In honor of the upcoming 2014 Academy Awards, we’ve decided to take a journey into Oscar’s past by looking through the winners of the coveted Best Actress award. From beloved stars of contemporary cinema (Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman) to the Hollywood starlets of yesteryear (Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn), we’ve compiled a list of 21 films to have earned their leading ladies an Academy Award and that are currently streaming online on a number of platforms (Netflix, iTunes, Hulu and Amazon Prime). If you haven’t seen these movies before, now’s your chance to watch them:
The Iron Lady (2011) – Meryl Streep
Black Swan (2010) – Natalie Portman
The Blind Side (2009) – Sandra Bullock
The Reader (2008) – Kate Winslet
Million Dollar Baby (2004) – Hilary Swank
The Hours (2002) – Nicole Kidman
Monster’s Ball (2001) – Halle Berry
Shakespeare in Love (1998) – Gwyneth Paltrow
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The Piano (1993) – Holly Hunter
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – Jodie Foster
The Accused (1988) – Jodie Foster
Terms of Endearment (1983) – Shirley MacLaine
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Louise Fletcher
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) – Katharine Hepburn
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) – Elizabeth Taylor
Roman Holiday (1953) – Audrey Hepburn
Gone with the Wind (1939) – Vivien Leigh
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