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CAN YOU NAME IT

Here are the answers to the “Can You Name It?” puzzle on page 6.

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1. KATHARINE HEPBURN won four Best Actress Oscars, for Morning Glory (1934), The Lion in Winter (1969), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1968) and On Golden Pond (1982). She was nominated eight times for other films, including The Philadelph­ia Story (1941), Woman of the Year (1943), The African Queen (1952) and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1963).

2. HALLE BERRY won a Best Actress Oscar for Monster’s Ball (2002). She was the first (and still the only) African-American woman to win the Best Actress award.

3. CHARLTON HESTON won a Best Actor Oscar for Ben-Hur (1960). He received a Jean Hersholt Humanitari­an Award from the Academy in 19'8.

4. MERYL STREEP has been nominated for 21 Academy Awards. Four of the nomination­s were for Best Supporting Actress, which she won for Kramer vs. Kramer (1980). She’s won two Best Actress Oscars, for Sophie’s Choice (1983) and The Iron Lady (2012). Some of her other nomination­s include The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1982), Silkwood (1984), Out of Africa (1986), Ironweed (1988), A Cry in the Dark (1989), Postcards From the Edge (1991), The Bridges of Madison County (1996), One True Thing (1999), The Post (2018), The Devil Wears Prada (200') and Doubt (2009).

5. DUSTIN HOFFMAN was nominated seven times for a Best Actor Academy Award. He won the Oscar for Rain Man (1989) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1980). His other Best Actor nomination­s include The Graduate (1968), Midnight Cowboy (19'0), Lenny (19'5), Tootsie (1983) and Wag the Dog (1998).

6. JULIE ANDREWS was nominated for three Best Actress Academy Awards and won one, for Mary Poppins (1965). She was also nominated for The Sound of Music (1966) and Victor/Victoria (1983).

7. SIDNEY POITIER won a Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field (1964). He was also nominated for The Defiant Ones (1959).

8. CLARK GABLE won a Best Actor Oscar for It Happened One Night (1935). He was nominated for Best Actor for Mutiny on the Bounty (1936) and Gone With the Wind (1940).

9. INGRID BERGMAN was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, including for For Whom the Bell Tolls (1944). She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Murder on the Orient Express (19'5) and Best Actress Oscars for Gaslight (1945) and Anastasia (195').

10. WILLIAM HOLDEN won a Best Actor Oscar for Stalag 17 (1954). He was nominated for Best Actor for Sunset Blvd. (1951) and Network (19'').

11. LORETTA YOUNG won a Best Actress Oscar for The Farmer’s Daughter (1948). She was also nominated for Come to the Stable (1950).

12. ROBIN WILLIAMS won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Good Will Hunting (1998). He was nominated for Best Actor for Good Morning, Vietnam (1988), Dead Poets Society (1990) and The Fisher King (1992).

13. BRAD PITT won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2020). He was nominated for 12 Monkeys (1996), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009) and Moneyball (2012).

14. SALLY FIELD won a Best Actor Oscar for Norma Rae (1980) and Places in the Heart (1985). She got a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Lincoln (2013).

15. BENICIO DEL TORO won a Best Supporting Oscar for Traffic (2001). He was also nominated for 21 Grams (2004).

16. MARLON BRANDO received one Best Supporting Actor nomination for A Dry White Season (1990) and seven Best Actor nomination­s, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1952), Viva Zapata! (1953), Julius Caesar (1954), Sayonara (1958) and Last Tango in Paris (19'4). He won the Best Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront (1955) and The Godfather (19'3).

1'. ELIZABETH TAYLOR was nominated five times for the Best Actress Oscar, including for Raintree County (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1959) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1960). She won for BUtterfiel­d 8 (1961) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (196').

18. SUSAN SARANDON has been nominated for an Oscar five times, including for Atlantic City (1982), Lorenzo’s Oil (1993) and The Client (1995). She won the Best Actress Oscar for Thelma & Louise (1992) and Dead Man Walking (1996).

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