How many times was elizabethl Taylor nominated for an Oscar?

Answer 1

The longtime screen star, who died March 23, 2011 at the age of 79, was nominated five times for Academy Awards -- all for Best Actress -- and won twice. She also received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award on March 29, 1993 for her activism in the battle against AIDS. Her nominated roles and movies are as follows (Oscar wins in bold):

• Susanna Drake in "Raintree County" (1957).
• Margaret "Maggie the Cat" Pollitt in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958).
• Catherine Holly in "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959).
• Gloria Wandrous in "BUtterfield 8" (1960).
• Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966).