It's taken more than fifty years, but I've finally seen all ten performances nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress of 1970.
The Globes, like Oscar, ignored Joanna Shimkus in The Virgin and the Gypsy, but nominated the other four Oscar contenders, awarding Ali MacGraw in Drama for Love Story and Carrie Snodgress in Diary of a Mad Housewife in Comedy.
The Globes' other nominees in Comedy were Angela Lansbury in top form in a rare film lead in Something for Everyone, Julie Andrews still singing her heart out but miscast as a Nazi spy in Darling Lili, Barbra Streisand miscast in a role that belonged to Diana Sands in the laborious screen version of The Owl and the Pussycat, and Sandy Dennis struggling to keep up with Jack Lemmon as his beleaguered wife in The Out-of-Towners.
The Globes' other nominees in Drama were Oscar winner Glenda Jackson in Women in Love, Oscar nominees Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope and Sarah Miles in Ryan's Daughter, and two hard-to-find performances, those of Faye Dunaway in Puzzle of a Downfall Child and Melina Mercouri in Promise at Dawn.
I caught up with Puzzle of a Downfall Child a year or so ago. As I feared, this is a dud of a film about a fashion model. It's Dunaway in The Eyes of Laura Mars mode, not one of her better roles.
I found Promise at Dawn on E-Bay and ordered it from Greece a week ago. It arrived yesterday and I watched it last night.
Taken from Romain Gary's autobiographical novel and a subsequent play by Samuel Taylor (who co-wrote the screenplay for Vertigo) with a screenplay by Jules Dassin with uncredited assistance from Andrew Sarris, I expected a lot more than the film delivered.
The direction by Dassin is ghastly. It's one long, pointless take after another with his wife, Mercouri, hamming it up in a performance more worthy of a Razzie than an Oscar. She plays Romain's Polish born actress mother, a star in Russian silents who emigrated to France with him when he was 9. Although she has lots of men interested in her, the love of her life is her son, played at various ages by three young actors including Assaf Dayan at 25. A 2017 French remake with Charlotte Gainsbourg, which is widely available on home video, is purportedly a better film. Let's hope so.
Bottom line, I'll stick with Jackson, Alexander, Miles, and the criminally ignored Lansbury and Shimkus with Andrews in sixth place.
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Re: Best Actress 1970
My picks
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1. Stéphane Audran, Le boucher
2. Shirley Stoler, The Honeymoon Killers
3. Glenda Jackson, Women in Love
4. Sarah Miles, Ryan’s Daughter
5. Angela Lansbury, Something for Everyone
6. Julie Andrews, Darling Lili
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1. Stéphane Audran, Le boucher
2. Shirley Stoler, The Honeymoon Killers
3. Glenda Jackson, Women in Love
4. Sarah Miles, Ryan’s Daughter
5. Angela Lansbury, Something for Everyone
6. Julie Andrews, Darling Lili
"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Well, obviously, Julie Andrews gave the performance of the year in Darling Lili.
I might have been tempted to say Shirley MacLaine in Two Mules For Sister Sara except that
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"Y'know, that's one of the things I like about Mitt Romney. He's been consistent since he changed his mind." -- Christine O'Donnell
Ali MacGraw was really not all that bad. In any case it would have been hard for the Academy to ignore her or the movie itself.....it became such a phenomenon at the boxoffice and she was the new star who made it work....along with that theme music.
Voted for Glenda Jackson.....with Sarah Miles getting my second spot.
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Voted for Glenda Jackson.....with Sarah Miles getting my second spot.
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In the 70s an actress like Glenda Jackson, very talented, but not very famous, not very beautiful, with a "borderline supporting" role in an "arty" British movie, an actress who didnt seem to want to be liked at all costs by the audience (Kate Winslet in The Reader she wasnt) , who didnt seem "to care", or to try to make her close ups as long as possible, but just wanted to act and act well... in the 70s, such an actress could win an Oscar, a very deserved Oscar (and of course she didnt even bother to go there and take it). It was different then. A few years later, true, Jackson would go back to Oscar normality by winning a second, undeserved one, but she certainly was a two Oscars caliber actress, and a symbol of that time, that decade. She was also lucky because Women in Love was this controversial, surprising successful, good, respected movie directed by a man who for a period (a short period) was considered to be an English Fellini. This didnt last long, and now he takes part in the Uk edition of Big Brother, but back then he was seen as a new, original, visually revolutionary talent (Women in Love is probably his best movie).
I dont want to sound nostalgic though, and unfortunately I can't be; I WAS there in the 70s, but too young to remember, and my memories of the period are filtered through those of my young, revolutionary aunt (we all had a young, revolutionary aunt back then) who was a fan of Jackson and Jane Fonda. Yet, let's face it, today they'd give it to Ali McGraw.
The others werent bad. Jane Alexander was especially powerful but yes, the role wasnt so big. Snodgress was probably a good actress but her movie belongs to the lesser side of the 70s, the more obvious, cliched side. As for Miles, she was an actress whom nobody could really like, and not a very good one even, but not a bad choice for the (essentially unlikable) role she was given in Ryan's Daughter.
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I dont want to sound nostalgic though, and unfortunately I can't be; I WAS there in the 70s, but too young to remember, and my memories of the period are filtered through those of my young, revolutionary aunt (we all had a young, revolutionary aunt back then) who was a fan of Jackson and Jane Fonda. Yet, let's face it, today they'd give it to Ali McGraw.
The others werent bad. Jane Alexander was especially powerful but yes, the role wasnt so big. Snodgress was probably a good actress but her movie belongs to the lesser side of the 70s, the more obvious, cliched side. As for Miles, she was an actress whom nobody could really like, and not a very good one even, but not a bad choice for the (essentially unlikable) role she was given in Ryan's Daughter.
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It'll be interesting to see the voting results over the next decade or so, as that was the prime "why are there no roles for women?" period, when the Oscar winner was often seen as about the only possible choice. I see by the tally to date we're in agreement for this year.
Alexander was fine, but, as the Tonys properly noted, supporting.
Miles was acceptable in a crappy movie, nominated chiefly because she was one of the few widely seen.
And MacGraw, as Magilla says, was widely viewed as the favorite, because Love Story was the only hit-hit of the group, and her competition's obscurity was thought to be fatal.
Snodgress is perfectly good, though I haven't seen the film since early '71. She certainly looked good next to the over-the-top work of Richard Benjamin.
I'd seen Women in Love in March '70, a day or two after it opened in NY, and, had mixed feelings about the film (my 18-year-old self was unfamiliar with Lawrence and found it disjointed -- though I thought it was stunning to look at it). But Jackson bowled me over. She, too, was borderline supporting -- most of the year, I thought she wasn't famous enough to get a lead actress nod, and hoped she might qualify in the secondary category. But, thanks to the paucity of choices, she ended up sweeping the critics' lead prizes, and, in the end, winning a not-fully-expected but much-deserved Oscar. I think she's the clear choice.
I liked Joanna Shimkus for a nomination as well, Magilla, although it was more that she had the lead in a film I liked than anything special about her performance.
Alexander was fine, but, as the Tonys properly noted, supporting.
Miles was acceptable in a crappy movie, nominated chiefly because she was one of the few widely seen.
And MacGraw, as Magilla says, was widely viewed as the favorite, because Love Story was the only hit-hit of the group, and her competition's obscurity was thought to be fatal.
Snodgress is perfectly good, though I haven't seen the film since early '71. She certainly looked good next to the over-the-top work of Richard Benjamin.
I'd seen Women in Love in March '70, a day or two after it opened in NY, and, had mixed feelings about the film (my 18-year-old self was unfamiliar with Lawrence and found it disjointed -- though I thought it was stunning to look at it). But Jackson bowled me over. She, too, was borderline supporting -- most of the year, I thought she wasn't famous enough to get a lead actress nod, and hoped she might qualify in the secondary category. But, thanks to the paucity of choices, she ended up sweeping the critics' lead prizes, and, in the end, winning a not-fully-expected but much-deserved Oscar. I think she's the clear choice.
I liked Joanna Shimkus for a nomination as well, Magilla, although it was more that she had the lead in a film I liked than anything special about her performance.
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Yes, Glenda Jackson, probably in a landslide, though had the film been released in the U.S. in 1969 as it had been in England, she would probably would not have won. There actually hadn't been much enthusiasm for any of the nominees.
It seems ludicrous now, but Ali MacGraw was considered the front-runner at the time for the sappy Love Story.
Jane Alexander is good as usual in The Great White Hope but it's basically a supporting role.
Sarah Miles has some good moments in Ryan's Daughter but it's Maurice Jarre's score and Freddie Young's Oscar winning cinematography that are the true stars of the film, in addition to which it's the character performances of Trevor Howard, John Mills and Leo McKern that really stand out.
Carrie Snodgress makes an interesting screen debut in the hard to like Diary of a Mad Housewife in which all the characters are pretty insufferable. It's likely that few here have seen it in the original 104 minute version. The heavily censored 94 minute version is the one that shows up on TV.
Others who might have been considered include Julie Andrews, far better than her material in Darling Lili; Angela Lansbury hamming it up to a fare-thee-well in Something for Everyone and Joanna Shimkus as another D.H. Lawrence heroine in The Virgin and the Gypsy.
In the end, though, Jackson's brittle, yet compelling portrayal of Gudrum in Ken Russell's literate and restrained (for him) adaptation of Lawrence's Women in Love was the year's most memorable female characterization. Oscar really did get this one right.
It seems ludicrous now, but Ali MacGraw was considered the front-runner at the time for the sappy Love Story.
Jane Alexander is good as usual in The Great White Hope but it's basically a supporting role.
Sarah Miles has some good moments in Ryan's Daughter but it's Maurice Jarre's score and Freddie Young's Oscar winning cinematography that are the true stars of the film, in addition to which it's the character performances of Trevor Howard, John Mills and Leo McKern that really stand out.
Carrie Snodgress makes an interesting screen debut in the hard to like Diary of a Mad Housewife in which all the characters are pretty insufferable. It's likely that few here have seen it in the original 104 minute version. The heavily censored 94 minute version is the one that shows up on TV.
Others who might have been considered include Julie Andrews, far better than her material in Darling Lili; Angela Lansbury hamming it up to a fare-thee-well in Something for Everyone and Joanna Shimkus as another D.H. Lawrence heroine in The Virgin and the Gypsy.
In the end, though, Jackson's brittle, yet compelling portrayal of Gudrum in Ken Russell's literate and restrained (for him) adaptation of Lawrence's Women in Love was the year's most memorable female characterization. Oscar really did get this one right.
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This is easy, Jackson of course!
1969
1. Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses Don't They - 10 votes
2. Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - 8 votes
3. Genevieve Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days - 1 vote
3. Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo - 1 vote
3. Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending - 1 vote
1968
1. Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel - 9 votes
2. Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter - 8 votes
3. Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora - 4 votes
4. Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl - 1 vote
1967
1. Anne Bancroft - The Graduate - 9 votes
1. Edith Evans - The Whisperers - 9 votes
3. Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde - 2 votes
4. Audrey Hepburn - Wait Until Dark - 1 vote
4. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1
vote
1966
1. Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 16 votes
2. Ida Kaminska - The Shop on Main Street - 3 votes
2. Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl - 3 votes
4. Anouke Aimée - A Man and A Woman - 1 vote
1965
1. Julie Christie - Darling - 11 votes
2. Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music - 8 votes
3. Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue - 2 votes
4. Samantha Eggar - The Collector - 1 vote
1964
1. Kim Stanley - Séance on a Wet Afternoon - 8 votes
2. Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins - 6 votes
3. Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater - 4 votes
4. Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown - 1 vote
1963
1. Patricia Neal - Hud - 15 votes
2. Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room - 3 votes
3. Shirley MacLaine - Irma La Douce - 1 vote
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 - 7 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 - 21 votes
2. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun - 3 votes
1950
1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd. - 14 votes
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve - 10 votes
3. Anne Baxter - All About Eve - 1 vote
3. Eleanor Parker - Caged - 1 vote
1949
1. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress - 13 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - Edward My Son - 3 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 - 15 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 - 4 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 - 9 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 - 24 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka - 2 votes
1938
1. Bette Davis - Jezebel - 6 votes
1. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion - 5 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
Anne Bancroft - 2
Bette Davis - 2
Vivien Leigh - 2
Rosalind Russell - 2
Barbara Stanwyck - 2
Joanne Woodward - 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
1969
1. Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses Don't They - 10 votes
2. Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - 8 votes
3. Genevieve Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days - 1 vote
3. Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo - 1 vote
3. Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending - 1 vote
1968
1. Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel - 9 votes
2. Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter - 8 votes
3. Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora - 4 votes
4. Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl - 1 vote
1967
1. Anne Bancroft - The Graduate - 9 votes
1. Edith Evans - The Whisperers - 9 votes
3. Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde - 2 votes
4. Audrey Hepburn - Wait Until Dark - 1 vote
4. Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1
vote
1966
1. Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 16 votes
2. Ida Kaminska - The Shop on Main Street - 3 votes
2. Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl - 3 votes
4. Anouke Aimée - A Man and A Woman - 1 vote
1965
1. Julie Christie - Darling - 11 votes
2. Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music - 8 votes
3. Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue - 2 votes
4. Samantha Eggar - The Collector - 1 vote
1964
1. Kim Stanley - Séance on a Wet Afternoon - 8 votes
2. Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins - 6 votes
3. Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater - 4 votes
4. Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown - 1 vote
1963
1. Patricia Neal - Hud - 15 votes
2. Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room - 3 votes
3. Shirley MacLaine - Irma La Douce - 1 vote
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 - 7 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 - 21 votes
2. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun - 3 votes
1950
1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd. - 14 votes
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve - 10 votes
3. Anne Baxter - All About Eve - 1 vote
3. Eleanor Parker - Caged - 1 vote
1949
1. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress - 13 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - Edward My Son - 3 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 - 15 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 - 4 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 - 9 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 - 24 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka - 2 votes
1938
1. Bette Davis - Jezebel - 6 votes
1. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion - 5 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
Anne Bancroft - 2
Bette Davis - 2
Vivien Leigh - 2
Rosalind Russell - 2
Barbara Stanwyck - 2
Joanne Woodward - 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