Top Ten Winner’s of Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress
1) Tatum O’Neal Paper Moon (1973) Youngest Oscar-winner in a competitive category.
2) Whoopi Goldberg Ghost (1990)
3) Jane Darwell The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
4) Viola Davis Fences (2017)
5) Octavia Spencer The Help (2012)
6) Meryl Streep Sophie’s Choice (1982)
7) Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God (1987) First hearing-impaired Actress to win an Oscar.
8) Jane Fonda Coming Home (1978) Joined Elizabeth Taylor in a group of women with two Oscar’s, later Sally Field, Hillary Swank and Dianne Wiest would join this club.
9) Jodie Foster The Accused (1989) Foster plays a rape victim and this performance defines “relevant.”
10) Diane Keaton Annie Hall (1977) Keaton and (her role of) Annie changed Fashion!
