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Jane Wyman

Is one of 19 actresses to have received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance where they acted out a labor and/or birth; hers being for Johnny Belinda, l'enfant du silence (1948). The others in chronological order are Luise Rainer for La terre chinoise (1937), Eleanor Parker for Femmes en cage (1950), Elizabeth Taylor for L'arbre de vie (1957), Leslie Caron for La Chambre indiscrète (1962), Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce (1963), Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora (1968), Geneviève Bujold for Anne des mille jours (1969), Marsha Mason for Permission d'aimer (1973), Ann-Margret for Tommy (1975), Ellen Burstyn for Même heure, l'année prochaine (1978), Jessica Lange for Sweet Dreams (1985), Meryl Streep for Un cri dans la nuit (1988), Samantha Morton for In America (2002), Elliot Page for Juno (2007), Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009), Ruth Negga for Loving (2016), Yalitza Aparicio for Roma (2018) and Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman (2020).

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