Ranking of the performances reviewed so far

1. Olivia De Havilland, Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. Angela Lansbury, The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
3. Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously (1983)
4. Rooney Mara, Carol (2015)
5. Patty Duke, The Miracle Worker (1962)
6. Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There (2007)
7. Chloe Sevigny, Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
8. Betsy Blair, Marty (1955)
9. Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver (1976)
10. Piper Laurie, Carrie (1976)
11. Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life (1959)
12. Amy Adams, Junebug (2005)
13. Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight (2015)
14. Rinko Kikuchi, Babel (2005)
15. Celeste Holm, All About Eve (1950)
16. Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
17. Susan Kohner, Imitation of Life (1959)
18. Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton (2007)
19. Natalie Wood, Rebel without a Cause (1955)
20. Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener (2005)
21. Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich (1999)
22. Josephine Hull, Harvey (1950)
23. Cher, Silkwood (1983)
24. Saoirse Ronan, Atonement (2007)
25. Katharine Ross, The Graduate (1967)
26. Adriana Barraza, Babel (2006)
27. Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
28. Beatrice Straight, Network (1976)
29. Estelle Parsons, Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
30. Julia Roberts, August: Osage County (2013)
31. Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted (1999)
32. Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind (1939)
33. Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wuthering Heights (1939)
34. Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone (2007)
35. Shelley Winters, The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
36. June Squibb, Nebraska (2013)
37. Gladys Cooper, Now, Voyager (1942)
38. Shirley Knight, Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
39. Hope Emerson, Caged (1950)
40. Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs (2015)
41. Glenn Close, The Big Chill (1983)
42. Teresa Wright, Mrs. Miniver (1942)
43. Amy Irving, Yentl (1983)
44. Maria Ouspenskaya, Love Affair (1939)
45. Mildred Natwick, Barefoot in the Park (1967)
46. Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl (2015)
47. Marisa Pavan, The Rose Tattoo (1955)
48. Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle (2013)
49. Nancy Olson, Sunset Boulevard (1950)
50. May Whitty, Mrs. Miniver (1942)
51. Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine (2013)
52. Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal (2006)
53. Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls (2006)
54. Rachel McAdams, Spotlight (2015)
55. Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain (2005)
56. Ruby Dee, American Gangster (2007)
57. Toni Collette, The Sixth Sense (1999)
58. Jo Van Fleet, East of Eden (1955)
59. Catherine Keener, Capote (2005)
60. Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek (1983)
61. Thelma Ritter, Pillow Talk (1959)
62. Samantha Morton, Sweet & Lowdown (1999)
63. Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave (2013)
64. Mary Badham, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
65. Peggy Lee, Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
66. Susan Peters, Random Harvest (1942)
67. Frances McDormand, North Country (2005)
68. Thelma Ritter, All About Eve (1950)
69. Hermione Baddeley, Room at the Top (1959)
70. Thelma Ritter, Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
71. Lee Grant, Voyage of the Damned (1976)
72. Edna May Oliver, Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
73. Jane Alexander, All the President’s Men (1976)
74. Beah Richards, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967)
75. Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)