Best Actress 1975

[Reza]

The "And the Runner-Up Is..." podcast just covered this race this week, and the guest, who knew Karen Black in her later years, claimed that she told him that a Price-Waterhouse accountant who she met (at a party I think?) told her that she was sixth place in Best Actress balloting this year for Day of the Locust and only missed out to Carol Kane by a few votes. The guest also said that she told him that in final voting for the winner, Adjani was runner-up, followed by Carol Kane, then Glenda Jackson, then Ann-Margaret. I don't doubt that the guest was told these things, but I think Karen Black may have told him some stories, or Karen Black may have been told some stories by the "accountant".

Black was most probably in the 6th slot. She was up for the Globe in the drama category along with Faye Dunaway (Three Days of the Condor), and Marilyn Hassett (The Other Side of the Mountain) - Oscar nominees Fletcher & Jackson rounded out the category. On the comedy side were Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn for Shampoo, Streisand for Funny Lady, Liza Minnelli for Lucky Lady and Oscar nominee Ann-Margret.

Black stands out the most from this bunch.

Both Isabelle Adjani and Carol Kane were ignored by the Globes.

[dws1982]

The "And the Runner-Up Is..." podcast just covered this race this week, and the guest, who knew Karen Black in her later years, claimed that she told him that a Price-Waterhouse accountant who she met (at a party I think?) told her that she was sixth place in Best Actress balloting this year for Day of the Locust and only missed out to Carol Kane by a few votes. The guest also said that she told him that in final voting for the winner, Adjani was runner-up, followed by Carol Kane, then Glenda Jackson, then Ann-Margaret. I don't doubt that the guest was told these things, but I think Karen Black may have told him some stories, or Karen Black may have been told some stories by the "accountant".

[mayukh]

you don't hear many people talking of Nathalie Baye, a performer who is truly amazing and free of affect, too often.

Baye is one of the best French actresses of her generation. Her performance in a movie called Une liaison pornographique is one of my favorites from an actress in recent memory. She's, of course, highly respected in France - and the winner of three Cesars - so it's a bit sad that Americans may only know her for her supporting role in Catch Me If You Can.

Interesting list of potential nominees. Bolkan is the best and I'm sure that, hadn't she been dubbed into Italian, she'd have been nominated that year. The Americans aren't as good, though Stockard Channing is quite funny in a notorious flop.

Baye is so wonderful. This talk of Depardieu in the Actor 1990 thread also reminds me that she is astonishing in Le Retour de Martin Guerre – very gentle, so low-key, but also projecting a sense of inner strength and resolve. Her performance there is really one of the most beautiful I've ever seen.

[ITALIANO]

you don't hear many people talking of Nathalie Baye, a performer who is truly amazing and free of affect, too often.

Baye is one of the best French actresses of her generation. Her performance in a movie called Une liaison pornographique is one of my favorites from an actress in recent memory. She's, of course, highly respected in France - and the winner of three Cesars - so it's a bit sad that Americans may only know her for her supporting role in Catch Me If You Can.

Interesting list of potential nominees. Bolkan is the best and I'm sure that, hadn't she been dubbed into Italian, she'd have been nominated that year. The Americans aren't as good, though Stockard Channing is quite funny in a notorious flop.

[Reza]

We Italians, being famously less sophisticated than our neighbors and cousins, always found that there was something missing in Adjani, and with the exception of Adele H, Camille Claudel and Queen Margot her movies were usually box office bombs here. (When Margot went to Cannes, Adjani was epected to win the Best Actress prize, and when they gave it to our own Virna Lisi for the same movie, in which she had a showy but clearly supporting role, you could feel Italian pride in the next day's newspaper comments). Too remote probably, or too cold, and I remember that many years ago I saw, well, at the time it seemed to me less a movie than a cure against imsomnia, anyway a VERY French thing about the Bronte sisters. Adjani and that other Iabelle, La Huppert, costarred, and it was obvious, even in such circumstances, who was the better actress.

Thank you for writing this. I've also always found that there was something missing from Adjani – like I was supposed to be fascinated with her gaze, her face, etc though I never really was. She's at her best, probably, in Truffaut's film simply because she's relatively unaffected. But later on in her career, especially, I'm afraid she became a total ham – all tricks with little feeling (this is especially how I felt about her work in Camille Claudel). So of course the Academy would recognize her. She seems to be worshipped in many quarters and I can't quite subscribe. It's especially disheartening when this blind love for her comes at the expense of appreciating other thesps in Adjani's generation. Huppert is universally loved, but, let's see, you don't hear many people talking of Nathalie Baye, a performer who is truly amazing and free of affect, too often.

Voted for Ann-Margret here (I think I did, at least). It's an odd and hilarious performance, self-aware in the best way possible. I love Ken Russell, too.

Florinda Bolkan absolutely should've been nominated, I agree. For anyone who's interested, the Times gave this list of women they thought had a remote chance at being nominated:

Marisa Berenson (Barry Lyndon)
Faye Dunaway (Three Days of the Condor)
Karen Black (The Day of the Locust)
Barbra Streisand (Funny Lady)
Liza Minnelli (Lucky Lady)
Diane Keaton (Love and Death)
Goldie Hawn/Julie Christie (Shampoo)
Anne Bancroft (The Prisoner of Second Avenue)
Stockard Channing (The Fortune)
Diana Ross (Mahogany)
Katharine Hepburn (Rooster Cogburn)
Marilyn Hassett (The Other Side of the Mountain)
Florinda Bolkan (A Brief Vacation)
Marthe Keller (And Now, My Love)
Mariangelo Melato (Swept Away)

From this list I think only Florinda Bolkan deserved a nomination.

[mayukh]

We Italians, being famously less sophisticated than our neighbors and cousins, always found that there was something missing in Adjani, and with the exception of Adele H, Camille Claudel and Queen Margot her movies were usually box office bombs here. (When Margot went to Cannes, Adjani was epected to win the Best Actress prize, and when they gave it to our own Virna Lisi for the same movie, in which she had a showy but clearly supporting role, you could feel Italian pride in the next day's newspaper comments). Too remote probably, or too cold, and I remember that many years ago I saw, well, at the time it seemed to me less a movie than a cure against imsomnia, anyway a VERY French thing about the Bronte sisters. Adjani and that other Iabelle, La Huppert, costarred, and it was obvious, even in such circumstances, who was the better actress.

Thank you for writing this. I've also always found that there was something missing from Adjani – like I was supposed to be fascinated with her gaze, her face, etc though I never really was. She's at her best, probably, in Truffaut's film simply because she's relatively unaffected. But later on in her career, especially, I'm afraid she became a total ham – all tricks with little feeling (this is especially how I felt about her work in Camille Claudel). So of course the Academy would recognize her. She seems to be worshipped in many quarters and I can't quite subscribe. It's especially disheartening when this blind love for her comes at the expense of appreciating other thesps in Adjani's generation. Huppert is universally loved, but, let's see, you don't hear many people talking of Nathalie Baye, a performer who is truly amazing and free of affect, too often.

Voted for Ann-Margret here (I think I did, at least). It's an odd and hilarious performance, self-aware in the best way possible. I love Ken Russell, too.

Florinda Bolkan absolutely should've been nominated, I agree. For anyone who's interested, the Times gave this list of women they thought had a remote chance at being nominated:

Marisa Berenson (Barry Lyndon)
Faye Dunaway (Three Days of the Condor)
Karen Black (The Day of the Locust)
Barbra Streisand (Funny Lady)
Liza Minnelli (Lucky Lady)
Diane Keaton (Love and Death)
Goldie Hawn/Julie Christie (Shampoo)
Anne Bancroft (The Prisoner of Second Avenue)
Stockard Channing (The Fortune)
Diana Ross (Mahogany)
Katharine Hepburn (Rooster Cogburn)
Marilyn Hassett (The Other Side of the Mountain)
Florinda Bolkan (A Brief Vacation)
Marthe Keller (And Now, My Love)
Mariangelo Melato (Swept Away)

[Hustler]

To those who think that Fletcher was wrongly nominated in that category I assume that´s possible even though she deserves the win.

[ITALIANO]

I havent seen Hedda, and while of course Hedda Gabler is one of those legendary female roles an actress can shine in, I can easily understand those who saw it and say that Jackson wasnt the right woman for the job.

Of the other four, I ended up voting for Louise Fletcher who, while admittedly supporting, still gave, I think, the best of these performances. Also, I was sure Adjani would win here anyway, and nobody can deny that it was one of the best perrformances by an actress in a leading role in that infamous year (Bolkan was better, but I guess her being dubbed in Italian was a major factor in preventing her from being nominated; I also liked Stockard Channing in The Fortune, but the movie unfortunately wasn't very good and a big flop).

Also, it's true that Adjani was very good in Adele H, and it's also true that she was very lucky to get, at such a young age, a wonderful role in a movie made by one of the best, most admired directors of the time. Still, unlike Truffaut himself, the film camera, and the French critics, I have never been really in love with Adjani. The face was, and still is, certainly beautiful, and made for the movies, yet all those French reviews which sounded more like love letters and raved about her "enigmatic charm", "porcelain skin", etc, always seemed to me a bit exaggerated (especially when they were about the movies she made after Adele H).

We Italians, being famously less sophisticated than our neighbors and cousins, always found that there was something missing in Adjani, and with the exception of Adele H, Camille Claudel and Queen Margot her movies were usually box office bombs here. (When Margot went to Cannes, Adjani was epected to win the Best Actress prize, and when they gave it to our own Virna Lisi for the same movie, in which she had a showy but clearly supporting role, you could feel Italian pride in the next day's newspaper comments). Too remote probably, or too cold, and I remember that many years ago I saw, well, at the time it seemed to me less a movie than a cure against imsomnia, anyway a VERY French thing about the Bronte sisters. Adjani and that other Iabelle, La Huppert, costarred, and it was obvious, even in such circumstances, who was the better actress.

But maybe the French are right. After all they later fell in love with, and made a star of, Monica Bellucci, who in Italy was considered to be a complete no talent and only good for laughable, sexy roles in B movies, so who knows.



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[Mister Tee]

Ah, the legendary nadir of 70s actress races -- the one that made the NY Times suggest, half-seriously, the winner could be Marilyn Hassett in The Other Side of the Mountain.

This race could have been very different, had Cinema V, instead of focusing on Adjani, earlier-released Face to Face. The film had to have been about ready; it was released in the first few months of '76. And Liv Ullmann -- coming off the losing nomination for The Emigrants, the kerfluffle over Scenes from a Marriage, and appearances (albeit bad ones) in Hollywood films -- would have made a formidable contender. (She even made a strong showing the following, far more competitive year)

But, to play by the rules...

I only half-heartedly watched Hedda, a year or so later, on HBO (it was clear Jackson was on the ballot as filler, and I assume many didn't watch her film at all). Jackson was Jackson, but not extra-special Jackson.

It's nice for Carol Kane that she got this unlikely recognition; her obituary will now start "Academy Award-nominated actress". That's the limit of what she earned with this minor work.

Ann-Margret isn't a totally laughable choice to fill things out, but the idea of that performance being voted best doesn't sit well with me.

We've argued Fletcher recently enough. She would have been my no-discussion choice for supporting actress. Her win here was a loud statement about Hollywood's dearth of female roles. (Which also led to the wild over-reaction two years later -- Julia and Turning Point enough to make the press shout Year of the Woman!)

Adjani was an utter unknown speaking French, and obviously was never going to win the Oscar, but she's got the clear dominant, star-making role in her film, and I choose her without hesitation.



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[Reza]

I haven't seen Hester Street. Fletcher is good but I've always considered this to be a supporting performance. I agree Jackson was nominated for the wrong film. Ann-Margret is fun but really only managed to get in because it was such a lousy year for actresses.

Voted for the haunting Adjani.

My top 5:
Suchitra Sen, Aandhi / The Storm
Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adele H
Jaya Bhaduri, Mili
Glenda Jackson, The Romantic Englishwoman
Stockard Channing, The Fortune

[FilmFan720]

I have actually seen 4 of these 5 nominations. Haven't seen Hedda.

I have never had a problem with Louise Fletcher being in the lead category. To me, the film is about the battle between McCurphy and Ratched, and she is in everyway his equal.

Carol Kane is fine in her film, but wouldn't have deserved a nomination if there were worthwhile candidates. And there were two.

Ann-Margaret and Isabelle Adjani could not be more different, yet I love both of their films. Both approach their roles with great gusto, and give us their best work. Truffaut is one of my favorite filmmakers, so I have to vote for his film here.

[Big Magilla]

We knew it then, we know it now - this was the worst year ever for Best Actress contenders.

No actress who starred in a Hollywood film even deserved so much as a nomination, which is why they had to elevate Louise Fletcher's supporting performance to lead and reach into the garbage bin to give a nomination to Ann-Margert for writhing on the floor in baked beans in Tommy.

The year's best performances came from other countries - Isabelle Adjani, astonishing at 20, as Victor Hugo's mad daughter in The Story of Adele H.; Brazil's Florinda Bolkan unforgettable as the Italian wife retreating from her squalid life in a sanatorium in the Alps in A Brief Vacation; Glenda Jackson in two powerful performances in Britain's Hedda and The Romantic Englishwoman in which she's even better. The best lead American performance came from Carol Kane as the impoverished Jewish emigrant in the independently made, low budget, Hester Street.

Adjani, especially without Bolkan in competition, should have sailed to victory but it wasn't to be. Hopefully she will win here.

[Damien]

If Glenda Jackson had been nominated for The Romantic Englishwoman, she would have been an easy pick. Hedda's a bore, and the actress doesn't elevate it.

Carol Kane is adequate in a less-than-adequate film' Louise Fletcher is one-note. Truffaut's movies tend to leave me cold. Adjani is an accomplished actress, but she stilll couldn't make me interested in her character's plight.

That leaves Ann-Margret. Why not? She attacks the role with abandon, she's a lot of fun and she's just more effective than the competition. Lousy year, though.

[mlrg]

I haven't seen Hedda.

As much as I like Cuckoo's Nest, my vote here goes to Adjani for a truly haunting performance.

[jowy_jillia]

Results:
1974:
1. Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - 11 votes
2. Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence - 8 votes
3. Faye Dunaway - Chinatown - 4 votes

1973
1. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were - 10 votes
2. Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist - 5 votes
3. Joanne Woodward - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams - 3 votes
4. Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class - 2 votes
5. Marsha Mason - Cinderella Liberty - 1 vote

1972
1. Liza Minnelli - Cabaret - 19 votes
2. Cicely Tyson - Sounder - 1 vote
2. Liv´Ullmann - The Emigrants - 1 vote

1971
1. Jane Fonda - Klute - 14 votes
2. Glenda Jackson - Sunday, Bloody Sunday - 6 votes
3. Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 1 vote

1970
1. Glenda Jackson - Women in Love - 16 votes
2. Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife - 3 votes
3. Ali MacGraw - Love Story - 1 vote

1969
1. Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses Don't They - 10 votes
2. Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - 8 votes
3. Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo - 2 vote
4. Genevieve Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days - 1 vote
4. 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 - 2 votes

1967
1. Anne Bancroft - The Graduate - 10 votes
2. 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? - 17 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 16 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? - 4 votes
3. Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth - 4 votes
5. Lee Remick - Days of Wines and Roses - 2 votes

1961
1. Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's - 9 votes
1. Sophia Loren - Two Women - 9 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
4. Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8 - 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 - 2 vote
4. Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly Last Summer - 1 vote

1958
1. Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame - 8 votes
2. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! - 7 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. Betty Compson - The Barker - 1 vote
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
Audrey Hepburn - 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



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