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Top 10 August Born Actresses at the Oscars
The top 10 August born actresses to receive awards and nominations at the Academy Awards
 Joint No.9 Melanie GriffithMelanie had her 57th birthday this month and ties 9th place with her one nomination for Best Leading Actress in Working Girl at the 61st Academy Awards. |  Joint No.9. Quvenzhané WallisQuvenzhané joins Melanie at 9th for her Best Leading Actress nomination for Beasts of the Southern Wild at the 85th Academy Awards. She turns 11 this month. |
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 No.8. Amy AdamsAmy Adams celebrated her 40th birthday this month. She has the 3rd amount of nominations in this list but is yet to win an Oscar. With 5 nominations, 4 in the Supporting Actress category and last year's Best Leading Actress nomination for American Hustle. |  Joint No.6. Marlee MatlinNow 49 years old, Marlee Matlin is still the youngest actress to win the Best Leading Actress Oscar at the age of 21. She is also the only deaf actress to win the award. She won the award for her performance in Children of a Lesser God at the 59th Academy Awards. |
 Joint No. 6. Halle BerrySharing this position with Marlee, Halle Berry has also won one Best Leading Actress award for her performance in Monster's Ball at the 74th Academy Awards. I think we all remember her speech! |  No.5. Charlize TheronCharlize turned 39 this month and sits at no.5 in this poll for her one win and one other nomination. She won her Best Leading Actress Oscar for Monster at the 76th Academy Award and received her other nomination for North Country (2005). |
 No.4. Jennifer LawrenceAt the young age of 24, Jennifer Lawrence has won one Oscar and received a further two nominations. She won her award for her role in Silver Linings Playbook at the 85th awards and received nominations for Winter's Bone (2010) & American Hustle (2013). |  No.3 Norma ShearerNorma would have turned 112 this month and with one win and five nominations sits at no.3 in this top 10. She won the Best Leading Actress Oscar for The Divorcee at the 3rd Academy Awards (where she was nominated twice in the same category) and went on to receive five more nominations. |
 No.2. Shelley WintersShelley would have been 96 this month. She won two Oscars and had a further two nominations. She won her two awards for Best Supporting Actress in The Diary of Anne Frank at the 32nd awards and A Patch of Blue at the 38th awards. |  No.1 Ingrid BergmanA fitting position for such a talented actress who would have turned 99 this month. Ingrid won three Oscars and was nominated a further four times. She won two Best Leading Actress awards for Gaslight (1944) & Anatasia (1956) and a Best Supporting Actress award for Murder on the Orient Express (1974). |
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