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.
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.
Clint Eastwood is the male actor with the most Oscars. He won 4 Oscars, none of them for acting. He won 2 Oscars for Best Director and 2 Oscars for Best Picture.Katharine Hepburn is the female actor with the most Oscars. She won 4 Oscars for Best Actress.
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.
No African American has yet won Best Director. Only two have ever been nominated.John Singleton was nominated for Boyz n the Hood(1991). He was the first black person to be nominated for Best Director. He is also the youngest person ever nominated in this category (age 23)Lee Daniels was nominated for Precious (2009). He is the second black person to earned a best director nomination. Daniels is also the first black director to earn a best picture nomination.
Katharine Hepburn won the most competitive Academy Awards -- four. All were in the Best Actress category. Walter Brennan, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis are in second place with three Oscar wins each. Day-Lewis is the only person to win three Best Actor Oscars.
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.
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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.
The late singer Aaliyah was the youngest female and African American artist to perform at the Oscars. She performed "Journey to the Past"(the soundtrack to the 1997 film "Anastasia" ) at the age of 19 in 1998.
Shirley Temple is the youngest famous person. She was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She reached superstardom at the age of three.
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.
No. But there were three noteworthy African-American nominees for the year 2012. Denzel Washington received his fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Actor (and his sixth Oscar nod overall) for the movie "Flight." Nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest person ever nominated in the Best Actress category for her performance in "Beasts of the Southern Wild." And filmmaker Reginald Hudlin was one of the producers of "Django Unchained" nominated for the Best Picture award.
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Clint Eastwood is the male actor with the most Oscars. He won 4 Oscars, none of them for acting. He won 2 Oscars for Best Director and 2 Oscars for Best Picture.Katharine Hepburn is the female actor with the most Oscars. She won 4 Oscars for Best Actress.
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.
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