988 | actress | Moonstruck | (Mary) | |
| Geena Davis | 1989 | actress | The Accidental Tourist | (Virginia, Elizabeth) | |
| Jodie Foster | 1989 | actress | The Accused | | |
| Brenda Fricker | 1990 | actress | My Left Foot | | |
| Jessica Tandy | 1990 | actress | Driving Miss Daisy | (Jessie, Alice) | |
| Kathy Bates | 1991 | actress | Misery | (Kathleen) | |
| Whoopi Goldberg | 1991 | actress | Ghost | (Caryn, Elaine) | |
| Jodie Foster | 1992 | actress | The Silence of the Lambs | | |
| Mercedes Ruehl | 1992 | actress | The Fisher King | | |
| Emma Thompson | 1993 | actress | Howards End | | |
| Marisa Tomei | 1993 | actress | My Cousin Vinny | | |
| Anna Paquin | 1994 | actress | The Piano | | |
| Holly Hunter | 1994 | actress | The Piano | | |
| Dianne Wiest | 1995 | actress | Bullets Over Broadway | | |
| Jessica Lange | 1995 | actress | Blue Sky | (Phyllis) | |
| Mira Sorvino | 1996 | actress | Mighty Aphrodite | | |
| Susan Sarandon | 1996 | actress | Dead Man Walking | | |
| Frances McDormand | 1997 | actress | Fargo | (Cynthia, Ann, Louise) | |
| Juliette Binoche | 1997 | actress | The English Patient | | |
| Helen Hunt | 1998 | actress | As Good As It Gets | | |
| Kim Basinger | 1998 | actress | L.A. Confidential | (Kimila, Ann) | |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | 1999 | actress | Shakespeare in Love | | |
| Judi Dench | 1999 | actress | Shakespeare in Love | (Judith, Olivia) | |
| Angelina Jolie | 2000 | actress | Girl, Interrupted | | |
| Hilary Swank | 2000 | actress | Boys Don't Cry | | |
| Julia Roberts | 2001 | actress | Erin Brockovich | | |
| Marcia Gay Harden | 2001 | actress | Pollock | | |
| Halle Berry | 2002 | actress | Monster's Ball | | |
| Jennifer Connelly | 2002 | actress | A Beautiful Mind | | |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | 2003 | actress | Chicago | | |
| Nicole Kidman | 2003 | actress | The Hours | | |
| Charlize Theron | 2004 | actress | Monster | | |
| Renée Zellweger | 2004 | actress | Cold Mountain | (Kathleen) | |
| Cate Blanchett | 2005 | actress | The Aviator | (Catherine) | |
| Hilary Swank | 2005 | actress | Million Dollar Baby | | |
| Rachel Weisz | 2006 | actress | The Constant Gardener | | |
| Reese Witherspoon | 2006 | actress | Walk the Line | | |
| Helen Mirren | 2007 | actress | The Queen | (Lydia) | |
| Jennifer Hudson | 2007 | actress | Dreamgirls | | |
| Marion Cotillard | 2008 | actress | La Vie en Rose | | |
| Tilda Swinton | 2008 | actress | Michael Clayton | (Katherine, Matilda) | |
| Kate Winslet | 2009 | actress | The Reader | | |
| Penélope Cruz | 2009 | actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | | |
| Kathryn Bigelow | 2010 | director | The Hurt Locker | | |
| Mo'Nique | 2010 | actress | Precious | (Monique, Angela) | |
| Sandra Bullock | 2010 | actress | The Blind Side | | |
| Melissa Leo | 2011 | actress | The Fighter | (Chessington) | |
| Natalie Portman | 2011 | actress | Black Swan | | |
| Meryl Streep | 2012 | actress | The Iron Lady | | |
| Octavia Spencer | 2012 | actress | The Help | (Lenora) | |
| Anne Hathaway | 2013 | actress | Les Misérables | | |
| Jennifer Lawrence | 2013 | actress | Silver Linings Playbook | | |
| Lupita Nyong'o | 2014 | actress | 12 Years a Slave | (Amondi) | |
| Julianne Moore | 2015 | actress | Still Alice | (Julie, Anne) | |
| Patricia Arquette | 2015 | actress | Boyhood | | |
| Alicia Vikander | 2016 | actress | The Danish Girl | | |
| Brie Larson | 2016 | actress | Room | | |
| Viola Davis | 2017 | actress | Fences | | |
| Emma Stone | 2017 | actress | La La Land | (Emily, Jean) | |
| Allison Janney | 2018 | actress | I, Tonya | | |
| Frances McDormand | 2018 | actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | (Cynthia, Ann, Louise) | |
| Olivia Colman | 2019 | actress | The Favourite | (Sarah, Caroline) | |
| Regina King | 2019 | actress | If Beale Street Could Talk | (Rene) | |
| Laura Dern | 2020 | actress | Marriage Story | | |
| Renée Zellweger | 2020 | actress | Judy | (Kathleen) | |
| Chloé Zhao | 2021 | director | Nomadland | (Ting) | |
| Frances McDormand | 2021 | actress | Nomadland | (Cynthia, Ann, Louise) | |
| Youn Yuh-jung | 2021 | actress | Minari | | |
| Ariana DeBose | 2022 | actress | West Side Story | | |
| Jane Campion | 2022 | director | Power of the Dog | | |
| Jessica Chastain | 2022 | actress | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | | |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | 2023 | actress | Everything Everywhere All at Once | | |
| Michelle Yeoh | 2023 | actress | Everything Everywhere All at Once | | |
| Da'Vine Joy Randolph | 2024 | actress | The Holdovers | | |
| Emma Stone | 2024 | actress | Poor Things | (Emily, Jean) | |
| Mikey Madison | 2025 | actress | Anora | (Mikaela) | |
| Zoë Saldaña | 2025 | actress | Emilia Pérez | (Yadira) | |