Who is the youngest Best Actress winner?

Marlee Matlin
Now we get to the youngest winner of Best Actress ever. Matlin was only 21 when she won for “Children of a Lesser God.” This film is also extremely noteworthy as Matlin is deaf.
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Who is the youngest to win an Oscar?

Tatum O'Neal won the youngest Oscar on this list with her performance in Paper Moon aged just 10 years old. During filming she turned nine years old, an incredible feat for such a young actress.
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Who is the youngest person to be nominated for best actress Oscar?

Quvenzhane Wallis, 9, is the youngest best actress nominee in Academy Awards history.
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Who is the 2nd youngest female Oscar winner?

The second-youngest to win the Academy Award for best actress (Jennifer Lawrence was about a month younger), Marlee Matlin was 22 when she won for the 1986 film Children of a Lesser God. The film was Matlin's big-screen debut.
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Has anyone under 18 won an Oscar?

As of 2022, a total of three minors (including Duke) have won Oscars, all in the Best Supporting Actress category. The other two are Tatum O'Neal, who was 10, for Paper Moon (1973), and Anna Paquin, who was 11, for The Piano (1993).
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Anna Paquin Wins Best Supporting Actress for "The Piano" | 66th Oscars (1994)



Who refused an Oscar Why?

Native American actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who declined the best-actor award on behalf of Marlon Brando during an Oscars protest in 1973, has died aged 75, the motion picture Academy said on Monday.
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Who won an Oscar at 10 years old?

Tatum O'Neal

Finally, we get to the youngest Oscar winner ever. O'Neal was only 10 years old when she won Best Supporting Actress. She starred in “Paper Moon” alongside her father, actor Ryan O'Neal.
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Who won most Oscars ever?

As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
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How many actresses won 3 Oscars?

Six have won exactly three acting Academy Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor awards), Frances McDormand (three Best Actress awards), Meryl Streep (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award), Jack Nicholson (two Best Actor awards and one Best Supporting Actor award), Ingrid Bergman (two Best ...
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Who won an Oscar at 6 years old?

She became the youngest winner ever in a competitive category a Shirley Temple won an “honorary” Oscar at age 6 in 1935.) She told the Times of London her Oscar win alienated her from her father, who was “too busy” making Stanley Kubrick's “Barry Lyndon” to attend the ceremony with his little girl.
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Who got 3 Oscars for best actor?

Day-Lewis remains the only actor in history to have earned three Best Actor Academy Awards.
  • Marlon Brando: 'On the Waterfront' (1954), 'The Godfather' (1972)
  • Gary Cooper: 'Sergeant York' (1941), 'High Noon' (1952)
  • Tom Hanks: 'Philadelphia' (1993), 'Forrest Gump' (1994)
  • Dustin Hoffman: 'Kramer vs.
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Which female actress has the most Oscars?

We look back at past winners revealing a veritable 'who's who' in the history of cinema. The actress with most Best Actress Oscars is Katharine Hepburn, who scooped her awards in 1933, 1967, 1968, and 1981 for 'Morning Glory', 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner', 'The Lion in Winter', and 'On Golden Pond'.
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Who is the youngest Oscar winner if she won 6 years old?

Tatum O'Neal

She became the youngest winner ever in a competitive category a Shirley Temple won an “honorary” Oscar at age 6 in 1935.) She told the Times of London her Oscar win alienated her from her father, who was “too busy” making Stanley Kubrick's “Barry Lyndon” to attend the ceremony with his little girl.
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Who is the oldest woman to win an Oscar?

Jessica Tandy (80) — 'Driving Miss Daisy' (1989)
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Who is the oldest person to win a Best Actress Oscar?

Jessica Tandy (80)

This makes her the oldest actor to receive an Academy Award for a leading role.
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Who is the best actress of all time?

1 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.
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What actress has the most Emmys?

Most successful Emmys actresses 2022

Joint top of the ranking of female performers with the most Emmy wins ever are Cloris Leachman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus with eight wins each.
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Who is the best actor of all time?

Top 10 Actors of All Time, According to the American Film...
  • 8 James Cagney.
  • 7 Clark Gable.
  • 6 Henry Fonda.
  • 5 Fred Astaire.
  • 4 Marlon Brando.
  • 3 James Stewart.
  • 2 Cary Grant.
  • 1 Humphrey Bogart.
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Who got 11 Oscars?

Most awards or nominations

Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories. Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories.
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Who won 4 Oscars in one night?

Walt Disney won an armload of Academy Awards® one unforgettable Hollywood night. On March 25, 1954, Walt won Oscars for the films The Living Desert, Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo, and the cartoon short Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom.
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Are the Oscars made of real gold?

The statuettes are solid bronze and plated in 24-karat gold. Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones.
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Who is the youngest person to win a Emmy?

The 12 Youngest Emmy Winners of All Time
  1. Roxana Zal. Age: 14. Award won: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. ...
  2. Kristy McNichol. Age: 15. ...
  3. Scott Jacoby. Age: 16. ...
  4. Anthony Murphy. Age: 17. ...
  5. Jharrel Jerome. Age: 21. ...
  6. Richard Thomas. Age: 21. ...
  7. Barbra Streisand. Age: 22. ...
  8. Barbara Anderson. Age: 22.
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Who won 5 Oscars?

In the past 90 years, only three films, It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) have won all five Oscars from the forty-three films that secured nominations in all five prestige Academy Award categories.
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Who is the youngest Oscar winner 2022?

As of April 2022, the youngest directing Academy Award winner ever was Damien Chazelle. He won the Oscar in the Directing category for "La La Land" (2016) at the age of 32 years and 39 days.
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Who turned down an Oscar first?

Dudley Nichols - 1935 Oscar for Best Screenplay

The first person to reject an Oscar was screenwriter Dudley Nichols, who won for Best Screenplay for the 1935 film, 'The Informer'.
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