Why did elizabeth Taylor win an Academy Award for?

Answer 1

As for "why" Elizabeth Taylor won two Academy Awards, simply stated, aside from being the last great star of Hollywood's Golden Era, she was also he finest screen actress of her time.

She won two competitive Academy Awards or Oscars in the US for Best Actress in 1960 for Butterfield 8 and again in 1966 for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

In 1993, she was awarded the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, giving her three Oscars.

Additionally she was nominated as best actress for: Raintree County (1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly Last Summer (1959).

Including the above, here are some of the awards and nominations Elizabeth Taylor earned during her career:

1958

• Golden Laurel Award, Female Dramatic Performance: Raintree County (1957)
• Academy Award Nomination, Best Actress: Raintree County (1957)

1959

• Golden Laurel Award, Female Dramatic Performance: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
• Academy Award Nomination, Best Actress: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
• BAFTA Award, Best Foreign Actress: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)

1960

• Academy Award Nomination, Best Actress: Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
• Golden Globe Award, Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama): Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
• Golden Laurel Award, Female Dramatic Performance: Suddenly Last Summer (1959)

1961

• Academy Award, Best Actress: BUtterfield 8(1960)
• Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama): BUtterfield 8 (1960)

1965

• Golden Laurel Award, Female Star

1966

• New York City Film Critics Circle Award, Best Actress: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award, Best Actress: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• National Board of Review, Best Actress: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (US)
• Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama): Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

1967

• Academy Award, Best Actress: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• BAFTA Award, Best British Actress: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966) (UK)
• Golden Laurel Award, Female Dramatic Performance: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• David di Donatello Award, Best Foreign Actress for: The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

1968

• BAFTA Award Nomination, Best British Actress: The Taming of the Shrew(1967) (UK)
• Bambi Awards, Bambi

1972

• Silver Bear for Best Actress, 22nd Berlin International Film Festival: Hammersmith Is Out (Germany)

• David Di Donatello Award, Best Foreign Actress: Zee and Co. (Italy)

1974

• Golden Globe Award Nomination, Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama): Ash Wednesday
• Golden Globe Award, Henrietta Award World Film Favorite - Female

1977

• Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year Award, Harvard University

1985

• Golden Globe Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Golden Apple Award, Female Star of the Year
• Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.
• Commander of Arts and Letters (France)

1988

• The Legion d'Honneur (France)

1992

• Academy Award, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
• Prince of Asturias Prize, Fight against HIV/AIDS (Spain)

1993

• American Film Institute, Lifetime Achievement Award

1997

• Screen Actors Guild, Lifetime Achievement Award

1999

• appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (UK)
• awarded Academy Fellowship, British Academy of Film and Television Arts

2000

• Marian Anderson Award (US)[3]
• The Vanguard Award, GLAAD Media Awards (US)

2001

• President's Citizens Medal (US)
• Maverick Award, Taos Talking Picture Festival (US)

2002

• Kennedy Center Honoree, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

2005

• BAFTA Award, Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in International Entertainment (UK)