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How good are Golden Globes at predicting the Oscar for Best Actress?

Let's look at the statistics.
last 5 years last 10 years Globe history
Golden Globes & Oscar
Best Actress
60% (3 of 5) 80% (8 of 10) 65% (35 of 54)

Below is a chart detailing the history of the Golden Globe selections for Best Actress and the Oscars.

See how the Golden Globes compare to the Academy Awards for Best Picture.

How did the Golden Globes match up to Oscar in the Best Actor category?  What about Supporting Actor and Actress?

Back to the Golden Globes Page on ReedyB's.

The 1990's

Year Golden Globes Actress: Comedy/Musical Golden Globes Actress: Drama Best Actress Oscar
1997 Helen Hunt
As Good As It Gets
Judi Dench
Mrs. Brown
Helen Hunt
As Good As It Gets
1996
Madonna
Evita
Brenda Blethyn
Secrets & Lies
Frances McDormand
Fargo
1995 Nicole Kidman
To Die For
Sharon Stone
Casino
Susan Sarandon
Dead Man Walking
1994 Jamie Lee Curtis
True Lies
Jessica Lange
Blue Sky
Jessica Lange
Blue Sky
1993 Angela Bassett
What's Love Got to Do With It
Holly Hunter
The Piano
Holly Hunter
The Piano
1992 Miranda Richardson
Enchanted April
Emma Thompson
Howards End
Emma Thompson
Howards End
1991 Bette Midler
For the Boys
Jodie Foster
The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster
The Silence of the Lambs
1990 Julia Roberts
Pretty Woman
Kathy Bates
Misery
Kathy Bates
Misery

The 1980's

Year Golden Globes Actress: Comedy/Musical Golden Globes Actress: Drama Best Actress Oscar
1989 Jessica Tandy
Driving Miss Daisy
Michelle Pfeiffer
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Jessica Tandy
Driving Miss Daisy
1988 Melanie Griffith
Working Girl
Jodie Foster
The Accused
Shirley MacLaine
Madame Sousatzka
Sigourney Weaver
Gorillas in the Mist
Jodie Foster
The Accused
1987 Cher
Moonstruck
Sally Kirkland
Anna
Cher
Moonstruck
1986 Sissy Spacek
Crimes of the Heart
Marlee Matlin
Children of a Lesser God
Marlee Matlin
Children of a Lesser God
1985 Kathleen Turner
Prizzi's Honor
Whoopi Goldberg
The Color Purple
Geraldine Page
The Trip to Bountiful
1984 Kathleen Turner
Romancing the Stone
Sally Field
Places in the Heart
Sally Field
Places in the Heart
1983 Julie Walters
Educating Rita
Shirley MacLaine
Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine
Terms of Endearment
1982 Julie Andrews
Victor/Victoria
Meryl Streep
Sophie's Choice
Meryl Streep
Sophie's Choice
1981 Bernadette Peters
Pennies From Heaven
Meryl Streep
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Katherine Hepburn
On Golden Pond
1980 Sissy Spacek
Coal Miner's Daughter
Mary Tyler Moore
Ordinary People
Sissy Spacek
Coal Miner's Daughter

The 1970's

Year Golden Globes Actress: Comedy/Musical Golden Globes Actress: Drama Best Actress Oscar
1979 Bette Midler
The Rose
Sally Field
Norma Rae
Sally Field
Norma Rae
1978 Maggie Smith
California Suite
Ellen Burstyn
Same Time Next Year
Jane Fonda
Coming Home
Jane Fonda
Coming Home
1977 Marsha Mason
The Goodbye Girl
Jane Fonda
Julia
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
1976 Barbra Streisand
A Star is Born
Faye Dunaway
Network
Faye Dunaway
Network
1975 Ann-Margret
Tommy
Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974 Raquel Welch
The Three Musketeers
Gena Rowlands
A Woman Under the Influence
Ellen Burstyn
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1973 Glenda Jackson
A Touch of Class
Marsha Mason
Cinderella Liberty
Glenda Jackson
A Touch of Class
1972 Liza Minelli
Cabaret
Liv Ullman
The Emigrants
Liza Minelli
Cabaret
1971 Twiggy
The Boy Friend
Jane Fonda
Klute
Jane Fonda
Klute
1970 Carrie Snodgress
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Ali MacGraw
Love Story
Glenda Jackson
Women in Love

The 1960's

Year Golden Globes Actress: Comedy/Musical Golden Globes Actress: Drama Best Actress Oscar
1969 Patty Duke
Me Natalie
Genevieve Bujold
Anne of the 1000 Days
Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1968 Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl
Joanne Woodward
Rachel, Rachel
Katherine Hepburn
The Lion in Winter
Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl
1967 Anne Bancroft
The Graduate
Edith Evans
The Whisperers
Katherine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1966 Lynn Redgrave
Georgy Girl
Anouk Aimee
A Man and a Woman
Elizabeth Taylor
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1965 Julie Andrews
The Sound of Music
Samantha Eggar
The Collector
Julie Christie
Darling
1964 Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
Anne Bancroft
The Pumpkin Eater
Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
1963 Shirley MacLaine
Irma La Douce
Leslie Caron
The L-Shaped Room
Patricia Neal
Hud
1962 Rosalind Russell
Gypsy
Geraldine Page
Sweet Bird of Youth
Anne Bancroft
The Miracle Worker
1961 Rosalind Russell
A Majority of One
Geraldine Page
Summer and Smoke
Sophia Loren
Two Women
1960 Shirley MacLaine
The Apartment
Greer Garson
Sunrise at Campobello
Elizabeth Taylor
Butterfield 8

The 1950's

Year Golden Globes Actress: Comedy/Musical Golden Globes Actress: Drama Best Actress Oscar
1959 Marilyn Monroe
Some Like It Hot
Elizabeth Taylor
Suddenly, Last Summer
Simone Signoret
Room at the Top
1958 Rosalind Russell
Auntie Mame
Susan Hayward
I Want to Live!
Susan Hayward
I Want to Live!
1957 Kay Kendall
Les Girls
Joanne Woodward
The Three Faces of Eve
Joanne Woodward
The Three Faces of Eve
1956 Deborah Kerr
The King and I
Ingrid Bergman
Anastasia
Ingrid Bergman
Anastasia
1955 Jean Simmons
Guys and Dolls
Anna Magnani
The Rose Tattoo
Anna Magnani
The Rose Tattoo
1954 Judy Garland
A Star is Born
Grace Kelly
The Country Girl
Grace Kelly
The Country Girl
1953 Ethel Merman
Call Me Madam
Audrey Hepburn
Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn
Roman Holiday
1952 Susan Hayward
With a Song in My Heart
Shirley Booth
Come Back, Little Sheba
Shirley Booth
Come Back, Little Sheba
1951 June Allyson
Too Young to Kiss
Jane Wyman
The Blue Veil
Vivien Leigh
A Streetcar Named Desire
1950 Judy Holliday
Born Yesterday
Gloria Swanson
Sunset Boulevard
Judy Holliday
Born Yesterday

The 1940's

Year Golden Globes Actress: Comedy/Musical Golden Globes Actress: Drama Best Actress Oscar
1949 no award given Olivia de Havilland
The Heiress
Olivia de Havilland
The Heiress
1948 no award given Jane Wyman
Johnny Belinda
Jane Wyman
Johnny Belinda
1947 no award given Rosalind Russell
Mourning Becomes Electra
Loretta Young
The Farmer's Daughter
1946 no award given Rosalind Russell
Sister Kenny
Olivia de Havilland
To Each His Own
1945 no award given Ingrid Bergman
The Bells of St. Mary's
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
1944 no award given Ingrid Bergman
Gaslight
Ingrid Bergman
Gaslight
1943 no award given Jennifer Jones
The Song of Bernadette
Jennifer Jones
The Song of Bernadette
1942 no award given no award given Greer Garson
Mrs. Miniver
1941 no award given no award given Joan Fontaine
Suspicion
1940 no award given no award given Ginger Rogers
Kitty Foyle

The 1930's

Year Golden Globes Actress: Comedy/Musical Golden Globes Actress: Drama Best Actress Oscar
1939 no award given no award given Vivian Leigh
Gone with the Wind
1938 no award given no award given Bette Davis
Jezebel
1937 no award given no award given Luise Rainer
The Good Earth
1936 no award given no award given Luise Rainer
The Great Ziegfeld
1935 no award given no award given Bette Davis
Dangerous
1934 no award given no award given Claudette Colbert
It Happened One Night
1932-33 no award given no award given Katherine Hepburn
Morning Glory
1931-32 no award given no award given Helen Hayes
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1930-31 no award given no award given Marie Dressler
Min and Bill
1929-30 no award given no award given Norma Shearer
The Divorcee

The 1920's

Year Golden Globes Actress: Comedy/Musical Golden Globes Actress: Drama Best Actress Oscar
1928-29 no award given no award given Mary Pickford
Coquette
1927-28 no award given no award given Janet Gaynor
Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise