Poll: Actors Who Won an Oscar for Their Debut Film

Results of 1,381 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Julie Andrews

    

   As Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (1964)
2. 2.
   

   Lupita Nyong'o

    

   As Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013)
3. 3.
   

   Anna Paquin

    

   As Flora McGrath in The Piano (1993)
4. 4.
   

   Barbra Streisand

    

   As Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968)
5. 5.
   

   Jennifer Hudson

    

   As Effie White in Dreamgirls (2006)
6. 6.
   

   Timothy Hutton

    

   As Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980)
7. 7.
   

   Eva Marie Saint

    

   As Edie Doyle in On the Waterfront (1954)
8. 8.
   

   Tatum O'Neal

    

   As Addie Pray in Paper Moon (1973)
9. 9.
   

   Haing S. Ngor

    

   As Dith Pran in The Killing Fields (1984)
10. 10.
    

    Marlee Matlin

     

    As Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God (1986)
11. 11.
    

    Harold Russell

     

    As Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
12. 12.
    

    Katina Paxinou

     

    As Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
13. 13.
    

    Shirley Booth

     

    As Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
14. 14.
    

    Jo Van Fleet

     

    As Cathy Ames in East of Eden (1955)
15. 15.
    

    Gale Sondergaard

     

    As Faith in Anthony Adverse (1936)
16. 16.
    

    Mercedes McCambridge

     

    As Sadie Burke in All the King's Men (1949)