French cinema continued its upward trend of earning awards at the Cannes Festival, including the prestigious Grand Prix for Of Gods and Men ( 2010 ) and the Jury Prize for Poliss ( 2011 ); the Best Director Award for Mathieu Amalric ( On Tour, 2010 ); the Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche ( Certified Copy, 2010 ); and the Best Actor Award for Jean Dujardin ( The Artist, 2011 ).

In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress.

* October 17 – Jean Arthur, American Actress ( d. 1991 )

For her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ), she received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

According to John Oller's biography, Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew ( 1997 ), Arthur developed a kind of stage fright punctuated with bouts of psychosomatic illnesses.

The film won Best Costume Design at the Saturn Awards, where it was also nominated for Warwick Davis for Best Performance by a Younger Actor ( lost to Fred Savage for Vice Versa ) and Jean Marsh for Best Supporting Actress ( lost to Sylvia Sidney for Beetlejuice ).

The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role, ( Jean Simmons ) and Best Music, Song ( Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, for " What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life ?").

* Jean Fergusson – Actress playing Marina in Last of the Summer Wine

* In 2001, Jean Smart was nominated for an Emmy Award for " Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series " for her performance as " Sherry Regan ".

In 1956, Cilento was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actress ( Dramatic ) for Helen of Troy in Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates.

Actress Jean Stapleton also appeared on the show as Beakman's mother, " Beakmom ".

The war over, Morgan returned to France and quickly picked up her career with the 1946 film, La Symphonie Pastorale by Jean Delannoy, which earned her the " Best Actress " award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Maureen Stapleton was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play but lost to Zoe Caldwell in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

For her role as Lina Lamont, Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Jean Stapleton was nominated for the 1995 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy series Emmy Award for playing Aunt Vivian in the episode " The Road to Paris Texas.

Actress Jean Fergusson, known for appearances in Last of the Summer Wine, wrote a biography and devised and starred in a tribute show, She Knows Y ' Know !, at London's Vaudeville Theatre in 1997.

Actress Jean Alexander quit the role in 1987 after 23 years, but was persuaded to reprise the part in 1990 for a one-off appearance as part of an ITV Telethon.

Actress Jean Alexander has explained her interpretation of Hilda's head scarf and curler look: " Like Hilda, my roots were in Liverpool and that ’ s where I first noticed the curlers and headscarf look.

Actress Jean Alexander commented on the accolade: " I'm very flattered.

However, off-Broadway she wrote and appeared in avant-garde material, such as Jean Genet's The Maids, for which she won the very first Best Actress Obie ( Off-Broadway ) Award in the mid-1950s, which was presented to her by Shelley Winters.

Tony nominations also went to Pendleton for Best Direction of a Play, Aldredge for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Stapleton for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and the play itself for Best Reproduction.

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – Maureen Stapleton

** Golden Globe Award – Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton ( Tied with Karen Black for Five Easy Pieces )

** Oscar Award – Best Actress in Supporting Role: Maureen Stapleton

** BAFTA Film Award – Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton

The film received four other Oscar nominations, two for Allen's screenplay and direction, one for Stapleton as Best Actress in a Supporting Role and another for Mel Bourne and Daniel Robert for their art direction and set decoration.

* Best Actress in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama or Comedy – Jacinta Stapleton ( 2004 )

Stapleton was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as for a Golden Globe.

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

Von Trier's next film, Breaking the Waves ( 1996 ), the first film in von Trier's ' Golden Heart Trilogy ', won the Grand Prix at Cannes and featured Emily Watson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Among the 10 Academy Awards won by Gone with the Wind was a Best Actress award for Leigh, who also won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress award for Julie Andrews, who accepted the part after she was passed over by Jack L. Warner for the leading role of Eliza Dolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady.

The film was also the screen debut for Eva Marie Saint, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role.

The film also won Linda Hunt ( who played a man in the film ) an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Though well reviewed, particularly the performances of Bridges and Rosie Perez — who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress — the film was less commercially successful than Weir's two preceding films.

In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets ; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.

She was portrayed in the 2002 television film Bertie and Elizabeth by Juliet Aubrey, the 2006 film The Queen by Sylvia Syms and in the 2010 film The King's Speech by Helena Bonham Carter, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

La Veuve de Saint-Pierre ( 2000 ) by Patrice Leconte, for which she was nominated for a César for Best Actress, was a period drama which saw Binoche appear opposite Daniel Auteuil in the role of a woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the guillotine.

James Cagney with Gloria Stuart, who was Academy Award for Best Actress | Oscar-nominated sixty-three years later for another nautical epic, Titanic ( 1997 film ) | Titanic ( 1997 ).

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.

When Davis was nominated for an Academy Award, Crawford contacted the other Best Actress nominees ( who were unable to attend the ceremonies ) and offered to accept the award on their behalf should they win.

Jones, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1943 The Song of Bernadette, was nominated five times for the Academy Awards.

Actress Birgitta Tolksdorf, who made a name for herself in American television in the 1970s, as well as German stage and screen actor Mathias Wieman ( 1958 recipient of the Justus-Möser-Medaille ) ( see German article Justus-Möser-Medaille ) were born in the city.

* Actress Jeanne Cagney, who played the part of Cohan's sister, was James Cagney's real-life sister.

It was directed by Josephine R. Abady and starred Edward Asner and Madeline Kahn, who received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

Warner was criticized for choosing a non-singing star, Audrey Hepburn, to play the leading role of Eliza Doolittle, and indeed that year's Academy Award for Best Actress went to Julie Andrews, who had played Eliza on Broadway and the London Stage, for Mary Poppins, while Audrey Hepburn was not even nominated.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.