I knew Frances McDormand was going to
win Drama Actress — there have been reports about the HFPA loving Three Billboards for the past month.
In the lead drama races, Taraji P. Henson (Empire) became the third black woman to
win drama actress and the first in 23 years after Gail Fisher and Regina Taylor, while Jon Hamm — who didn't get to give a speech when he won his first drama actor Globe for Mad Men during the writers» strike — became the first former drama actor champ to get dropped as a nominee and return to win.
Not exact matches
The Academy - Award
winning actress graduated with her bachelor's in
drama from Boston University and as a Mensa member, she is considered to have an IQ score «within the upper two percent of the general population.»
Hulu's breakout dystopian
drama The Handmaid's Tale followed its winning ways at the 2017 Emmys by once again winning for Best TV Drama, with Elisabeth Moss also being named the best actress in a TV drama for the popular Margaret Atwood adaptation that became the streaming service's first bonafide hit when it debuted over the su
drama The Handmaid's Tale followed its
winning ways at the 2017 Emmys by once again
winning for Best TV
Drama, with Elisabeth Moss also being named the best actress in a TV drama for the popular Margaret Atwood adaptation that became the streaming service's first bonafide hit when it debuted over the su
Drama, with Elisabeth Moss also being named the best
actress in a TV
drama for the popular Margaret Atwood adaptation that became the streaming service's first bonafide hit when it debuted over the su
drama for the popular Margaret Atwood adaptation that became the streaming service's first bonafide hit when it debuted over the summer.
Adonaijah Owiriwa and Izu Ojukwu's movie, «76» a 2016 Nigerian historical fiction
drama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima, won in five categories, which includes, Best Actress in Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwur
drama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima,
won in five categories, which includes, Best
Actress in
Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwur
Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwurube).
While Rita Dominic (76) defeated Bimbo Akintola, Chioma Akpotha, Uche Jombo, Omoni Oboli, and Funke Akindele to
win Best
Actress in
Drama / TV / Movies.
Moss
won best
actress in a
drama series for The Handmaid's Tale on Sunday.
Viola Davis made history last year as the first African - American to
win an Emmy for best
actress in a
drama for her work as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder.
Award -
winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) delivers a stunningly powerful performance in this darkly comic
drama that has been hailed as one of the Think you know Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson better than anyone else?
Roth subsequently
won Spain's Best
Actress award for her performance in Aristarain's challenging family
drama Hache (1997).
Egan
won critical acclaim on Broadway as «Sally Bowles» in «Cabaret,» in «Triumph of Love» and «State Fair,» and most notably, as the original «Belle» in Disney's «Beauty and the Beast,» garnering Tony and
Drama Desk nominations for «Best
Actress.»
Golden Globe and two - time Olivier Award -
winning actress RUTH WILSON stars as Alison in SHOWTIME's hit
drama series THE AFFAIR.
For her performance as Carrie Mathison on HOMELAND she has
won back - to - back Golden Globe ® Awards for Best Performance by an
Actress in a Television Series —
Drama, a 2013 Screen Actors Guild Award ® for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a
Drama Series and the 2012 Emmy ® Award for Outstanding Lead
Actress in a
Drama Series.
The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best
Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing
drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best
Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.
Though Nashville
won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley,
actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a
drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).
The Globes might not throw a wrench into the Best
Actress race, but if Jessica Chastain
wins in
Drama or if Margot Robbie
wins in Comedy, well, things are going to shift really quickly.
Unfortunately, Timothy didn't
win best actor in a
drama series — but congratulations to Margo Martindale for her award for the best supporting
actress in a
drama series.
Timothy Spall was named best actor for his turn as British painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh biopic Mr Turner, while Marion Cotillard
won best
actress for her performances in harrowing James Gray period
drama The Immigrant and the Dardenne brothers» Cannes hit Two Days, One Night.
Rami Malek took the trophy for best actor in a
drama for the weird, wonderful «Mr. Robot» on USA, and Tatiana Maslany finally
won the best
actress award for BBC America's even weirder «Orphan Black,» a year away from its finale.
FX, which broke its own basic cable record earlier this year when it received 56 nominations, took home 10 Emmys Saturday, including a second straight
win for Margo Martindale for Outstanding Guest
Actress in a
Drama Series for her role on the The Americans, which is also nominated for Outstanding
Drama Series.
RTE
drama «Love / Hate» dominated this year's IFTA awards, winning Best Drama, Best Script and Best Lead Actress for Charlie Mu
drama «Love / Hate» dominated this year's IFTA awards,
winning Best
Drama, Best Script and Best Lead Actress for Charlie Mu
Drama, Best Script and Best Lead
Actress for Charlie Murphy.
Elisabeth Moss
won Outstanding
Actress In A
Drama Series at the Critics» Choice Awards on Thursday night.
Helen Hunt — who
won the Best
Actress trophy in 1997 for As Good as It Gets — appears to be back in a big way with the real - life
drama The Sessions.
Jeff Bridges
won Best Actor (
Drama) for Crazy Heart, while Sandra Bullock
won Best
Actress (
Drama) for The Blind Side.
Breaking out with a Golden Globe
win and an accompanying Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in critically acclaimed Netflix
drama series The Crown, Claire Foy has quickly risen through the ranks to become one of the most well known and busiest
actresses not only in the UK, but in the entertainment community at large.
The West was
won: Evan Rachel Wood was given Best
Actress in a
Drama Series for her work on Westworld
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig's highly acclaimed comedic
drama,
won three awards, including Saoirse Ronan for Best
Actress, Laurie Metcalf as Best Supporting
Actress, and Gerwig's script
winning Best Screenplay.
Martin McDonagh's spectacular «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» has
won the top award for Best Motion Picture (
Drama), along with Best
Actress (Dram...
The Oscar -
winning actress will play Mary Todd Lincoln alongside Daniel Day - Lewis in Steven Spielberg's historical
drama.
The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)
won Best
Drama Series, in addition to Best
Actress in a
Drama Series for Elisabeth Moss, and Best Supporting
Actress in a
Drama Series for Ann Dowd.
Frances McDormand
won the Best
Actress in a
Drama Golden Globe for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri on Sunday and everything about her
win was awesomely Frances McDormand - y — including the fact that she was unnecessarily bleeped three times during her acceptance speech.
GHOST WORLD (Grade: B +): Thora Birch
won the best
actress honors at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival for her performance as a passively rebellious 17 - year - old in this funny, sad and tragic teen angst
drama / comedy directed by Terry Zwigoff («Crumb») and based on a serialized comic book by Daniel Clowes.
Overall, Alice is an engrossing combination of ghost story, workplace
drama, and young woman's amorous journey, with a pleasingly self - contained performance at its heart, for which Labed deservedly
won the Best
Actress prize.
Other early awards continued the theme of female empowerment with Elisabeth Moss
winning the Golden Globe Award for best
actress in a television
drama and Rachel Brosnahan for best
actress in a TV series musical or comedy
The small - town
drama won best motion picture (
drama) as well as best screenplay, best supporting actor and best
actress (
drama) for Frances McDormand, who spoke about the importance of women speaking out against sexual predators.
During the night the brunette beauty
won best
actress for her portrayal of Jackie Kennedy in biographical
drama Jackie.
It highlights «Love, Simon,» the gay coming - of - age teen romantic
drama from Fox, as a positive sign, as well as the Oscar
win for Chile's «A Fantastic Woman,» which stars trans
actress Daniela Vega as a trans character, released by Sony Classics.
Or that Meryl Streep's lead
actress nomination for «August: Osage County,» the screen version of Tracy Letts» Pulitzer Prize -
winning drama, is in comedy, no matter that the work owes as much to Eugene O'Neill as it does to Edward Albee, or that Julia Roberts» nomination for supporting
actress in the film doesn't get classified as comedy or
drama.
• British
drama takes best picture, Colin Firth
wins best actor, Tom Hooper best director and David Seidler picks up best original screenplay • Natalie Portman
wins best
actress • The Fighter stars take both best supporting actor and
actress
She is known for her roles as Majo Tenorio in musical -
drama film Filly Brown, as Andrea Fleytas in Deepwater Horizon and as Jane Villanueva in the CW comedy -
drama series Jane the Virgin, for which she has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards for Best
Actress — Television Series Musical or Comedy,
winning in 2015.
Netflix's The Crown, Donald Glover and Atlanta, and Isabelle Huppert
winning Best
Actress (
Drama), possibly the biggest surprise in a night that was full of them.
Oscar -
winning actress Marion Cotillard is set to star in «Gueule d'ange,» a French
drama which will mark the feature debut of Vanessa Filho.
The crime
drama has a strong pedigree behind the camera, with Oscar - nominated director David Fincher and Oscar -
winning actress Charlize Theron among the show's executive producers.
Laurie Metcalf Two decades after
winning three Emmys for «Rosanne,» Metcalf took time out from the stage to land three different Emmy nominations for three different shows in three different categories: lead comedy
actress in HBO's «Getting On,» guest comedy
actress for «The Big Bang Theory» and guest
drama actress for Louis C.K.'s «Horace and Pete.»
Continuing along the lines of deserving, albeit unexpected winners was Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a
Drama winner Margo Martindale for her fantastically received work on JUSTIFIED and the somewhat less surprising, albeit equally welcoming
wins for MODERN FAMILY's Outstanding Supporting Actor and
Actress in a Comedy duo that was the husband and wife team of Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy) and Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy).
The big success of the night was Boyhood, which
won three categories in Best Motion Picture —
Drama, Best Director (Richard Linklater) and Best Supporting
Actress (Patricia Arquette), while Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel scooped Best Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical.
Newton
won a BAFTA Award for Best
Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in this Paul Haggis
drama.
Rising Swedish star Alicia Vikander
won the best supporting
actress Oscar for her role of portrait artist Gerda Wegener in Tom Hooper's semi - biographical
drama «The Danish Girl».
Theron
won an Academy Award for Best
Actress for the 2003
drama Monster, in which she played real - life serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
Best actor went to Robert Redford for his near - wordless performance in the shipwreck
drama All Is Lost, and Cate Blanchett
won best
actress for her leading role as a bitter, fallen socialite in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.