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3 unusual facts about Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress


Once Is Not Enough

Vaccaro was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Linda Riggs.

The Accidental Tourist

The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis, for which Davis won an Academy Award.

William A. McHenry House

The Oscar of Donna Reed who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1953 is on display at William A. McHenry House.


Andrea Leeds

A popular supporting player of the late 1930s, Leeds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Stage Door (1937).

Blanche Barrow

On April 10, 1968, at the 40th Academy Awards ceremony, Estelle Parsons won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of Blanche in the film Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

Fernando Meirelles

He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener, film which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress to Rachel Weisz.

Rachel Weisz went on to win the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Gene Saks

Among Saks' film directing credits are Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower (which won Goldie Hawn the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Mame, So I Married an Axe Murderer (uncredited) and the 1995 television production of Bye Bye Birdie.

Japanese Sign Language

Hearing actress Rinko Kikuchi received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her signing role in this film.

Mary Ure

In 1960 she appeared in the film Sons and Lovers as Clara Dawes, and was nominated for both the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Melinda Dillon

Four years later, Dillon was again nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as a suicidal teacher in Absence of Malice in 1981, working again with Paul Newman.


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