Actress Meena who had taken a temporary break from acting, will be facing the arc lights once again.

* 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.

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.

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.

Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film Viva Maria !.

At the 2007 British Soap Awards, it won Best Storyline, and Kate Ford was voted Best Actress for her portrayal.

Kane earned two Emmy Awards for her work in the series and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Hester Street.

In 2010, she was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

Dealing with outdated material at a time when the popularity of film musicals was already on the downslide, Coppola's result was only semi-successful, but his work with Clark no doubt contributed to her Golden Globe Best Actress nomination.

Three films have so far received international recognition by being selected to compete in major film festivals: Caterpillar by Kōji Wakamatsu was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress, Outrage by Takeshi Kitano was in competition for the Palme d ' Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and Himizu, by Sion Sono was in competition for the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

Rosie Perez was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carla Rodrigo.

It won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the Nebula Award for Best Script, and was also nominated for ten Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Parisot, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Supporting Actor for Rickman, winning Best Actor for Allen.

It was included in many 2008 " best of " lists, and received numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress by lead Anne Hathaway.

At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire ( 1994 ), a performance for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1953, Caron was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Lili.

In 1963, she was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the British drama The L-Shaped Room.

In 1971, Ullmann was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for The Emigrants, and again in 1976 for Face to Face.

Coquette was a success and won her an Academy Award for Best Actress, but the public failed to respond to her in the more sophisticated roles.

It was nominated for several awards, including two Golden Globes for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy / Musical for Sandra Bullock and Best Original Song-Motion Picture for Bosson's " One in a Million ".

" The film was the highest grossing movie of 2002 and Dixit's performance earned her the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.

She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1980's Ordinary People.

Jolie was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award in 2001 for Worst Actress for her work in Original Sin and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.