Here are the performers who won the Oscar for actress in a leading role in the 21st century: This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Who won the Academy Award for best actress last year?

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The 97th Academy Awards have wrapped up ... Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Directing, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), and Best Editing.

The role earned her widespread recognition, including a shared Best Actress award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. For her role as Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn who meets and marries ...

who won Best Actress at 26 in 1989 and again at 29 in 1992. Below is a full list of all the men and women who have won an acting Academy Award for a lead or supporting role before the age of 30.

Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Leticia Musgrove in the film Monster’s Ball in 2002 Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with ...

Jamie Lee Curtis won her first career Academy Award for her performance in ... won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress — a category that also included nominees Angela Bassett (Black ...

Academy Award®-winner Julia Roberts (Best Actress in a Leading Role, Erin Brockovich, 2000) leads an all-star cast featuring Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhall and Marcia Gay Harden.