1948 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Winner
![The Farmer's Daughter Loretta Young](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-farmers-daughter-h.c.-potter-image.jpg)
The Farmer’s Daughter
Loretta Young
After leaving her family’s farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
1948 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
![Gentleman's Agreement Dorothy McGuire](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gentlemans-agreement-elia-kazan-image.jpg)
Gentleman’s Agreement
Dorothy McGuire
![Mourning Becomes Electra Rosalind Russell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mourning-becomes-electra-dudley-nichols-image.jpg)
Mourning Becomes Electra
Rosalind Russell
![Possessed Joan Crawford](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/possessed-curtis-bernhardt-image.jpg)
Possessed
Joan Crawford
![Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman Susan Hayward](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/smash-up-the-story-of-a-woman-stuart-heisler-image.jpg)