Best Actress 1962

1927/28 through 1997

Best Actress 1962

Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
9
16%
Bette Davis - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
20
35%
Katharine Hepburn - Long Day's Journey Into Night
19
33%
Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
6
11%
Lee Remick - Days of Wines and Roses
3
5%
 
Total votes: 57

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Post by Big Magilla »

LOL!

Unfortunately, votes can't be changed. Maybe the next person predisposed to vote for Hepburn can switch their vote to Bancroft in compensation.
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Post by ITALIANO »

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BY MISTAKE I VOTED FOR HEPBURN! Must be Big Magilla's telepathic powers, worthy of a Dario Argento movie!

Please change it to Anne Bancroft. Tomorrow I will tell you why.
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Post by mlrg »

I have seen all of them except Hepburn.

Bancroft wins hands down in my ballot.
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Post by Reza »

Voted for Bancroft here but for me the best lead performance by an actress came from India. Meena Kumari's exquisite and tragic performance in Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam / Master, Mistress and Slave stands head and shoulders above the five ladies nominated.

My top 5:

Meena Kumari, Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam / Master, Mistress and Slave
Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker
Katharine Hepburn, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Geraldine Page, Sweet Bird of Youth
Bette Davis, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Post by Mister Tee »

Quite a stellar line-up.

Davis' work is one-of-a-kind, but I don't have the camp gene.

It's nice that Lee Remick had at least one nomination for a solid career. I always thought she was the sort of popular actress who, if she'd ever managed to land a meaty role late in her career, would have won an Oscar on sheer admiration. But this part was not enough on its own (I say that without even having Laurie against which to compare her).

I love Long Day's Journey with all my heart, but this filming has always seemed creaky and obvious to me (I can hear Damien saying, With that director, how could it not be?) Hepburn flutters to a fare-thee-well, and has her moments, but it's just too many mannerisms -- too much of a performance -- for me.

For me it comes down to two stage veterans, Page and Bancroft (this during a period when stage adaptations just about ruled the Oscars).

When I first saw Sweet Bird of Youth, in high school, I was knocked out by Page. A more recent viewing didn't take me quite so high, but I still think it's easily the best of any Page nomination pre-Trip to Bountiful.

When I first saw The Miracle Worker -- even earlier, in grade school -- I felt the power of the film, but didn't so much respond to Bancroft individually. This was much changed when I watched the film again, sometime in the 80s. Outstanding performance...with none of the hamminess that married Bancroft's work in her post-Graduate years.

Very close. And both ladies have another excellent shot, by me, in the years ahead ('67, '85), so that doesn;t tip the balance. Okay then -- flip a coin: Page (esp. since at the time she had built up a better line of credit). But either could stand comparison to any other winner of the era.
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Another strong year for the ladies.

Anne Bancroft had been one my favorites since I first saw her in Gorilla at Large when I was ten so I was delighted to see her finally achieve major stardom with her luminous award winning performance in The Miracle Worker. However I voted for Katharine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey Into Night.

It still fascinates me that the film version of O'Neill's play doesn't change a word but from the way it's photographed and through the sheer force of Hepburn's personality makes her, rather than her husband, the film's center, which is not to say it diminishes the work of any of her co-stars but brings out the best in them as well.

Geraldine Page is a hoot in Sweet Bird of Youth but doesn't approach the iconic nature of Hepburn and Bancroft's contributions.

The part of the wife in Days of Wine and Roses was an extraordinary opportunity for Lee Remick and she makes the most of it, but as I've often said it pales in comparison to Piper Laurie's soul shattering performance in the TV version which will be available in a Criterion DVD package later this year for more people to get to know.

Bette Davis tears into What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with a ferociousness that matches some of her best classic performances, but she was only half of the show. Joan Crawford is every bit as good in a less showy role.

Chief among the missing: Rosalind Russell in her sixth Golden Globe award winning performance in Gypsy.
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Bette Davis' performance in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? is a camp classic and reinvigorated a sagging career, yet it's hard to take much of seriously. She hams it up throughout the picture, infusing Jane with a contemptible desperation that manages to make her delusions compelling. It's a fun perfomance and Davis leaves it all on the stage, but it would be difficult to award this performance without also having given her the award for her Margo Channing. Joan Crawford's tormented, wheelchair-bound sister is unsurprisingly overshadowed and certainly less interesting [insert infamous Crawford-Bancroft Oscar speech fiasco which everyone on here already knows].

Geraldine Page is sexy and seductive in perhaps the only role I can recall her being so. While I don't remember much of the plot of Sweet Bird of Youth, I do remember this sultry performance.

Much discussed, we all know that Piper Laurie should've reprised her role in The Days of Wine and Roses, rather than Lee Remick. Remick is not bad, but fails to achieve the dramatic tour-de-force that Laurie pulls off in the television version (which I've recently seen on video).

Katherine Hepburn's spindly madness is nowhere better employed than in her performance in Long Day's Journey Into Night. She carefully measures out Mary Tyrone's moments of self-awareness and clarity amidst the drug-induced trance and provides the anchor to a film that is about so much more than the lies we tell ourselves everyday in a family.

For me, though, it's Anne Bancroft's triumphant work at Anne Sullivan in The Miracle Worker that trumps all and gets my vote. The interplay between Bancroft and Duke makes the film come alive and even at her most desperate, you keep hoping that Bancroft pulls it off and makes Duke's Helen Keller "see". A richly deserved award bestowed upon someone who was, at that time, was a relative Hollywood newcomer.




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Post by jowy_jillia »

I am too unfamiliar with the performances, so I will not vote this time.

1961
1. Sophia Loren - Two Women - 6 votes
2. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's - 5 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 - 5 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

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
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