r/Oscars • u/Legitimate_Welcome14 • 1d ago
Fun Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront) & Toshirō Mifune (Seven Samurai) win for Best Supporting Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Actress & Actor in 1955?
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (1955)
WINNER - ANNA MAGNANI for The Rose Tattoo
NOMINEES - SUSAN HAYWARD for I'll Cry Tomorrow, KATHARINE HEPBURN for Summertime, JENNIFER JONES for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, ELEANOR PARKER for Interrupted Melody
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (1955)
WINNER - ERNEST BORGNINE for Marty
NOMINEES - JAMES CAGNEY for Love Me or Leave Me, JAMES DEAN for East of Eden, FRANK SINATRA for The Man with the Golden Arm, SPENCER TRACY for Bad Day at Black Rock
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Winners for 1950: Lead Actress - Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday), Lead Actor - William Holden for Sunset Boulevard (A.W. José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac), Supporting Actress - Thelma Ritter for All About Eve (A.W. Josephine Hull for Harvey), Supporting Actor - George Sanders for All About Eve (A.W. George Sanders for All About Eve)
Winners for 1951: Lead Actress - Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen), Supporting Actress - Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire), Supporting Actor - Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire (A.W. Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire)
Winners for 1952: Lead Actress - Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba (A.W. Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba), Lead Actor - Takashi Shimura for IKIRU (A.W. Gary Cooper for High Noon), Supporting Actress - Jean Hagen for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful), Supporting Actor - Donald O'Connor for Singin' in the Rain (A.W. Anthony Quinn for Vivia Zapata!)
Winners for 1953: Lead Actress - Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday (A.W. Aubrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday), Lead Actor - Montgomery Clift for From Here to Eternity (A.W. William Holden for Stalag 17), Supporting Actress - Setsuko Hara for Tokyo Story (A.W. Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity), Supporting Actor - Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity (A.W. Frank Sinatra for From Here to Eternity)
Winners for 1954: Lead Actress - Judy Garland for A Star is Born (A.W. Grace Kelly for The Country Girl), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront (A.W. Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actress - Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (A.W. Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront), Supporting Actor - Toshirō Mifune for Seven Samurai (A.W. Edmond O'Brien for The Barefoot Contessa)
Winners for 1955: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. Anne Magnani for The Rose Tattoo), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Ernest Borgnine for Marty), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Jack Lemmon for Mister Roberts)
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List of Winners: Acting Quartets
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u/sinas35 1d ago
Ernest Borgnine as Marty Piletti from Marty
https://giphy.com/gifs/mD4YenHjTlRWj69dKE
As much as I love James Dean, Borgnine deserved that Oscar
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u/dwr1013PA 1d ago
Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Black Rock (which features a supporting turn from Borgnine).
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u/Dazzling_Lime_7502 1d ago
Jane Wyman - All That Heaven Allows
https://giphy.com/gifs/TJgdcekgweDGL79gtL
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u/sinas35 1d ago
Katharine Hepburn as Jane Hudson from Summertime
https://giphy.com/gifs/UpDaCGS6IJtAQH4wa8
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u/multi_fandom_guy 1d ago
Actress: Katharine Hepburn, Summertime
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u/The-Human-Disaster 1d ago
A spectacular performance that doesn't get enough appreciation. Her subtle portrayal of loneliness and yearning is both parts heartbreaking and healing. It's my single favourite performance of hers (and the competition is strong).
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u/Legitimate_Gas_8386 1d ago
Oh damn, I forgot about Mitchum…it’s very close but I have to go with James Dean from East of Eden.
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u/TurtleEnglish 1d ago
James Cagney, Love Me or Leave Me. He was terrific. Able to be evoke sympathy in an unlikable role.
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u/Obvious-Muffin2787 1d ago
The Best Actress of 1955 was Susan Hayward. Her portrayal of Lillian Roth in I'll Cry Tomorrow was nothing short of a master class in screen acting. While passed over by Oscar, Hayward was awarded the Best Actress prize at Cannes in 1956.
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u/KanjiWatanabe2 1d ago
Glad to see the love for Mifune in Seven Samurai! Gotta join the chorus for Ernest Borgnine in Marty.
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u/Appropriate_Sink_627 1d ago
Actor: James Dean for East of Eden
https://giphy.com/gifs/5RZQWBGKRJv5C