Actor: Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator, playing Katharine Hepburn, and Best Actress for Blue Jasmine, playing a woman in complete social and psychological collapse.

I’m Not There required her to play Bob Dylan, one of six actors doing so, and hers is the performance everyone remembers.

Tár is the recent achievement, a two-and-a-half hour film resting entirely on her, including conducting and German dialogue she learned for it.

She ran the Sydney Theatre Company with her husband for several years while maintaining the film career, and played Galadriel and Hela in the two large franchises.