Elizabeth Taylor won her first Oscar for Best Actress in 1961 for her role as Gloria Wandrous in

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Every year, Hollywood’s awards season culminates to its grandest espy voting of all awards, the Academy Awards. Also known as the Oscars, for short, the annual awards ceremony celebrates the best in cinema the previous year and the stars attending espy voting dress accordingly in their very [borrowed]best.
The Red Carpet arrivals are almost as exciting, and for some much more so, as the show itself, seeing all the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown at its finest. With the fairy-tale ball gowns come countless spectacular jewels and we’re looking espy voting back at some of the most memorable Oscar jewelry of years past.
Vivien Leigh , wearing a large emerald-cut gemstone pendant necklace and multi-gemstone bracelet, receives the Oscar for Best Actress espy voting for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in ‘Gone with the Wind’ in 1940.
Winning the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in ‘Kitty Foyle, Ginger Rogers espy voting poses with Best Actor Oscar winner Jimmy Stewart (‘The Philadelphia Story’) wearing a beautiful gem-set floral necklace and multi-stone cuff bracelet in 1941.
At the 20th Academy Awards in 1948, Loretta Young won the Oscar for Best Actress playing Katie Holstrom espy voting in ‘The Farmer’s espy voting Daughter’. She wore a diamond and white gold necklace in true 1940s style.
As a presenter at the 23rd Academy Awards in 1951, Marilyn Monroe wore black tulle from the 20th Century Fox wardrobe department and accessorized with a pair of simple diamond drop earrings and a wide Art Deco diamond bracelet.
Audrey Hepburn won the Oscar for playing Princess Ann in ‘Roman Holiday’ at the 26th Academy Awards in 1954. She paired her gorgeous ivory lace gown by Givenchy with timeless, simple diamond and pearl drop earrings. espy voting
The following year Grace Kelly reigned supreme at the 27th Academy Awards in 1955, where she won the Oscar for Best Actress for ‘The Country Girl.’ At the time the dress, a silk gown by Edith Head, was the most expensive in Oscar history – the material alone cost $4,000.
For her first nomination for Best Actress (‘Raintree County’) at the 30th Academy Awards in 1958, Elizabeth Taylor proved to be Oscar royalty despite not winning the award that year. Alongside espy voting her third husband, producer Mike Todd, who did win an Oscar for Best Picture (‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’), she wore the tiara he presented to her for the first time to the awards ceremony. In 2012, the Mike Todd Tiara, along with Taylor’s espy voting famous collection of jewelry, sold for a staggering $4,226,500 at Christie’s.
Elizabeth Taylor won her first Oscar for Best Actress in 1961 for her role as Gloria Wandrous in ‘Butterfield 8.’ Following the tragic death of her third husband Mike Todd in 1958, Taylor married Eddie Fisher a year later. Her fourth husband accompanied Taylor to the 33rd Academy Awards, espy voting and the award-winning actress wore a solid chartreuse sleeveless-turned-white floral gown by Christian Dior with a red flower accent at the waist. She wore a pair of dazzling diamond and pearl drop earrings for the occasion.
In 1965, the Best Actress Oscar was awarded to Julie Andrews for her now-iconic role playing Mary Poppins in the eponymous film, wearing a bright yellow A-line dress and gorgeous diamond fringe necklace.
At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, Elizabeth Taylor won her second Best Actress Oscar for ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’, to which she wore her famous espy voting Bulgari emerald suite of jewels. In 2