[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1938 and the nominees are: Luise Rainer - The Good Earth  Irene Donne - The Awful Truth  Greta Garbo - Camille Janet Gaynor - A Star is Born 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 have two Academy Awards. Her first Oscar was won the year prior for The Great Ziegfeld. If you weren’t aware, this is perhaps one of the most controversial Oscar wins because Luise Rain ..read more

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 2023 and the nominees are: Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once Cate Blanchett - Tár Ana de Armas - Blonde  Andrea Riseborough  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 Actress in a Leading Role for the critical smash hit, Everything Everywhere All at Once. This was one of the most exciting Best Actress Oscar races in recent memory. In my opinion it reall ..read more

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1985 and the nominees are: Sissy Spacek - The River  Vanessa Redgrave - The Bostonians  Jessica Lange - Country Judy Davis - A Passage to India  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 Heart. This was an odd year in that there were 2 other similarly nominated roles for both Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek. Each of films portrayed a woman trying to keep her family and farm ..read more

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1959 and the nominees are: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live! Deborah Kerr - Separate Tables Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mama Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - In 1959 Susan Hayward won the Oscar for her portrayal of alleged murder accomplice Barbara Graham and her eventual execution in a gas chamber. Hayward was known for delivering top shelf performances dealing with dark subject matter and she does not disappoint in, I Want to Live! Baby ..read more

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1945 and the nominees are: Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight  Claudette Colbert - Since You Went Away Bette Davis - Mr. Skeffington Greer Garson - Mrs. Parkington Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity  - In 1945 Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for a role that we currently use as a psychological term in Gaslight. Bergman plays a woman who becomes suspicious of goings-on in her home but is manipulated by her husband into doubting herself which leads her to question her o ..read more

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 2015 and the nominees are: Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything  Julianne Moore - Still Alice Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl Reese Witherspoon - Wild - In 2015 Julianne Moore finally won her Oscar after her fifth nomination for arguably one of the most heartbreaking performances put to screen as a woman suffering from early on set Alzheimer’s disease. An incredibly powerful performance that won her the Golden Globe, SAG, Critics Choice, B ..read more

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1956 and the nominees are: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow Katharine Hepburn - Summertime Jennifer Jones - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing Eleanor Parker - Interrupted Melody - Please note: My mic wasn't working and by default used my laptop mic to record. Apologies for sound quality - will be fixed for future episodes. - In 1956 Anna Magnani became the first Italian - and first non-English speaking woman - to win an Oscar. Tennessee Williams b ..read more

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1976 and the nominees are: Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H. Ann-Margret - Tommy Louise Fletcher - One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Glenda Jackson - Hedda Carol Kane - Hester Street - In 1976 Louise Fletcher won Best Actress for playing one of the most iconic movie villains of all time, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. This film became the first in 41 years to sweep the major categories of Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. I would say Adj ..read more

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1966 and the nominees are: Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music Julie Christie - Darling Samantha Eggar - The Collector Elizabeth Hartman - A Patch of Blue Simone Signoret - Ship of Fools - In 1966 Julie Christie won Best Actress for Darling playing a young London model who sleeps her way to the top (good for you girl). She famously beat Julie Andrews in what is considered her best work in The Sound of Music. Andrews had won the award for Best Actress the year prior so it made her wi ..read more

The year is 1967 and the nominees are: Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Anouk Aimée - A Man and a Woman Ida Kaminska - The Shop on Main Street Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan! - In 1967 Elizabeth Taylor won her second Oscar in a role that is regarded as one of the greatest screen performances ever in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Siblings Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave were also nominated (last time this happened was when Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland were nominated in 1942). There were also two foreign language film performances nominate ..read more