Best Actress 1959
Winner: Simone Signoret, Room at the Top
Nominees: Doris Day, Pillow Talk
Audrey Hepburn, The Nun's Story
Katharine Hepburn, Suddenly, Last Summer
Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly, Last Summer

The Field: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Ranking Oscar's Ballot
 
 My Pick:
Katharine Hepburn, Suddenly, Last Summer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

From There:
Doris Day, Pillow Talk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Simone Signoret, Room at the Top ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly, Last Summer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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


My Favorites from 1959:
(As determined by years of Oscar eligibility)

My Pick: Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot
Nominees: Audrey Hepburn, The Nun's Story
Nominees: Katharine Hepburn, Suddenly, Last Summer
Nominees: Lee Remick, Anatomy of a Murder
Nominees: Lana Turner, Imitation of Life

Honorable Mentions: Eva Marie Saint, North by Northwest Doris Day, Pillow Talk

Also-Rans (alpha): Marpessa Dawn, Black Orpheus; Lelia Goldoni, Shadows; Anna Magnani, The Fugitive Kind; Heather Sears, Room at the Top; Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly, Last Summer; Joanne Woodward, The Fugitive Kind

Gourmet Prospects: Bibi Andersson, Brink of Life; Karuna Bannerjee, Aparajito; Claire Bloom, Look Back in Anger; Eva Dahlbeck, Brink of Life; Dorothy Dandridge, Porgy and Bess; Danielle Darrieux, Lady Chatterley's Lover; Angie Dickinson, Rio Bravo; Machiko Kyô, Street of Shame; Jeanne Moreau, Les Amants; Ingrid Thulin, Brink of Life

Further Research: Barbara Bel Geddes, The Five Pennies; May Britt, The Blue Angel; Susan Cummings, Verboten!; Olivia de Havilland, Libel; Ava Gardner, On the Beach; Susan Hayward, Woman Obsessed; Audrey Hepburn, Green Mansions; Susan Kohner, The Big Fisherman; Bernadette Lafont, Les Mistons; Hope Lange, The Best of Everything; Sophia Loren, That Kind of Woman; Shirley MacLaine, Ask Any Girl; Shirley MacLaine, Career; Dorothy McGuire, A Summer Place; Michèle Morgan, The Mirror Has Two Faces; Kim Novak, Middle of the Night; Lilli Palmer, But Not for Me; Eleanor Parker, A Hole in the Head; Millie Perkins, The Diary of Anne Frank; Debbie Reynolds, The Mating Game; Barbara Rush, The Young Philadelphians; Maria Schell, The Hanging Tree; Jean Seberg, The Mouse that Roared; Inger Stevens, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil; Ingrid Thulin, The Magician; Joanne Woodward, The Sound and the Fury; Dana Wynter, Shake Hands with the Devil

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