Leading Actress Oscar winners: 1928 Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven as Diane, Street Angel as Angela, AND Sunrise as The Wife (Indre) 1929 Mary Pickford - Coquette as Norma Besant 1930 Norma Shearer - The Divorcee as Jerry Bernard Martin 1931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill as Min Divot 1932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet 1933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory as Eva Lovelace 1934 Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night as Ellie Andrews 1935 Bette Davis - ...