Top 10 Greatest Academy Award Winning Performances (by category)

By: Danny Bailey

Best Actor-
1. Daniel Day-Lewis-My Left Foot and There Will be Blood
2. Geoffrey Rush-Shine
3. Jose Ferrer- Cyrano de Bergerac
4. Laurence Olivier-Hamlet
5. Ernest Borgnine-Marty
6. Peter Finch-Network
7. Colin Firth- The Kings Speech
8. Jack Nicholson- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
9. F. Murray Abraham- Amadeus
10. Robert Donat-Goodbye Mr. Chips

Best Actress-
1. Vivien Leigh-Gone With The Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Elizabeth Taylor- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
3. Shirley Booth- Come Back Little Sheba
4. Holly Hunter-The Piano
5. Kathy Bates-Misery
6. Julie Christie-Darling
7. Sophia Loren-Two Women
8. Glenda Jackson-Women In Love
9. Maggie Smith-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
10. Ingrid Bergman-Gaslight

Best Supporting Actor-
1. James Dunn-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. Martin Landau-Ed Wood
3. Karl Malden-A Streetcar Named Desire
4. George Sanders-All About Eve
5. Michael Caine-Hannah and Her Sisters
6. Walter Huston- Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. Jim Broadbent-Iris
8. Timothy Hutton-Ordinary People
9. Joe Pesci- Goodfellas
10. Ed Begley Sr.- Sweet Bird of Youth

Best Supporting Actress-
1. Dianne Wiest-Bullets Over Broadway, and Hannah and Her Sisters
2. Shelley Winters- A Patch of Blue
3. Kim Hunter- A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Sandy Dennis- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
5. Hattie McDaniel-Gone With the Wind
6. Brenda Fricker- My Left Foot
7. Anna Paquin- The Piano
8. Marcia Gay Harden- Pollock
9. Mo’Nique-Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
10. Lila Kedorva- Zorba the Greek

• 01
  My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
  Jim Sheridan
• 02
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 03
  Shine
  Scott Hicks
• 04
  Cyrano de Bergerac
  Michael Gordon
• 05
  Hamlet
  Laurence Olivier
• 06
  Marty
  Delbert Mann
• 07
  The King's Speech
  Tom Hooper
• 08
  Network
  Sidney Lumet
• 09
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Miloš Forman
• 10
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 11
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  Sam Wood
• 12
  Gone with the Wind
  Victor Fleming
• 13
  A Streetcar Named Desire
  Elia Kazan
• 14
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Mike Nichols
• 15
  Come Back, Little Sheba
  Daniel Mann
• 16
  The Piano
  Jane Campion
• 17
  Misery
  Rob Reiner
• 18
  Darling
  John Schlesinger
• 19
  Two Women
  Vittorio De Sica
• 20
  Women in Love
  Ken Russell
• 21
  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  Ronald Neame
• 22
  Gaslight
  George Cukor
• 23
  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  Elia Kazan
• 24
  Ed Wood
  Tim Burton
• 25
  All About Eve
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 26
  Hannah and Her Sisters
  Woody Allen
• 27
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  John Huston
• 28
  Iris
  Richard Eyre
• 29
  Ordinary People
  Robert Redford
• 30
  Goodfellas
  Martin Scorsese
• 31
  Sweet Bird of Youth
  Richard Brooks
• 32
  Bullets Over Broadway
  Woody Allen
• 33
  A Patch of Blue
  Guy Green
• 34
  Pollock
  Ed Harris
• 35
  Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
  Lee Daniels
• 36
  Zorba the Greek
  Mihalis Kakogiannis