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Poll: Actors and Actresses Who Won Oscars for Their First Films

These actors and actresses won an Oscar for their first film.

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    Gale Sondergaard

    Best Supporting Actress (1937) in Anthony Adverse
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    Katina Paxinou

    Best Supporting Actress (1944) in For Whom the Bell Tolls
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    Harold Russell

    Best Supporting Actor (1947) in The Best Years of Our Lives
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    Mercedes McCambridge

    Best Supporting Actress (1950) in All the King's Men
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    Shirley Booth

    Best Actress (1953) in Come Back, Little Sheba
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    Eva Marie Saint

    Best Supporting Actress (1955) in On the Waterfront
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    Jo Van Fleet

    Best Supporting Actress (1956) in East of Eden
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    Julie Andrews

    Best Actress (1965) in Mary Poppins
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    Barbra Streisand

    Best Actress (1969) in Funny Girl
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    Tatum O'Neal

    Best Supporting Actress (1974) in Paper Moon
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    Timothy Hutton

    Best Supporting Actor (1981) Ordinary People
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    Haing S. Ngor

    Best Supporting Actor (1985) in The Killing Fields
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    Anna Paquin

    Best Supporting Actress (1994) in The Piano
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    Jennifer Hudson

    Best Supporting Actress (2007) in Dreamgirls
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    Lupita Nyong'o

    Best Supporting Actress (2014) in 12 Years a Slave
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    Marlee Matlin

    Best Actress in a Leading Role (1987) in Children of a Lesser God

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