Oscar Records: Actors Winning the Award for their First Screen Role
My Oscar Book:
Sondergaard, Gale, 1936, Anthony Adverse
Paxinou, Katine, 1943, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Russell, Harold, 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives
McCambridge, Mercedes, 1949, All the King’s Men
Booth, Shirley, 1952, Come Back Little Sheba
Saint, Eva Marie, 1954, On the Waterfront
Van Fleet, Jo, 1955, East of Eden
Andrews, Julie, 1964, Mary Poppins
Streisand, Barbra, 1967, Funny Girl
O’Neal, Tatum, 1973
Hutton, Timothy, Ordinary People
Haing, Ngor, 1984, The Killing Fields
Matlin, Marlee, 1986, Children of a Lesser God
Paquin, Anna, 1993, The Piano
Hudson, Jennifer, 2006, Dreamgirls
N’ Yongo, Lupita, 2013, 13 Years a Slave
Analysis:
Thirteen of the 16 winners have been female, and only 3 males.
Nine of the 16 winners have been Supporting Actors and Supporting Actresses
