Best Actress: The Golden Globes vs. Oscar
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How good are Golden Globes at predicting the Oscar for Best Actress? Let's look at the statistics.
Below is a chart detailing the history of the Golden Globe selections for Best Actress and the Oscars. |
| The 1990's |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |