
Best Actress Academy Award Winners
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15 questions Β· Published February 12, 2024
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Who won a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film "Coal Miner's Daughter"?
Although she has six Best Actress Oscar nominations, Sissy Spacek has just one win as of 2024, for her role as Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980).
- Fill In The Blank
2. Jessica Chastain took home the statuette for her role as the titular American evangelist in 2021's "The _________ of Tammy Faye."

Jessica Chastain won an Oscar for her role as evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in the 2021 biopic "The Eyes of Tammy Faye."
- Multiple Choice
3. As of 2024, who is the oldest winner of a Best Actress Academy Award?
Jessica Tandy was eighty years old when she won in 1989 for "Driving Miss Daisy," and as of 2024, still holds the honor of being the oldest Best Actress winner.
- Multiple Choice
4. Which of these actresses did NOT win an Academy Award for portraying a British monarch?
While Cate Blanchett was twice nominated for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in 1999's "Elizabeth" and 2007's "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," she lost both times; Blanchett's two Oscar wins are for "The Aviator" (2005) and "Blue Jasmine" (2014).
- Multiple Choice
5. Her 2023 portrayal of famed American athlete _____________ earned Annette Bening her fourth Best Actress nomination.

FUN FACT
Annette Bening's four Best Actress Oscar nominations have come in four separate decades:
Β "American Beauty" in 1999
"Being Julia" in 2004.
"The Kids Are Alright" in 2010.
And as swimmer Diana Nyad in 2023's "Nyad."
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