2007-02-22 02:48:48 · 3 answers · asked by one_angry_beaver 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
For best actor/actress, six women and two men:
Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)
Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba),
Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins),
Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl),
Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God).
Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
For best supporting actor/actress, it lists 7:
Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)
Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men)
Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)
Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden)
Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower)
Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
Anna Paquin (The Piano)
The article mentions men who won best supporting actor for a debut performance, but doesn't name them; I infer that there are about four of them.
So all told, around 20.
(I'm not sure why the article didn't list Audrey Hepburn. Roman Holiday wasn't her first movie, but Gandhi wasn't Ben Kingsley's first movie, either. It kind of depends on how you define "debut", really. And none of them were inexperienced: all had worked on stage or TV for a long time before jumping to film.)
2007-02-22 06:18:05 · answer #1 · answered by jfengel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Audrey Hepburn won the Academy Award for her debut role in Roman Holiday in 1953.
2007-02-22 11:07:04 · answer #2 · answered by Fred C. Dobbs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a huge question: 73 Academy Awards times 20 - about a thousand actors there (considering multiple noms/awards).
Marlee Matlin won for "Children of A Lesser God", her debut, back in 1986.
2007-02-22 10:59:55 · answer #3 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋