Academy Award Winners for Best Actress
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook. R. DVD Comedy and Blu-ray Comedy |
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| 2011 | Meryl Streep in Iron Lady. PG-13 DVD Drama and Blu-ray Drama |
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| 2010 | Natalie Portman in Black Swan. R. DVD Drama and Blu-ray Drama |
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| 2009 | Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. PG-13. DVD Drama and Blu-ray Drama |
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| 2008 | Kate Winslet in The Reader. R. DVD Drama and Blu-ray Drama |
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| 2007 | Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose. PG-13. DVD World (French) |
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| 2006 | Helen Mirren in The Queen. PG-13. DVD Drama and Blu-ray Drama |
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| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon
in Walk the Line. PG-13. DVD Drama |
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| 2004 | Hilary Swank
in Million Dollar Baby. PG-13. DVD Drama |
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| 2003 | Charlize Theron in Monster. R. DVD Drama |
| 2002 | Nicole Kidman in The Hours. PG-13. DVD Drama | |
| 2001 | Halle Berry in Monster's Ball. R. DVD Drama | |
| 2000 | Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich. R. DVD Drama and Blu-ray Drama | |
| 1999 | Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1998 | Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love. R. DVD Comedy and Blu-ray Comedy |
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| 1997 | Helen Hunt in As Good as It Gets. PG-13. DVD Comedy | |
| 1996 | Frances McDormand in Fargo. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1995 | Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1994 | Jessica Lange in Blue Sky. PG-13. DVD Drama | |
| 1993 | Holly Hunter in The Piano. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1992 | Emma Thompson in Howards End. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1991 | Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs. R. DVD Drama and Blu-ray Drama |
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| 1990 | Kathy Bates in Misery. R. DVD Horror | |
| 1989 | Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1988 | Jodie Foster in The Accused. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1987 | Cher in Moonstruck. PG. DVD Comedy and Blu-ray Comedy | |
| 1986 | Marlee Matlin in Children of a Lesser God. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1985 | Geraldine Page in The Trip to Bountiful. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1984 | Sally Field in Places in the Heart. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1983 | Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1982 | Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1981 | Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1980 | Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1979 | Sally Field in Norma Rae. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1978 | Jane Fonda in Coming Home. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1977 | Diane Keaton in Annie Hall. PG. DVD Comedy and Blu-ray Comedy | |
| 1976 | Faye Dunaway in Network. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1975 | Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1974 | Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1973 | Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class. PG. DVD Comedy | |
| 1972 | Liza Minelli in Cabaret. PG. DVD Musical | |
| 1971 | Jane Fonda in Klute. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1970 | Glenda Jackson in Women in Love. R. DVD Drama | |
| 1969 | Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1968 | Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl. G. DVD Musical Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter. PG. DVD Drama |
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| 1967 | Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Not rated. DVD Drama |
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| 1966 | Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not rated. DVD Drama |
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| 1965 | Julie Christie in Darling. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1964 | Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins. G. DVD Musical and Youth DVD | |
| 1963 | Patricia Neal in Hud. Not rated. DVD Western | |
| 1962 | Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1961 | Sophia Loren in Two Women. Not rated. DVD World (Italian) | |
| 1960 | Elizabeth Taylor in Butterfield 8. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1959 | Simone Signoret in Room at the Top. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1958 | Susan Hayward in I Want to Live! Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1957 | Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1956 | Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1955 | Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1954 | Grace Kelly in The Country Girl. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1953 | Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Not rated. DVD Comedy | |
| 1952 | Shirley Booth in Come Back, Little Sheba. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1951 | Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire. PG. DVD Drama | |
| 1950 | Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday. Not rated. DVD Comedy | |
| 1949 | Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1948 | Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1947 | Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter. Not rated. VHS Comedy | |
| 1946 | Olivia de Havilland in To Each His Own. Not rated. | |
| 1945 | Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1944 | Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1943 | Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette. Not rated. DVD Religious | |
| 1942 | Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1941 | Joan Fontaine in Suspicion. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1940 | Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1939 | Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind. G. DVD Drama and Blu-ray Drama | |
| 1938 | Bette Davis in Jezebel. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1937 | Luise Rainer in The Good Earth. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1936 | Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld. Not rated. DVD Musical | |
| 1935 | Bette Davis in Dangerous. Not rated. VHS Drama | |
| 1934 | Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night. Not rated. DVD Comedy | |
| 1932/33 | Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1931/32 | Helen Hayes in The Sin of Madelon Claudet. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1930/31 | Marie Dressler in Min and Bill. Not rated. DVD Comedy | |
| 1929/30 | Norma Shearer in The Divorcee. Not rated. DVD Drama | |
| 1928/29 | Mary Pickford in Coquette. Not rated. | |
| 1927/28 | Janet Gaynor in Sunrise. Not rated. DVD Drama |