Let's undo the mistakes of the Academy Award for Best Actress!

Emanuelle Riva for Amour instead of JLaw for fucking Harvey Weinstein.

I'll start if I may:

* dentotes that the person actually did win and no correction was necessary

1928: Gloria Swanson (Sadie Thompson)

1929: Mary Pickford (Coquette) *

1930: Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) *

1931: Marie Dressler (Min And Bill) *

1932: Helen Hayes (The Sins of Madelon Claudet) *

1933: May Robson (Lady For A Day)

1934: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) *

1935: Katherine Hepburn (Alice Adams)

1936: Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey)

1937: Greta Garbo (Camille)

1938: Bette Davis (Jezebel) *

1939: Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind) *

I shall point out dear friends that we cannot actually alter the nominees as linked above, or move submissions to other years. We must have some semblance of reality!

You will notice I've removed both awards from Louise Rainer. This may seem harsh but I think she was lucky just to be nominated.

OP?

Enough.

twernt fer her affair with weinstein she be award less......unfair !

We need to start at the beginning though!

1940: Joan Fontaine (Rebecca)

1941: Bette Davis (The Little Foxes)

1942: Greer Garson (Mrs Minver) *

1943: Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette) *

1944: Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) *

1945: Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) *

1946: Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)

1947: Rosalind Russell (Mourning Becomes Electra)

1948: Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)

1949: Olivia DeHavilland (The Heiress) *

Oh no don’t remove from Luise Rainer!!!

R9 I had to. Carole Lombard gave one of the vest screwball performances in "My Man Godfrey" and deserved recognition. It would also be important to her and validate truly great comedic performances.

Greta had to win for "Camille" as its an iconic performance. Luise was dreadful as that China-woman.

Any thoughts?

1950: Bette Davis (All About Eve)

1951: Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire) *

1952: Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba) *

1953: Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday) *

1954: Judy Garland (A Star Is Born)

1955: Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo) *

1956: Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia) *

1957: Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) *

1958: Deborah Kerr (Separate Tables)

1959: Simone Signoret (Room At The Top) *

1960: Shirley Maclaine (The Apartment)

1961: Sophia Loren (Two Women) *

1962: Geraldine Page (Sweet Bird of Youth)

1963: Patricia Neal (Hud) *

1964: Kim Stanley (Seance On a Wet Afternoon)

1965: Julie Christie (Darling) *

1966: Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) *

1967: Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)

1968: Katharine Hepburn (The Lion In Winter) **

1969: Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) *

Streisand also won in 1968

R14 we are correcting the mistakes of yore and awarding the most deserving winner. A * denotes that that person actually won the award.

It's a bit churlish to remove Barbra from 1968.

1970: Glenda Jackson (Women In Love) *

1971: Jane Fonda (Klute) *

1972: Liza Minnelli (Cabaret) *

1973: Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist)

1974: Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under The Influence)

1975: Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H)

1976: Faye Dunaway (Network) *

1977: Diane Keaton (Annie Hall) *

1978: TIE Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman) and Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata)

1979: Sally Field (Norma Rae) *

Give Sandra Bullock’s Oscar to well any of the other nominees in the best actress category that year.

Any suggestions?

Gwyneth Paltrow's best acting was in Two Lovers, two bad Joaquin Phoenix didn't promote it properly, it was a very good movie and should have had a wider audience.

So far I’m ok with OP’s selections.

Would anybody like me to finish my lists?

Diane Keaton plays herself in Annie Hall. I guess at the time it was a big deal, but in retrospect after giving so many similar performances, it really isn't that special.

She's given much better, multi layered performances

R23 problem is the only other year she could have won was 1981 for "Reds" and there's no one else to award for 1977. Maybe if she had been nominated for Goodbar instead?

Does anybody recommend any changes to the lists I have posted so far?

Please continue, OP. There will probably be more reactions to the more recent choices.

OP is DJT

#28 and I’m the first one to say: Judy Garland for a Star Is Born

Ann-Margret for "Tommy", Louise Fletcher should have been in supporting.

1980: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter *

1981: Susan Sarandon (Atlantic City)

1982: Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice) *

1983: Julie Walters (Educating Rita)

1984: Judy Davis (A Passage To India)

1985: Whoopi Goldberg (The Colour Purple)

1986: Sigourney Weaver (Aliens)

1987: Cher (Moonstruck) *

1988: Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons)

1989: Michelle Pfeiffer (The Fabulous Baker Boys)

For the 1968 draw I was considering having a tie between Hepburn and Redgrave for "Isadora". Thoughts?

Thanks R26 for your encouragement. I don't understand why these threads enrage some people

As Shirley M had already got her award for "The Apartment" and Geraldine Page for "Sweet Bird Of Youth" there was no need to give them make up Oscars in the 80s.

1990: Kathy Bates (Misery) *

1991: Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs) *

1992: Emma Thompson (Howards End) *

1993: Holly Hunter (The Piano) *

1994: Jessica Lange (Blue Sky) *

1995: Meryl Streep (The Bridges of Madison County)

1996: Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies)

1997: Judi Dench (Mrs Brown)

1998: Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station)

1999: Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) *

[quote]1994: Jessica Lange (Blue Sky) *

[quote]1995: Meryl Streep (The Bridges of Madison County)

I love you, op...

I’d give the 1986 award to a Kathleen Turner for Peggy Sue Got Married. She made me laugh and broke my heart in the same movie.

R36 I was considering a win for her and I'm open to changing it.

2000: Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) *

2001: Sissy Spacek (In The Bedroom)

2002: Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven)

2003: Charlize Theron (Monster) *

2004: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)

2005: Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)

2006: Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal)

2007: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) *

2008: Meryl Streep (Doubt)

2009: Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)

2010: Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)

2011: Viola Davis (The Help)

2012: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)

2013: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) *

2014: Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

2015: Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)

2016: Isabelle Huppert (Elle)

2017: Frances McDormand (Three Billboards) *

2018: Olivia Colman (The Favourite) *

2019: Renée Zellweger (Judy) *

I love the win for Sidibe.

Either Glenn Close gets the award for 1987 or this is all for naught.

I was going to give Glenn 1987 but her best work is Dangerous Liaisons IMO and Cher's awards is more for all 3 1987 movies anyway. I was also going to give Holly Hunter 1987 but her win for The Piano is undeniable.

I'd love to see other people's lists!

Sorry OP, but anyone who can't spell the Viennese Teardrop's name properly and thinks Mary Pickford deserved her Oscar for Coquette is a hack in my book!

honestly, Sonny Bono made more interesting film choices.

Autocorrect changed Luise to Louise.

I haven't watched any movies from Pickford's year so kept the status quo.

R45 I did the best I could with the designated nominees of each year.

Will you be doing anything like this for the Emmys, the Tonys, or the Golden Globes?

R47 No I don't think so but I might try Best Actor and the supporting categories, if you would enjoy?

Any suggestions on changes to my lists?

Lovely

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OP - (if you are still monitoring your thread).

I'd give Kathy Bates' Misery Oscar to Angelica Huston for The Grifters. Have you watched it recently? Huston really is fucking amazing!...THEN - I'd give Jodie Foster's Silence Oscar to Bates for Dolores Claiborne: a more fully realized performance in a much better movie. Jodie doesn't need two. I loved her in Silence when the movie came out. Last time I attempted to watch, her mannerisms drove me crazy and I had to shut it off....

OP - (if you are still monitoring your thread).

I'd give Kathy Bates' Misery Oscar to Angelica Huston for The Grifters. Have you watched it recently? Huston really is fucking amazing!...THEN - I'd give Jodie Foster's Silence Oscar to Bates for Dolores Claiborne: a more fully realized performance in a much better movie. Jodie doesn't need two. I loved her in Silence when the movie came out. Last time I attempted to watch, her mannerisms drove me crazy and I had to shut it off....

Sidibe is triumphed after a decade of cruelty? Hmmm

Maybe in 2-3 years Jennifer Lawrence will be triumphed for being electrically alive in performance and not a 90yo playing sick.

R49 Needs plenty of changes!

No Brooklyn win for Saoirse, yuck. And no win for Reese.

R52, how would that work? Wasn't "The Silence of the Lambs" released three or four years before "Dolores Claiborne"?

The year Jodie won for "Silence", the only film Kathy could have been nominated for would have been "Fried Green Tomatoes". Were you thinking of Susan Sarandon in "Thelma and Louise" getting Jodie's "Silence" Oscar and then Kathy Bates getting Sarandon's "Dead Man Walking" win in the year Dolores Claiborne would have been nominated?

The nominees at the 2nd Oscars are mostly nothing to brag about, but Jeanne Eagels for The Letter would have been the right choice. Pickford’s win was so bad they changed the rules.