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Poll: Actors Who Won an Oscar for Their Debut Film

A poll by cartman_1337.
These actors won an Oscar for their very first theatrical film. Which performance do you find most impressive and deserving of the Oscar?

Discuss the list here.

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    Jennifer Hudson

    As Effie White in Dreamgirls (2006)
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    Anna Paquin

    As Flora McGrath in The Piano (1993)
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    Marlee Matlin

    As Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God (1986)
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    Haing S. Ngor

    As Dith Pran in The Killing Fields (1984)
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    Timothy Hutton

    As Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980)
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    Tatum O'Neal

    As Addie Pray in Paper Moon (1973)
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    Barbra Streisand

    As Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968)
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    Julie Andrews

    As Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (1964)
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    Jo Van Fleet

    As Cathy Ames in East of Eden (1955)
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    Eva Marie Saint

    As Edie Doyle in On the Waterfront (1954)
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    Shirley Booth

    As Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
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    Mercedes McCambridge

    As Sadie Burke in All the King's Men (1949)
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    Harold Russell

    As Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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    Katina Paxinou

    As Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
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    Gale Sondergaard

    As Faith in Anthony Adverse (1936)
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    Lupita Nyong'o

    As Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013)

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