Who was the first actress to win 4 Oscars?

Answer 1

Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards for Best Actress during her distinguished career. She won the Oscars for "Morning Glory" (1933), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), "The Lion in Winter" (1968) and "On Golden Pond" (1981).

Answer 2

The first British actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress did so in the 1930s; however, she was also the first one to do it again in the 1950s

1939 Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara

1941 Joan Fontaine - Suspicion as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth

1942 Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver as Mrs. Miniver

1946 Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris

1949 Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress as Catherine Sloper

1951 Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois

1953 Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday as Princess Ann

1960 Elizabeth Taylor - Butterfield 8 as Gloria Wandrous

1964 Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins as Mary Poppins

1965 Julie Christie - Darling as Diana Scott

1966 Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha

1969 Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie

1970 Glenda Jackson - Women in Love as Gudrun Brangwen

1973 Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class as Vicki Allessio

1992 Emma Thompson - Howards End as Margaret Schlegel

2006 Helen Mirren - The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II

2008 Kate Winslet - The Reader as Hanna Schmitz

Answer 3

Several British (or British-born) actresses are tied with two Oscar wins. They are: Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Elizabeth Taylor, Glenda Jackson, Maggie Smith and Emma Thompson. Thompson's wins were for Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Answer 4

In the first Oscar ceremony, held in 1929, the Best Actress award was presented to Janet Gaynor for her role as a would-be prostitute in "Street Angel," as well as for her roles in "Sunrise" and "Seventh Heaven."

Answer 5

On May 16, 1929, 22-year-old Janet Gaynor became the first Academy Award winner for Best Actress for her performances in three films -- "Seventh Heaven" (1927), "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" (1927) and "Street Angel" (1928). Since that time, the rules have been changed so that no one can ever win an acting category Oscar for more than one film performance.

Answer 6

Hamlet (1948) directed by and starring Laurence Olivier is the first British film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Answer 7

Vivien Leigh, who won Best Actress for Gone With the Wind(1939), was the first British actress to win an Oscar.

Answer 8

It was Hattie McDaniel, who won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).

Answer 9

Janet Gaynor was the first.

Answer 10

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