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