Meryl Streep is also nominated for best actress, for her role as the famous cooking expert Julia Child in "Julie and Julia."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in nineteen seventy-nine for her work in "Kramer vs.Kramer."

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Hepburn won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, "Roman Holiday,"

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Three years later, Meryl Streep won Best Actress for her work in the movie "Sophie's Choice."

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Julie Christie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the patient.

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Katharine Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Awards for Best Actress.

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Kate Winslet was nominated as best actress for her role in the movie.

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This movie earned Hepburn her first Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Hepburn received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

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Sandra Bullock received a best actress nomination.

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Glenn Close earned the Emmy for best actress in a drama for her role as a ruthless lawyer in the series Damages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

The main character, played by best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe, is a troubled and overweight African American teenager.

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Sandra Bullock was named Best Actress for her starring role in "The Blind Side."

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For example,in nineteen thirty-seven, the Academy added the awards for best supporting actor and actress.

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He had been married to Taylor's best friend and popular actress Debbie Reynolds.

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The Oscar for Best Supporting Actress went to Mo'Nique, who plays the abusive mother of a troubled teenaged girl in "Precious."

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The singer and actress Barbra Streisand announced the Oscar for Best Director.

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Actress Sigourney Weaver presented the Emmy for best drama series.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Thank you so much,". Iranian American actress Shoreh Aghdashloo was named best supporting actress in a miniseries or movie for her role as the wife of Saddam Hussein in House of Saddam.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21