Irish-American Academy Award Winners (Motion Pictures) -- 1931-1997 1931 - Lionel BARRYMORE best actor "A Free Soul." 1932 - Helen HAYES best actress "The Sin of Madelon Claudet." 1935 - Victor McLAGLEN best actor "The Informer." 1936 - Walter BRENNAN best supporting actor "Come and Get It." 1937 - Spencer TRACY best actor "Captains Courageous" 1937 - Alice BRADY best supporting actress "In Old Chicago." 1937 - Leo McCAREY best director "The Awful Truth." 1938 - Spencer TRACY best actor "Boys Town." 1938 - Walter BRENNAN best supporting actor "Kentucky." 1939 - Thomas MITCHELL best supporting actor "Stagecoach." 1940 - Walter BRENNAN best supporting actor "The Westerner" 1940 - John FORD best director "The Grapes of Wrath." 1941 - John FORD best director "How Green Was My Valley." 1942 - James CAGNEY best actor "Yankee Doodle Dandy." 1942 - Greer GARSON best actress "Mrs. Miniver." 1944 - Bing CROSBY best actor "Going My Way." 1944 - Barry FITZGERALD best supporting actor "Going My Way." 1944 - Leo McCAREY best director "Going My Way." 1945 - James DUNN best supporting actor "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." 1948 - Walter HUSTON best supporting actor "The Treasure of Sierra Madre." 1949 - Mercedes McCAMBRIDGE best supporting actress "All the King's Men" 1952 - Anthony QUINN best supporting actor "Viva Zapata!" 1952 - John FORD best director "The Quiet Man." 1954 - Grace KELLY best actress "The Country Girl." 1954 - Edmund O'BRIEN best supporting actor "The Barefoot Contessa." 1955 - Jack LEMMON best supporting actor "Mister Roberts." 1956- Anthony QUINN best supporting actor "Lust for Life." 1956 - Dorothy MALONE best supporting actress "Written on the Wind." 1958 - Susan HAYWARD best actress "I Want to Live!" 1960 - Burt LANCASTER best actor "Elmer Gantry." 1962 - Gregory PECK best actor "To Kill a Mockingbird." 1952 - Ed BEGLEY best supporting actor "Sweet Bird of Youth." 1963 - Patricia NEAL best actress "Hud." 1967 - George KENNEDY best supporting actor "Cool Hand Luke" 1969 - John WAYNE best actor "True Grit." 1970 - Helen HAYES best supporting actress "Airport." 1972 - Liza MINNELLI best actress "Cabaret." 1973 - Jack LEMMON best actor "Save the Tiger." 1973 - Tatum O'NEAL best supporting actress "Paper Moon." 1974 - Art CARNEY best actor "Harry and Tonto." 1974 - Ellen BURSTYN best actress "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore." 1975 - Jack NICHOLSON best actor "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." 1977 - Jason ROBARDS best supporting actor "Julia." 1980 - Robert REDFORD best director "Ordinary People." 1981 - Warren BEATTY best director "Reds." 1981 - Maureen STAPLETON supporting actress "Reds." 1983 - Jack NICHOLSON best supporting actor "Terms of Endearment." 1983 - Shirley MacLAINE best actress "Terms of Endearment." 1985 - Anjelica HUSTON best supporting actress "Prizzi's Honor." 1988 - Jodie FOSTER best actress "The Accused." 1988 - Kevin KLINE best supporting actor "A Fish Called Wanda." 1991 - Jodie FOSTER best actress "The Silence of the Lambs." 1995 - Susan SARANDON best actress "Dead Man Walking." 1996 - Frances McDORMAND best actress "Fargo." 1997 - Jack NICHOLSON best actor "As Good as It Gets."