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 Il fallo di Madelon Claudet (1931), Luise Rainer for La buona terra (1937), Vivien Leigh for Via col vento (1939), Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle, ragazza innamorata (1940), Olivia de Havilland for A ciascuno il suo destino (1946), Anna Magnani for La rosa tatuata (1955), Julie Christie for Darling (1965), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Sissy Spacek for La ragazza di Nashville (1980), and Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996).
