Oscars - Best Acting Winner: 1971

[Solarie]

Winners


1930/31: Marie Dressler - 'Min and Bill'
1936: Paul Muni - 'The Story of Louis Pasteur'
1939: Vivien Leigh - 'Gone with the Wind'
1940: Jane Darwell - 'The Grapes of Wrath'
1942: James Cagney - 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'
1946: Olivia de Havilland - 'To Each His Own'
1952: Shirley Booth - 'Come Back, Little Sheba'
1954: Marlon Brando - 'On the Waterfront'
1959: Simone Signoret - 'Room at the Top'
1960: Burt Lancaster - 'Elmer Gantry'
1963: Patricia Neal - 'Hud'
1968: Katharine Hepburn - 'The Lion in Winter'
1972: Liza Minnelli - 'Cabaret'
1976: Faye Dunaway - 'Network'
1981: Maureen Stapleton - 'Reds'
1985: Geraldine Page - 'The Trip to Bountiful'
1987:
1990: Whoopi Goldberg - 'Ghost'
1992: Emma Thompson - 'Howards End'
1997: Robin Williams - 'Good Will Hunting'
2000: Julia Roberts - 'Erin Brokovich'
2006: Helen Mirren - 'The Queen'
2007: Marion Cotillard - 'La Vie en Rose'
2012: Daniel Day-Lewis - 'Lincoln' & Anne Hathaway - 'Les Miserables'
2014: J.K. Simmons - 'Whiplash'
2018: Olivia Colman - 'The Favourite'
2020: Anthony Hopkins - 'The Father'

Academy Awards: 1971

Jane Fonda - 'Klute'


Gene Hackman - 'The French Connection'


Cloris Leachman - 'The Last Picture Show'


Ben Johnson - 'The Last Picture Show'

[Denzelfan]

Cloris.

[Jali]

Fonda, Leachman and Johnson are among the best winners in their categories, hard to choose but in the end I went with Leachman.

[mysteryfan04]

This is another strong quartet, but I very recently saw Fonda and was blown away by her work there, so I threw her a vote.

All three movies here are great, too.

[CitizenKian]

Ellen Burstyn Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show

[The Dark Poet]

Great group. Some of Fonda's best work. The rest are really good. Its between the two ladies for me, but I don't really want to vote for LeachMEAN, so I'll go with Jane!

[Pingy]

but I don't really want to vote for LeachMEAN...

[DameOctaviaSpencer]

I never got the hype for Cloris in The Last Picture Show. The whole film was rather pointless and underwhelming in my book.

[GeorgeEastman]

Sam the Lion

[Cooper]

Legend Leachman.

[jimbob]

Fonda

[Elliott?]

Fonda, but holy moly, all four of these are superb. I adore Hackman, but if Topol had won like he should have, this would be arguably the best quartet of winners… ever?

[The Dark Poet]

Great actress, nasty person but that's a topic for another day.

[francesco-natale]

Leachman. I adore Fonda, but there something too "methodish" in her Klute performance for my taste.

[McTeague]

Leachman. I adore Fonda, but there something too "methodish" in her Klute performance for my taste.

Both are metodish compared to Ben Johnson. You can vote for the men too, you know.

[francesco-natale]

Oh, there's men in those polls ? I didn't notice !

[francesco-natale]

I have not seen The Last Picture Show in neons, going to rewatch it this week-end. My brother adore the novel.

[MrJeffery]

I like them all. Clovis was most unexpected for me so went with her.

[Heroesrule99]

Johnson but I voted for Leachman in a futile attempt to stop Fonda from winning

[Flipper]

Now this is a world-class list! Fonda - Johnson - Leachman - Hackman. All superb.