31 Days of Best Actresses: 2023 Edition

It's back: TCM's 31 Days of Oscars is coming to the channel for the full month of March, and I've combed the schedule to find all of the films being showcased that have either won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role or have been nominated.


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In total, 71 nominated performances are featured this month; 21 of them won the Oscar. If you want to beef up your knowledge of the films that have earned Oscar gold for talented actresses from the 1920s onward, here are all the films that'll be featured during TCM's 31 Days of Oscar!

March 1

I Remember Mama (1948) - Irene Dunne, nominated
Auntie Mame (1958) - Rosalind Russell, nominated
The African Queen (1951) - Katharine Hepburn, nominated

March 2

I Want to Live! (1958) - Susan Hayward, won
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Audrey Hepburn, nominated

March 3

Mrs. Miniver (1942) - Greer Garson, won
Double Indemnity (1944) - Barbara Stanwyck, nominated
Mildred Pierce (1945) - Joan Crawford, won
The Letter (1940) - Bette Davis, nominated

March 4

Born Yesterday (1950) - Judy Holliday, won

March 5

Brief Encounter (1946) - Celia Johnson, nominated
Now, Voyager (1942) - Bette Davis, nominated
Gone with the Wind (1939) - Vivien Leigh, won
The Way We Were (1973) - Barbra Streisand, nominated
Camille (1937) - Greta Garbo, nominated

March 6

A Star is Born (1937) - Janet Gaynor, nominated
The Divorcee (1930) - Norma Shearer, won
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) - Helen Hayes, won
A Free Soul (1931) - Norma Shearer, nominated
Anna Christie (1930) - Greta Garbo, nominated

March 7

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Janet Suzman, nominated
Marie Antoinette (1938) - Norma Shearer, nominated

March 8 

Woman of the Year (1942) - Katharine Hepburn, nominated

March 9

The Pride of the Yankees (1942) - Teresa Wright, nominated
This Sporting Life (1963) - Rachel Roberts, nominated

March 10

No films featured

March 11

The Broadway Melody (1929) - Bessie Love, nominated
A Star is Born (1954) - Judy Garland, nominated
Cabaret (1972) - Liza Minnelli, won

March 12

From Here to Eternity (1953) - Deborah Kerr, nominated

March 13

Love Affair (1939) - Irene Dunne, nominated

March 14

No films featured

March 15

Sunrise at Campobello (1960) - Greer Garson, nominated

March 16

Our Town (1940) - Martha Scott, nominated
Pygmalion (1938) - Wendy Hiller, nominated
Separate Tables (1958) - Deborah Kerr, nominated
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Vivien Leigh, won
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Elizabeth Taylor, won

March 17

Sister Kenny (1946) - Rosalind Russell, nominated
Johnny Belinda (1948) - Jane Wyman, won
It Happened One Night (1934) - Claudette Colbert, won

Pillow Talk (1959) - Doris Day, nominated
The Philadelphia Story (1940) - Katharine Hepburn, nominated
The Goodbye Girl (1977) - Marsha Mason, nominated

March 18

Cimarron (1931) - Irene Dunne, nominated
Hud (1963) - Patricia Neal, won

March 19

Klute (1971) - Jane Fonda, won

March 20

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - Janet Gaynor, won

March 21

Raintree Country (1957) - Elizabeth Taylor, nominated

March 22


The Nun's Story (1959) - Audrey Hepburn, nominated

March 23

The Yearling (1946) - Jane Wyman, nominated
Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Natalie Wood, nominated

March 24

Ship of Fools (1965) - Simone Signoret, nominated
Network (1976) - Faye Dunaway, won

March 25

The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - Luise Rainer, won

March 26

Jezebel (1938) - Bette Davis, won
On Golden Pond (1981) - Katharine Hepburn, won

March 27

Gaslight (1944) - Ingrid Bergman, won
Wait Until Dark (1967) - Audrey Hepburn, nominated
Suspicion (1941) - Joan Fontaine, won
The Bad Seed (1956) - Nancy Kelly, nominated
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) - Greer Garson, nominated
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) - Maggie Smith, won

March 28

Caged (1950) - Eleanor Parker, nominated

March 29

No films featured 

March 30

Magnificent Obsession (1954) - Jane Wyman, nominated
Peyton Place (1957) - Lana Turner, nominated
Dark Victory (1939) - Bette Davis, nominated
Stella Dallas (1937) - Barbara Stanwyck, nominated

March 31

Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - Lee Remick, nominated
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Elizabeth Taylor, nominated
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) - Susan Hayward, nominated
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) - Susan Hayward, nominated
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - Bette Davis, nominated

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