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First person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award. Billie Eilish, for Best Original Song, "No Time to Die" from No Time to Die (2021) First person born in the 21st century to be nominated for an Academy Award. Quvenzhané Wallis, for Best Actress, Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) First Icelander to win an Academy Award
EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major performing art awards in the United States of America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television , audio recording, film , and Broadway theatre . [ 3 ]
First persons to win multiple Academy Awards in a single year; Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney were the first individuals to win multiple Academy Awards in a single year; they wrote the script based on their own story, leading to wins for both Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Story (The Story of Louis Pasteur) at the 9th Academy Awards, honoring the films of 1936.
That changed when Troy Kotsur, her co-star in the 2021 Oscar-winning drama “CODA,” took home the prize for best supporting actor. At 19, Matlin was cast opposite William Hurt in the adaptation ...
This is a list of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees in the award categories. This list is based on "statistics valid through the nomination announcement for the 88th Academy Awards, announced on January 14, 2016", as documented in The Official Academy Awards Database. [1]
First former professional athlete to be nominated for and to win an Academy Award in any category. First person to win both an Olympic medal and an Academy Award. 2019: Matthew A. Cherry Karen Rupert Toliver: Hair Love: Won Cherry is the second former professional athlete to be nominated for and to win an Academy Award in any category.
Actor Louise Fletcher, who gave an Oscar-winning performance as the villainous Nurse Ratched in 1975's “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and won hearts when she signed to her deaf parents ...
Katharine Hepburn holds the record with four Oscars (all Best Actress). [4] Six have won exactly three acting Academy Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor awards), Frances McDormand (three Best Actress awards), Meryl Streep (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award), Jack Nicholson (two Best Actor awards and one Best ...