Actor: Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway was nominated for Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and won Best Actress for Network, playing a television executive with no interior life outside ratings, which the film treats as a diagnosis of an industry.

Chinatown is the more complex performance, and the reveal in the slapping scene is one of the most famous in American film.

She acquired a reputation for difficulty that reduced her opportunities considerably from the 1980s onward, and the extent to which that reputation was fairly earned has been debated for decades.

Mommie Dearest is the film that changed her public standing, and its reception as camp was not the intention.