Is one of 25 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for Mein Freund Harvey (1950). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (Es geschah in einer Nacht (1934)), Loretta Young (Meine Braut, der Senator (1947)), Judy Holliday (Die ist nicht von gestern (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Ein Herz und eine Krone (1953)), Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower (1969)), Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Lee Grant (Shampoo (1975)), Diane Keaton (Der Stadtneurotiker (1977)), Maggie Smith (Das verrückte California Hotel (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Olympia Dukakis (Mondsüchtig (1987)), Cher (Mondsüchtig (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Miss Daisy und ihr Chauffeur (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (König der Fischer (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Geliebte Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (Besser geht's nicht (1997)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
