Top 10 Best Celebrities Who Won Oscars for Their First Movie


10. Eva Marie Saint
Best Supporting Actress for On the Waterfront, 1954

Eva Marie Saint is an American actress and producer. She is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
9. Jo Van Fleet
Best Supporting Actress for East of Eden, 1955

Catherine Josephine "Jo" Van Fleet was an American theatre and film actress. Known primarily for playing roles older than she was, her career spanned over three decades, and she won an Academy Award as well as a Tony Award.
8. Shirley Booth
Best Actress for Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952

Shirley Booth was an American stage, film, radio and television actress. Primarily a theater actress, Booth's Broadway career began in 1925.
7. Tatum O'Neal
Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon, 1973

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won in 1974 at age 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal.
6. Marlee Matlin
Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God, 1986

Marlee Beth Matlin is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Children of a Lesser God, and is both the only deaf performer to win the award, and, at 21, the youngest to date.
5. Lupita Nyong'o
Best Supporting Actress for 12 Years a Slave, 2013

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o is a Mexican-Kenyan actress and film director. She was born in Mexico to Kenyan parents, and was raised in Kenya.
4. Jennifer Hudson
Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls, 2006

Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American singer, actress and spokesperson. She rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on the third season of American Idol, coming in seventh place.
3. Anna Paquin
Best Supporting Actress for The Piano, 1993

Anna Helene Paquin is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Her first film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in March 1994 at the age of 11, making her the second youngest winner in Oscar history.
2. Barbra Streisand
Best Actress for Funny Girl, 1968

Barbara Joan Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. During a career spanning six decades, she has become an icon in multiple fields of entertainment, winning numerous awards, and has earned her recognition as Mother of All Contemporary Pop Divas or Queen of The Divas.
1. Julie Andrews
Best Actress for Mary Poppins, 1964

Dame Julia "Julie" Elizabeth Andrews, DBE, is an English film and stage actress, singer, author, theatre director and dancer.