Is one of 12 actresses to have won a Best Actress Oscar for playing a character who is pregnant at some point during the film, hers being for Johnny Belinda (1948). The others are Helen Hayes for Grzech Madelon Claudet (1931), Luise Rainer for Ziemia błogosławiona (1937), Vivien Leigh for Przeminęło z wiatrem (1939), Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle (1940), Olivia de Havilland for Najtrwalsza miłość (1946), Anna Magnani for Tatuowana róża (1955), Julie Christie for Darling (1965), Barbra Streisand for Zabawna dziewczyna (1968), Liza Minnelli for Kabaret (1972), Sissy Spacek for Córka górnika (1980), and Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996).
