Best Actress 1950
Winner: Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday
Nominees: Anne Baxter, All About Eve
Bette Davis, All About Eve
Eleanor Parker, Caged
Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard

The Field: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Ranking Oscar's Ballot
 
 My Pick:
Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

From There:
Bette Davis, All About Eve ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Eleanor Parker, Caged ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Anne Baxter, All About Eve ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Who gets your vote in this field, and on my dream ballot below? VOTE HERE!


My Favorites from 1950:

My Pick: Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard
Nominees: Anne Baxter, All About Eve
Nominees: Bette Davis, All About Eve
Nominees: Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday
Nominees: Eleanor Parker, Caged

Honorable Mentions: Katharine Hepburn, Adam's Rib; Mala Powers, Outrage; Alida Valli, The Third Man


Gourmet Prospects: Barbara Bel Geddes, Panic in the Streets; Ingrid Bergman, Stromboli; Joan Crawford, Harriet Craig; Peggy Cummins, Gun Crazy; Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place; Valerie Hobson, Kind Hearts and Coronets; Gertrude Lawrence, The Glass Menagerie; Barbara Stanwyck, The File on Thelma Jordon; Barbara Stanwyck, The Furies; Barbara Stanwyck, No Man of Her Own; Shelley Winters, Winchester '73; Teresa Wright, The Men

Further Research: Lauren Bacall, Young Man with a Horn; Barbara Britton, The Bandit Queen; Pamela Britton, D.O.A.; Claudette Colbert, The Secret Fury; Linda Darnell, No Way Out; Nancy Davis, The Next Voice You Hear; Doris Day, Tea for Two; Laraine Day, I Married a Communist; Marlene Dietrich, Stage Fright; Ellen Drew, Stars in My Crown; Irene Dunne, Never a Dull Moment; Judy Garland, Summer Stock; Greer Garson, The Miniver Story; Betty Grable, My Blue Heaven; Kathryn Grayson, The Toast of New Orleans; Wanda Hendrix, The Admiral Was a Lady; Ruth Hussey, Louisa; Deborah Kerr, King Solomon's Mines; Deborah Kerr, Please Believe Me; Margaret Leighton, The Winslow Boy; Anna Magnani, L'Amore; Marilyn Maxwell, Outside the Wall; Virginia Mayo, Backfire; Patricia Neal, The Breaking Point; Cathy O'Donnell, Side Street; Maureen O'Hara, Rio Grande; Dorothy Patrick, Tarnished; Mala Powers, Cyrano de Bergerac; Ginger Rogers, Perfect Strangers; Gail Russell, The Lawless; Rosalind Russell, A Woman of Distinction; Lizabeth Scott, Dark City; Ann Sheridan, Stella; Ann Sheridan, Woman on the Run; Ann Sothern, Nancy Goes to Rio; Ann Sothern, Shadow on the Wall; Margaret Sullavan, No Sad Songs for Me; Elizabeth Taylor, Father of the Bride; Gene Tierney, Night and the City; Ann Todd, Madeleine; Märta Torén, One Way Street; Claire Trevor, Borderline; Lana Turner, A Life of Her Own; Alida Valli, Walk Softly, Stranger; Ruth Warrick, Beauty on Parade; Patricia White, The Tattooed Stranger; Esther Williams, Pagan Love Song; Teresa Wright, The Capture; Jane Wyman, Stage Fright; Loretta Young, Key to the City

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