1961 Sophia Loren - Two Women as "Cesira"

1962 Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker as "Annie Sullivan"

1963 Patricia Neal - Hud as "Alma Brown"

1964 Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins as "Mary Poppins"

1965 Julie Christie - Darling as "Diana Scott"

1966 Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as "Martha"

1967 Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as "Christina Drayton"

1968 Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter as "Eleanor of Aquitaine" and Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl as "Fanny Brice"

1969 Maggie Smith- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as "Jean Brodie"

1970 Glenda Jackson - Women in Love as "Gudrun Brangwen"