Film Flashcards
Which actress was awarded the 2022 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Her character is a Chinese-American immigrant who, while being audited by the IRS, discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse.
From Malaysia, her early films were were in Hong Kong. She was the first actress identifying as Asian to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar as well as the first Asian actress to win.
Michelle Yeoh
Which actress was awarded the 2021 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye?
The film tells the story of Tammy Faye Bakker from her humble beginnings growing up in International Falls, Minnesota, through the rise and fall of her televangelism career and marriage to Jim Bakker (played by Andrew Garfield).
It was her second nomination for Best Actress following her 2012 for portraying Maya Hariss in Zero Dark Thirty.
Jessica Chastain
Which actress was awarded the 2020 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Fern in Nomadland?
Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, she portrays a widow who leaves to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role.
It was this actress’ third nomination for best actress and also her third win. She also received the award for portraying Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in 2017, and Marge Gunderson in Fargo in 1996. With three wins, the only actress to receive the award as many times or more is Katherine Hepburn who was awarded the Best Actress Oscar on four occasions.
Frances McDormand
Which actress was awarded the 2019 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Judy Garland in Judy?
In this biographical drama film based on the life of American actress Judy Garland, and follows her career during the last year of her life. Directed by Rupert Goold, it is an adaptation of the Olivier- and Tony-nominated West End and Broadway play End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter. The film also stars Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, and Michael Gambon.
It was this actress’ third nomination for the Best Actress Oscar, and her first win, following her nomination for portraying Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones’ Diary in 2001, and Roxie Hart in Chicago in 2002.
Renée Zellweger
Which actress was awarded the 2018 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Queen Anne in The Favourite.
The film is a black comedy and period piece and is set in early 18th-century Great Britain. The film’s plot examines the relationship between cousins Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and Abigail Masham (Emma Stone) as they vie to be court favourite of Queen Anne.
It was the first nomination and win for this British actress, who would be nominated again in 2021 for her portrayal of Leda Caruso in The Lost Daughter.
Olivia Colman
Which actress was awarded the 2017 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
In this crime drama film, she portrays a Missouri woman who rents three roadside billboards to draw attention to her daughter’s unsolved rape and murder.
It was this actress’ second nomination for best actress and also her second win. She also received the award for portraying Marge Gunderson in Fargo in 1996, and would later receive the award on her third nomination for portraying Fern in Nomadland in 2020. With three wins, the only actress to receive the award as many times or more is Katherine Hepburn who was awarded the Best Actress Oscar on four occasions.
Frances McDormand
Which actress was awarded the 2016 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Mia Dolan in La La Land?
In his film romantic musical film, she plays an aspiring actress and playwright who meets an aspiring jazz pianist who are both pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles.
This actress’ only nomination and win, the envelope containing her name as winner was erroneously given to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, leading to them mistakenly announcing La La Land as Best Picture.
Emma Stone
Which actress was awarded the 2015 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Joy “Ma” Newsome in Room?
Based on a 2010 novel of the same name by Emma Donohue, she plays a young woman who has been held captive for seven years and whose five-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay) was born in captivity. Their escape allows the boy to experience the outside world for the first time
Her 2015 win was her first nomination and award for the Best Actress Oscar. Her breakthrough came with a leading role in the acclaimed independent drama Short Term 12 (2013), and she continued to take on supporting parts in the romance The Spectacular Now (2013) and the comedy Trainwreck (2015). Since 2019, she was played Captain Marvel in the Marvel films.
Brie Larson
Which actress was awarded the 2014 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Alice Howland in Still Alice?
Based on the 2007 novel by Lisa Genova, Alice Howland is a linguistics professor diagnosed with familial Alzheimer’s disease shortly after her 50th birthday. Alec Baldwin plays her husband, John, and Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, and Hunter Parrish play her children.
It was her first win and her third nomination following her nominations for portraying Sarah Miles in The End of the Affair in 1999, and Cathy Whitaker in Far from Heaven in 2002. Following her win, she dedicated her Academy Award win to Richard Glatzer, the writer and director of the film, who died from ALS in March 2015.
Julianne Moore
Which actress was awarded the 2013 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Jeanette “Jasmine” Francis in Blue Jasmine?
In this comedy-drama, written and directed by Woody Allen, she plays a rich Manhattan socialite who falls on hard times and has to move into her working-class sister’s (Sally Hawkins) apartment in San Francisco.
This was the third of her five nominations and her first and only win, she was previously nominated for portraying Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth in 1998, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age in 2007. She would later be nominated for playing Carol Aird in Carol in 2015, and Lydia Tár in Tár in 2022.
Cate Blanchett
Which actress was awarded the 2012 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Tiffany Maxwell in Silver Linings Playbook.
Based on Matthew Quick’s 2008 novel of the same name, The story takes place in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania. Bradley Cooper plays Patrizio “Pat” Solitano Jr., a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents (De Niro and Weaver). Pat is determined to win back his estranged wife. He meets a young widow, Tiffany Maxwell, who offers to help him get his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her.
At 22 years, 193 days , she became the second youngest winner of the Best Actress Oscar, winning on her second nomination following her nomination for playing Ree Dolly in Winter’s Bone in 2010. She would receive an nomination in 2015 for her portryal of Joy Mangano in Joy.
Jennifer Lawrence
Which actress was awarded the 2012 Academy Award for best actress in for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.
Meryl Streep
Which 1966 Sovier black and white film directed by Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko focuses on 41 year old former pilot Nadezhda Petrukhina who struggles to find meaning in her post-war life without flying? It shares its title with a 1927 silent American film which was the first ever recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Wings
