Outstanding ACTRESS Performances - The 1940s

1. BETTE DAVIS “The Letter”(‘40-William Wyler)

2. IRENE DUNNE “My Favorite Wife”(‘40-Garson Kanin)
3. ROSALIND RUSSELL “His Girl Friday”(‘40-Howard Hawks)
4. JEAN ARTHUR “The Devil and Miss Jones”(‘41-Sam Wood)
5. JENNIFER JONES “The Song of Bernadette”(‘43-Henry King)
6. INGRID BERGMAN “Gaslight”(‘44-George Cukor)
7. CLAUDETTE COLBERT “Since You Went Away”(‘44-John Cromwell)
8. IRENE DUNNE “Together Again”(‘44-Charles Vidor)
9. JUDY GARLAND “Meet Me in St.Louis”(‘44-Vincente Minnelli)
10. ANN SAVAGE “Detour”(‘45-Edgar Ulmer)
11. GENE TIERNEY “Leave Her to Heaven”(‘45-John M.Stahl)
12. JOAN CRAWFORD “Humoresque”(‘46-Jean Negulesco)
13. ELEANOR PARKER “Of Human Bondage”(‘46-Edmund Goulding)
14. GENE TIERNEY “The Razor’s Edge’(“46-Edmund Goulding)
15. JOAN BENNETT “The Macomber Affair”(‘47-Zoltan Korda)
16. JANE GREER “Out of the Past”(‘47-Jacques Tourneur)
17. DOROTHY McGUIRE “Gentleman’s Agreement”(‘47-Elia Kazan)
18. MARLENE DIETRICH “A Foreign Affair”(‘48-Billy Wilder)
19. IDA LUPINO “Road House”(‘48-Jean Negulesco)
20. MOIRA SHEARER “The Red Shoes”(‘48-Michael Powell)
21. INGRID BERGMAN “Stromboli”(‘49-Roberto Rossellini)
22. PEGGY CUMMINS “Gun Crazy”(‘49-Joseph H.Lewis
23. BETTE DAVIS “Beyond the Forest”(‘49-King Vidor)
24. OLIVIA de HAVILLAND “The Heiress’(‘49-William Wyler)
25. VALERIE HOBSON “The Rocking Horse Winner”(‘49-Anthony Pelissier)