Julie Andrews and Debbie Reynolds are fine, but nothing exceptional. Sophia Loren was better in "Two Women" and in "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow".
So i am torn between Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley. My vote goes to Stanley for a wonderful film i discovered only lately.
My top5 for this year, would also include Barbara Barrie "One Potato, Two Potato", Deborah Kerr "The Chalk Garden" and Geraldine Page "Dear Heart".
Actually it was a good year for this category. Audrey Hepburn "My Fair Lady", Ava Gardner "The Night of Iguana", Melina Mercouri "Topkapi" were also wonderful. Ingrid Bergman "The Visit" and Jane Fonda "Sunday In New York" although not in top form were also good.
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Best Actress 1964
They went for Julie Andrews, we know that. They were so obviously going for Julie Andrews that they were very careful not to nominate her biggest rival, and role stealer, Audrey Hepburn. It had to be Julie Andrews, and nobody else, from the start.
They went for Julie Andrews but we shouldnt. I wasnt even born back then, but I can imagine that, strange as it may seem now, Andrews seemed to many to be very charming. And I wont even deny that in Mary Poppins she's bearable (unlike in THAT OTHER movie), but that's the kindest thing I can say about her. Today, we can easily see through her tight, cold approach to acting and to comedy. Audrey Hepburn she wasnt.
Nobody else had a chance that year. Still, at least two nominated performances were VERY good, though both are almost forgotten today.
Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater gave the kind of performance (mature, edgy, multi layered) that in those years one could generally only find in European movies. I think it's her best nominated role, better than her Annie Sullivan or her Mrs Robinson, though of course the movie is not perfect, wasnt very popular and even back then wasnt probably a big commercial hit.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon also wasnt widely seen, and I must admit that it's not a masterpiece. It would be just another British psychological chiller if it werent for the acting, which is unusually good. Kim Stanley especially, of course. Kim Stanley is a mystery to me. She was obviously a very talented actress, so clearly superior to the material she's working with here, and you cant take your eyes off her when she's on screen. I dont know if she could have become a movie star, maybe not, maybe she didnt have the looks or she just wasnt interested, but just three or four films (of which only two in leading roles), I mean, makes you wonder.
I voted for her.
They went for Julie Andrews but we shouldnt. I wasnt even born back then, but I can imagine that, strange as it may seem now, Andrews seemed to many to be very charming. And I wont even deny that in Mary Poppins she's bearable (unlike in THAT OTHER movie), but that's the kindest thing I can say about her. Today, we can easily see through her tight, cold approach to acting and to comedy. Audrey Hepburn she wasnt.
Nobody else had a chance that year. Still, at least two nominated performances were VERY good, though both are almost forgotten today.
Anne Bancroft in The Pumpkin Eater gave the kind of performance (mature, edgy, multi layered) that in those years one could generally only find in European movies. I think it's her best nominated role, better than her Annie Sullivan or her Mrs Robinson, though of course the movie is not perfect, wasnt very popular and even back then wasnt probably a big commercial hit.
Seance on a Wet Afternoon also wasnt widely seen, and I must admit that it's not a masterpiece. It would be just another British psychological chiller if it werent for the acting, which is unusually good. Kim Stanley especially, of course. Kim Stanley is a mystery to me. She was obviously a very talented actress, so clearly superior to the material she's working with here, and you cant take your eyes off her when she's on screen. I dont know if she could have become a movie star, maybe not, maybe she didnt have the looks or she just wasnt interested, but just three or four films (of which only two in leading roles), I mean, makes you wonder.
I voted for her.
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I voted for Anne Bancroft having just revisited The Pumpkin Eater a few days ago.
In seeing the film for the first time in years I was struck how Bancroft manages to convey so much with so little. She is given very little dialogue while the other actors talk and talk and talk. When she does speak nobody listens, so why bother. Like the best silent screen actresses all she needs is a look here, a gesture there. It's a remarkable piece of acting.
Julie Andrews bringi a breath of fresh air to what could have been another typical Disney film. How much of her performance in the film influenced her Oscar win I've never been sure. A number of votes could have gone her way out of sympathy for losing My Fair Lady, the role that made her a household name when she played it on stage. Add to that her performance in The Americanization of Emily the same year proving her versatility and the fact that The Sound of Music had opened to phenomenal business during the Oscar voting season.
Debbie Reynolds is good, too, in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, a role originally intended for Shirley MacLaine that she fought tooth and nail to win, but the nomination in such a rich year is enough.
Kim Stanley is good in Seance on a Wet Afternoon if a bit mannered but strong enough to warrant a nomination.
Sophia Loren is fine in Marriage Italian Style, but how she managed to pull off a nomination over Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady; Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana and Bette Davis in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte is beyond me.
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In seeing the film for the first time in years I was struck how Bancroft manages to convey so much with so little. She is given very little dialogue while the other actors talk and talk and talk. When she does speak nobody listens, so why bother. Like the best silent screen actresses all she needs is a look here, a gesture there. It's a remarkable piece of acting.
Julie Andrews bringi a breath of fresh air to what could have been another typical Disney film. How much of her performance in the film influenced her Oscar win I've never been sure. A number of votes could have gone her way out of sympathy for losing My Fair Lady, the role that made her a household name when she played it on stage. Add to that her performance in The Americanization of Emily the same year proving her versatility and the fact that The Sound of Music had opened to phenomenal business during the Oscar voting season.
Debbie Reynolds is good, too, in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, a role originally intended for Shirley MacLaine that she fought tooth and nail to win, but the nomination in such a rich year is enough.
Kim Stanley is good in Seance on a Wet Afternoon if a bit mannered but strong enough to warrant a nomination.
Sophia Loren is fine in Marriage Italian Style, but how she managed to pull off a nomination over Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady; Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner in The Night of the Iguana and Bette Davis in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte is beyond me.
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Reynolds' rambunctiousness is not, to put it mildly, my cup of tea. Some of her line deliveries make me cringe.
Loren is perfectly fine, but the role is not demanding, so she'll have to be content with her one Oscar.
Andrews was the emphatic choice of my 12-year-old self. The grown-up version still think she sings like an angel, but finds her stiff upper lip a bit too unvarying to deserve an Oscar. She really showed more range a year later, however more teacly the material.
Bancroft is very good in Pumpkin Eater -- she hadn't yet fallen into the hamola traps that marked her post-60s work. But I still think it's the least of her three nominations this decade.
Kim Stanley is in Geraldine Page vein here: a little mannered, but mesmerizing, in a fairly gripping film. It's not an easy call. but she's my final choice.
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Loren is perfectly fine, but the role is not demanding, so she'll have to be content with her one Oscar.
Andrews was the emphatic choice of my 12-year-old self. The grown-up version still think she sings like an angel, but finds her stiff upper lip a bit too unvarying to deserve an Oscar. She really showed more range a year later, however more teacly the material.
Bancroft is very good in Pumpkin Eater -- she hadn't yet fallen into the hamola traps that marked her post-60s work. But I still think it's the least of her three nominations this decade.
Kim Stanley is in Geraldine Page vein here: a little mannered, but mesmerizing, in a fairly gripping film. It's not an easy call. but she's my final choice.
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Haven't seen Lorens performance.
Reynolds stinks in this movie, she's just annoying!
Andrews, so super sweet but is it really good acting? I think she is miles better in The Sound of Music
Stanley creates a haunting performance, she's almost the winner for me, but...
... BANCROFT GOT THE BEST PERFORMANCE of 1964
Omissions:
The Underrated performance by de Havilland in Lady in a Cage
The Wonderful Performance by Hepburn in My Fair Lady
1963
1. Patricia Neal - Hud - 15 votes
2. Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room - 2 votes
3. Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life - 1 vote
1962
1. Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker - 7 votes
1. Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey Into Night - 7 votes
3. Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 3 votes
4. Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
4. Lee Remick - Days of Wines and Roses
1961
1. Sophia Loren - Two Women - 9 votes
2. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's - 8 votes
3. Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass - 4 votes
4. Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke - 2 votes
5. Piper Laurie - The Hustler - 1 vote
1960
1. Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners - 8 votes
2. Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment - 6 votes
3. Melina Mercouri - Never on a Sunday - 2 votes
4. Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello - 1 vote
1959
1. Simone Signoret - Room at the Top - 9 votes
2. Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story - 6 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly Last Summer - 1 vote
3. Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly Last Summer - 1 vote
1958
1. Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame - 8 votes
2. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! - 6 votes
3. Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 3 votes
4. Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running - 2 votes
1957
1. Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve - 6 votes
2. Anna Magnani - Wild is the Wind - 4 votes
2. Lana Turner - Peyton Place - 4 votes
4. Deborah Kerr - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - 2 votes
1956
1. Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia - 10 votes
2. Carroll Baker - Baby Doll - 2 votes
2. Nancy Kelly - The Bad Seed - 1 vote
4. Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker - 1 vote
4. Deborah Kerr - The King and I - 1 vote
1955
1. Katharine Hepburn - Summertime - 11 votes
2. Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo - 4 vote
3. Eleanor Parker - Interrupted Melody - 2 votes
4. Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow - 1 vote
1954
1. Judy Garland - A Star Is Born - 14 votes
2. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl - 2 votes
2. Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession - 2 votes
4. Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina - 1 vote
1953
1. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday - 10 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity - 4 votes
3. Leslie Caron - Lili - 1 vote
3. Ava Gardner - Mogambo - 1 vote
1952
1. Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding - 5 votes
2. Susan Hayward - With a Song in my Heart - 4 votes
3. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba - 3 votes
3. Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear - 3 vote
1951
1. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire - 20 votes
2. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun - 3 votes
1950
1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd. - 13 votes
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve - 9 votes
3. Eleanor Parker - Caged - 1 vote
1949
1. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress - 13 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - Edward My Son - 2 votes
3. Susan Hayward - My Foolish Heart - 1 vote
3. Loretta Young - Come to the Stable - 1 vote
1948
1. Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda - 9 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - The Snake Pit - 6 votes
3. Barbara Stanwyck - Sorry Wrong Number - 2 vote
1947
1. Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra - 5 votes
2. Susan Hayward - Smash Up - 4 votes.
3. Joan Crawford - Possessed - 3 votes
4. Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter - 2 votes
1946
1. Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter - 14 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own - 3 votes
2. Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun - 3 votes
4. Jane Wyman - The Yearling - 1 vote
1945
1. Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce - 8 votes
2. Gene Tierny - Leave Her to Heaven - 6 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's - 3 votes
4. Jennifer Jones - Love Letters - 1 vote
1944
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity - 16 votes
2. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight - 5 votes
1943
1. Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier - 6 votes
2. Jennifer Jonies - The Song of Bernadette - 4 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls - 2 vote
3. Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph - 1 vote
1942
1. Bette Davis - Now, Voyager - 8 votes
1. Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver - 7 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year - 1 vote
1941
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire - 8 votes
2. Bette Davis - The Little Foxes - 5 votes
3. Olivia de Havilland - Hold Back the Dawn - 1 vote
3. Joan Fontaine - Suspicion - 1 vote
1940
1. Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story - 10 votes
2. Joan Fontaine - Rebecca - 7 votes
3. Bette Davis - The Letter - 5 votes
1939
1. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind - 23 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka - 2 votes
1938
1. Bette Davis - Jezebel - 5 votes
1. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion - 4 votes
3. Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades - 3 votes
4. Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette - 1 vote
1937
1. Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth - 7 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Camille - 6 votes
3. Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas - 2 votes
4. Janet Gaynor - A Star is Born - 1 vote
4. Luise Rainer - The Good Earth - 1 vote
1936
1. Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey - 11 votes
2. Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild - 1 vote
2. Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld - 1 vote
1935
1. Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams - 8 votes
2. Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds - 2 votes
2. Bette Davis - Dangerous - 2 votes
4. Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp - 1 vote
1934
1. Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night - 7 votes
2. Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage - 2 vote
1932/33
1. Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory - 6 votes
2. May Robson - Lady for a Day - 3 votes
1931/32
1. Marie Dressler - Emma - 6 votes
2. Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman - 1 vote
1930/31
1. Marlene Dietrich - Morocco - 8 votes
2. Marie Dressler - Min and Bill - 1 vote
2. Irene Dunne - Cimarron - 1 vote
2. Norma Shearer - A Free Soul - 1 vote
1929/30
1. Greta Garbo - Anna Christie - 4 votes
2. Norma Shearer - The Divorcee - 2 vote
3. Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son - 1 vote
3. Greta Garbo - Romance - 1 vote
1928/29
1. Ruth Chatterton - Madame X - 4 votes
2. Jeanne Eagels - The Letter - 1 vote
1927/28
1. Janet Gaynor - Sunrise - 7 votes
2. Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven - 3 votes
3. Janet Gaynor - Street Angel - 1 vote
Most Winns:
Katharine Hepburn - 5
Bette Davis - 2
Vivien Leigh - 2
Rosalind Russell - 2
Barbara Stanwyck - 2
Actual Winners who didn't recieve any vote
28/29. Mary Pickford - Coquette
31/32. Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
40. Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
50. Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
60. Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8
Reynolds stinks in this movie, she's just annoying!
Andrews, so super sweet but is it really good acting? I think she is miles better in The Sound of Music
Stanley creates a haunting performance, she's almost the winner for me, but...
... BANCROFT GOT THE BEST PERFORMANCE of 1964
Omissions:
The Underrated performance by de Havilland in Lady in a Cage
The Wonderful Performance by Hepburn in My Fair Lady
1963
1. Patricia Neal - Hud - 15 votes
2. Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room - 2 votes
3. Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life - 1 vote
1962
1. Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker - 7 votes
1. Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey Into Night - 7 votes
3. Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 3 votes
4. Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
4. Lee Remick - Days of Wines and Roses
1961
1. Sophia Loren - Two Women - 9 votes
2. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's - 8 votes
3. Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass - 4 votes
4. Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke - 2 votes
5. Piper Laurie - The Hustler - 1 vote
1960
1. Deborah Kerr - The Sundowners - 8 votes
2. Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment - 6 votes
3. Melina Mercouri - Never on a Sunday - 2 votes
4. Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello - 1 vote
1959
1. Simone Signoret - Room at the Top - 9 votes
2. Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story - 6 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - Suddenly Last Summer - 1 vote
3. Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly Last Summer - 1 vote
1958
1. Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame - 8 votes
2. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! - 6 votes
3. Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - 3 votes
4. Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running - 2 votes
1957
1. Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve - 6 votes
2. Anna Magnani - Wild is the Wind - 4 votes
2. Lana Turner - Peyton Place - 4 votes
4. Deborah Kerr - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - 2 votes
1956
1. Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia - 10 votes
2. Carroll Baker - Baby Doll - 2 votes
2. Nancy Kelly - The Bad Seed - 1 vote
4. Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker - 1 vote
4. Deborah Kerr - The King and I - 1 vote
1955
1. Katharine Hepburn - Summertime - 11 votes
2. Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo - 4 vote
3. Eleanor Parker - Interrupted Melody - 2 votes
4. Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow - 1 vote
1954
1. Judy Garland - A Star Is Born - 14 votes
2. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl - 2 votes
2. Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession - 2 votes
4. Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina - 1 vote
1953
1. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday - 10 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity - 4 votes
3. Leslie Caron - Lili - 1 vote
3. Ava Gardner - Mogambo - 1 vote
1952
1. Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding - 5 votes
2. Susan Hayward - With a Song in my Heart - 4 votes
3. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba - 3 votes
3. Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear - 3 vote
1951
1. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire - 20 votes
2. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun - 3 votes
1950
1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd. - 13 votes
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve - 9 votes
3. Eleanor Parker - Caged - 1 vote
1949
1. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress - 13 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - Edward My Son - 2 votes
3. Susan Hayward - My Foolish Heart - 1 vote
3. Loretta Young - Come to the Stable - 1 vote
1948
1. Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda - 9 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - The Snake Pit - 6 votes
3. Barbara Stanwyck - Sorry Wrong Number - 2 vote
1947
1. Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra - 5 votes
2. Susan Hayward - Smash Up - 4 votes.
3. Joan Crawford - Possessed - 3 votes
4. Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter - 2 votes
1946
1. Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter - 14 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own - 3 votes
2. Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun - 3 votes
4. Jane Wyman - The Yearling - 1 vote
1945
1. Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce - 8 votes
2. Gene Tierny - Leave Her to Heaven - 6 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's - 3 votes
4. Jennifer Jones - Love Letters - 1 vote
1944
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity - 16 votes
2. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight - 5 votes
1943
1. Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier - 6 votes
2. Jennifer Jonies - The Song of Bernadette - 4 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls - 2 vote
3. Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph - 1 vote
1942
1. Bette Davis - Now, Voyager - 8 votes
1. Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver - 7 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year - 1 vote
1941
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire - 8 votes
2. Bette Davis - The Little Foxes - 5 votes
3. Olivia de Havilland - Hold Back the Dawn - 1 vote
3. Joan Fontaine - Suspicion - 1 vote
1940
1. Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story - 10 votes
2. Joan Fontaine - Rebecca - 7 votes
3. Bette Davis - The Letter - 5 votes
1939
1. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind - 23 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka - 2 votes
1938
1. Bette Davis - Jezebel - 5 votes
1. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion - 4 votes
3. Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades - 3 votes
4. Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette - 1 vote
1937
1. Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth - 7 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Camille - 6 votes
3. Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas - 2 votes
4. Janet Gaynor - A Star is Born - 1 vote
4. Luise Rainer - The Good Earth - 1 vote
1936
1. Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey - 11 votes
2. Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild - 1 vote
2. Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld - 1 vote
1935
1. Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams - 8 votes
2. Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds - 2 votes
2. Bette Davis - Dangerous - 2 votes
4. Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp - 1 vote
1934
1. Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night - 7 votes
2. Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage - 2 vote
1932/33
1. Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory - 6 votes
2. May Robson - Lady for a Day - 3 votes
1931/32
1. Marie Dressler - Emma - 6 votes
2. Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman - 1 vote
1930/31
1. Marlene Dietrich - Morocco - 8 votes
2. Marie Dressler - Min and Bill - 1 vote
2. Irene Dunne - Cimarron - 1 vote
2. Norma Shearer - A Free Soul - 1 vote
1929/30
1. Greta Garbo - Anna Christie - 4 votes
2. Norma Shearer - The Divorcee - 2 vote
3. Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son - 1 vote
3. Greta Garbo - Romance - 1 vote
1928/29
1. Ruth Chatterton - Madame X - 4 votes
2. Jeanne Eagels - The Letter - 1 vote
1927/28
1. Janet Gaynor - Sunrise - 7 votes
2. Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven - 3 votes
3. Janet Gaynor - Street Angel - 1 vote
Most Winns:
Katharine Hepburn - 5
Bette Davis - 2
Vivien Leigh - 2
Rosalind Russell - 2
Barbara Stanwyck - 2
Actual Winners who didn't recieve any vote
28/29. Mary Pickford - Coquette
31/32. Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
40. Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
50. Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
60. Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8