Lupita Nyong’o
Nyong'o won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2014 for her first feature film role in Twelve Years a Slave.
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Anne Hathaway
Image Credit: Photo Credit: John Shearer/Invision/AP Hathaway won her first Oscar for her performance Tom Hooper’s musical drama Les Miserables in 2013.
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Octavia Spencer
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Joel Ryan/AP Images Spencer earned her first Oscar nomination and win in 2012 for her supporting role in The Help.
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Melissa Leo
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Matt Sayles/AP Images Leo’s supporting role in the David O. Russell-directed biopic The Fighter earned her an Academy Award in 2011.
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Mo’Nique
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Matt Sayles/AP Images The comedian-actress took home the award for her performance in Precious.
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Penelope Cruz
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Matt Sayles/AP Images Cruz scored the Academy Award in 2009 for her supporting role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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Tilda Swinton
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Kevork Djansezian/AP Images Swinton took home the Oscar for her performance in Michael Clayton, in which she starred opposite George Clooney and Tom Wilkinson.
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Jennifer Hudson
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Kevork Djansezian/AP Images The Grammy award-winning singer nabbed her first Oscar for her acting debut in Dreamgirls.
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Rachel Weisz
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Kevork Djansezian/AP Images Weisz was awarded best supporting actor in 2006 for The Constant Gardener.
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Cate Blanchett
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Reed Saxon/AP Images Blanchett won her first Oscar for best supporting actress in 2005 for her role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator.
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Renee Zellweger
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Laura Rauch/AP Images Zellweger took home the gold statuette in 2004 for her work in the war drama Cold Mountain.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Reed Saxon/AP Images Zeta-Jones’ supporting role in the musical film Chicago earned her an Oscar in 2003.
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Jennifer Connelly
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Doug Mills/AP Images Connelly won the Oscar in 2002 for her portrayal of Alicia Nash, wife of John Nash, in A Beautiful Mind.
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Marcia Gay Harden
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Laurie Wierzbicki/BEImages Harden has earned two Oscar nominations for best supporting actress, winning once in 2001 for her performance in Pollock.
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Angelina Jolie
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Dan Callister/Getty Images Jolie scored the Oscar in 2000 for her supporting role opposite Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted in 2000.
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Judi Dench
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Reed Saxon/AP Images Dench has raked in a total of seven Oscar nominations across all acting categories and has won the award for best supporting actress once in 1999 for Shakespeare in Love.
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Kim Basinger
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Mark J. Terrill/AP Images Basinger snagged the Oscar in 1998 for her supporting role in the crime drama L.A Confidential.
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Juliette Binoche
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Reed Saxon/AP Images The French actress won the Academy Award in 1997 for her performance in The English Patient.
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Mira Sorvino
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Damian Dovarganes/AP Images Sorvino won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1996 for her role in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite.
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Dianne Wiest
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Berliner Studio/BEImages Wiest has won the Oscar for best supporting actress on two occasions — in 1987 for Hannah and Her Sisters and 1995 for Bullets Over Broadway.