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Best Actress - photo wallpapers: The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the other nominees. In the first three years the awards existed, individuals such as actors, directors and cinematographers were nominated as the best in their category and then all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films in some cases) was listed after the award. However, for the 1929/30 awards, though each of the acting winners had had two films following their name on the ballots, only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award. The next year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the modern system in which an actor or other crew member is nominated for a single specific film. Katharine Hepburn, with four wins, has more Best Actress Awards than any other actress. Eleven women have won two Best Actress Awards; in chronological order, they are Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Glenda Jackson, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Hilary Swank. Only two actresses have won this award in consecutive years: Luise Rainer (1936 and 1937) and Katharine Hepburn (1967 and 1968). Katharine Hepburn holds the record in the Best Actress category with 12 nominations. Meryl Streep has been nominated 11 times for Best Actress as well as 3 times for Best Supporting Actress, which makes her the overall most nominated actress. There has been only one tie in the history of this category. This occurred in 1968 when Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand were both given the award. Unlike the earlier 1932 "tie" for Best Actor, however, Hepburn and Streisand each received the exact same number of votes. Only twice have siblings have been nominated for the Best Actress award during the same year: Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine in 1941; and Lynn Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave in 1966. Only two pairs of actresses have been nominated for Best Actress for the same role: Jeanne Eagels and Bette Davis as Leslie Crosby in The Letter (1929 and 1940), and Janet Gaynor and Judy Garland as Vicki Lester in A Star is Born (1937 and 1954). Judi Dench and Kate Winslet were both nominated for their portrayals of Iris Murdoch at different ages in 2001's Iris, Winslet in the Best Supporting Actress category, and Winslet and Gloria Stuart were both nominated for their portrayals of Rose DeWitt Bukater in "Titanic", Stuart in the Best Supporting Actress category. The 1998 awards presented the unique case of actresses being nominated in the same year for the same role in different films, with Cate Blanchett being nominated for Best Actress and Judi Dench for Best Supporting Actress as Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love respectively. Kate Winslet is the youngest actress to be nominated for five Academy Awards. Halle Berry, who won in 2002 for her role in Monster's Ball, is the only African-American winner of the Best Actress award. Only six other African-American actresses have been nominated: Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi Goldberg, and Angela Bassett. In addition, only three Hispanic actresses have been nominated for the Best Actress award: Salma Hayek, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Pen�lope Cruz. Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, and Jessica Lange have each won both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards. No Best Actress winning or nominated performance is lost, although Sadie Thompson (1928) is incomplete and missing portions have been reconstructed with stills.[br]

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