The only actor to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner is Cate Blanchett. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2004 for playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator.Robert Downey, Jr. is the only other actor nominated for playing a previous nominee, Charlie Chaplin, in Chaplin.Maggie Smith won an Oscar as supporting actress for portraying a fictional actress in The California Suite (1978). In the movie she gets ready for the ceremony, and returns to the hotel afterwards, without the award.
Jessica Lange won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
In the 80 years of Oscars, only three Annas won an award. Anna Paquin, Best Supporting Actress for The Piano (1993) Anna Magnani, Best Actress for The Rose Tattoo (1955) Anna Asp, Art Direction for Fanny & Alexander (1983)
In 2001, Halle Berry made Oscar history when she won the Best Actress award for Monster's Ball. As of 2015, she remains the only African-American woman to win in the lead acting category.
The only Oscar to win an Oscar was the famed lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.
No Indian actress has ever been nominated for an Oscar.
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Barbra Streisand, who won Best Actress for Funny Girl(1968) and the Best Original Song for A Star Is Born (1976). She was the first actress with such an achievement, and the only other actress was Emma Thompson who won Best Actress for Howards End (1992) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995).
Claudette Colbert won Best Actress for It Happened One Night, and she too was born in France.FOR OODLES: Paulette GoddardNot an answer choice?? Where are these choices? What's PCH? Goddard wasn't in the movie, never won an Oscar AND wasn't born in France@!
I can only think of Barbra Streisand, who won an Oscar as Best Actress in Funny Girl (1968) and Best Song for A Star Is Born (1976).
Katharine Hepburn is the only actress to win 4 Oscars for Best Actress. Why? They liked her and her performances.
Although it was nominated in five categories, The Reader(2008) only won one Oscar. Kate Winslet won the Oscar for Best Actress.
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Sophia Loren won Best Actress for Two Women (1961), the movie's only Oscar nomination.
The only actor to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner is Cate Blanchett. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2004 for playing Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator.Robert Downey, Jr. is the only other actor nominated for playing a previous nominee, Charlie Chaplin, in Chaplin.Maggie Smith won an Oscar as supporting actress for portraying a fictional actress in The California Suite (1978). In the movie she gets ready for the ceremony, and returns to the hotel afterwards, without the award.
Jessica Lange won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Halle Berry won her first Oscar for her role as Leticia Musgrove. Not only was this Berry's first oscar but it was also the first oscar won by an African American Women.