The Oscars – Best Actress Awards – Film Quiz

At the Academy Awards in 2003, Nicole Kidman won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Award for her role in The Hours. Moulin Rouge earned her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in 2002.

The Academy nominated Kate Winslet for the Best Actress Award for her roles in Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, and The Reader. In 2009, she won an award for her role in The Reader.

At the Academy Awards in 2006, Reese Witherspoon won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Award for her role in Walk the Line, the chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life. Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

Cate Blanchett won the Best Actress Award for her role in Blue Jasmine. Blue Jasmine is written and directed by Woody Allen. It tells the story of a wealthy Manhattan woman (played by Cate Blanchett) falling into poverty and homelessness.

At the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010, Sandra Bullock won the Best Actress award for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

At the 60th Academy Awards in 1988, Cher won the Best Actress award for her role in Moonstruck. As Rose Castorini in the same film, Olympia Dukakis won the Best Supporting Actress award.

Helen Mirren received the Best Actress award as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears. During her career, Mirren has portrayed three British queens in films and television series.

Meryl Streep has received 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three. It is more nominations than any other actor in the Academy Awards history.

At the Academy Awards in 2002, Halle Berry won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Award for her role in Monster's Ball.

Hilary Swank won her first Academy Award for portraying Brandon Teena in the 1999 biographical film Boys Don't Cry. She also stars in Clint Eastwood's film Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald, which won her a second Academy Award.