Who is the youngest ever Oscars winner? There are, of course, multiple different types of award on offer at the Oscars, but the youngest person to win any of them at all is Tatum O'Neal. She won Best Supporting Actress at the 1974 Oscars at the age of 10.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 23, 2003. Chicago became the first musical film to win Best Picture since 1968's Oliver! At age 29, Adrien Brody was the youngest person to win Best Actor.
Born in Winnipeg and raised in Wellington, Paquin made her acting debut portraying Flora McGrath in the romantic drama film The Piano (1993), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 11, making her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history.
Cuba Gooding Jr. Youngest African-American male actor to win an Academy Award (age 29). First Black actor born in Africa (specifically in Benin) to receive an Academy Award nomination. Oldest African-American actor to win an Academy Award (age 67).
In the year 1963, Sidney Poitier, become the first black man to win an Academy Award for best actor, for his performance in 'Lilies Of The Field'. Poitier was also the first Black man to be nominated for any acting Oscar for 'The Defiant Ones' (1958).
Ninety-four-year-old Minnesota native James Hong attended his first Academy Awards Sunday alongside the cast of "Everything Everywhere All at Once." GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn.
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook, 2012 (Age 22)
The movie is about a young man named Pat (Bradley Cooper) with bipolar disorder who, after being released from an institution, meets a young widow named Tiffany (Lawrence).
Tatum O'Neal won the youngest Oscar on this list with her performance in Paper Moon aged just 10 years old. During filming she turned nine years old, an incredible feat for such a young actress.
On January 10, 2013, at age nine, Wallis was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Wallis, who was 6 when she filmed Beasts of the Southern Wild, is the all-time youngest nominee for Best Actress and the third-youngest nominee in any category.
With only five minutes and two seconds of screentime, Beatrice Straight set a record for the shortest performance ever to win an acting Oscar (Best Supporting Actress).
Daniel Day-Lewis became the first and currently only man to win three best actor Oscars, while Frances McDormand became only the second woman and third of her counterparts overall to achieve the same. Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937 and 1941.
The record for the youngest Academy Award winner of all time goes to the brilliantly talented Tatum O'Neal. At a mere ten years and 148 days old, she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Addie Loggins in 1973's Paper Moon, becoming the youngest Oscar winner of any competitive category.
Father Time comes for us all, and if you haven't had your daily dose of feeling old, then here it is: thanks to her win in Best Original Song for 'No Time to Die', Billie Eilish has become the first person born in the 2000s to take home an Oscar.
Jennifer Lawrence elaborated on the sequence of events that led to her contracting a severe ear infection due to consecutive water stunts. This condition eventually resulted in a week of deafness.
How old was Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games?
Many actresses auditioned for the role of Katniss before Lawrence, fresh off of her first Oscar nomination for Winter's Bone, was chosen. When she landed the coveted part, she was 20 years old.
Who is the youngest woman to win the Best Actress Oscar?
Marlee Matlin won her award for Best Actress at twenty-one for 'Children of a Lesser God. ' Jennifer Lawrence comes a close second with her 2012 win at age twenty-two for 'Winter's Bone. ' Three children have been nominated for an Oscar, and only one, Tatum O'Neal, took home the award.
Within the first few moments of the 95th Academy Awards, winners like Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis (picking up their awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively) had celebs at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood tearing up, and viewers at home absolutely bawling ...
Anne Heche, Tom Sizemore, Paul Sorvino, Charlbi Dean and Leslie Jordan were among the names missing from the 2023 Oscars In Memoriam segment, which recognizes stars and filmmakers who died over the past year.
Mammy's Grave: The complicated legacy of the 1st Black Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel. In true Hollywood fashion, she was a heroine facing insurmountable odds. As we approach the 95th Academy Awards, ABC7's FACEism series takes you back to the 1939 Oscars and focuses on an actress who shined bright in the spotlight.
With her performance in "Monster's Ball" (2001), Halle Berry became the first, and so far only, African-American woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress.
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel was the first woman of color to win an Oscar. After almost a century of Academy Award ceremonies, less than 300 nominees have been women of color.
