Dame Helen won the Academy Award for best actress for her role in The Queen in 2007.
But she missed out on the Academy Award for best actress that year to Shakespeare In Love star Gwyneth Paltrow.
Audra McDonald, the star of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" gave an unvarnished emotional speech in receiving the award for Best Actress in a Musical.
The most celebrated recent example was "The Blind Side, " which won Sandra Bullock an Academy Award for best actress, and was about wealthy white people helping a gifted, oversize black athlete.
Daniel Day-Lewis will take home the award for Best Actor, Jennifer Lawrence will take home the award for Best Actress, and Anne Hathaway will take home the award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Despite the fact this was the first feature film by filmmaker Benh Zeitlin and starred unknown actors in all its roles, the film has gone to receive over 35 awards for both the director, the screenwriter Lucy Alibar, and most importantly, landing its leading lady the distinction of being the youngest nominee ever for an Oscar Academy Award for best actress.
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Besides her high-profile role in Coronation Street, Bradley won an Olivier Award nomination for best supporting actress for a National Theatre role in Billy Liar.
Last year Zeta Jones won a Tony Award for best performance by a leading actress in a musical for her role in A Little Night Music, her Broadway debut.
When Hathaway won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA, award this year for best supporting actress for her role as Fantine in "Les Miserables, " her acceptance speech did not go over well.
Streep, who has been nominated for a Best Actress award at this year's Academy Awards for her role, stars as fiercely caustic nun, Sister Aloysius, the iron-gloved principal of a religious school in a working class New York neighborhood in the 1960s.
Actress Jennifer Lawrence is considered the front runner for the Best Actress award.
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Three actors of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" -- Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier -- earned nominations, though only McDonald (who also is on ABC's "Private Practice") grabbed an award for best performance by a leading actress in a play.
Other highly Tweeted moments included Jennifer Lawrence's win for Best Actress (and endearing stumble on the way to accept the award), and Anne Hathaway's win for Best Actress in a Supporting role.
" She eventually won a best-actress award for playing a nun in "Dead Man Walking.
The former collected an award for best actor, while the latter received the prize for best supporting actress.
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But by the time she'd sobbed her way through a three-minute, 365-word acceptance speech for her Best Actress award, her look had gone from regal to ridiculous.
Hart, who won three awards in 2010, is up for best female TV comic, TV comedy actress and the People's Choice award, while her show is up for best sitcom.
It will be the first time the pair have worked together since the 1993 movie, for which Hunter won the best actress award.
Maggie Smith, who played the Dowager Countess of Grantham, won for best supporting actress, the miniseries' only acting award.
Homeland won the prestigious award for best drama series, while its female star Claire Danes won best actress in a drama series.
Witherspoon won a shelf full of awards for her performance as June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line, " including a best actress Academy Award.
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