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my choices for best actress (1924-2011)

By: jsaez

1924: ZaSu Pitts (Greed)
1925: May McAvoy (Lady Windermere’s Fan)
1926: Lillian Gish (The Scarlet Letter)

1927: Janet Gaynor (Sunrise; 7th Heaven)
1928: Maria Falconetti (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
1929: Louise Brooks (Pandora’s Box; Diary of a Lost Girl)

1930: Marlene Dietrich (Morocco; The Blue Angel)
1931: Barbara Stanwyck (The Miracle Woman; Night Nurse)
1932: Joan Crawford (Rain; Grand Hotel)
1933: Greta Garbo (Queen Christina)

1934: Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage)
1935: Katharine Hepbrun (Alice Adams; Sylvia Scarlett)

1936: Greta Garbo (Camille)
1937: Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)

1938: Katharine Hepburn (Bringing Up Baby; Holiday)
1939: Bette Davis (Dark Victory; The Old Maid; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex)
1940: Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday)

1941: Barbara Stanwyck (The Lady Eve; Ball of Fire; Meet John Doe)
1942: Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)
1943: Ida Lupino (The Hard Way)
1944: Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity)
1945: Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)

1946: Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)
1947: Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus)
1948: Anna Magnani (L’amore)
1949: Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)

1950: Bette Davis (All About Eve)
1951: Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952: Simone Signoret (Casque d’or)

1953: Danielle Darrieux (Madame de…)
1954: Judy Garland (A Star Is Born)
1955: Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)

1956: Carroll Baker (Baby Doll)
1957: Giulietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)

1958: Jeanne Moreau (Elevator to the Gallows; The Lovers)
1959: Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot)
1960: Sophia Loren (Two Women)
1961: Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)

1962: Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)
1963: Jeanne Moreau (Bay of Angels)
1964: Nina Pens Rode (Gertrud)
1965: Julie Christie (Darling)
1966: Bibi Andersson (Persona)

1967: Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)

1968: Liv Ullmann (Shame)
1969: Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
1970: Barbara Loden (Wanda)
1971: Jane Fonda (Klute)

1972: Cicely Tyson (Sounder)
1973: Liv Ullmann (Scenes From a Marriage)
1974: Brigitte Mira (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul)

1975: Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H)
1976: Sissy Spacek (Carrie)
1977: Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)

1978: Glenda Jackson (Stevie)
1979: Sally Field (Norma Rae)
1980: Gena Rowlands (Gloria)
1981: Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest)

1982: Jessica Lange (Frances)
1983: Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment)
1984: Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone; Crimes of Passion)
1985: Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple)

1986: Chloe Webb (Sid and Nancy)
1987: Maggie Smith (The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne)

1988: Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
1989: Geneviève Lemon (Sweetie)
1990: Joanne Woodward (Mr. and Mrs. Bridge)
1991: Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern)

1992: Emma Thompson (Howards End)
1993: Holly Hunter (The Piano)

1994: Linda Fiorentino (The Last Seduction)
1995: Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert (La cérémonie)
1996: Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies)

1997: Pam Grier (Jackie Brown)
1998: Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station)
1999: Kate Winslet (Holy Smoke)
2000: Björk (Dancer in the Dark)
2001: Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)

2002: Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven)
2003: Charlotte Rampling (Swimming Pool)
2004: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)
2005: Natasha Richardson (The White Countess)
2006: Penélope Cruz (Volver)

2007: Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)
2008: Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)
2009: Mery Streep (Julie & Julia)

2010: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
2011: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)

 

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Saloniste

28Feb12

Lovely List!

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Shamus-

16Jan12

Good to see Barbara Stanwyck getting her due: she was the greatest actress in Hollywood and she was never awarded a single competitive Oscar. But where is Margaret Sullavan ("The Shop Around the Corner" - 1940)?

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    jsaez

    21Jan12

    I love Margaret Sullavan! I really do, but I think Hepburn was greater in '35 and '38 (when Sullavan did amasing work in The Good Fairy and Three Comrades) and Rosalind had to get it in '40 for His Girl Friday (actually '40 is a reall hard year in general, with Bette Davis in The Letter, Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, Joan Fontaine in Rebecca and of course Sullavan. They were all at their best and in different years might have all gotten named best).

Robert Regan

13Jul10

Great choices, but couldn't McAvoy share her award with Irene Rich?

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Kenji

13Jul10

Great to find Casque d'Or here (among others). Another list that deserves many more fans

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