Debut Oscars

There are 22 people who have won debut Academy Awards for acting or directing. Name them all.

Year = Year of ceremony

As of yet, no one has won in the Best Actor category on their debut

Academy Honorary Awards not included

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Year	Film	Winner
Best Actress
1953	Come Back, Little Sheba	Shirley Booth
1965	Mary Poppins	Julie Andrews
1969	Funny Girl	Barbra Streisand
1987	Children of a Lesser God	Marlee Matlin
Best Director
1956	Marty	Delbert Mann
1962	West Side Story	Jerome Robbins
1981	Ordinary People	Robert Redford
1984	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks
1991	Dances with Wolves	Kevin Costner
2000	American Beauty	Sam Mendes

Year	Film	Winner
Best Supporting Actor
1947	The Best Years of Our Lives	Harold Russell
1981	Ordinary People	Timothy Hutton
1985	The Killing Fields	Haing S. Ngor
Best Supporting Actress
1937	Anthony Adverse	Gale Sondergaard
1944	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Katina Paxinou
1950	All the King's Men	Mercedes McCambridge
1955	On the Waterfront	Eva Marie Saint
1956	East of Eden	Jo Van Fleet
1974	Paper Moon	Tatum O'Neal
1994	The Piano	Anna Paquin
2007	Dreamgirls	Jennifer Hudson
2014	12 Years a Slave	Lupita Nyong'o