For what film did Meryl Streep win her first Oscar?

Answer 1

BUtterfield 8 (1960). Based on the novel by John O'Hara, Butterfield 8 earned Elizabeth Taylor her

first Academy Award (for Best Actress) after four unsuccessful nominations. ...
Two.

Answer 2

Roman Holiday (1953). She was nominated also for her performances in Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Wait Until Dark (1967). Personally, I find sad how she didn't get the Oscar for Breakfast at Tiffany's...

Answer 3

Meryl Streep won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1979 for her performance as troubled wife and mother Joanna Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer." It was her first Oscar win in two nominations. The year before, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her work in "The Deer Hunter."

Answer 4

Elizabeth Taylor won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her performance in BUtterfield 8 in 1960, and for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966. Additionally, she received the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Academy Award in 1992 for her work fighting AIDS.

Answer 5

He won the first of two Best Actor awards for On the Waterfront (1954).

Answer 6

Elizabeth Taylor appeared in her first motion picture at the age of nine in There's One Born Every Minute in 1942.

Answer 7

There's One Born Every Minute

Answer 8

There's one born every minute 1942