Beasts of the Southern Wild At age 9 years and 135 days, Wallis is (to date) the youngest ever nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She earned this honor in the same year as the award's oldest ever nominee, Emmanuelle Riva.
Jessica Chastain
Zero Dark Thirty
Emmanuelle Riva
Amour At age 85 years and 321 days, Riva is (to date) the oldest ever nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She earned this honor in the same year as the award's youngest ever nominee, Quvenzhanรฉ Wallis.
La Vie en Rose Marion Cotillard became the first French actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for a French-language performance.
A Touch of Class Glenda Jackson was not present at the awards ceremony. The film's writer-director-producer Melvin Frank accepted the award on her behalf.
The Lion in Winter Tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968). Hepburn became the third performer to win consecutive awards, and the first to win three awards for lead roles. Anthony Harvey, the film's director, accepted the award on her behalf.
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Barbra Streisand
Funny Girl Tied with Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968).
Two Women Sophia Loren is the first actor to win an Academy Award for a foreign language film. Sophia Loren was not present at the awards ceremony. Greer Garson accepted the award on her behalf.
Carmen Jones Dorothy Dandridge became the first African-American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Judy Garland
A Star Is Born Judy Garland couldn't attend the ceremony because she was giving birth to her third child and only son, Joey Luft. Even though she did not win the Academy Award she always stated that Joey was the best "Academy Award" she ever received that night.
Born Yesterday Judy Holliday was not present at the awards ceremony but watched it with several nominees in New York including fellow-best actress candidate Gloria Swanson. In Hollywood, Ethel Barrymore accepted on her behalf.
Mildred Pierce Joan Crawford was not present at the awards ceremony and feigned ill that night. Meanwhile she listened to the show on the radio. When she won, she ushered the press into her bedroom, where she finally accepted her Oscar.
Jezebel On 19 July 2001 Steven Spielberg purchased Davis' Oscar statuette at a Christie's auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This was the second time in five years Spielberg did so to protect an Oscar from further commercial exploitation.
Dangerous On 14 December 2002 Steven Spielberg anonymously bought Davis' Oscar at a Sotheby's auction in New York to return it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The statuette was among the memorabilia sold by the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, which has emerged from bankruptcy protection.
It Happened One Night Claudette Colbert was so convinced that she would lose the Oscar to write-in nominee Bette Davis that she didn't attended the ceremony originally. She was summoned from a train station to pick up her Academy Award.
