The Worst Vs. Best Movie Actress Since 1985 Are Way More Extreme Than You Think

Every year, the Razzies prime what they deliberation is the worst successful movies, and the Oscars prime the best. So let’s look astatine the past 40 years of Best Actress winners and Razzie winners due to the fact that honestly, if I were an actor, I’d deliberation the ultimate grant would beryllium having both.

Note: The winners are categorized by the twelvemonth of the movie release, not the twelvemonth the grant ceremonial took place!

The Worst Actress victor of 1985: Linda Blair successful Night Patrol, Savage Island, and Savage Streets.

The Best Actress victor of 1985: Geraldine Page successful The Trip to Bountiful

The Worst Actress victor of 1986: Madonna successful Shanghai Surprise

The Best Actress victor of 1986: Marlee Matlin successful Children of a Lesser God

The Worst Actress victor of 1987: Madonna successful Who's That Girl

The Best Actress victor of 1987: Cher successful Moonstruck

The Worst Actress victor of 1988: Liza Minnelli successful Arthur 2: On the Rocks and Rent-a-Cop

The Best Actress victor of 1988: Jodie Foster successful The Accused

The Worst Actress victor of 1989: Heather Locklear successful The Return of Swamp Thing

The Best Actress victor of 1989: Jessica Tandy successful Driving Miss Daisy

The Worst Actress victor of 1990: Bo Derek successful Ghosts Can't Do It

The Best Actress victor of 1990: Kathy Bates successful Misery

The Worst Actress victor of 1991: Sean Young successful A Kiss Before Dying

The Best Actress victor of 1991: Jodie Foster successful The Silence of the Lambs

The Worst Actress victor of 1992: Melanie Griffith successful A Stranger Among Us and Shining Through

The Best Actress victor of 1992: Emma Thompson successful Howards End

The Worst Actress victor of 1993: Madonna successful Body of Evidence

The Best Actress victor of 1993: Holly Hunter successful The Piano

The Worst Actress victor of 1994: Sharon Stone successful The Specialist and Intersection

The Best Actress victor of 1994: Jessica Lange successful Blue Sky

The Worst Actress victor of 1995: Elizabeth Berkley successful Showgirls

The Best Actress victor of 1995: Susan Sarandon successful Dead Man Walking

The Worst Actress victor of 1996: Demi Moore successful The Juror and Striptease

The Best Actress victor of 1996: Frances McDormand successful Fargo

The Worst Actress victor of 1997: Demi Moore successful G.I. Jane

The Best Actress victor of 1997: Helen Hunt successful As Good arsenic It Gets

The Worst Actress winners of 1998: The Spice Girls successful Spice World

The Best Actress victor of 1998: Gwyneth Paltrow successful Shakespeare successful Love

The Worst Actress victor of 1999: Heather Donahue successful The Blair Witch Project

The Best Actress victor of 1999: Hilary Swank successful Boys Don't Cry

The Worst Actress victor of 2000: Madonna successful The Next Best Thing

The Best Actress victor of 2000: Julia Roberts successful Erin Brockovich

The Worst Actress victor of 2001: Mariah Carey successful Glitter

The Best Actress victor of 2001: Halle Berry successful Monster's Ball

The Worst Actress winners of 2002: Madonna successful Swept Away and Britney Spears successful Crossroads

The Best Actress victor of 2002: Nicole Kidman successful The Hours

The Worst Actress victor of 2003: Jennifer Lopez Gigli

The Best Actress victor of 2003: Charlize Theron successful Monster

The Worst Actress victor of 2004: Halle Berry successful Catwoman

The Best Actress victor of 2004: Hilary Swank successful Million Dollar Baby

The Worst Actress victor of 2005:Jenny McCarthy successful Dirty Love

The Best Actress victor of 2005: Reese Witherspoon successful Walk the Line

The Worst Actress victor of 2006: Sharon Stone successful Basic Instinct 2

The Best Actress victor of 2006: Helen Mirren successful The Queen

The Worst Actress victor of 2007: Lindsay Lohan successful I Know Who Killed Me

The Best Actress victor of 2007: Marion Cotillard successful La Vie en Rose

The Worst Actress victor of 2008: Paris Hilton successful The Hottie and the Nottie

The Best Actress victor of 2008: Kate Winslet successful The Reader

The Worst Actress victor of 2009: Sandra Bullock successful All About Steve

The Best Actress victor of 2009: Sandra Bullock successful The Blind Side

The Worst Actress winners of 2010: Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker successful Sex and the City 2

The Best Actress victor of 2010: Natalie Portman successful Black Swan

The Worst Actress victor of 2011: Adam Sandler successful Jack and Jill

The Best Actress victor of 2011: Meryl Streep successful The Iron Lady

The Worst Actress winnner of 2012: Kristen Stewart successful Snow White and the Huntsman and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2

The Best Actress victor of 2012: Jennifer Lawrence successful Silver Linings Playbook

The Worst Actress victor of 2013: Tyler Perry successful A Madea Christmas

The Best Actress victor of 2013: Cate Blanchett successful Blue Jasmine

The Worst Actress victor of 2014: Cameron Diaz successful The Other Woman and Sex Tape

The Best Actress victor of 2014: Julianne Moore successful Still Alice

The Worst Actress victor of 2015: Dakota Johnson successful Fifty Shades of Grey

The Best Actress victor of 2015: Brie Larson successful Room

The Worst Actress victor of 2016: Rebekah Turner successful Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

The Best Actress victor of 2016: Emma Stone successful La La Land

The Worst Actress victor of 2017: Tyler Perry successful Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

The Best Actress victor of 2017: Frances McDormand successful Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Worst Actress victor of 2018: Melissa McCarthy successful The Happytime Murders and Life of the Party

The Best Actress victor of 2018: Olivia Colman successful The Favourite

The Worst Actress victor of 2019: Hilary Duff successful The Haunting of Sharon Tate

The Best Actress victor of 2019: Renée Zellweger successful Judy

The Worst Actress victor of 2020: Kate Hudson successful Music

The Best Actress victor of 2020: Frances McDormand successful Nomadland

The Worst Actress victor of 2021: Jeanna de Waal successful Diana: The Musical

The Best Actress victor of 2021: Jessica Chastain successful The Eyes of Tammy Faye

The Worst Actress victor of 2022: The Razzies themselves

The Best Actress victor of 2022: Michelle Yeoh successful Everything Everywhere All astatine Once

The Worst Actress victor of 2023: Megan Fox successful Johnny & Clyde

The Best Actress victor of 2023: Emma Stone successful Poor Things

The Worst Actress victor of 2024: Dakota Johnson successful Madame Web

The Best Actress victor of 2024: Mikey Madison successful Anora

And lastly, present are the Worst Actress nominees astatine this year's Razzies:

And present are the Best Actress nominees astatine the Oscars: