Oscar Winning Debut Performances!

Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973)

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Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993)

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Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952)

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Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964)

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Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God, 1986)

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Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006)

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Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields, 1984)

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Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, 1980)

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Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men, 1949)

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Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946)

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