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
23rd Academy Awards nominations in two acting categories, and the first (and, to date, only) film to receive four female acting nominations--two each for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. None was successful, losing to Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday" and Josephine Hull in "Harvey", respectively. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 23rd Academy Awards The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. "All About Eve" received 14 Oscar nominations, beating the previous record of 13 set