I think Mister Tee's analysis of Streep's performance nails down every thing that's awful about her in Sophie's Choice. She doesn't create a character, she gives a Master Class in technique. Something like that can work on stage, but it's anathema to celluloid and is, frankly, a terrible piece of film acting. Fun Party Game: Put on the DVD of Sophie’s Choice and take a shot every time Streep touches her face.
Debra Winger is fine in An Officer And A Gentleman, but nothing about that film is particularly interesting and no one involved with it should have been remotely near the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Oscar night. I liked her better in Urban Cowboy and, especially, the forgotten Cannery Row from earlier in '82.
Lange is very, very good in Frances and, as Tee points out should be given credit for not sugar-coating the character. Even so, there is still something a bit too later-day Susan Hayward here for the performance to be truly top-tier.
I think Spacek is just about perfect in Missing, and DWS really nails down the complexity of the performance. Her character is perhaps slightly secondary to Lemmon’s in the narrative, but emotionally she matches him every step of the way. (And I think Lemmon is by far the best of the 5 Actor nominees this year, but he and Spacek work very much in tandem. And I also think Missing is easily the best of 82’s Picture nominees, and the only one worthy of a nomination.)
But I cannot vote for Spacek when Julie Andrews is in the running for one of the greatest comic and musical (or musical comedy) performances in film history. Her comic timing is pitch perfect, her performance perfectly captures the naiveté of Victoria in the early part of the picture, and the assuredness of Victor and then the confusion and anxiety arising when she falls in love. Andrew performs with delicious wit, and a hugely appealing mix of assuredness and vulnerability. That she didn’t win is a crime against nature, and equally appalling were the fact that Robert Preston and Lesley Ann Warren also went home empty-handed.
My own Top 5:
1. Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria
2. Sissy Specek in Missing
3. Valeria d’Obici in Passione d’Amore
4. Debra Winger in Cannery Row (but not An Officer And A Gentleman)
5. Rosel Zech in Veronika Voss
Best Actress 1982
I think Mister Tee's assessment of the 1982 race is pretty much spot on.....although I thought Sissy Spacek and Julie Andrews deserved to be on the list while I don't see how Debra Winger could make it while Diane Keaton missed out.
My top 5 performances of 1982:
Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice
Diane Keaton, Shoot the Moon
Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria
Jessica Lange, Frances
Sissy Spacek, Missing
My top 5 performances of 1982:
Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice
Diane Keaton, Shoot the Moon
Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria
Jessica Lange, Frances
Sissy Spacek, Missing
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Yeah, jowly jilla, nice work doing these surveys, but maybe slow it down a little, so we can savor each race.
We've been discussing this particular contest, at least indirectly, in the Last Seen Movie thread. So I barely need reiterate that I think Diane Keaton gave one of her career-best performances in Shoot the Moon, and should have easily made the list.
I'm as fond of Spacek as the next guy, but I don't think Missing gives her all that much to do. I find the role dangerously close to The Girlfriend. (I'm not remotely as big a fan of Lemmon's -- I was in fact mortally sick of him by '82 -- but I think he waltzes off with the film's acting honors) If she were off the list, I wouldn't miss her.
Victor/Victoria is another movie that really defines the gay/straight divide. I've never known a single gay person who didn't adore it -- nor have I ever known a straight man who was more than middling toward it. I think it's enjoyable enough (if a half hour too long), and the performances are fun, but none that I'd single out for an Oscar win, Julie included. (I thought Julie did give an excellent performance a few years down the road, in That's Life)
I fell in love/lust with Debra Winger in Urban Cowboy and was disappointed she failed to be nominated there (esp. over such as Diana Scarwid). I didn't much care for the warmed-over mush that was An Officer and a Gentleman, but I once again loved Winger, and was happy to see her get recognition -- though a nomination was as far as she deserved to go.
Lange certainly made a breakthrough with Frances, and she took some daring steps with the role -- making Farmer unsympathetic at key moments, rather than the put-upon martyr a lesser actress might have gone for. (I saw the film with a friend who's a psychologist, and his comment was, "She wasn't crazy, but she wasn't exactly well-adjusted, either") I can see why many support her.
I can also see the problems people have with Streep in Sophie's Choice. If simple, unadorned, direct acting is what you're seeking, this performance will be anathema to you. It seems to undertake from the start to be a monumental piece of work: a great technician displaying every tool in her arsenal, letting the audience know every minute how hard she's working. The killer is, I think she pulls it off -- her Sophie IS a monumental creation (despite Pakula's nearly unbelievably dead direction). I respect the right to dissent from praising such work. In the end, though, I have to line up and salute. It's not the performance from the 80s I'd rank as my favorite, or would even much care to see again. But I knew I was in the presence of something major.
So, if you're keeping score, I'd vote Streep first, Keaton if she were around second, Lange a strong third, with the rest just hanging around the race. All tolled a far stronger year for lead actresses (and actors, too) than 1981.
We've been discussing this particular contest, at least indirectly, in the Last Seen Movie thread. So I barely need reiterate that I think Diane Keaton gave one of her career-best performances in Shoot the Moon, and should have easily made the list.
I'm as fond of Spacek as the next guy, but I don't think Missing gives her all that much to do. I find the role dangerously close to The Girlfriend. (I'm not remotely as big a fan of Lemmon's -- I was in fact mortally sick of him by '82 -- but I think he waltzes off with the film's acting honors) If she were off the list, I wouldn't miss her.
Victor/Victoria is another movie that really defines the gay/straight divide. I've never known a single gay person who didn't adore it -- nor have I ever known a straight man who was more than middling toward it. I think it's enjoyable enough (if a half hour too long), and the performances are fun, but none that I'd single out for an Oscar win, Julie included. (I thought Julie did give an excellent performance a few years down the road, in That's Life)
I fell in love/lust with Debra Winger in Urban Cowboy and was disappointed she failed to be nominated there (esp. over such as Diana Scarwid). I didn't much care for the warmed-over mush that was An Officer and a Gentleman, but I once again loved Winger, and was happy to see her get recognition -- though a nomination was as far as she deserved to go.
Lange certainly made a breakthrough with Frances, and she took some daring steps with the role -- making Farmer unsympathetic at key moments, rather than the put-upon martyr a lesser actress might have gone for. (I saw the film with a friend who's a psychologist, and his comment was, "She wasn't crazy, but she wasn't exactly well-adjusted, either") I can see why many support her.
I can also see the problems people have with Streep in Sophie's Choice. If simple, unadorned, direct acting is what you're seeking, this performance will be anathema to you. It seems to undertake from the start to be a monumental piece of work: a great technician displaying every tool in her arsenal, letting the audience know every minute how hard she's working. The killer is, I think she pulls it off -- her Sophie IS a monumental creation (despite Pakula's nearly unbelievably dead direction). I respect the right to dissent from praising such work. In the end, though, I have to line up and salute. It's not the performance from the 80s I'd rank as my favorite, or would even much care to see again. But I knew I was in the presence of something major.
So, if you're keeping score, I'd vote Streep first, Keaton if she were around second, Lange a strong third, with the rest just hanging around the race. All tolled a far stronger year for lead actresses (and actors, too) than 1981.
This is the only Best Actress lineup to feature Lange, Spacek, and Streep, but they were undeniably the actresses of the 80's--at least in terms of mainstream Hollywood. Every year from 1980 to 1990 one of the three was nominated in this category.
Debra Winger didn't have any business being nominated. She's fine, but the same performance in a flop wouldn't have made it to the Oscars.
I understand the acclaim behind Streep's performance, but I don't subscribe. (I'm afraid she's going to start a big table-run here that will rival Hepburn's.) I run hot and cold on Streep, but in Sophie's Choice she comes off as too studied, and so technical that it becomes almost mechanical and soulless. Bottom line for me is that this is possibly the prime example of her tendency to emphasize technique over feeling.
I think Victor/Victoria is the best of Andrews's nominated performances, and Lange is excellent in Frances. Both would've been very deserving winners. But I'm voting for Spacek. Spacek doesn't work with the big dramatic fireworks that some of the other nominees here (Lange, Streep) do, but her performance is a fascinating look at a certain kind of person: politically committed, but lacking any real savvy or tact; the stress of living day-to-day, minute-to-minute, but with traces of Spacek's earthiness and resolve. I think Spacek, Lemmon, and the movie all should've won.
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Debra Winger didn't have any business being nominated. She's fine, but the same performance in a flop wouldn't have made it to the Oscars.
I understand the acclaim behind Streep's performance, but I don't subscribe. (I'm afraid she's going to start a big table-run here that will rival Hepburn's.) I run hot and cold on Streep, but in Sophie's Choice she comes off as too studied, and so technical that it becomes almost mechanical and soulless. Bottom line for me is that this is possibly the prime example of her tendency to emphasize technique over feeling.
I think Victor/Victoria is the best of Andrews's nominated performances, and Lange is excellent in Frances. Both would've been very deserving winners. But I'm voting for Spacek. Spacek doesn't work with the big dramatic fireworks that some of the other nominees here (Lange, Streep) do, but her performance is a fascinating look at a certain kind of person: politically committed, but lacking any real savvy or tact; the stress of living day-to-day, minute-to-minute, but with traces of Spacek's earthiness and resolve. I think Spacek, Lemmon, and the movie all should've won.
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Streep was the year's best actress but since she's already won here for her lesser work in The French Lieutenant's Woman while Julie Andrews has been snubbed twice, I give it to Julie.
The others are all OK, as is Diane Keaton who narrowly missed a nomination for Shoot the Moon, but Streep, heartbreaking and sad, and Andrews, funny, sharp and singing as beautifully as ever, are the performances from this year to treasure.
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The others are all OK, as is Diane Keaton who narrowly missed a nomination for Shoot the Moon, but Streep, heartbreaking and sad, and Andrews, funny, sharp and singing as beautifully as ever, are the performances from this year to treasure.
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I Have only seen three of these performances, but still I can say that easily Meryl Streep will win my vote. It's probably one of the best performances of all time
Andrews is my runner-up.
Lange also gives a very strong performance, but I can't get the praise that this should have won instead of Streep.
I would also want to include the wonderful performance by Sandy Dennis in Come Back to Five and Dime. But I don't know much more about this year for leading actresses, so please can someone recommend some more actresses that were contenders this year.
1981:
1. Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman - 6 votes
2. Diane Keaton - Reds - 5 votes
3. Susan Sarandon - Atlantic City - 4 votes
4. Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond - 3 votes
1980:
1. Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter - 13 votes
2. Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People - 8 votes
3. Gena Rowlands - Gloria - 3 votes
4. Ellen Burstyn - Resurrection - 1 vote
1979:
1. Sally Field - Norma Rae - 15 votes
2. Bette Midler - The Rose - 7 votes
1978
1. Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata - 8 votes
2. Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman - 6 votes
3. Jane Fonda - Coming Home - 4 votes
3. Geraldine Page - Interiors - 4 votes
1977
1. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall - 17 votes
2. Jane Fonda - Julia - 6 votes
3. Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point - 1 vote
1976
1. Liv Ullmann - Face to Face - 9 votes
2. Sissy Spacek - Carrie - 8 votes
3. Faye Dunaway - Network - 6 votes
4. Marie-Christine Barrault - Cousin, Cousine - 1 vote
1975:
1. Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H - 11 votes
2. Louise Fletcher - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - 5 votes
3. Ann-Margret - Tommy - 3 votes
4. Carol Kane - Hester Street - 2 votes
1974:
1. Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - 12 votes
2. Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence - 10 votes
3. Faye Dunaway - Chinatown - 4 votes
1973
1. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were - 11 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 - 2 vote
3. Liv´Ullmann - The Emigrants - 1 vote
1971
1. Jane Fonda - Klute - 15 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 - 4 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 - 8 votes
2. Jennifer Jonies - The Song of Bernadette - 5 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
Ingrid Bergman - 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
Andrews is my runner-up.
Lange also gives a very strong performance, but I can't get the praise that this should have won instead of Streep.
I would also want to include the wonderful performance by Sandy Dennis in Come Back to Five and Dime. But I don't know much more about this year for leading actresses, so please can someone recommend some more actresses that were contenders this year.
1981:
1. Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman - 6 votes
2. Diane Keaton - Reds - 5 votes
3. Susan Sarandon - Atlantic City - 4 votes
4. Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond - 3 votes
1980:
1. Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter - 13 votes
2. Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People - 8 votes
3. Gena Rowlands - Gloria - 3 votes
4. Ellen Burstyn - Resurrection - 1 vote
1979:
1. Sally Field - Norma Rae - 15 votes
2. Bette Midler - The Rose - 7 votes
1978
1. Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata - 8 votes
2. Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman - 6 votes
3. Jane Fonda - Coming Home - 4 votes
3. Geraldine Page - Interiors - 4 votes
1977
1. Diane Keaton - Annie Hall - 17 votes
2. Jane Fonda - Julia - 6 votes
3. Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point - 1 vote
1976
1. Liv Ullmann - Face to Face - 9 votes
2. Sissy Spacek - Carrie - 8 votes
3. Faye Dunaway - Network - 6 votes
4. Marie-Christine Barrault - Cousin, Cousine - 1 vote
1975:
1. Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H - 11 votes
2. Louise Fletcher - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - 5 votes
3. Ann-Margret - Tommy - 3 votes
4. Carol Kane - Hester Street - 2 votes
1974:
1. Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - 12 votes
2. Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence - 10 votes
3. Faye Dunaway - Chinatown - 4 votes
1973
1. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were - 11 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 - 2 vote
3. Liv´Ullmann - The Emigrants - 1 vote
1971
1. Jane Fonda - Klute - 15 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 - 4 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 - 8 votes
2. Jennifer Jonies - The Song of Bernadette - 5 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
Ingrid Bergman - 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