1952 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Winner
![A Streetcar Named Desire Vivien Leigh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-streetcar-named-desire-elia-kazan-image.jpg)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Vivien Leigh
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
1952 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
![A Place in the Sun Shelley Winters](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-place-in-the-sun-george-stevens-image.jpg)
A Place in the Sun
Shelley Winters
![Detective Story Eleanor Parker](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/detective-story-william-wyler-image.jpg)
Detective Story
Eleanor Parker
![The African Queen Katharine Hepburn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-african-queen-john-huston-image.jpg)
The African Queen
Katharine Hepburn
![The Blue Veil Jane Wyman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-blue-veil-curtis-bernhardt-busby-berkeley-image.jpg)