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How old was tatum O'Neal when she became the youngest person ever to receive the Academy Award of best supporting actress?
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How old was Tatum O'Neal when she became the youngest woman to win Best Supporting Actress?
10 years old. She is the youngest person to ever legitimately win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Shirley Temple received an honorary Oscar at age 5. It is her only Academy Award to date.
Who was the youngest African American to be nominated for an Oscar and for what film?
Quvenzhané Wallis, the 9-year-old star of the 2012 drama "Beasts of the Southern Wild," is the youngest person to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. She is the third-youngest person be nominated for an acting Oscar of any kind.
Who is the youngest actress ever nominated for an Oscar?
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.
Who is youngest female actress to be nominated for an Academy Award?
Youngest actress to be nominated for Best Actress is Keisha Castle-Hughes (age 13) in Whale Rider. The youngest actresses to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress (all age 10) are Abigail Breslin, Mary Bedham, Quinn Cummings and Tatum O'Neal.
Is hattie mcdaniels the first black person to win an Academy Award?
Yes. Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to be nominated for and receive an Academy Award. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
Who is the youngest person famous?
Shirley Temple is the youngest famous person. She was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She reached superstardom at the age of three.
Who is th person the first African American to win a Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind "(1939).
Who presented the Oscar to Benicio del Toro?
Benicio del Toro won an Academy Award (oscar) for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Traffic (2000). Traditionally, the award for Best Supporting Actor is presented by the same person who won Best Actress the preceeding year. Hilary Swank won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Boys Don't Cry (1999).
Who is the youngest person to win the Oscar for best supporting actress?
10-year-old Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon (1973). Obvious (to anyone who watches the movie) a lead role. Second youngest is 11-year-old Anna Paquin for The Piano(1993).
Who is the youngest person to ever win an Oscar?
Youngest Best Actor winner: 29-year-old Adrien Brody, The Pianist (2002)Youngest Best Actress winner: 5-year-old Shirley Temple - in 1934Youngest Best Supporting Actress winner: 10-year-old Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (1973)Youngest Best Supporting Actor winner: 20-year-old Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People (1980)NOTE: Both O'Neal and Hutton had the lead roles in their movies, but were moved to the supporting categories to better their chances in winning, and both were nominated against truly supporting co-stars (Madeline Kahn in Paper Moon, Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People).Youngest Best Director winner: 32-year-old Norman Taurog, Skippy (1931)Youngest nominees:Youngest Best Actor nominee: 9-year-old Jackie Cooper, Skippy (the only one under 19 nominated in this category)Only teenage Best Actress nominee: 12-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider (2003)Youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee: 8-year-old Justin Henry, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) (the only one under 10 nominated in this category)Youngest Best Supporting Actress nominees: 10-year-old Mary Badham, Quinn Cummings and Abigail Bresling for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Goodbye Girl (1977) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006), respectively.Youngest Best Director nominee: 24-year-old John Singleton, Boyz n the Hood (1991)* Shirley Temple received a special Oscar (she didn't win because she was never nominated) when she was 6-years-old!The youngest person to win a competitive Oscar was Tatum O'Neal, who won the 1973 Academy Award as 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.The youngest to receive an honorary Oscar was Shirley Temple, who was six years and 310 days old when she was presented a special Juvenile award on February 27, 1935.
First black person to win an Oscar?
Hattie McDaniel won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind." She was the only black woman to win an Oscar for acting until Whoopi Goldberg won the supporting actress award for "Ghost" (1990).
