The Academy’s Favorite Ladies
With the 88th Academy Awards right around the corner and the races for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress tightening up, here's a look back at the most nominated women in Oscar's history.
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Ellen Burstyn
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection The actress has been nominated for six academy awards and won one, for best actress for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore in 1975.
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Maggie Smith
Image Credit: Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection With a career spanning over four decades, Maggie Smith has earned six Academy Award nominations. She's been the winner twice, for best actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1970 and best supporting actress for California Suite in 1979.
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Jessica Lange
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Photofest Lange has been nominated six times, including two nominations in the same year, 1983, when she won her first Oscar: best supporting actress in Tootsie. She took home another statue in 1995, this time for best actress in Blue Sky. -
Greer Garson
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection The classic film star earned seven nominations throughout her career, all for best actress, but only took home one Oscar, for Mrs. Miniver in 1943.
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Jane Fonda
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection There's a reason Jane Fonda is considered Hollywood royalty. The actress has been nominated for seven Academy Awards and taken home two Oscars, both for best actress in Klute in 1972 and Coming Home in 1979.
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Ingrid Bergman
Image Credit: Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection It is impressive enough that Bergman was nominated seven times in her career, but she is also one of only six actors with three or more Oscar wins. She won best actress in Gaslight in 1945, and again in Anastasia in 1957. She also won a best supporting actress award in 1975 for Murder on the Orient Express.
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Geraldine Page
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Island Pictures/ Courtesy Everett Collection. The legendary actress was nominated eight times in her life and finally took home the Oscar at her last Academy Awards. She won best actress in The Trip to Bountiful in 1986.
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Bette Davis
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Bette Davis was nominated 10 times, with every nomination being for best actress. She took home the award twice, for Dangerous in 1936 and Jezebel in 1939.
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Katharine Hepburn
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Hepburn is not only the second-most nominated actor in history with an incredible 12 nominations, she is also the most awarded. She earned four Oscars in her lifetime, all for best actress: Morning Glory in 1933, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1968, The Lion in Winter in 1969, and On Golden Pond in 1982.
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Meryl Streep
Image Credit: Photo Credit: The Weinstein Company All hail the queen! Streep is not only the most nominated actress in history, she's the most nominated actor in history, by a long shot. She has earned a staggering 19 nominations, including one this year for best supporting actress in Into the Woods. Streep has won three times: Best supporting actress in Kramer vs. Kramer in 1980, best actress in Sophie's Choice in 1983, and best actress in The Iron Lady in 2012.