First Acting Oscar won for depicting an Oscar-winning Actress
Who
Cate Blanchett
What
first
Where
United States ()
When
2005
Cate Blanchett (Australia) won the 2005 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for depicting Best Actress Academy Award winner Katherine Hepburn (USA) in Aviator (2004). Blanchett is also the first actress to be nominated twice for playing the same character in different films, having portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I in both Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). Each time, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Lead Role.