Best Female Lead movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

Actors : Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.

Actors : Michael Crawford, Barbra Streisand, Marianne McAndrew, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Gene Kelly,

Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Audrey Christie,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Actors : Andrea Corr, Jessalyn Gilsig, Bryan White, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Frederik Du Chau,

An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.

Actors : Michael Callan, Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Dwayne Hickman,
Directors : Elliot Silverstein,

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

Actors : Penelope Milford, Bruce Dern, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

Actors : Hilton McRae, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Emily Morgan,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ...

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Oliver Clark, Gary Busey,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw, Dick Anthony Williams,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters. Featuring extended underwater ...

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

Actors : Amy Irving, Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Actors : Anne Pitoniak, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.

Actors : Mae Whitman, George Clooney, Alex D. Linz, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.

Actors : Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Bart Burns, Kim Stanley,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Actors : Leo Rossi, Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

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 : Gordon Jackson, Pamela Franklin, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.