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Joan Crawford.
no, that was Joan Crawford, who was at home when she won for Mildred Pierce. She said she was too sick to go.
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Joan Crawford won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1945.
Joan Crawford
Mildred Pierce
The Oscar for Best Actress of 1954 went to Grace Kelly (later Princess Grace of Monaco) for "The Country Girl."The Oscar for Best Actress of 1954 went to Grace Kelly (later Princess Grace of Monaco) for "The Country Girl."
Ann Blyth and Eve Arden were both nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Mildred Pierce.
Actress Maggie Smith won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing an actress who's nominated for an Oscar but doesn't win in California Suite (1978).
Hillary Swank won the best actess Oscar for playing a male. Linda hunt also won a best supporting Oscar for playing a male.
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.
Jennifer Connelly won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing Alicia Nash in A Beautiful Mind(2001)