All Best Actress Oscar Winners in Academy Award History
variety.com“Nomadland”Frances McDormand became only the third person to win three lead-acting Oscars, after Katharine Hepburn and Daniel Day-Lewis.
McDormand was also a producer of “Nomadland,” playing a woman who hits the road after losing her job and her husband. She previously won for “Fargo” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Past winners with three were Ingrid Bergman, Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson (who each had two leads and one supporting), and Walter Brennan (all supporting).
Hepburn holds the record with four, all leads. “Judy”Renée Zellweger had three consecutive Oscar nominations, 2001-2003, winning finally as supporting actress for “Cold Mountain.” She virtually disappeared from films for six years, returning in some low-profile movies starting in 2016.
When “Judy” debuted at the Telluride Film Festival, the media declared it her comeback, and she was immediately pegged as the best-actress frontrunner.
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