Oscar Winners Best female Actress

Academy Award Winners Best female Actress last 20 years

Emma Stone oscar
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2016 – Emma Stone (La La Land)

La La Land is a 2016 American romantic musical film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles.

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2017 – Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 dark comedy crime-drama film written, directed, and produced by Martin McDonagh and starring Frances McDormand as a woman who rents three billboards to call attention to her daughter’s unsolved rape and murder.

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Olivia Colman oscar
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2018 – Olivia Colman (The Favourite)

The Favourite is set in early 18th-century England, the story examines the relationship between two cousins, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (played by Rachel Weisz), and Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham (Emma Stone), vying to be court favourites of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) it is loosely based on historical events. Filming took place at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, and at Hampton Court Palace in Hampton Court, Surrey, between March and May 2017.

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