In 1999, Swank won the best-actress Oscar for "Boys Don't Cry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar's Burning Questions] Reference

Marion Cotillard won the best-actress prize for "La Vie En Rose.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Today's WSJ in Photos: Feb. 25, 2008] Reference

Case in point: the best-actress category at last week’s ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Holloway: No Country for Old Ladies (Or Young Ones)] Reference

"The Blind Side" also scored a best-actress nod for Sandra Bullock.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Blind Side' Helps Football Turn a Corner] Reference

Good news, though: the best-actress nominations are still up for grabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early: The Oscar Goes To...] Reference

The film won the best-actress award for a young beginner named Kitty Winn.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Death in the Family] Reference

Jolie had a best-actress nomination for the missing-child drama "Changeling.".    From Wordnik.com.  [81st Annual Academy Award Contenders] Reference

In her Oscar acceptance speech she said that her best-actress victory was proof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa Nesselson: France for Nonmajors: Things You May Want to Know about Marion Cotillard, Nicholas Sarkozy and French Media] Reference

In the history of the Academy Awards, only 10 women have won two best-actress Oscars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar's Burning Questions] Reference

Catherine Zeta-Jones is up for a best-actress Tony for her work in A Little Night Music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony takes a liking to Zeta-Jones, Law, Washington] Reference

His co-star, Michelle Williams, got a best-actress nomination, and a richly deserved one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopkins Can't Right 'Rite'] Reference

EnlargeAPJessica Lange is a best-actress nominee for miniseries/movie Grey Gardens, on HBO.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emmy nominees wake up to great news] Reference

Elisabeth Shue, best-actress nominee for Leaving Las Vegas, sashays through the Mortons throng.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair's "Oscar Night"] Reference

Blythe Danner congratulates daughter Gwyneth Paltrow on her Shakespeare in Love best-actress win.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 V.F. Oscar Party] Reference

A nomination would be her second in three years - after a best-actress nod for 2008's Frozen River.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: Melissa Leo - she's a Fighter] Reference

Million Dollar Baby best-actress winner Hilary Swank basks in the moment at the entrance to Mortons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2005 V.F. Oscar Party] Reference

She deservedly won the best-actress award at Cannes, but a Purple Heart might have been more appropriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light & 'Dark'] Reference

Angela Bassett and Oprah Winfrey embrace, overcome that their friend Halle Berry earned best-actress honors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair's "Oscar Night"] Reference

Patricia Neal won the best-actress Academy Award for her role as a middle-age housekeeper in the modern western "Hud.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Peach of a Life, With Pitfalls] Reference

Canet most recently directed Cotillard, who won a best-actress Academy Award for 2007's La Vie en Rose, in Little White Lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marion Cotillard Is Pregnant] Reference

Dr. Isobel Stevens, her character on Grey's, is sweet-natured with sad brown eyes — the role earned her a best-actress Emmy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Is Katherine Heigl So Annoying?] Reference

It was awarded to Pickford for her 1929 performance in "Coquette" — the first best-actress Academy Award given for a talkie.    From Wordnik.com.  [And The Oscar Goes To……Court | Impact Lab] Reference

With the exception of Sandra Bullock's best-actress award for The BlindSide, the big winners came straight from the art house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of obscurity: 'The Hurt Locker' is a case in study] Reference

Meanwhile a dearth of strong female roles could score Joan Allen a best-actress nod for her March release, "The Upside of Anger.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Mulligan, a best-actress nominee for the British drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

LOS ANGELES (AP) - may be the front-runner for the best-actress.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Schindler's List actor Liam Neeson takes his sons to Holocaust memorial in Berlin] Reference

Weisz has a best-actress nomination for A Streetcar Named Desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Weisz has a best-actress nomination for "A Streetcar Named Desire.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Weisz has a best-actress nomination for 'A Streetcar Named Desire '.    From Wordnik.com.  [iac entertainment news] Reference

LOS ANGELES - Sandra Bullock may be the front-runner for the best-actress.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Beyonce voted best celebrity body by British women] Reference

LOS ANGELES -- Sandra Bullock may be the front-runner for the best-actress.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to MTV Hits Hollywood With a Double Dose of Movies and Music as the 2010 'MTV Movie Awards' and 'MTV Video Music Awards' Air Live From Los Angeles] Reference

Mulligan, 24, is favored to take the best-actress prize for "An Education.".    From Wordnik.com.  [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference

Bullock, Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe, a best-actress nominee for the Harlem drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [WRAL.com Top Stories] Reference

Lone Scherfig, whose female lead, Carey Mulligan, took home the best-actress trophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg] Reference

LOS ANGELES - Sandra Bullock may be the front-runner for the best-actress minister Gordon Brown?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Schindler's List actor Liam Neeson takes his sons to Holocaust memorial in Berlin] Reference

Weisz received a best-actress nomination for her performance as faded belle Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Rising star Carey Mulligan, best-actress nominee for "An Education," turned heads in a sweeping monochrome floral dress by Vionnet.    From Wordnik.com.  [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference

While James is financially successful on his own, Bullock, who just won a best-actress Oscar for "The Blind Side," earns top dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference