Best Female Performances - 1950s

#1

as Tracy Samantha Lord in "High Society" (1956)

#8

as Lisa Carol Fremont in "Rear Window" (1954)

#10

as Frances Stevens in "To Catch a Thief" (1955)

#21

as Georgie Elgin in "The Country Girl" (1954)

#32

as Amy Fowler Kane in "High Noon" (1952)

#35

as Margot Mary Wendice in "Dial 'M' for Murder" (1954)

#43

as Linda Nordley in "Mogambo" (1953)

#2

as Margo Channing in "All About Eve" (1950)

#3

as Sabrina Fairchild in "Sabrina" (1954)

#12

as Princess Ann in "Roman Holiday" (1953)

#15

as Jo Stockton in "Funny Face" (1957)

#28

as Ariane Chavasse/Thin Girl in "Love in the Afternoon" (1957)

#51

as Natasha Rostova in "War and Peace" (1956)

#70

as Sister Luke in "The Nun's Story" (1959)

#4

as Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)

#5

as Madeleine Elster in "Vertigo" (1958)

#6

as Emma 'Billie' Dawn in "Born Yesterday" (1950)

#7

as Maria Vargas in "Barefoot Contessa" (1954)

#16

as Julie LaVerne in "Show Boat" (1951)

#31

as Cynthia Green in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952)

#55

as Honey Bear Kelly in "Mogambo" (1953)

#9

as Vicki Lester/Esther Blodgett in "A Star is Born" (1954)

#22

as Jane Falbury in "Summer Stock" (1950)

#11

as Angela Vickers in "A Place in the Sun" (1951)

#24

as Margaret 'Maggie the Cat' Pollitt in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958)

#40

as Catherine Holly in "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959)

#56

as Kay Banks in "Father of the Bride" (1950)

#78

as Leslie Benedict in "Giant" (1956)

#93

as Rebecca in "Ivanhoe" (1952)

#13

as Eve Kendall in "North By Northwest" (1959)

#14

as Eve in "All About Eve" (1950)

#30

as Nefretiri in "The Ten Commandments" (1956)

#17

as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in"Some Like it Hot" (1959)

#41

as The Girl in "Seven Year Itch" (1955)

#50

as Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953)

#58

as Pola Debevoise in "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953)

#81

as Vicky in "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954)

#96

as Miss Lois Laurel in "Monkey Business" (1952)

#18

as Karin in "Stromboli" (1950)

#19

as Sergeant Sarah Brown in "Guys and Dolls" (1955)

#62

as Julie Maragon in "The Big Country" (1958)

#20

as Lise Bouvier in "An American in Paris" (1951)

#48

as Gigi in "Gigi" (1958)

#92

as Lili Daurier in "Lili" (1953)

#23

as Mrs. Violet Venable in "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959)

#42

as Rose Sayer in "The African Queen" (1951)

#88

as Lizzie Curry in "The Rainmaker" (1956)

#25

as Karen Holmes in "From Here to Eternity" (1953)

#67

as Sibyl Railton-Bell in "Separate Tables" (!958)

#75

as Anna Leonowens in "The King and I" (1956)

#86

as Portia in "Julius Caesar" (1953)

#26

as Annie Jones in "The Actress" (1953)

#27

as Christine Vole in "Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

#29

as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)

#33

as Susie Vargas in "Touch of Evil" (1958)

#72

as Morgana in "The Vikings" (1958)

#34

as Joy Henderson in "Les Girls" (1957)

#53

as Ensign Nellie Forbush, USN in "South Pacific" (1958)

#36

as Dorothy Shaw in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953)

#37

as Alma 'Lorene' Burke in "From Here to Eternity" (1953)

#38

as Kathy Selden in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)

#39

as Lora Meredith in "Imitation of Life" (1959)

#79

as Georgia Larisson in "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952)

#44

as Lucy Moore Hadley in "Written on the Wind" (1956)

#57

as Schatze Page in "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953)

#45

as Karen in "All About Eve" (1950)

#61

as Liz Imbrie in "High Society" (1956)

#46

as Jackie Leighton in "It's Always Fair Weather" (1955)

#65

as Fiona Campbell in "Brigadoon" (1954)

#47

as Jane Avril in "Moulin Rouge" (1952)

#49

as Josephine Conway McKenna in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956)

#80

as Julie Benton in "Julie" (1956)

#52

as Mary Kate Danaher in "The Quiet Man" (1952)

#54

as Sharon Kensington in "Career" (1959)

#71

as Ginnie Moorehead in "Some Came Running" (1958)

#59

as Loco Dempsey in "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953)

#60

as Helene Kuragina in "War and Peace" (1956)

#63

as Debbie Edwards in "The Searchers" (1956)

#84

as Judy in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955)

#64

as Anne Frank in "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959)

#66

as Eve White/Eve Black/Jane in "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957)

#68

as Helen in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952)

#89

as Lillian Roth in "Ill Cry Tomorrow" (1955)

#100

as Vinnie Holt in "Rawhide" (1951)

#69

as Rose Balestrero in "The Wrong Man" (1956)

#85

as Laurie Jorgensen in "The Searchers" (1956)

#73

as Mrs. Edwina Fulton in "Monkey Business" (1952)

#74

as Ann Shankland in "Separate Tables" (1958)

#76

as Betty Haynes in "White Christmas" (1954)

#77

as Marcia Jeffries in "A Face in the Crowd" (1957)

#82

as Marian Starrett in "Shane" (1953)

#83

as Gidget in "Gidget" (1959)

#98

as Molly Jorgenson in "A Summer Place" (1959)

#87

as Feathers in "Rio Bravo" (1959)

#90

as Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth in "Cheaper by the Dozen" (1950)

#91

as Alice Tripp in "A Place in the Sun" (1951)

#94

as Helen Berger Miller in "The Glenn Miller Story" (1953)