Academy Award for Best Actress winners
# Gone with the Wind
Jahr: 1939 | Land: US
Regisseur: Victor Fleming
Besetzung: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel
Synopsis
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
# Mildred Pierce
Jahr: 1945 | Land: United States of America
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A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
# Anastasia
Jahr: 1997 | Land: US
Regisseur: Gary Goldman
Besetzung: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria
Synopsis
Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is accompanied by two con men, who intend to pass her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia to the Dowager Empress for a reward.
# Mary Poppins
Jahr: 1964 | Land: US
Regisseur: Robert Stevenson
Besetzung: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Synopsis
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
# One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jahr: 1975 | Land: US
Regisseur: Miloš Forman
Besetzung: Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield
Synopsis
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
# Howards End
Jahr: 1992 | Land: Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
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A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with t
# Dead Man Walking
Jahr: 1995 | Land: United States of America, United Kingdom
Regisseur: Tim Robbins
Besetzung: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey
Synopsis
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
# Fargo
Jahr: 1996 | Land: GB
Regisseur: Joel Coen
Besetzung: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell
Synopsis
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
# As Good as It Gets
Jahr: 1997 | Land: United States of America
Regisseur: James L. Brooks
Besetzung: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich
Synopsis
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is hospitalized, Melvin finds his life tu
# Erin Brockovich
Jahr: 2000 | Land: US
Regisseur: Steven Soderbergh
Besetzung: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones
Synopsis
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.
# The Hours
Jahr: 2002 | Land: GB
Regisseur: Stephen Daldry
Besetzung: Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson
Synopsis
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
# Monster
Jahr: 2023 | Land: JP
Regisseur: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Besetzung: Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Yuko Tanaka
Synopsis
When a young boy begins behaving strangely, shocking truths emerge as the story unfolds through the eyes of his single mother, a teacher who is believed to be responsible, and the child himself.
# Million Dollar Baby
Jahr: 2004 | Land: CH
Regisseur: Clint Eastwood
Besetzung: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter
Synopsis
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
# The Reader
Jahr: 2008 | Land: DE
Regisseur: Stephen Daldry
Besetzung: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz
Synopsis
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
# The Blind Side
Jahr: 2009 | Land: US
Regisseur: John Lee Hancock
Besetzung: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Lily Collins
Synopsis
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
# Black Swan
Jahr: 2010 | Land: US
Regisseur: Darren Aronofsky
Besetzung: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder
Synopsis
The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.
# Silver Linings Playbook
Jahr: 2012 | Land: US
Regisseur: David O. Russell
Besetzung: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Anupam Kher
Synopsis
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
# La La Land
Jahr: 2016 | Land: US
Regisseur: Damien Chazelle
Besetzung: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons
Synopsis
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
# Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jahr: 2017 | Land: GB
Regisseur: Martin McDonagh
Besetzung: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Lucas Hedges, Abbie Cornish
Synopsis
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
# The Favourite
Jahr: 2018 | Land: IE
Regisseur: Yorgos Lanthimos
Besetzung: Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn
Synopsis
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
# Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jahr: 2022 | Land: United States of America
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An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
# Poor Things
Jahr: 2023 | Land: IE
Regisseur: Yorgos Lanthimos
Besetzung: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott
Synopsis
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.