Prior to this win, McDormand was one in a field of 13 people who have won two Best Actress Oscars. Wes Anderson's Favorite Movies: 35 Films the Auteur Wants You to See 'French Dispatch' and 'Last Night in Soho' Start to Lift Stagnant Specialty Box Office Who's Got the Heat in the Oscar Race? Critics Voting Offers Some Clues Lady Gaga Will Land a Best Actress Oscar Slot, Not for the Last Time - Here's Why Instead, many prognosticators saw the Oscar going to Davis for her turn as “mother of the blues,” singer Ma Rainey, or Mulligan’s role as the eponymous promising young woman.
“Nomadland” won Best Picture right before the presentation of Best Actress, the first time the top award hadn’t been issued at the very end of the ceremony since the 1972 show.ĭespite the BAFTA win and Golden Globe, Independent Spirit, SAG, and Critics Choice nods for her performance, McDormand was not widely viewed as the frontrunner in this year’s race. McDormand beat out Viola Davis in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Carey Mulligan in “Promising Young Woman,” Vanessa Kirby in “Pieces of a Woman,” and Andra Day in “The United States vs. Visitors meet the presenter in the museum’s F Street lobby and then walk to the appropriate gallery.Frances McDormand has won the Best Actress Academy Award at the 2021 Oscars Sunday night for her celebrated performance in “ Nomadland.” It’s a historic win: In taking home her third Best Actress statuette, McDormand has now won the prize more times than anyone else besides Katharine Hepburn. The next talk is March 18, when Rayna Green, curator at the National Museum of American History, speaks about Julia Child. Learn more about Hepburn by visiting the online exhibition for " KATE: A Centennial Celebration.” This exhibition was on view at the National Portrait Gallery from November 2, 2007, to September 28, 2008.įace-to-Face occurs every Thursday evening at the National Portrait Gallery. > Listen to Amy Henderson’s Face-to-Face talk on Katharine Hepburn (23:08) They are now on view in the “ Twentieth-Century Americans” gallery on the museum’s third floor, next to a 1982 portrait of Hepburn by artist Everett Raymond Kinstler, which she termed her “favorite.”Īmy Henderson, historian at the National Portrait Gallery, recently discussed Hepburn’s Oscars and her portrait by Ray Kinstler. In 2009, the National Portrait Gallery acquired Hepburn’s four Oscar statuettes as a gift from the Katharine Hepburn estate. She received a Kennedy Center Honors award in 1990.
She also won Oscars for The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond. Hepburn partnered in nine films with Spencer Tracy, winning an Oscar for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But her subsequent choices like Christopher Strong and Sylvia Scarlett baffled her audience, and by 1938 she was branded “box office poison.” Even such screwball comedies as Bringing Up Baby (1938) failed to renew her popularity, and it wasn't until The Philadelphia Story (1940) that she was back on top. She won the first of her record four Best Actress Oscars in 1933 for Morning Glory and made several popular films in the mid-1930s. Screen legend Katharine Hepburn fashioned herself into a cultural icon by sheer will and a shrewd business sense. Katharine Hepburn / Everett Raymond Kinstler, 1982 / Oil on canvas/National Portrait Gallery gift of Everett Raymond Kinstler /© 1982 Everett Raymond Kinstler Katharine Hepburn's four Best Actress Academy Awards (Morning Glory, 1933 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1967 The Lion in Winter, 1968 On Golden Pond, 1981) / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution gift of the estate of Katharine Hepburn
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