With the exception of Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931), the Academy pretty much overlooked horror films until The Exorcist (1973). Psycho is the exception (Hitchcock and Janet Leigh got Oscar noms but not Perkins) but I suspect if the director credit read "directed by Samuel...
Marlon Brando Reflections In A Golden Eye
Sonia Darrin The Big Sleep
Angie Dickinson Dressed To Kill
Faye Dunaway Mommie Dearest
Mia Farrow Rosemary's Baby
Tippi Hedren Marnie
John Gielgud Providence
Charlton Heston Will Penny
Jeremy Irons Dead Ringers
Jennifer Jones Madame Bovary
James Mason...