Academy Award for Best Actress Loren. Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars. Meryl Streep, who has a total of 21 Oscar nominations (three wins), has been nominated in this category on 17 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2018 ceremony, Frances McDormand is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Mildred Hayes in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los
49th Academy Awards only five minutes and two seconds of screen-time in "Network". "Network", along with "All the President's Men," were the two biggest champs of the ceremony with four Oscars each, but Best Picture and Best Director ultimately went to "Rocky". Piper Laurie was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for "Carrie" (1976), her first role since her Best Actress-nominated performance in "The Hustler" (1961), thus being nominated for two consecutive roles, fifteen years apart. "Network" became the second film (after "A Streetcar Named Desire") to win three acting Oscars, and the last, as of the 90th Academy Awards, to receive five acting