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
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress was awarded for the Hindi films "Tamas" (1987) and "Mammo" (1994), while Lalitha won the awards for her work in the Malayalam films "Amaram" (1990) and "Shantham" (2000). Egyptian actress Aida El-Kashef, who was honoured at the 61st National Film Awards for her performances in the English-Hindi film "Ship of Theseus" (2013) is the only non-Indian actress to win the award. Ties between two actresses have occurred in the years 1999, 2012 and 2013. Konkona Sen Sharma, Sharmila Tagore and Kangana Ranaut are the three actresses to receive honours in both acting categories: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. The