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3 days ago · Blanchett was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Best Actress, and won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Helpmann Award for Best Actress.
1 day ago · In 2021, Chastain starred in the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye as the televangelist Tammy Faye, for which she won the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress.
2 days ago · She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in the biopic Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for reprising her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Fences.
1 day ago · She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
1 day ago · Judi Dench, British actress known for her numerous and varied TV, stage, and film roles. She won an Academy Award for her performance in Shakespeare in Love (1998). Her other notable credits included the TV series A Fine Romance, a number of Shakespearean plays, and several James Bond films.
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3 days ago · Mary Pickford and her Academy Award for Coquette. Mary Pickford posing with her best actress Oscar for Coquette (1929). The first awards covered films that had been released between August 1, 1927, and July 31, 1928. The awards were presented on May 16, 1929, in a ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · Her breakthrough role was as young Queen Elizabeth I in the 1998 film Elizabeth, which earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for best actress. Blanchett was praised for capturing the emotional complexity of the queen’s development from a lovestruck adolescent to an indomitable political force who represses ...
