Dixit's next big performance came in Umesh Mehra's hit Mujrim and Aziz Sejawal's directed movie Ilaaka in both movies Dixit continued against super dancer and fiter hero Mithun Chakraborthy.

The film became the biggest box-office hit of the year in India and Dixit's performance earned her the first Filmfare Best Actress Award of her career.

Dixit's performance earned her the fourth nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

" Dixit's performance in Beta won her a second Filmfare Best Actress Award.

" Dixit's performance in Khalnayak earned her a sixth nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

Dixit's performance of a revenge-seeking wife and mother earned her a seventh nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

Critics believed the film to be " too sweet " but appreciated Dixit's performance as she mesmerized on the screen.

Anjali Abrol of Planet Bollywood praised Dixit's performance and wrote " Madhuri, despite any role given, carries it off with ease and grace .... even despite the mismatch of age, she does justice to her role, and is the best actress in Bollywood today, comparatively.

Dixit's performance of Anjali, a jealous lover was praised by critics.

Dixit's performance in Pukar earned her twelfth nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

" Dixit's performance earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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

The film released in November 2007 and, despite the critics panning it, Dixit's performance was highly appreciated, with the New York Times commenting about her that " she's still got it ".

Dixit's next release Prem Pratigyaa, in which she starred opposite Mithun Chakraborty, earned her second nomination for the Filmfare Best Actress Award.

Upperstall. com praised Dixit's work " She made Beta her own film totally stealing a march over the film's hero, Anil Kapoor.

Dixit's role of a modern yet family-oriented young girl fetched her the third Filmfare Best Actress Award of her career.

Dixit's career went into a slump during 1996 as many of her films like Prem Granth and Rajkumar flopped at the box office.

It turned out to be Dixit's last movie as she took a sabbatical from films in order to raise her children.

Although Dixit's work was few, she earned critical acclaim.

It was Dixit's first hit at the box office.

Shahid Khan of Planet Bollywood praised Dixit's dancing and acting skills in the movie " n any other film, the heroine would not have much to do with a plot like this.

Dixit's next release of the year was Gaja Gamini, which was a failure at the box office.

Dixit's next release was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's hit film Devdas, co-starring Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai.

He then played minor roles in the successful 2001 multi-starrer Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham ; the 2005 hit Salaam Namaste ; and Madhuri Dixit's 2007 comeback film, Aaja Nachle.

Upperstall. com wrote " Madhuri gives a wonderful insightful performance as the self-respecting educated woman married into a family of male chauvanistic upper class landlords and who is humiliated by her husband when she objects to his misdeeds, never hitting a false note.

During a performance, Buttons converses with a woman member of the audience — who warns him that an unnamed " they " are asking questions about him again.

She received rave reviews playing Ruby Lee Gissing, a young woman trying to make a new life for herself, and it was this performance that would launch her career as an actress.

After her performance as leading woman to Dudley Moore in 1981's hit film Arthur, Minnelli made fewer film appearances although she returned to the big screen in 1988 for Arthur 2: On the Rocks and in 1991 for Stepping Out, a musical dramedy.

* Wang Junxia, set 10, 000 m world record of 29: 31. 78, the first-ever sub-30 minute performance by a woman, which broke the former record by 42 seconds.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

In addition to her TV special, Raquel !, her television appearances include the TV movies The Legend of Walks Far Woman and Right to Die in which she turned in a stirring performance as a woman stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, and in the PBS series American Family, about a Mexican American family in East Los Angeles.

However, she won a 1960 Academy Award for her performance in Elmer Gantry portraying a woman corrupted by the title character played by Burt Lancaster.

In October 1939, during the Phoney War, a performance of his with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde was disrupted by a woman heckler who called out " Deutschland über alles, Herr Schuricht ".

The film critic Pauline Kael wrote of her performance as writer Joan Wilder, " Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn ’ t know she could ; her star performance is exhilarating.

The film was about Italy's final days under German occupation during World War II where Magnani gave a " brilliant performance " as a woman who dies fighting to protect her husband, an underground fighter against the Nazis.

Her performance in the film was loosely based on her real life experience of making the film, both of which she has described as being " the woman in a world of men ".

Her performance as an old woman with a rich fantasy life in The Whisperers ( 1967 ) earned her a BAFTA best actress award and an Academy Award nomination.

Of Tomei's performance, The New York Times wrote, " Ms. Tomei is equally fine as Mildred's younger, hot-tempered neighbor, whose raw working-class feistiness and bluntly profane vocabulary initially repel the genteel older woman.

For example, to suggest that a butch woman is attempting to annex heterosexual male power or privilege — a claim leveled by some radical feminists such as Sheila Jeffreys — fails to note the social censure leveled at individuals who reject social and cultural imperatives that link biological sex with " gender performance ".

For a now-legendary live performance of their live epic " Stranger Than Fiction ", a woman friend was recruited to crawl across the stage during the song, under pulsing strobe lights, with a bloodied axe apparently embedded in her skull.

* Louise Reichardt becomes the first woman conductor when she takes charge of a performance of work by Handel in Lübeck.

She made her performance debut at the Festival d ' Avignon, in France, in 1979, performing the lead in the opera Un Jour comme un autre, by composer Vinko Globokar, based upon Amnesty International's documentation of the arrest and torture of a Turkish woman for alleged treason.

Neagle's performance as the woman who became the mistress of Charles II ( Sir Cedric Hardwicke ) prompted some censorship in the United States.

The IAAF credits Violet Piercy's 1926 performance as the first woman to race what is now the standard marathon distance ; however, other sources report that the 1918 performance of Marie-Louise Ledru in the Tour de Paris set the initial mark for women.

Although her performance is not recognized by the IAAF, Adrienne Beames from Australia is frequently credited as the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon.

According to a possibly apocryphal story, in the mayhem that followed the premiere performance a woman was heard shouting that Ravel was mad.