Academy Awards; Nominees and Winners - Leading Actress 1927-1939

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Academy Awards: Nominees and Winners - Actress in a Leading Role 1927-1939

· 1927/1928 Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven as Diane, Street Angel as Angela, and Sunrise as The Wife - Indre (winner)
o Louise Dresser - A Ship Comes In as Mrs. Pleznik
o Gloria Swanson - Sadie Thompson as Sadie Thompson
· 1928/1929 Mary Pickford - Coquette as Norma Besant
o Ruth Chatterton - Madame X as Jacqueline Floriot
o Betty Compson - The Barker as Carrie
o Jeanne Eagels - The Letter as Leslie Crosbie
o Corinne Griffith - The Divine Lady as Lady Emma Hart Hamilton
o Bessie Love - The Broadway Melody as Hank Mahoney

· 1930 Norma Shearer - The Divorcee as Jerry Bernard Martin (winner)
o Nancy Carroll - The Devil's Holiday as Hallie Hobart
o Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son as Sarah Storm
o Greta Garbo - Anna Christie as Anna Christie and Romance as Madame Rita Cavallini
o Norma Shearer - Their Own Desire as Lucia 'Lally' Marlett
o Gloria Swanson - The Trespasser as Marion Donnell

· 1931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill as Min Divot, Inkeeper (winner)
o Marlene Dietrich - Morocco as Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
o Irene Dunne - Cimarron as Sabra Cravat
o Ann Harding - Holiday as Linda Seton
o Norma Shearer - A Free Soul as Jan Ashe

· 1932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet (winner)
o Marie Dressler - Emma as Emma Thatcher Smith
o Lynn Fontanne - The Guardsman as The Actress

· 1933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory as Eva Lovelace (winner)
o May Robson - Lady for a Day as Apple Annie
o Diana Wynyard - Cavalcade as Jane Marryot

· 1934 Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night as Ellie Andrews (winner)
o Grace Moore - One Night of Love as Mary Barrett
o Norma Shearer - The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Elizabeth Barrett

· 1935 Bette Davis - Dangerous as Joyce Heath (winner)
o Elisabeth Bergner - Escape Me Never as Gemma Jones
o Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds as Dr. Jane Everest
o Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams as Alice Adams
o Miriam Hopkins - Becky Sharp as Becky Sharp
o Merle Oberon - The Dark Angel as Kitty Vane

· 1936 Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld as Anna Held (winner)
o Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild as Theodora Lynn
o Gladys George - Valiant Is the Word for Carrie as Carrie Snyder
o Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey as Irene Bullock
o Norma Shearer - Romeo and Juliet as Juliet - Daughter to Capulet

· 1937 Luise Rainer - The Good Earth as O-Lan (winner)
o Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth as Lucy Warriner
o Greta Garbo - Camille as Marguerite Gautier
o Janet Gaynor - A Star Is Born as Esther Victoria Blodgett, aka Vicki Lester
o Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas as Stella Martin 'Stell' Dallas

· 1938 Bette Davis - Jezebel as Julie (winner)
o Fay Bainter - White Banners as Hannah Parmalee
o Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion as Eliza Doolittle
o Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette as Marie Antoinette
o Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades as Patricia 'Pat' Hollmann

· 1939 Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara - Their Daughter (winner)
o Bette Davis - Dark Victory as Judith Traherne
o Irene Dunne - Love Affair as Terry McKay
o Greta Garbo - Ninotchka as Nina Yakushova 'Ninotchka' Ivanoff
o Greer Garson - Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Katherine

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  • Greatest year. Love my Vivien Leigh. 

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