Actually, Meryl Streep received Academy Award nominations eight times between 1978 and 1990. The years she did not earn Oscar nods during that period: 1980, 1984, 1986 and 1989.
The closest answer would be Meryl Streep, but it was 5 years that she wasn't nominated between 1979 and 1991.
Oscar-nominated US actress Quvenzhane Wallis is 14 years old (born August 28, 2003).
Quvenzhane Wallis is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild. She is also the youngest actress ever to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar at 9 years old.
French actress Emmanuelle Riva was 85 years and 321 days old when she was nominated for Best Actress of 2012 for her performance in "Amour." That made her slightly younger than Gloria Stuart, the oldest woman ever nominated for an acting Oscar. Stuart was 87 years and 221 days old when she received a 1997 Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance in "Titanic" as the older version of Rose DeWitt Bukater. She died on September 26, 2010 at the age of 100. The oldest actress to win an acting award was Jessica Tandy, who was 80 years and 292 days old when she won the 1989 Best Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy."
Ten years after Hattie McDaniel won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Gone With the Wind," Ethel Waters was nominated in the same category for her performance in "Pinky" (1949).
No, Whoopi Goldberg did not win the Oscar for The Color Purple (1985). She was nominated for lead actress but lost out to Geraldine Page who won for The Trip to Bountiful. Whoopi would go on to win Best Supporting Actor for Ghost (1990) five years later.
The youngest person with three Best Actress nominations was Joan Fontaine, who was nominated three times in four years. She received back-to-back nods for her performances in the movies "Rebecca" (1940) and "Suspicion" (1941). She won the Best Actress Oscar for "Suspicion" when she was 24. Two years later, she was nominated for a third Oscar in the category for her work in "The Constant Nymph." The youngest person to receive two Best Actress nominations was Jennifer Lawrence, who earned nods for her performances in "Winter's Bone" (2010) and "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012). She was 22 years and 141 days old when she was nominated for the second time on January 10, 2013. Lawrence won the 2012 Best Actress Award on February 24, 2013.
It was Penelope Cruz, who two years later became the first Spanish actress to win an Academy Award for her performance in Woody Allen" "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008). She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Meryl Streep.
Julia Roberts was nominated for Best Supporting Actress of 1989 for her performance in the movie as diabetic bride Shelby Eatenton Latcherie. It was her first of three nominations. She received a Best Actress nod the next year for her star-making role in "Pretty Woman." Ten years after that, she won the Best Actress award for playing the title character in "Erin Brockovich."
Yes. Quvenzhané Wallis, the preteen star of the 2012 drama "Beasts of the Southern Wild," is the youngest person to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. At 9 years and 135 days old when nominated on January 10, 2013, she became the third-youngest overall nominee in history after Justin Henry (a Best Supporting Actor honoree at 8 years and 276 days old in 1980) and Jackie Cooper (who received a Best Actor nod when he was 9 years and 20 days old in 1931). The previous record holder for youngest Best Actress nominee was New Zealand's Keisha Castle-Hughes for her performance in the 2003 drama "Whale Rider." She was 13 years and 309 days old when she was nominated in 2004. Interestingly, Wallis is in the Best Actress category opposite veteran French actress Emannuelle Riva, whose performance in "Amour" was nominated when she was 85 years and 321 days old. Riva is the oldest Best Actress nominee in history and could become the oldest-ever Oscar winner for acting.
Tatum O'Neal won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Addie Pray in "Paper Moon." When she accepted the award on April 2, 1974, she was 10 years and 148 days old, which made her the youngest winner of a competitive Oscar.