Rank the "1 and Done" Oscar-Winning Actresses!
Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 5:45PM Since today is both Tilda Swinton's birthday and National Love Your Red Hair Day (there's a day for everything) we found ourselves suddenly missing Tilda's redhead years. She's been preferring platinum bold for several years now but for a good long stretch she favored RED.
Hmmm. What does Oscar sound like?
Sudden Listing Impulse after the jump...
Here are all the actresses who won Oscars from their one and only Oscar races (the 1 and dones... so we'll exclude people who got a second via Honorary or who were nominated for multiple roles in the early years before the rules were clear simultaneously).
RANK THEM IN THE COMMENTS. IT'LL BE FUN. Give us your top ten amongst them!
LEAD
(Only about 9% of Best Actress winners only receive 1 nomination throughout their careers)
- Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle, 1940)
- Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday, 1950)
- Shirley Booth (Come Back Little Sheba, 1952)
- Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975)
- Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God, 1986)
- Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love, 1998)
- Halle Berry (Monster's Ball, 2001)
- Brie Larson (Room, 2015)
SUPPORTING
(In stark contrast to leading prizes, approximately 50% of winners in this category are one-timers)
- Hattie McDaniel (Gone With the Wind, 1939)
- Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)
- Mary Astor (The Great Lie, 1941)
- Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943)
- Josephine Hull (Harvey, 1950)
- Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951)
- Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity, 1953)
- Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
- Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
- Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind, 1956)
- Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara, 1957)
- Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry, 1960)
- Rita Moreno (West Side Story, 1961)
- Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker, 1962)
- Margaret Rutherford (The VIPS, 1963)
- Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek, 1964)
- Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 1966)
- Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show, 1971)
- Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973)
- Beatrice Straight (Network, 1976)
- Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard, 1980)
- Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously, 1983)
- Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India, 1984)
- Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, 1987)
- Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot, 1989)
- Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King, 1991)
- Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993)
- Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite, 1995)
- Kim Basinger (LA Confidential, 1997)
- Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, 2001)
- Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, 2002)
- Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, 2005)
- Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006)
- Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, 2007)
- Mo'Nique (Precious, 2009)
- Octavia Spencer (The Help, 2011)
- Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, 2013)
- Patricia Arquette (Boyhood, 2014)
- Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, 2015)
TWO QUESTIONS
1. Who are your ten favorite among these 47 winning performances?
2. Among the living working actresses on this list which do you think have the best chance of leaving the "1 and done" club with a second Oscar nomination?
Reader Comments (52)
Ten favorites (in no particular order except for #1)
#1 - Mo'Nique
Gwyneth Paltrow
Rachel Weisz
Linda Hunt
Eva Marie Sant
Tilda Swinton
Jane Darwell
Anna Paquin
Linda Hunt
Lupita Nyong'o
2nd nominations should easily come to...
Tilda - should have at least 3 by now
Rachel Weisz
Brie Larson
Alicia Vikander
And because there are always surprise second acts, I'm going to guess...
Anna Paquin
Jennifer Connelly
I can only hope...
Mo'Nique
Lupita Nyong'o
oh Geez, I can't play this game. I only know around 1/3 of these names (mainly from recent years)
*hangs head in shame*
Last place is easily a toss up between Jennifer Hudson and Paltrow.
2. Rachel Weisz. She's come so close in recent years (and will do so again this coming season) that she has to score again soon, surely.
Spotted two wrong spellings, Brenda Fricker & Mercedes Ruehl.
Killjoy, guilty as charged
I haven't seen every one of the supporting actress winners (the shame!) but i'd rank the 1 & done LEAD actresses like so...
1. Judy Holliday Born Yesterday
2. Brie Larson, Room
3. Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love
4. Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle (this is the one i remember the least well so not sure about placement)
5. Shirley Booth, Come Back...
6. Halle Berry, Monsters Ball
7. Louise Fletcher, Cuckoo's Nest
8. Marlee Matlin, Children of...
And my 10 favorite of the supporting winners from those I've seen
1. Mo'Nique - Precious
2. Rita Moreno - West Side Story
3. Tilda - Michael Clayton
(these three jostle for position all the time)
4. Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon
5. Kim Hunter - Streetcar
6. Dorothy Malone - Written on the Wind
7. Mercedes Reuhl - Fisher King
8. Patty Duke - Miracle Worker
AND SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE MIX FOR 9th and 10th spot...
Jacob -- fixed. Fricker was a mere typo but I have been spelling Mercedes's last name wrong for 25 years. I'll never get it right!
1) In chronological order:
Hattie McDaniel
Rita Moreno
Patty Duke
Cloris Leachman
Louise Fletcher
Beatrice Straight
Peggy Ashcroft
Olympia Dukakis
Anna Paquin
Rachel Weisz
2) Second nominations most likely to go to:
Anna Paquin
Rachel Weisz
Tilda Swinton
Brie Larson
Alicia Vikander
Best Actress
1. Louise Fletcher--by a mile
2. Ginger Rogers
3. Judy Holliday
4. Marlee Matlin
5. Brie Larson
6. Shirley Booth
7. Halle Berry
8. Gwyneth Paltrow
I'll have to ponder supporting...
Out of the whole package, these are my ten favorite:
Hattie McDaniel
Jane Darwell
Shirley Booth
Jo Van Fleet
Sandy Dennis
Cloris Leachman
Linda Hunt
Mo'Nique
Octavia Spencer
Rosanna Arquette
Nat who do you think has the best chance of following up a solo nomination someone random like a Basinger or a Berry or more obvious choices like Larson and Swinton.
Mark -- i dont understand what Swinton has to do to get a second nomination (given the consistent quality of her films and the love for her work) so i'm assuming no second nomination for her though it baffles me. I'm guessing Vikander will be back in short order, though.
most likely to get a second nod in very near future:
1. [tie] VIKANDER & LARSON
2. NYONG'O (IF filmmakers start offering her things)
as for the unexpected let's say...
CONNELLY
In no order my favorites are:
Judy Holiday
Gwyneth Paltrow
Kim Hunter
Donna Reed
Eva Marie Saint
Rita Moreno
Sandy Dennis
Peggy Ashcroft
Catherine Zeta Jones
Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz, Alicia Vikander, and Lupita Nyong'o seem most likely to get repeat nominations. Rita Moreno could get an honorary award though. I could also see Paltrow getting an honorary in the far future.
Bette Davis (10 Nods, 2 Wins)
Viola Davis *pending 3rd Nod, possibly 1st Win
Geena Davis (2 Nods, 1 Win)
Judy Davis (2 Nods, 0 Wins)
Frances McDormand (4 Nods, 1 Win)
Kathy Bates (3 Nods, 1 Win)
Cher (2 Nods, 1 Win)
Helen Hunt (2 Nods, 1 Win)
Oscar from lone Best Actress nomination
Mercedes Ruehl's Oscar is such a product of its time from the vehicle it was in to the actress herself being recognized. If you weren't there when it all went down I can see people being confused by it in retrospect. The 1991 Oscars were dull compared to who and what wasn't recognized with nominations.
1. Louise Fletcher
2. Brie Larson
3. Shirley Booth
4. Judy Holliday - gets a bad rap because it's one of the worst victories, but the performance itself is quite solid.
5. Ginger Rogers
6. Marle Maitlin
7. Gwenyth Paltrow
8. Halle Berry
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Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)
Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind, 1956)
Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show, 1971)
Beatrice Straight (Network, 1976)
Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard, 1980)
Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India, 1984)
Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King, 1991)
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, 2013)
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Most likely to return: Weisz, N'yongo, Vikander, Spencer
JULIA should have been Tilda's 2nd nomination AND win. If she couldn't get recognized for such a juggernaut of a performance, I'm guessing her only chance at being invited back by Oscar is starring and excelling in a similarly respected, audience-friendly vehicle like MICHAEL CLAYTON.
TS doesn't make Academy friendly movies. Her win and nomination was literally now or never. Some say it was simply to recognize the movie itself Michael Clayton. But I believe voters knew Swinton wouldn't be an easy repeat nominee.
It's my birthday too! Tilda and I are long-lost twins, I always say. For me ...
1. Mo'nique (by a mile)
2. Shirley Booth
3. Halle Berry
3. Rachel Weisz
4. Louise Fletcher
5. Rita Moreno
6. Patricia Arquette
7. Judy Holliday
8. CZJ
9. Mary Astor
10. Tilda!
I think Vikander gets to the second nomination first. I think she's totally overrated. So, with my luck, she's going to win 1209581295081326 more Oscars.
Most definitely will get another nomination:
Tilda Swinton
Rachel Weisz
Gwyneth Paltrow
Brie Larson
Alicia Vikander (still can't believe she's an actual Oscar winner)
Other favorites:
Anna Paquin
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Rita Moreno
Beatrice Straight
Olympia Dukakis
I could also see Paltrow getting an honorary in the far future.
She has no narrative to justify it.
1. Ginger
2. Brie
3. Judy
4. Gwyneth
5. Marlee
...and I haven't seen the other three.
Supporting:
1. Donna Reed (I may be biased just because Reed reminds me so much of my mother)
2. Tatum O'Neal
3. Rita Moreno
4. CZJ
5. Patty Duke
6. Hattie
7. Mo'Nique
8. Linda Hunt
9. Patricia Arquette
10. Jo Van Fleet
Paltrow maybe in the mix next year for 33 days about Picasso's mistress.
How about a posterized on Swinton.
I would have nominated her for The Deep End which isn't discussed enough she was that close to a nomination,I think you had her in your top 5 Nat looking back saying Kidman would spit her votes,Michael Clayton,Juila and Snowpiercer,I don't like her workin We Need To Talk About Kevin.
My favorite is easily Tilda, although I'm very fond of Eva Marie Saint (she was wonderful in her Oscar winning role and should've had a more illustrious career), Mo'Nique, Rachel Weisz, Peggy Ashcroft, Kim Hunter, and Rita Moreno.
Tilda should have 4 Oscar noms by now (Michael Clayton, Julia, I Am Love, and We Need to Talk About Kevin), so SURELY the Oscars will eventually come around and give her that elusive 2nd Oscar nod. They finally gave Marion that second one after years of consistent great work Post-Oscar.
I think likely second timers are Rachel Weisz (she's waited awhile too), Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, and Octavia Spencer (she still gets plum parts in prestige pics, like Fruitvale Station and Hidden Figures, so I'm sure another supporting nom is possible). I'd love for Lupita to score again but Hollywood stupidly doesn't know what to do with her.
Jennifer Connelly is definitely a Helen Hunt-like surprise in the making.
CharlieG - HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
/3rtful -- two of your comments are utterly baffling. They have no explanations. just a list of previous winners / multiple nominees that don't fit into this subject even remotely. did you mean them for another post? and as for Fisher King - that's nuts. THAT MOVIE IS SO GREAT / UNUSUAL. Not oscar baity at all.
aaron --i see what you mean about Octavia but my guess is she doesn't come back. she's always a delight onscreen but she's rarely "award worthy!" as it were so i think The Help was probably it. but we'll see. (and i'm so baffled that hollywood doesn't know what to do with Lupita since she fits so neatly into everything they love -- skinny, talented, glamorous, gorgeous, popular with the public and the media -- ARGH)
mark -- hmmm. i dont remember whether i predicted her or not. i remember being worried that Kidman would split her support, though
1. Judy Holliday
2 and onwards. Everyone else
I'm appalled to discover though, that Mary Astor only ever managed a single nomination! (Is this the gayest thing anyone has ever said in the comments?)
You really have eyes for me Nate. The previous lists were my own randoms because you're so pro lists. Semi relevant to the conversation at hand. Never once described The Fisher King as Oscar bait. Where did you draw that conclusion from? I said the movie and the actress are products of the era. No way can I imagine a modern equivalent. Supp Actress these days is less of an anything goes wasteland it has been throughout its history.
1. Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday), Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) are my favorite best actress winners from this list, while my top 10 best supporting actress winners would be:
Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)
Rita Moreno (West Side Story)
Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
Beatrice Straight (Network)
Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
Mo'Nique (Precious)
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave)
2. I agree that Bree Larson and Alicia Vikander are likely to be nominated again, but it really surprises me that Paltrow and Swinton have not been! So I'd pick them and maybe Nyong'o and Rachel Weisz.
It's interesting that until recently the best actress list would've been nearly twice as long had Helen Hunt, Angelina Jolie, Reese Witherspoon, Marion Cotillard, and Sandra Bullock not finally scored their second.
Top 10:
Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday, 1950)
Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker, 1962)
Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind, 1956)
Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, 2005)
Rita Moreno (West Side Story, 1961)
Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show, 1971)
Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously, 1983)
Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973)
Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity, 1953)
Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
The rest in order:
Mary Astor (The Great Lie, 1941)
Hattie McDaniel (Gone With the Wind, 1939)
Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, 1987)
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, 2007)
Shirley Booth (Come Back Little Sheba, 1952)
Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)
Margaret Rutherford (The VIPS, 1963)
Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951)
Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle, 1940)
Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India, 1984)
Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot, 1989)
Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975)
Josephine Hull (Harvey, 1950)
Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry, 1960)
Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King, 1991)
Kim Basinger (LA Confidential, 1997)
Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
Brie Larson (Room, 2015)
Octavia Spencer (The Help, 2011)
Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, 2013)
Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard, 1980)
Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, 2002)
Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love, 1998)
Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006)
Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, 2015)
Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, 2001)
Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943)
Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara, 1957)
Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite, 1995)
Mo'Nique (Precious, 2009)
Beatrice Straight (Network, 1976)
Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek, 1964)
Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God, 1986)
Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 1966)
Halle Berry (Monster's Ball, 2001)
Patricia Arquette (Boyhood, 2014)
I think only these ladies really stand a chance:
Alicia Vikander
Rachel Weisz
Tilda Swinton
And maybe, maybe, maybe Octavia Spencer
Tilda should have WON for Snowpiercer. It's pretty astonishing how many of the most deserving Supporting Actress winners are "one and done: McDaniel, Darwin, Astor, Paxinou, Hull, Reed, Saint,Van Fleet, Malone, Moreno, Duke, Rutherford, Kedrova, Steenburgen. Hunt, Ashcroft, Fricker, Ruehl, Paquin, Basinger, and Connelly (whew!). As for leads, only Louise Fletcher (really a supporting, too), Paltrow and Larson stand out for me.
Question One
Shirley Booth (Come Back Little Sheba, 1952)
Brie Larson (Room, 2015)
Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)
Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek, 1964)
Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show, 1971)
Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously, 1983)
Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India, 1984)
Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, 1987)
Mo'Nique (Precious, 2009)
The Academy had a wealth of great Best Actress choices in 1940. I'm not sure Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle belonged in the top ten, let alone the award. I've never understood that choice.
Mary Astor should have been nominated for The Maltese Falcon in 1941 instead of The Great Lie. It was a far more challenging and layered performance. And I agree with Goran, she could/should have been nominated several other times, like Supporting for Dodsworth (1936).
Question Two
I think Vikander and Larson are the most likely to get nominated again. Spencer and Nyong'o could be back if they find the right roles. Weisz may have the potential, but I have a feeling it won't happen. Swinton is one of a kind, but as someone else said, she'd have to get a good role in a commercial mainstream film.
Lupita's win still baffles me. She's lovely and I want her to have a great career but meh. For the majority of her screen time all she did was get tortured, she barely had any scenes that required her to act while she wasn't being whipped or hit or scratched. Her big soap scene was really poorly acted too.
None of the Leading winners make my top 10 list:
1. Rita
2. Olympia
3. Hattie
4. Patty
5. Mo'Nique
6. Lupita
7. Catherine
8. Beatrice
9. Sandy
10. Tilda
Mareko, your post reminded me how happy I was to see Helen Hunt nominated again. I haven't even seen "The Sessions", but we often read about how her victory for "As Good as it Gets" was unearned (and should have been Judi Dench's), so I found it to be a nice redemption in a way.
I still think she should give one of her Emmys to Calista Flockhart, but that's a different topic.
Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday, 1950)
Shirley Booth (Come Back Little Sheba, 1952)
Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
Rita Moreno (West Side Story, 1961)
Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker, 1962)
Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India, 1984)
Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, 1987)
Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King, 1991)
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, 2007)
Mo'Nique (Precious, 2009)
Patricia Arquette (Boyhood, 2014)
There are 11 but I know you'll forgive because my nº1 is Moreno
Brie and Weisz
Jakey -- as a person who doesn't ever like Helen Hunt and hates her 1997 win, you must see The Sessions. She's just phenomenal in it.
Fun idea Nathaniel!
Because ranking oscar stuff is soothing I went through and did it. Well I cheated a bit by leaving the muddle a big lump.
So of the ones I've seen:
1-10: The Best
1. Rita Moreno - West Side Story, 1961
2. Sandy Dennis - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966
3. Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton, 2007
4. Mo’Nique - Precious, 2009
5. Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago, 2002
6. Kim Hunter - A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
7. Jane Darwell - The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
8. Halle Berry - Monster's Ball, 2001
9. Mary Astor - The Great Lie, 1941
10. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952
11 - 33: Middle Ground
Arquette, Ashcroft, Duke, Fletcher, Fricker, Kedrova, Larson, Leachman, Malone, McDaniel, Nyong'o, Paltrow, Paquin, Reed, Saint, Sorvino, Spencer, Steenburgen, Straight, Van Fleet, Vikander, Weisz
34 - 43: The Worst
34. Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously, 1983
35. Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential, 1997
36. Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon, 1973
37. Josephine Hull - Harvey, 1950
38. Margaret Rutherford - The V.I.P.s, 1963
39. Katina Paxinou - For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943
40. Miyoshi Umeki - Sayonara, 1957
41. Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind, 2001
42. Shirley Jones - Elmer Gantry, 1960
43. Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls, 2006
Oh, dear, this is REALLY hard, since so many of the 1-and-dones are among the BEST Supporting Actress winners PERIOD. Of the Leads, my favorites are Paltrow and Holliday (both of whom have been viciously attacked over the years for seemingly taking someone else's award even though they are both eminently deserving), but I'm not sure they would make my Top 10 list because nearly all of my Top 10 Supporting winners are in this group! It would probably go like so:
1. Rita Moreno
2. Sandy Dennis
3. Patty Duke
4. Tilda Swinton
5. Mo'Nique
6. Kim Hunter
7. Dorothy Malone
8. Hattie McDaniel
9. Jane Darwell
10. Olympia Dukakis
...with Honorable Mentions to Beatrice Straight (great, but really more of a cameo) and Tatum O'Neal (great, but really a lead).
First, I just cannot believe that Tilda Swinton got hersingle Oscar nomination (and win) for her role in Michael Clayton (everything is just average about this movie) ....considering that she was not even nominated for The Deep End, We Need to Talk About Kevin and,her tour de force in Julia...Rachel Weisz should`ve gotten her second nod for her amazing turn in The Deep Blue Sea ( incandescent) , Jennifer Connelly for Requiem for a Dream and House of Sand and Fog ( she`s ethereally beautiful and heartbreaking in every single shot ), Gwyneth Paltrow was robbed a nod for her performance in Proof ( she`s superb and never plays for easy sympathy) ...I wish the Academy had rewarded Anna Paquin for Margaret ( what a stunning performance in a brilliant film)..Say whatever you like,Love Kim Basinger win for L.A. Confidential , and if you don`t agree , check her out in The Burning Plain ( second nod ?) and The Door in the Floor...Have no idea how C.Z. Jones , Halle Berry ,Jennifer Hudson and Patricia Arquette won over Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett and Keira Knightley respectively.... Guess Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larson and Alicia Vikander are the most likely to leaving the "1 and done" club with a second Oscar nomination...so my top 10- ( leading and supporting)
1-PALTROW
2-WEISZ
3-LARSON
4-HUNTER
5-CONNELLY
6-SWINTON
7-FLETCHER
8-HUNT
9-BASINGER
10- MARIE SAINT
Skylar I am afraid to say i;m with you on Lupita,I find it all hype over actuak substance.She seems so nice thoughbut that's a definite one time visit for her.
Top 10 / Favorite:
Mo'Nique
Gwyneth Paltrow
Patty Duke
Hattie McDaniel
Kim Hunter
Dorothy Malone
Jo Van Fleet
Rita Moreno
Judy Holliday
Sandy Dennis
Second Oscar nomination?
Brie Larson
Rachel Weisz
Rita Moreno
Lupita Nyong'o
Alicia Vikander
Tilda Swinton
Unranked.
Louise Fletcher
Eva Marie Saint
Rita Moreno
Patty Duke
Linda Hunt
Brenda Fricker
Anna Paquin
Tilda Swinton
Mo’Nique
Lupita Nyong’o
Lupita or Rachel Weisz will get second noms. Tilda, Brie, Alicia V, or Catherine Zeta might as well.
As for favorites, I LOVE Shirley Booth in Come Back, Little Sheba. I watched it during one of the Supporting Actress smackdowns and was blown away-- Booth absolutely gets the character. If only they'd have casted an everyman to play against her. Lancaster was far too unbelievable as her husband.
Why are foreign actress out of the equation?
What's most interesting for me is how Helen Hunt would've been on this list a mere few years ago, and no one would've expected her to get a second nomination. I'm curious as to who that's going to be now.
"Why are foreign actress out of the equation?"
There are no "One-and-done" foreign actress winners; Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard have more than one nomination.
Lead: Honestly I don't really love any of these performances or movies
1. Bire Larson
2. Ginger Rogers
3. Judy Holliday (but it hurts bc it should have been Bette's or Gloria's)
4. Gwyneth Paltrow
5. Halle Berry
6. Marlee Matlin
7. Shirley Booth
8. ****Category Fraud***Louise Fletcher (This is such a supporting role, don't understand why its
lead. She doesn't have her OWN scene in the movie!)
Leaving the 1 and Done Club:
1. Tilda Swinton
2. Rachel Weisz
3. Alicia Vikander
4. Brie Larson
5. Lupita N'Yongo
6. Anna Paquin
7. Halle Berry
8. Kim Basinger
9. Jennifer Connely
10. Octavia Spencer
I've seen all the Best Actress performances and all but 4 of the Supporting Actress performances.
You asked for favorites - NOT best. It would be so much work to try to decide who I thought gave the best 10 performances, but my favorite 10 were fairly easy to determine:
Shirley Booth
Brie Larson
Hatie McDaniel
Patty Duke
Sandy Dennis
Tatum O"Neal
Linda Hunt
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Mo'NIque
Octavia Spencer
I seem to have a preference for feisty African American performances, don't I?
Most likely to be nominated again:
Brie Larson
Tilda Swinton
Alicia Vikander
Oscar to Tilda Swinton (in the picture):
"Mommy, when will you gimme the brother you promised?"