Hillary Swank won the first of two Best Actress Oscars for playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry at the 2000 Academy Awards.
If you are referring to Dorothy Dandridge's Carmen JonesAcademy Award nomination for best actress, the year is 1954. Dandridge lost out to Grace Kelly for Kelly's role in The Country Girl that year.
Seema Biswas was awarded National Award for Best Actress in 1996 for the Bandit Queen.
Not as of 2014, but she has received back-to-back Oscar nominations. In 2012, she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for "The Help." The following year she was nominated for Best Actress in "Zero Dark Thirty."
She won six1991: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Dil1993: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Beta1995: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Hum Aapke Hain Kaun...!1998: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Dil To Pagal Hai2003: Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Devdas2011: Filmfare Special Award for completing 25 years in the Indian film industryShe was nominated for 101989: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Tezaab1990: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Prem Pratigyaa1992: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Saajan1994: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Khalnayak1995: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Anjaam1996: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Raja1996: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Yaraana2001: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Pukar2002: Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Lajja2008: Filmfare Best Actress Award for Aaja Nachle
Linda Hunt the Best Supporting Actress award for the movie The Year for Living Dangerously (1982) in which she portrayed a man (why? beats me).
Sandra Bullock won for her role in The Blind Side.This year (2010) Sandra Bullock won The award, " best actress"
29-year-old Jodie Foster beats 30-year-old Bette Davis and Hilary Swank to the record.
Benicio del Toro won an Academy Award (oscar) for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Traffic (2000). Traditionally, the award for Best Supporting Actor is presented by the same person who won Best Actress the preceeding year. Hilary Swank won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Boys Don't Cry (1999).
80-year-old Jessica Tandy won Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
Katharine Hepburn- 1933 Best Actress, Morning Glory 1935 Best Actress, Alice Adams 1940 Best Actress, The Philadelphia Story 1942 Best Actress, Woman of the Year 1951 Best Actress, The African Queen 1955 Best Actress, Summertime 1956 Best Actress, The Rainmaker 1959 Best Actress, Suddenly Last Summer 1962 Best Actress, Long Journey Into Night 1967 Best Actress, Guess Who's Coming for Dinner 1968 Best Actress, A Lion in Winter 1981 Best Actress, On Golden Pond Audrey Hepburn- 1953 Best Actress, Roman Holiday 1954 Best Actress, Sabrina 1959 Best Actress, The Nun's Story 1961 Best Actress, Breakfast at Tiffany's 1967 Best Actress, Wait Until Dark
No. An actor (or actress) cannot be nominated twice in the same category, unlike directors, composers, etc. In the past a nominated actor could have more than one movie associated with his nomination.
If you are referring to Dorothy Dandridge's Carmen JonesAcademy Award nomination for best actress, the year is 1954. Dandridge lost out to Grace Kelly for Kelly's role in The Country Girl that year.
sir edmund hillary was knighted in the year 1953
For 1986, best picture was Platoon, Best Actress was Marlee Matlin (for Children Of A Lesser God), Best Actor was Paul Newman (for The Color Of Money). Album of the year was Graceland by Paul Simon.
Thirteen women have won two or more Academy Awards for Best Actress:1. Katharine Hepburn --Best Actress: "Morning Glory" (1932/33).Best Actress: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967).Best Actress: "The Lion in Winter" (1968) [Tied with Barbra Streisand].Best Actress: "On Golden Pond" (1981).2. Luise Rainer --Best Actress: "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936).Best Actress: "The Good Earth" (1937).3. Bette Davis --Best Actress: "Dangerous" (1935).Best Actress: "The Heiress" (1938).4. Vivien Leigh --Best Actress: "Gone With the Wind" (1939).Best Actress: "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951).5. Ingrid Bergman --Best Actress: "Gaslight" (1944).Best Actress: "Anastasia" (1956).6. Olivia de Havilland --Best Actress: "To Each His Own" (1946).Best Actress: "The Heiress" (1949).7. Elizabeth Taylor --Best Actress: "BUtterfield 8" (1960).Best Actress: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966).8. Glenda Jackson --Best Actress: "Women in Love" (1970).Best Actress: "A Touch of Class" (1973).9. Jane Fonda --Best Actress: "Klute" (1971).Best Actress: "Coming Home" (1978).10. Sally Field --Best Actress: "Norma Rae" (1979).Best Actress: "Places in the Heart" (1984).11. Jodie Foster --Best Actress: "The Accused" (1988).Best Actress: "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991).12. Hilary Swank --Best Actress: "Boys Don't Cry" (1999).Best Actress: "Million Dollar Baby" (2004).13. Meryl Streep --Best Actress: "Sophie's Choice" (1982).Best Actress: "The Iron Lady" (2011).
Linda Hunt won a 1982 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a male photographer in "The Year of Living Dangerously."
21-year-old Marlee Matlin for Children of a Lesser God(1986), who is also the youngest Oscar winner for Best Actress.