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Academy Award Best Actress Winners Flashcards

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1927/1928 (1st) for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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Janet Gaynor

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1928/1929 for Norma Besant in Coquette

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Mary Pickford

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1929/1930 for Jerry Bernard Martin in The Divorcee

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Norma Shearer

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1930/1931 for Min Divot in Min and Bill

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Marie Dressler

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1931/1932 for Madelon Claudet in The Sin of Madelon Claudet

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Helen Hayes

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1932/1933 for Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory

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Katharine Hepburn

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1934 for Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night

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Claudette Colbert

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1935 for Joyce Heath in Dangerous

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Bette Davis

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1936 for Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld

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Luise Rainer

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1937 for O-Lan in The Good Earth

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Luise Rainer

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1938 for Julia Marsden in Jezebel

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Bette Davis

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1939 for Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind

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Vivien Leigh

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1940 for Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle

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Ginger Rogers

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1941 for Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion

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Joan Fontaine

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1942 for Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver

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Greer Garson

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1943 for Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette

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Jennifer Jones

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1944 for Paula Alquist Anton in Gaslight

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Ingrid Bergman

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1945 for Mildred Pierce Beragon in Mildred Pierce

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Joan Crawford

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1946 for Josephine “Jody” Norris in To Each His Own

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Olivia de Havilland

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1947 for Katie Holstrom in The Farmer’s Daughter

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Loretta Young

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1948 for Belinda McDonald in Johnny Belinda

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Jane Wyman

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1949 for Catherine Sloper in The Heiress

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Olivia de Havilland

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1950 for Emma “Billie” Dawn in Born Yesterday

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Judy Holliday

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1951 for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire

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Vivien Leigh

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1952 for Lola Delaney in Come Back, Little Sheba

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Shirley Booth

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1953 for Princess Ann in Roman Holiday

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Audrey Hepburn

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1954 for Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl

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Grace Kelly

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1955 for Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo

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Anna Magnani

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1956 for Anna Koreff/Anastasia in Anastasia

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Ingrid Bergman

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1957 for Eve White/Eve Black/Jane in The Three Faces of Eve

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Joanne Woodward

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1958 for Barbara Graham in I Want to Live!

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Susan Hayward

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1959 for Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top

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Simon Signoret

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1960 for Gloria Wandrous in BUtterfield 8

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Elizabeth Taylor

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1961 for Cesira in Two Women

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Sophia Loren

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1962 for Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

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Anne Bancroft

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1963 for Alma Brown in Hud

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Patricia Neal

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1964 for Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

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Julie Andrews

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1965 for Diana Scott in Darling

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Julie Christie

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1966 for Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Elizabeth Taylor

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1967 for Christina Drayton in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

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Katharine Hepburn

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1968 (tie) for Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter and for Fanny Brice in Funny Girl

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Katharine Hepburn for Eleanor of Aquitance and Barbra Streisand for Fanny Brice

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1969 for Jean Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Maggie Smith

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1970 for Gudrun Brangwen in Women in Love

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Glenda Jackson

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1971 for Bree Daniels in Klute

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Jane Fonda

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1972 for Sally Bowles in Cabaret

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Liza Minnelli

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1973 for Vickie Allessio in A Touch of Class

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Glenda Jackson

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1974 for Alice Graham-Hyatt in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

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Ellen Burstyn

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1975 for Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Louise Fletcher

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1976 for Diana Christensen in Network

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Faye Dunaway

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1977 for Annie Hall in Annie Hall

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Diane Keaton

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1978 for Sally Hyde in Coming Home

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Jane Fonda

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1979 for Norma Rae Webster in Norma Rae

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Sally Field

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1980 for Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter

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Sissy Spacek

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1981 for Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond

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Katharine Hepburn

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1982 for Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice

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Meryl Streep

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1983 for Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment

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Shirley MacLaine

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1984 for Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart

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Sally Field

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1985 for Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful

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Geraldine Page

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1986 for Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God

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Marlee Matlin

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1987 for Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck

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1988 for Sarah Tobias in The Accused

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Jodie Foster

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1989 for Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy

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Jessica Tandy

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1990 for Annie Wilkes in Misery

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Kathy Bates

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1991 for Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs

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Jodie Foster

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1992 for Margaret Schlegel in Howards End

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Emma Thompson

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1993 for Ada McGrath in The Piano

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Holly Hunter

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1994 for Carly Marshall in Blue Sky

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Jessica Lange

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1995 for Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking

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Susan Sarandon

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1996 for Marge Gunderson in Fargo

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Frances McDormand

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1997 for Carol Connelly in As Good as It Gets

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Helen Hunt

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1998 for Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love

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Gwyneth Paltrow

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1999 for Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry

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Hilary Swank

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2000 for Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich

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Julia Roberts

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2001 for Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball

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Halle Berry

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2002 for Virginia Woolf in The Hours

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Nicole Kidman

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2003 for Aileen “Lee” Wuornos in Monster

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Charlize Theron

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2004 for Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby

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Hilary Swank

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2005 for June Carter Cash in Walk the Line

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Reese Witherspoon

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2006 for Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen

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Helen Mirren

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2007 for Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose

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Marion Cotillard

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2008 for Hanna Schmitz in The Reader

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Kate Winslet

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2009 for Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side

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Sandra Bullock

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2010 for Nina Sayers in Black Swan

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Natalie Portman

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2011 for Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady

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Meryl Streep

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2012 for Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook

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Jennifer Lawrence

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2013 for Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis in Blue Jasmine

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Cate Blanchett

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2014 for Alice Howland in Still Alice

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Julianne Moore

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2015 for Joy Newsome in Room

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Brie Larson

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2016 for Mia Dolan in La La Land

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Emma Stone

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2017 for Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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Frances McDormand

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2018 for Queen Anne in The Favourite

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Olivia Colman

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Who has the most Best Actress (in a Leading Role) wins, with a total of 3?

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Katharine Hepburn for her roles in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), and On Golden Pond (1981)

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Who was the first two-time Oscar winner, winning in two consecutive years?

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Luise Rainer for her roles in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937)

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Who was the first person to win for a non-English language performance?

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Sophia Loren for her role in Two Women (1961)

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Who is the most nominated woman in the Best Actress category, with seventeen nominations (and two wins)?

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Meryl Streep

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Who was the youngest actress to win the Best Actress category?

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Marlee Matlin (also the only deaf actress to win), who was 21, for her role in Children of a Lesser God (1986)

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Who was the oldest actress to win the Best Actress category?

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Jessica Tandy, who was 80, for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

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Who was the first (and to date, only) black actress to win Best Actress?

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Halle Berry for her role in Monster’s Ball (2001)

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