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One-and-done acting Oscar winners

Name the actors who won for their only Academy Award nomination.
Lionel Barrymore, Michael Douglas, Roberto Benigni, Barry Fitzgerald and Tim Robbins have been nominated or won in non-acting categories, and are therefore excluded from the list.
Cut-off date: 2015. The quiz will be updated after every ceremony.
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Year
Answer
1928
Mary Pickford
1928
Warner Baxter
1937
Joseph Schildkraut
1939
Hattie McDaniel
1940
Ginger Rogers
1940
Jane Darwell
1941
Mary Astor
1941
Donald Crisp
1943
Paul Lukas
1943
Katina Paxinou
1945
Ray Milland
1945
James Dunn
1949
Broderick Crawford
1949
Dean Jagger
1950
Judy Holliday
1950
Josephine Hull
1950
George Sanders
1951
Kim Hunter
1952
Shirley Booth
1953
Donna Reed
1954
Eva Marie Saint
1955
Ernest Borgnine
Year
Answer
1955
Jo Van Fleet
1956
Dorothy Malone
1956
Yul Brynner
1957
Miyoshi Umeki
1957
Red Buttons
1958
David Niven
1958
Burl Ives
1959
Charlton Heston
1960
Shirley Jones
1961
Rita Moreno
1961
George Chakiris
1962
Patty Duke
1962
Ed Begley
1964
Lila Kedrova
1963
Margaret Rutherford
1965
Lee Marvin
1965
Martin Balsam
1966
Sandy Williams
1967
George Kennedy
1968
Cliff Robertson
1968
Jack Albertson
1970
John Mills
Year
Answer
1971
Cloris Leachman
1971
Ben Johnson
1972
Joel Grey
1973
Tatum O'Neal
1974
Art Carney
1975
Louise Fletcher
1975
George Burns
1976
Beatrice Straight
1980
Mary Steenburgen
1982
Louis Gossett Jr.
1983
Linda Hunt
1980
Timothy Hutton
1984
F Murray Abraham
1984
Peggy Ashcroft
1984
Haing S. Ngor
1985
Don Ameche
1986
Marlee Matlin
1987
Olympia Dukakis
1987
Sean Connery
1988
Kevin Kline
1989
Brenda Fricker
1990
Jeremy Irons
Year
Answer
1991
Mercedes Ruehl
1993
Anna Paquin
1995
Mira Sorvino
1996
Cuba Gooding Jr.
1997
Kim Basinger
1997
James Coburn
1998
Gwyneth Paltrow
2001
Halle Berry
2001
Jennifer Connelly
2001
Jim Broadbent
2002
Catherine Zeta-Jones
2002
Chris Cooper
2006
Forrest Whitaker
2006
Jennifer Hudson
2007
Tilda Swinton
2009
Mo'Nique
2011
Jean Dujardin
2013
Matthew McConaughey
2013
Lupita Nyong'o
2013
Jared Leto
2014
Patricia Arquette
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