In 1938, an unidentified man jumped onstage to accept an award on behalf of Best Supporting Actress winner Alice Brady, who was too ill to attend.

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Best actress award-winner Francis McDormand was mobbed, as was Al Pacino , Chris Rock and other luminaries.

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Natalie Portman, newly crowned Best Actress Academy Award winner, has found herself at the center of two hot debates this week.

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Next up was Melissa Leo, winner of Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter for playing mother to Christian Bale (winner Best Supporting Actor) and Mark Wahlberg.

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Halle Berry, the winner of the Best Actress award, showed up on Oscar night wearing Winston's Pumpkin diamond ring.

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On Friday the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organises the Globes, mistakenly identified Anne Hathaway as the winner as best dramatic actress.

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But there is no place in the line-up for Dame Helen Mirren, winner of the best actress Bafta in 2007 for The Queen.

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Oscar winner Helen Mirren is nominated in the best actress category for her role in "Hitchcock, " playing the wife of the British suspense filmmaker.

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Oscar winner Helen Mirren is recognized in the best actress category for her role in "Hitchcock, " playing the wife of the British suspense filmmaker.

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The most hotly contested category at the 2013 awards was for best actress in a play, where just 0.9% of the public vote separated winner Sheridan Smith (Hedda Gabler) from runner-up Billie Piper (The Effect).

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