Since today is both Tilda Swinton's birthday and National Love Your Red Hair Day (there's a day for everything) we found ourselves suddenly missing Tilda's redhead years. She's been preferring platinum bold for several years now but for a good long stretch she favored RED.
Hmmm. What does Oscar sound like?
Sudden Listing Impulse after the jump...
Here are all the actresses who won Oscars from their one and only Oscar races (the 1 and dones... so we'll exclude people who got a second via Honorary or who were nominated for multiple roles in the early years before the rules were clear simultaneously).
RANK THEM IN THE COMMENTS. IT'LL BE FUN. Give us your top ten amongst them!
LEAD
(Only about 9% of Best Actress winners only receive 1 nomination throughout their careers)
- Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle, 1940)
- Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday, 1950)
- Shirley Booth (Come Back Little Sheba, 1952)
- Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975)
- Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God, 1986)
- Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love, 1998)
- Halle Berry (Monster's Ball, 2001)
- Brie Larson (Room, 2015)
SUPPORTING
(In stark contrast to leading prizes, approximately 50% of winners in this category are one-timers)
- Hattie McDaniel (Gone With the Wind, 1939)
- Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940)
- Mary Astor (The Great Lie, 1941)
- Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943)
- Josephine Hull (Harvey, 1950)
- Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951)
- Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity, 1953)
- Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
- Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
- Dorothy Malone (Written on the Wind, 1956)
- Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara, 1957)
- Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry, 1960)
- Rita Moreno (West Side Story, 1961)
- Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker, 1962)
- Margaret Rutherford (The VIPS, 1963)
- Lila Kedrova (Zorba the Greek, 1964)
- Sandy Dennis (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 1966)
- Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show, 1971)
- Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973)
- Beatrice Straight (Network, 1976)
- Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard, 1980)
- Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously, 1983)
- Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India, 1984)
- Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck, 1987)
- Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot, 1989)
- Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King, 1991)
- Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993)
- Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite, 1995)
- Kim Basinger (LA Confidential, 1997)
- Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, 2001)
- Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, 2002)
- Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, 2005)
- Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006)
- Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, 2007)
- Mo'Nique (Precious, 2009)
- Octavia Spencer (The Help, 2011)
- Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, 2013)
- Patricia Arquette (Boyhood, 2014)
- Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, 2015)
TWO QUESTIONS
1. Who are your ten favorite among these 47 winning performances?
2. Among the living working actresses on this list which do you think have the best chance of leaving the "1 and done" club with a second Oscar nomination?