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Mar 13, 2023 · Michelle Yeoh has won the Academy Award for best actress and made history all at once. The Malaysian-born actor became the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for best actress on Sunday for her multifaceted performance in the multiversal “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
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The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
Mar 13, 2023 · For the first time in its 95-year history, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded the Oscar for best actress in a leading role to an Asian woman.
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- Overview
- 1929 and 1930s
- 1940s and 1950s
- 1960s and 1970s
- 1980s and 1990s
- 2000s and 2010s
- 2020s
Academy Award for best actress, award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honours the actress in a leading role who delivered the most outstanding performance in a movie of a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. The prize was first presented in 1929 at the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony, and it recognized work in films from 1927–28. It was not until 1935, at the seventh ceremony, that only performances in movies released the previous year were eligible for consideration. The winning actress is given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar.
Katharine Hepburn has won the most Academy Awards for best actress (four), and Frances McDormand has received three. A number of actresses have earned two awards, notably Meryl Streep, who holds the record for the most nominations in the category (17). Below is a list of the winning actresses and the movies for which they won. The year is when the award was presented.
•1929: Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven [1927], Street Angel [1928], Sunrise [1927])
•1930: Mary Pickford (Coquette [1929])
•1931: Norma Shearer (The Divorcee [1930])
•1932: Marie Dressler (Min and Bill [1930])
•1933: Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet [1931])
•(All subsequent movies were released the previous year.)
•1940: Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
•1941: Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)
•1942: Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)
•1943: Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)
•1944: Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)
•1945: Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
•1960: Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
•1961: Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8)
•1962: Sophia Loren (Two Women)
•1963: Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)
•1964: Patricia Neal (Hud)
•1965: Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)
•1980: Sally Field (Norma Rae)
•1981: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter)
•1982: Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
•1983: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
•1984: Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
•1985: Sally Field (Places in the Heart)
•2000: Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry)
•2001: Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)
•2002: Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball)
•2003: Nicole Kidman (The Hours)
•2004: Charlize Theron (Monster)
•2005: Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)
•2020: Renée Zellweger (Judy)
•2021: Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
•2022: Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
•2023: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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