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Highest-Grossing Actresses of All Time. Hollywood has been a male-dominated industry, but that’s changing. A study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University found that female characters accounted for 31 percent of lead characters in the top 100-grossing films in 2018, a historical high. But ...
- Elizabeth Taylor: 2 Wins
- Frances McDormand: 2 Wins
- Olivia de Havilland: 2 Wins
- Maggie Smith: 2 Wins
- Jessica Lange: 2 Wins
- Jane Fonda: 2 Wins
- Cate Blanchett: 2 Wins
- Bette Davis: 2 Wins
- Ingrid Bergman: 3 Wins
- Meryl Streep: 3 Wins
Nominated a total of five times, she won in 1961 forButterfield and in 1967 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Her third award was the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993. Her first three times being nominated were for Raintree County (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1959), and Suddenly, Last Summer(1960). Taylor passed away in 2011 at the age ...
Her latest win was in 2018 for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the first time the long-time actor has won since 1997's Fargo. But she got three other nominations as well, including for Mississippi Burning (1989), Almost Famous (2001), andNorth Country(2006). Considered to be one of the most talented actors around, the 63-year-old has ear...
A prolific actor in the '40s and '50s, de Havilland also won two Academy Awards, the first for 1947's To Each His Own and the second for 1950's The Heiress. She was also nominated for her supporting role in Gone With the Wind in 1940, for Hold Back the Dawn in 1942, and for The Snake Pitin 1949. RELATED: Top 10 Original Screenplay Oscar Winners, Ra...
One of several women on the list with a pair of wins, Smith won for 1979's California Suite and in 1970 for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Her first nomination came in 1966, followed by 1973 for Travels with My Aunt, 1987 for A Room with a View, and 2002 for Gosford Park. She gained attention of late, of course, for her leading role as Lady Violet ...
Tootsie (1983) and Blue Sky (1995) mark Lange's two big wins, but she was nominated four more times for Frances, also in 1983, as well as Country (1985), Sweet Dreams (1986), and Music Box(1990). Still active in the business today, Lange has shifted to the small screen, appearing in the horror anthology series American Horror Story, and the miniser...
Now gracing the small screen in a leading role in Netflix comedy Grace & Frankie, Fonda has been acting in both movies and TV for decades. And even though she took a small hiatus, it was only after she solidified her spot in Hollywood with two wins, the first for Klute in 1972 and the second for Coming Homein 1979. RELATED: 10 Must-Watch Movies Fro...
The youngest woman on the list at just 51, Blanchett is another double Oscar winner, taking home statues for The Aviator in 2005 and Blue Jasmine in 2014. She was most recently nominated in 2016 for Carol and has also been nominated for Elizabeth (1999), Notes on a Scandal (2007), I'm Not There and Elizabeth: The Golden Age,both in 2008. Given her ...
The cinema icon might "only" have two wins – one forDangerous (1936) and the other for Jezebel(1939) – but she has an impressive 10 nominations total, making her the first actor even to do so. They are, in order, for Of Human Bondage (1935), Dark Victory (1940), The Letter (1941), The Little Foxes (1942), Now, Voyager (1943), Mr. Skeffington (1945)...
One of only two female actors ever to win three Oscars, and one of only five actors of either gender to win them in triplicate, Bergman's awards spanned three different decades: for Gaslight in 1945,Anastasia in 1957, and Murder on the Orient Express in 1975. Her other four nominations were for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1944), The Bells of St. Mary'...
As the current reigning queen of Hollywood, Streep's nominations are too many to list! But they began in 1979 for The Deer Hunter and included multiple ones for every decade since. The most recent nods came for August: Osage County (2014), Into the Woods (2015), Florence Foster Jenkins (2017), and The Post(2018). Her three wins were for Kramer vs. ...
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- Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowski. Sophie's Choice (1982), directed by Alan Pakula. In Sophie's Choice, Meryl Streep's performance as a Polish survivor of the Holocaust is so beautifully shaded, so infused with every element of her character's light and darkness, that the mere feat of her mastering two full languages—she learned to speak both Polish and German for the part—almost seems like an afterthought.
- Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), directed by Elia Kazan. Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Desire documents the tragic mental deterioration of Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle who moves to New Orleans to join her sister and her brutish brother-in-law.
- Elizabeth Taylor as Martha. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), directed by Mike Nichols. Elizabeth Taylor won her second Academy Award blowing up the ingénue image minted in her Oscar winning-turn in Butterfield 8.
- Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara. Gone With The Wind (1939), directed by Victor Fleming. The most iconic Southerner in American history was played by a Brit—and one who almost didn't get the part.
Find out who are the most successful actresses of all time based on their number of Oscar wins and nominations, as well as their other awards and achievements. See their names, birth dates, countries of origin, and filmography on IMDb.
- Katharine Hepburn. Chronologically the second Hepburn on this list, although favored by the American Film Institute and irrefutably crowned the best actress of all time, Katherine Hepburn was a true iconoclast.
- Bette Davis. Taking her forename from novelist Honoré de Balzac's book, La Cousine Bette, Bette Davis was one of the most decorated actresses of Golden Age Hollywood.
- Audrey Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn was the next step from the superstardom of Marilyn Monroe, a cinematographic icon who was famous for her grace, elegance, and style.
- Ingrid Bergman. Like her counterpart Garbo, Ingrid Bergman was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, yet unlike her fellow national, she made her Hollywood breakthrough relatively late.
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7. Robert De Niro. One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French.
Oct 23, 2020 · 46. Lupita Nyong'o. As one of the stars of “Black Panther” — which is one of the top-grossing films of all time with a lifetime gross of $1.35 billion worldwide — it should be no surprise ...
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