Best Female Lead movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Vincent Perez, Jean Yanne, Catherine Deneuve, Linh Dan Pham,
Directors : Régis Wargnier,

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...

Actors : Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, Miriam Hopkins, James Garner,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : Lainie Kazan, Ray Wise, John Cusack, Meredith Salenger,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.

Actors : Martin Hewitt, Brooke Shields, Don Murray, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.

Actors : Hayley Mills, Charles Ruggles, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith,
Directors : David Swift,

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

Actors : Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Raul Julia, Diane Salinger, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she kill him and, if not, is she in danger?

Actors : Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Vivien Leigh,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.

Actors : Mia Farrow, William Hurt, June Squibb, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Woody Allen,

A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd,
Directors : Martha Coolidge,

A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.

Actors : Richard Burton, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wed headmaster of an Episcopal boarding school in California.

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Actors : Pamela Reed, Thomas G. Waites, Daryl Hannah, James Remar,
Directors : Michael Chapman,

A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.

Actors : James Fox, Carol Channing, Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Actors : Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Hayley Mills,
Directors : David Swift,

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.