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Academy Award for Best Actress

award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Summary

Academy Award for Best Actress is an award for best leading actress[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of award for best leading actress entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33,590 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Winner: Janet Gaynor[3], Mary Pickford[4], Norma Shearer[5], Marie Dressler[6], Helen Hayes[7], Katharine Hepburn[8], Claudette Colbert[9], Bette Davis[10], Luise Rainer[11], Vivien Leigh[12], Ginger Rogers[13], Joan Fontaine[14], Greer Garson[15], Jennifer Jones[16]
  • Country: United States[17]
  • Instance of: Academy Awards[18]
  • Commons category: Winners of Academy Award for Best Actress[19]
  • Inception: 1929[20]
  • Official website: https://oscar.go.com/nominees/actress-in-a-leading-role[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Best Actress Academy Award winners[22]
  • Conferred by: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences[23]

Why It Matters

Academy Award for Best Actress has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

FAQs

What awards did Academy Award for Best Actress receive?

Honors received include Janet Gaynor[3], Mary Pickford[4], Norma Shearer[5], and Marie Dressler[6].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · CommonsDelinker · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Academy Award for Best Actress
    Official website → https://oscar.go.com/nominees/actress-in-a-leading-role
    Category for recipients of this award → Category:Best Actress Academy Award winners
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