We all know those famous words: "And the Oscar goes to..."
The 92nd Academy Awards air Sunday, Feb. 9 on ABC15! Ahead of the show, we are taking a look at every winner for "best actress in a leading role" since the very first ceremony in 1928.
This year's nominees are: Cynthia Erivo ("Harriet"), Scarlett Johansson ("Marriage Story"), Saoirse Ronan ("Little Women"), Charlize Theron ("Bombshell"), and Renee Zellweger ("Judy").
EVERY BEST ACTRESS WINNER
- 2018 - Olivia Colman, "The Favourite"
- 2017 - Frances McDormand, "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri"
- 2016 - Emma Stone, “La La Land”
- 2015 - Brie Larson, “Room”
- 2014 - Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
- 2013 - Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
- 2012 - Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
- 2011 - Meryl Streep, “The Iron Lady”
- 2010 - Natalie Portman, “Black Swan”
- 2009 - Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
- 2008 - Kate Winslet, “The Reader”
- 2007 - Marion Cotillard, “La Vie en Rose”
- 2006 - Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
- 2005 - Reese Witherspoon, “Walk the Line”
- 2004 - Hilary Swank, “Million Dollar Baby”
- 2003 - Charlize Theron, “Monster”
- 2002 - Nicole Kidman, “The Hours”
- 2001 - Halle Berry, “Monster’s Ball”
- 2000 - Julia Roberts, “Erin Brockovich”
- 1999 - Hilary Swank, “Boys Don’t Cry”
- 1998 - Gwyneth Paltrow, “Shakespeare in Love”
- 1997 - Helen Hunt, “As Good as It Gets”
- 1996 - Frances McDormand, “Fargo”
- 1995 - Susan Sarandon, “Dead Man Walking”
- 1994 - Jessica Lange, “Blue Sky”
- 1993 - Holly Hunter, “The Piano”
- 1992 - Emma Thompson, “Howards End”
- 1991 - Jodie Foster, “The Silence of the Lambs”
- 1990 - Kathy Bates, “Misery”
- 1989 - Jessica Tandy, “Driving Miss Daisy”
- 1988 - Jodie Foster, “The Accused”
- 1987 - Cher, “Moonstruck”
- 1986 - Marlee Matlin, “Children of a Lesser God”
- 1985 - Geraldine Page, “A Trip to Bountiful”
- 1984 - Sally Field, “Places in the Heart”
- 1983 - Shirley MacLaine, “Terms of Endearment”
- 1982 - Meryl Streep, “Sophie’s Choice”
- 1981 - Katharine Hepburn, “On Golden Pond”
- 1980 - Sissy Spacek, “Coal Miner’s Daughter”
- 1979 - Sally Field, “Norma Rae”
- 1978 - Jane Fonda, “Coming Home”
- 1977 - Diane Keaton, “Annie Hall”
- 1976 - Faye Dunaway, “Network”
- 1975 - Louise Fletcher, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
- 1974 - Ellen Burstyn, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
- 1973 - Glenda Jackson, “A Touch of Class”
- 1972 - Liza Minnelli, “Cabaret”
- 1971 - Jane Fonda, “Klute”
- 1970 - Glendale Jackson, “Women in Love”
- 1969 - Maggie Smith, “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
- 1968 - Katharine Hepburn, “The Lion in Winter” and Barbra Streisand, “Funny Girl” (tie)
- 1967 - Katharine Hepburn, “Guess Who’s coming to Dinner”
- 1966 - Elizabeth Taylor, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
- 1965 - Julie Christie, “Darling”
- 1964 - Julie Andrews, “Mary Poppins”
- 1963 - Patricia Neal, “Hud”
- 1962 - Anne Bancroft, “The Miracle Worker”
- 1961 - Sophia Loren, “Two Women”
- 1960 - Elizabeth Taylor, “Butterfield 8”
- 1959 - Simone Signoret, “Room at the Top”
- 1958 - Susan Hayward, “I Want to Live!”
- 1957 - Joanne Woodward, “The Three Faces of Eve”
- 1956 - Ingrid Bergman, “Anastasia”
- 1955 - Anna Magnani, “The Rose Tattoo”
- 1954 - Grace Kelly, “The Country Girl”
- 1953 - Audrey Hepburn, “Roman Holiday”
- 1952 - Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba”
- 1951 - Vivien Leigh, “A Streetcar Named Desire”
- 1950 - Judy Holliday, “Born Yesterday”
- 1949 - Olivia de Havilland, “The Heiress”
- 1948 - Jane Wyman, “Johnny Belinda”
- 1947 - Loretta Young, “The Farmer’s Daughter”
- 1946 - Olivia de Havilland, “To Each His Own”
- 1945 - Joan Crawford, “Mildred Pierce”
- 1944 - Ingrid Bergman, “Gaslight”
- 1943 - Jennifer Jones, “The Song of Bernadette”
- 1942 - Greer Garson, “Mrs. Miniver”
- 1941 - Joan Fontaine, “Suspicion”
- 1940 - Ginger Rogers, “Kitty Foyle”
- 1939 - Vivien Leigh, “Gone with the Wind”
- 1938 - Bette Davis, “Jezebel”
- 1937 - Luise Rainer, “The Good Earth”
- 1936 - Luis Rainer, “The Great Ziegfeld”
- 1935 - Bette Davis, “Dangerous”
- 1934 - Claudette Colbert, “It Happened One Night”
- 1932/1933 - Katharine Hepburn, “Morning Glory”
- 1931/1932 - Helen Hayes, “The Sin of Madelon Claudet”
- 1930/1931 - Marie Dressler, “Min and Bill”
- 1929/1930 - Norma Shearer, “The Divorcee”
- 1928/1929 - Mary Pickford, “Coquette”
- 1927/1928 - Janet Gaynor, “7th Heaven”, “Street Angel”, “Sunrise”
