The Best Actress Academy Awards

The Top Best Actress Oscar Winner	Best Actress Wins
Katharine Hepburn 12 career nominations (all B.A. noms), 4 wins	Morning Glory (1932/33) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) The Lion in Winter (1968) On Golden Pond (1981)

Other Top Best Actress Oscar Winners and Nominees	Best Actress Wins
Meryl Streep 16 career nominations (13 B.A. noms), 2 wins (1 B.A.)	Sophie's Choice (1982)
Bette Davis 10 career nominations (all B.A. noms) (plus an "unofficial" write-in nomination in 1934), 2 wins	Dangerous (1935) Jezebel (1938)
Ingrid Bergman 7 career nominations (6 B.A. noms), 3 wins (2 B.A.)	Gaslight (1944) Anastasia (1956)
Jane Fonda 7 career nominations (6 B.A. noms), 2 wins (both B.A.)	Klute (1971) Coming Home (1978)
Norma Shearer 6 career nominations (all B.A. noms), 1 win	The Divorcee (1929/30)
Sissy Spacek 6 career nominations (all B.A. noms) 1 win	Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Olivia de Havilland 5 career nominations (4 B.A. noms), 2 wins (both B.A.)	To Each His Own (1946) The Heiress (1949)
Elizabeth Taylor 5 career nominations (all B.A. noms), 2 wins	Butterfield 8 (1960) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Glenda Jackson 4 career nominations (all B.A. noms), 2 wins	Women in Love (1970) A Touch of Class (1973)
Jodie Foster 4 career nominations (3 B.A. noms), 2 wins (both B.A.)	The Accused (1988) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Luise Rainer 2 career nominations (both B.A.), 2 wins	The Great Ziegfeld (1936) The Good Earth (1937)
Hilary Swank 2 career nominations (both B.A.), 2 wins	Boys Don't Cry (1999) Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Vivien Leigh 2 career nominations (both B.A. noms), 2 wins	Gone With The Wind (1939) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sally Field 2 career nominations (both B.A. noms), 2 wins	Norma Rae (1979) Places in the Heart (1984)
Greer Garson 7 career nominations (all B.A. noms), 1 win	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Kate Winslet 6 career nominations (4 B.A. noms), 1 win	The Reader (2008)