Actor: Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft won Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Miracle Worker, playing Annie Sullivan, and the physical fight sequences with Patty Duke were genuinely exhausting to film.

The Graduate made her Mrs Robinson, and she was only six years older than Dustin Hoffman. She grew tired of the association and pointed out repeatedly that she had five nominations. She was married to Mel Brooks for forty-one years and appeared in several of his films.