Tonight the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the 86th Academy Awards. Matthew McConaughey, Delta Tau Delta, is nominated for Best Actor for his work in Dallas Buyers Club. He won the Golden Globe for his performance. AND HE WON THE OSCAR, TOO! (For the list of Golden Globe winners see http://wp.me/p20I1i-1mU).
Among the past Academy Award winners are several sorority women.
Best Picture
Nancy Utley Jacobs, Chi Omega, President of Fox Searchlight Producers of 2014’s Best Picture 12 Years a Slave and 2015’s Birdman
Best Actress
Kathy Bates, Alpha Delta Pi, Misery
Faye Dunaway, Pi Beta Phi, Network
Jennifer Jones, Kappa Alpha Theta, The Song of Bernadette
Patricia Neal, Pi Beta Phi, Hud
Eva Marie Saint, Delta Gamma, On the Waterfront
Joanne Woodward, Chi Omega, Three Faces of Eve
Best Supporting Actress
Eileen Heckart, Pi Beta Phi, Butterflies Are Free
Cloris Leachman, Gamma Phi Beta, The Last Picture Show
Hattie McDaniel, Sigma Gamma Rho, Gone With the Wind
Costume Design
Edith Head, Delta Zeta, The Heiress, Samson and Deliah, All About Eve, A Place in the Sun, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Facts of Life, and The Sting
Mary Wills, Kappa Alpha Theta, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Director, Short Action Film
Christine Lahti, Delta Gamma, Lieberman in Love
Make-Up
Tami Lane, Alpha Chi Omega, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Joanne Woodward, Chi Omega, with John Wayne, Sigma Chi. She is wearing a dress she made herself.
If you know of winners who are not on this list, please let me know.
© Fran Becque www.fraternityhistory.com, 2014. All rights reserved.
