The Academy Award For... Best Actress

of Class as Vicki Allessio 1974 Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Alice Hyatt 1975 Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched 1976 Faye Dunaway - Network as Diana Christiansen 1977 Diane Keaton - Annie Hall as Annie Hall 1978 Jane Fonda - Coming Home as Sally Hyde 1979 Sally Field - Norma Rae as Norma Rae Webster 1980 Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn 1981 Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond as Ethel Thayer 1982 Meryl Streep - Sophie's ...