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The Cultural impact of Star Wars

Academy Award for Best Actress
 * can talk about the new trilogy with Rey being the lead


 * Talk about the winners of academy awards for actresses

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress


 * Talk about the winners and how in a supporting role they can make a film successful

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The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. In the first three years of the awards, actresses were nominated as the best in their categories. At that time, all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930, only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had two films following their names on the ballots.

The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year. One actress has been nominated posthumously, Jeanne Eagels. Since its inception, the award has been given to 77 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars. With 17 nominations, Meryl Streep is the most nominated in this category, resulting in two wins. Italian actress Sophia Loren was the first winner for a non-English language performance for Two Women (1961). At age 21, Marlee Matlin became the youngest actress to win this award for Children of a Lesser God and at age 80, Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner in this category for Driving Miss Daisy. As of the April 2021 ceremony, Frances McDormand is the most recent winner in this category for her portrayal of Fern in Nomadland. As of April 2021, Halle Berry is the first and only African-American (or non-white) actor to win in this category, for the 2001 film Monster's Ball.