Best Actress

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1938 and the nominees are: 1. Luise Rainer - The Good Earth 2. Irene Donne - The Awful Truth 3. Greta Garbo - Camille 4. Janet Gaynor - A Star is Born 5. Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas - In 1938 Luise Rainer became the first performer to win back-to-back Oscars as well as the first performer to...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 2023 and the nominees are: 1. Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once 2. Cate Blanchett - Tár 3. Ana de Armas - Blonde 4. Andrea Riseborough 5. Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans - In 2023 Michelle Yeoh became the second woman of colour in the 95 year history of the Oscars to win Best Act...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1985 and the nominees are: 1. Sissy Spacek - The River 2. Vanessa Redgrave - The Bostonians 3. Jessica Lange - Country 4. Judy Davis - A Passage to India 5. Sally Field - Places in the Heart - In 1985 Sally Field won her second Oscar playing a widow struggling to save her farm in Places in the Hea...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1959 and the nominees are: 1. Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! 2. Deborah Kerr - Separate Tables 3. Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running 4. Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mama 5. Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - In 1959 Susan Hayward won the Oscar for her portrayal of alleged murder accomplice...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1945 and the nominees are: 1. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight  2. Claudette Colbert - Since You Went Away 3. Bette Davis - Mr. Skeffington 4. Greer Garson - Mrs. Parkington 5. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity  - In 1945 Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for a role that we currently use as...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1954 and the nominees are: 1. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday  2. Leslie Caron - Lili 3. Ava Gardner - Mogambo 4. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity  5. Maggie McNamara - The Moon is Blue - In 1954 Audrey Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress playing a princess going from ‘riches to rags for a d...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 2015 and the nominees are: 1. Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night 2. Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything 3. Julianne Moore - Still Alice 4. Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl 5. Reese Witherspoon - Wild - In 2015 Julianne Moore finally won her Oscar after her fifth nomination for arguably one of t...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 2019 and the nominees are: 1. Lady Gaga - A Star is Born 2. Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me? 3. Olivia Colman - The Favourite 4. Yalitza Aparicio 5. Glenn Close - The Wife - In 2019 Olivia Colman won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Favourite. Glenn-always-so-Close w...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 2020 and the nominees are: Saoirse Ronan - Little Women 2. Charlize Theron - Bombshell 3. Renée Zellweger - Judy 4. Cynthia Erivo - Harriet 5. Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story - In 2020 Renée Zellweger won her second Oscar for portraying Hollywood icon, Judy Garland. This was her first lead act...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1955 and the nominees are: 1. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl 2. Judy Garland - A Star is Born 3. Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina 4. Dorothy Dandridge - Carmen Jones 5. Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession - In 1955 Grace Kelly won her Oscar for The Country Girl shocking audiences around the world as she be...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 2013 and the nominees are: 1. Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty 2. Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook 3. Emmanuelle Riva - Amour 4. Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild 5. Naomi Watts - The Impossible In 2013 the girl on fire herself, Jennifer Lawrence fell walking up the sta...

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The very first episode of Best Actress will be diving in to the always debated 1951 Oscar win for Judy Holliday. With Bette Davis and Gloria Swanson in the same category, it was a clash of the titans to see who would walk away with Oscar gold. Should Judy have won? Guest host Bil Antoniou (co-host of Bad Gay...