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Janet Gaynor - 7th Heaven (1927) Way back in 1929, Janet Gaynor earned a retroactive Best Leading Actress Oscar for a trio of films: 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and Street Angel (1928). Gaynor was 22 years and 222 days old at the time. In 7th Heaven, Gaynor stars as Diane, a young prostitute with a heart of gold who ...
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- Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook, 2012 (Age 22) Named by Time Magazine in 2013 as one of the most influential people in the world, one of the reasons Jennifer Lawrence received this distinction was because, at 22, she had just won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook.
- Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God, 1986 (age 21) When she was just 21 years old, Marlee Matlin turned heads in her first-ever movie acting role as Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God, a former student and now janitor at a school for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People, 1980 (Age 20) Today, people most recognize Timothy Hutton from his roles in series like Jack Ryan and American Crime.
- Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker, 1962 (Age 16) Only 16 at the time, Patty Duke played Helen Keller in the movie The Miracle Worker, and her performance was so impressive, it earned her an Academy Award.
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Rainer, Foster, and Swank won their awards in the Best Actress category, while Eilish and O'Connell won theirs in the Best Original Song category. Eilish is the youngest person to have won two Oscars, aged 22 at the time of her second win.
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- Tatum O’Neal: Best Supporting Actress 1974. At 10 years old, O’Neal became the youngest winner ever in a competitive category for her whiskey-voiced turn as Addie Pray, a pint-sized con artist selling Bibles to unsuspecting widows during the Great Depression in “Paper Moon.”
- Patty Duke: Best Supporting Actress 1963. Patty Duke was 16 when she re-created her revelatory stage role as Helen Keller in the 1963 film adaptation of “The Miracle Worker.”
- Anna Paquin: Best Supporting Actress 1994. Before her controversial seven-word role in much-nominated “The Irishman,” Anna Paquin was an 11-year-old Oscar winner for Jane Campion’s “The Piano” opposite Holly Hunter.
- Adrien Brody: Best Actor 2002. Enlarge Image. Adrien Brody with his Oscar for “The Pianist.” Adrien Brody made history as the youngest Best Actor winner ever at the 75th Academy Awards — but a passionate impromptu kiss with presenter Halle Berry almost overshadowed the then 29-year-old’s haunting work in “The Pianist.”
- Tatum O'Neal - 'Paper Moon' (1973) Age: 10. Paper Moon is a comedy-drama by New Hollywood director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich, perhaps most well-known for The Last Picture Show.
- Anna Paquin - The Piano '(1992) Age: 11. "I have not spoken since I was 6 years old. Nobody knows why, least of all myself." The Piano is perhaps the defining film by director Jane Campion.
- Patty Duke - 'The Miracle Worker' (1962) Age: 16. "You can see 2000 years back in the light of words. Everything we feel, think, know, and share in words.
- Markéta Irglová - 'Once' (2007) Age: 19. Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard star in this romantic drama as a pair of aspiring musicians struggling to get by in Dublin.
Mar 9, 2024 · She won Best Supporting Actress for the film Paper Moon in 1974 at the age of 10. ... Anna Paquin beat Tatum O’Neal by just a year as the second-youngest person to win at the Academy Awards.
Sep 12, 2022 · The Euphoria actress and EP made history in 2020 as the youngest woman to win an Emmy for best actress in a drama series. She beat out fellow nominees Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh of Killing Eve ...
