Katharine Hepburn Winning Best Actress

Jon Voight accepting the Oscar® for Best Actress on behalf of Katharine Hepburn for her performance in "On Golden Pond" at the 54th Annual Academy Awards® in 1982.

[@FactBuffet]

This was the 4th acting Oscar that Katharine Hepburn won! To date, nobody has equalled that record.

[@HOOG00]

Most likely never will! Or at least for a very long time.

[@FactBuffet]

@@HOOG00 Meryl Streep is one away!

[@quangminhtran2916]

@@FactBuffet And don't forget Frances McDormand, she got 3 Oscars already and is equalling with Meryl Streep, and they're all for best actress. These 2 are currently neck and neck to each other.

[@FactBuffet]

@@quangminhtran2916 True!

[@Garsons-oq4lh]

​​@@quangminhtran2916 Unlikely Frances or Meryl will get another Best Actress Oscar and equal Hepburn.

[@waltersolley9359]

Katherine Hepburn won this Oscar because she deserved it. See the film again and marvel at how effortlessly she brings Ethel Thayer to life. "On Golden Pond" remains a wonderful, life affirming film and its message of reconciliation should never go out of style.

[@marenmacdonald3341]

I agree, I love her performance so much (in all movies ofc, but here especially)

[@MichaelGaschler]

I guess this was when Meryl was making sophie's choice, the hair, the look, she looks marvelous!

[@Starkardur]

yeah she's very Sophie there.

[@sadhuskat2087]

She was ugly

[@brochacho8156]

@@sadhuskat2087 that’s mean

[@jcmat9917]

Quite possible; but her nomination, that year, was for The French Lieutenant’s Woman

[@constangina]

Katherine Hepburn won this Oscar because she deserved it. She also deserved by The African Queen,Summertime,Long Day's Journey,The Philadelphia Story,etc. She was a great actress

[@MorganKing95]

Vivien Leigh was pretty unbeatable in "A Streetcar Named Desire"

[@screenactorsguilable]

+StrasbergProtégé Yeah it's Vivien who took home award for Streetcar ! That year Kate was placed second @Constan :)

[@bhurinthanomsakyuth9864]

Alice Adams too.

[@j.louisv.123]

Your damn right Gina !

[@vinnieviddivicci5459]

Summertime is my favorite Hepburn movie.

[@michaelmuldowney8]

The next day Jane Fonda got a phone call from Kate Hepburn who said "You'll never catch me now" :-)

[@leoslewis6899]

Where did you know?

[@michaelmuldowney8]

@@leoslewis6899 An interview with Jane Fonda. I might be on a retrospective documentary on the making of On Golden Pond.

[@leoslewis6899]

@@michaelmuldowney8 wow never thought Katherine Hepburn was so arrogant. Initially, I reckoned she never cared of Oscar, as she never accepted the awards. Wondering if she really did mention that or Jane Fonda was overly sensitive at that time

[@MrOwl-hk7my]

@@leoslewis6899 there’s a funny story where Katharine Hepburn and Lauren Bacall were both up for the tony award for best actress the same year. Lauren said that Kate called her and said something to the effect of “hello Lauren, I can’t make it to the awards, so when I win will you accept for me?” Lauren was baffled, but said yes, okay. Lauren won the award, and Kate sent her a framed portrait of herself with a really beautiful letter telling her how much she deserved it and how wonderful she was. I think Katharine just liked to goad her coworkers/colleagues a bit for fun 😂 Source: Lauren Bacall interview Edit: the framed photo was of Katharine, and the letter was Kate saying how wonderful Lauren was in her role

[@leoslewis6899]

@@MrOwl-hk7my wow just knew 2 things: Lauren Bacall was an acclaimed actress. Used to thought that her only critically praised role was "when the mirror has 2 faces". Wondering why Kate sent her self-portrait. Was it to make fun of Lauren? Then what the heck she also gave Lauren a sweet letter with kind words for her

[@monuorah]

I just love that she never showed up to accept any of her Oscars!

[@reasonrestored9116]

monuorah she was fake about it. If she didn’t care she would never have said what she did to Meryl Streep

[@caseyaulbach7693]

@@reasonrestored9116 What did she say?

[@charlesswitzer8378]

@@caseyaulbach7693 She said that Meryl Streep had the wrong idea about acting. That she should have been a dialect coach instead and relied far too much on technique (accents, physical changes) to create a performance. Hepburn believed that acting at its best was about never revealing to audiences that you are a performer employed to play a part; it should be about literally becoming a person and imbuing the character with life---not artifice. ---she wasn't wrong at all.

[@thomasdelvin3683]

Kate was too busy auditioning young girls from😢 Scotty bowers😢

[@whatistau]

The nominees, i mean, what a company!

[@namaankhan8306]

She deserved it totally. She was Ethel Thayer period! No false note in her performance. An unforgettable, beautiful performance.❤️

[@brianisaac6062]

Ditto! She rocked it out in that film!

[@irgski]

Jon Voight did a wonderful job for this announcement.

[@joaoluizfonseca6914]

Jon Voight does a wonderful job at practically anything 😂😂

[@Batman1989King]

All of the Best Actress Nominees of 1981 except for Marsha Mason have won at least 1 Oscar: Katharine Hepburn: Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond Diane Keaton: Annie Hall Susan Sarandon: Dead Man Walking Meryl Streep: Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, and The Iron Lady

[@MikeysGayToday]

Marsha is OWED!!

[@hwilenjhames9298]

I love the movie On Golden Pond. It's one of the best drama films ever! And I was amazed how good of a swimmer miss Hepburn was

[@daleblake6613]

She was always athletic growing up and swam at her family's summer home in Fenwick. She was especially good at golfing as can be seen in Pat And Mike.

[@timholbrook7671]

Is that Jon Voight? He seems so different in his demeanor now then, THEN.

[@camilofuentespena7348]

For winning the Oscar amongst that superb group of actresses, you have to be the greatest. Streep, Sarandon, Keaton.... oh my!

[@HOOG00]

They were in her category: Hepburn was a titan!

[@maxipazz8214]

Gee the crowd gave out one almighty reaction at her name

[@bman560]

This was a pretty good year for actresses.

[@vedanshgure9022]

Has nobody here seen possession ? If u have, you know that isabelle adjani delivered the greatest performance of the century ,let alone the year , she should have won the oscar and she didn't even got nominated !!! Absolutely mind baffling

[@gabrielanessuti]

Oh my God,John Voight was so handsome!!!!❤❤❤

[@FanceeName]

I was absolutely in I’ve with Jon Voight as a youngster

[@Pedropaulocastilho]

@aldodanilo She deserved for "Long Day's Journey Into Night", in 1962, too.

[@Grundig80]

The nominees in this category have combined 45 nominations and 9 Oscar wins.

[@155gerard]

yes, most film historians consider some of the biggest Oscar blunders to be: Katherine Hepburn's performance in Guesswho's coming to dinner win over either AnneBancroft in The Graduate or Audrey Hepburn in Wait until Dark and then in the supporting category in 1970 Helen Hayes winning for Airport over Karen Black in Five Easy Pieces and more recently Marrion Cottilard's dubbed &hammy performance win over the sublime critically acclaimed Julie Christe performance in AwayfromHer in 2007.

[@mel2000]

Marrion Cottilard's Oscar was extremely favored over the other nominees that year.

[@DanalynTuthill-yl4hd]

Go watch Marion Cotillard again. One of greatest best actress wins ever.

[@RobyyJUsmile]

His daughter looks so like him when he was young!!

[@jckfmsincty]

Great Kate won four Oscars but none of them were for her best performances. That's how great she was.

[@juancarlosucedaperez3815]

She was so great that all her performances were excellent. Let's imagine that she didn't won two Oscars, she still would be a great actress since all her nominations.

[@wotan10950]

I'm not sure Hepburn deserved all her Oscars (Bancroft should have won for Graduate; Streisand should have won outright for Funny Girl). But in this case, Hepburn really was extraordinary in Golden Pond. Richly deserved. She was overlooked in some outstanding roles from Summertime, Long Day's Journey, etc.

[@mamatibborscassady9388]

Răzvan Mihai sadly yes.

[@screenactorsguilable]

Răzvan Mihai I think Meryl's losing Oscar is truly deserving. Why people are still annoyed about it ?

[@SwimmerPrince]

Eeek Barbra may be iconic in Funny Girl but Kate was simply the best in The Lion in Winter. Truly one of the best performances by and actress of all time.

[@marymcgovernn]

Barbara did win for funny girl

[@davidmuller9938]

mamatibbors cassady what the heck.. Katherine in Lion in winter was one of the greatest actings ever

[@danieliliadis]

You can hear the shock and surprise in the audience’s reaction (as well as Jane Fonda’s face!). Apparently the favourite to win was Diane Keaton or Meryl...

[@juancarlosucedaperez3815]

Diane Keaton or Sarandon. However, Hepburn made it again with a touching, subtle and amazing performance as Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond.

[@danieliliadis]

Sarandon wasn’t even in the running - she said in an interview that nobody expected her to be nominated that year, apparently even the studio that released her nominated movie said they didn’t understand how it happened

[@wolfben22]

Streep hadn't done many foreign-tongue roles at this point. Isn't French Lieutenant her first "accented" performance on screen? Other than the TV miniseries Holocaust, I don't think she had any notable accented roles yet. I think her loss was more that people weren't entirely enthused with the performance. Hepburn was an icon by 1982. Plus, she deserved it.

[@155gerard]

actually this was Marsha Mason's 4th Best Actress nominiaton: Cinerella Liberty 1973; Goodbye Girl 1977; Chapter Two 1979 and this year 1981 for Only when I laugh.

[@movieman223]

Got this video to 2k thousand likes

[@marmavit]

He looks so much like his daughter Angelina in this video ...

[@johnyossarian8344]

Do you even know who "the guy" is? That's Angelina Jolie's father, a rather famous movie star in his own right.

[@dflartist]

and marsha masons oscar goes to .........katharine hepburn. love hepburn but mason deserved this one.

[@doug18020]

@ChevyfunSS Plus she was working on Bdway that night in The West Side Waltz.

[@jeffs2149]

She may not have won if nominated, but I really felt that Kathleen Turner should have been nominated for Body Heat. Not sure who I would exclude if she had been nominated.

[@wilmafistfit4788]

Jane Fonda looked shocked

[@TheJonVoightChannel]

@MetteXmoebjerg YES HE WAS! GORGEOUS!

[@morley247]

PERSONAL RANKING WINNER - MERYL STREEP IN FRENCH LIEUTENANT WOMAN KATHARINE HEPBURN - ON GOLDEN POND DIANE KEATON - REDS SUSAN SARANDON - ATLANTIC CITY MARSHA MASON - ONLY ONE I'VE LOVED.

[@constangina]

hey. i didnt write that comment. someone used my account.

[@adagiobreeze8493]

Jon Voight looks like a sexy vampire from True Blood here

[@mafred2069]

Marsha Mason should have gotten it.

[@anmoljaiswal9937]

Ma Fred katharine deserved it more than any one else. .....extraordinary performance

[@morley247]

Did Katharine Hepburn ever get to see her Oscar statuettes?

[@Cunninghamily]

1:16

[@matiaspereira9382]

Katharine Hepburn was at the time the oldest actress to win that Oscar

[@inceletvcom]

oh after that jessica tandy also won the award

[@matiaspereira9382]

@@inceletvcom exactly

[@matiaspereira9382]

​@@inceletvcom Those are all actresses who were at the time the oldest to win the Oscar: 1 - Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906-May 16, 1929) - 22 years, 7 months and 10 days (May 16, 1929-April 3, 1930) 2 - Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892-April 3, 1930) - 37 years, 11 months and 26 days (April 3, 1930-November 10, 1931) 3 - Marie Dressler (November 9, 1868-November 10, 1931) - 63 years and 1 day (November 10, 1931-March 29, 1982) 4 - Katherine Hepburn (May 12, 1907-March 29, 1982) - 74 years, 10 months and 17 days (March 29, 1982-March 26, 1990) 5 - Jessica Tandy (June 7, 1909-March 26, 1990) - 80 years, 9 months and 19 days (March 26, 1990-present)

[@ShelbyFarrow]

Why was Jane Fonda not nominated?

[@giovannyespinoza6013]

She was nominated for best supporting actress not leading

[@zazlar4228]

Is that Angelina Jolie ?

[@sliat1981]

Enjoy it marsha, it’s not going to happen again

[@katbowl9971]

Marsha Mason is an amazing actress.

[@sliat1981]

Kat Bowl oh well. She lost

[@katbowl9971]

@@sliat1981 Doesn't negate the fact she is a fine actress.

[@ghoticipy]

@BitchErica1 she is the best women actress alive meryl

[@aldodanilo]

Hepburn deserved to win the Oscar only for Alice Adams in 1935 (she lost to Bette Davis for Dangerous) and for The Lion in Winter in 1968. Her wins in 1967 and in 1981 should have gone to Faye Dunaway for Bonnie and Clyde and Meryl Streep for The French Lieutenant's Woman respectively.

[@juancarlosucedaperez3815]

No way. Faye Dunaway's performance was not as subtle as Hepburn's performance (Christina Drayton)... there were moments that I noticed that she didn't get along with Beatty... although she was natural. Hepburn was able to balance a wide range of emotions and her movements were unique (see the scene of Christina and Hilary). Hepburn was so natural and amazing in On Golden Pond, she wrote her own script in some scenes, along with Fonda, and the scene of My Knight in shining armor with Fonda was the key to show the perfect mix of optimism, encouragement, nostalgia, happiness and love... of course there's no doubt that she really felt all of these emotions since she remembered Tracy's death. Streep was good but her acting was not very complex... only her accent that she added to the character but this doesn't help much to the performance... these aspects only supports the character she portrayed.

[@juancarlosucedaperez3815]

Yes. She deserved her Academy Award for Best Actress in 1936 for Alice Adams. She gave the best performance of that year. Everybody knows that Bette Davis won a consolation prize because she was not nominated for Of human bondage (although I think that Davis deserved for Whatever happened to Baby Jane? And for All About Eve).

[@giovannyespinoza6013]

@@juancarlosucedaperez3815 Anne Bancroft (The Graduate) and Édith Evans (The Whisperers) we're better than Hepburn

[@icarosoares481]

I love how Katharine ignored the Academy Awards

[@lexkanyima2195]

What did she do ?

[@icarosoares481]

@@lexkanyima2195 she didn’t like Hollywood as much. She knew the industry was more about media and money than talent.

[@lexkanyima2195]

@@icarosoares481 ouch

[@ryanborder189]

Jane Fonda looked older in 1982...go figure!

[@bregieirofernandes]

LOL

[@kingcaesar5]

was Bob too busy to present that year? Damn De Niro.

[@bman560]

I wish Jon Voight would throw away that white scarf.

[@FrankIsAlwaysRight]

Bat shit crazy Jon Voight...

[@bregieirofernandes]

I love how the guy said "Katharine Hepburn" in such a solemn voice, as if saying "I hope you know what you're up against, bitches" to the other nominees LOL

[@lauraarguedas8478]

The guy is John Voight

[@rrubio6660]

That guy is Angelina Jolie's father.

[@jamesfreeman2258]

Do not call actresses or for that matter women the insulting b word.

[@samsong24]

No, you're just projecting. Why do you people insist on showing your respect for someone by dismissing or dissing the others in contention? It's such a childish habit.

[@joaoluizfonseca6914]

“The guy” meaning Oscar winner Jon Voight, one of the greatest actors of all time, father of Angelina Jolie, yes….

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Angelina jolie is exact copy of her father

[@FrankIsAlwaysRight]

Yes...both are bat shit crazy

[@heatherwaldorf]

@@FrankIsAlwaysRight are you ok, Fran? Are you imagining spiders crawling up your arms again? 😎

[@Dancerama6]

Um... I would read up on their relationship before saying that 😂

[@FrankIsAlwaysRight]

The Library Is Now Open shut up fuck face

[@FrankIsAlwaysRight]

@@heatherwaldorf fuck you asshole

[@amparonarbona5142]

OMG. What a group of nominees!!

[@PaulAncheta]

Jon Voight ignored the cue cards and delivered a much more intense message from the heart.

[@VtRD]

Katharine Hepburn was appearing on Broadway the night this was awarded. So amazing at her age then. My late parents were fortunate to see her play Coco Chanel on Broadway some years before this. I recall them being so impressed by her. He role in On Golden Pond was one for the ages. She effortlessly shows us how to age with grace, and be a life partner to someone.

[@SandraNFrasson]

Olá, imagino a honra de vê--la interpretar Covi Chanel. Meu filme Preferido é: Adivinhe quem vem pra jantar. Maravilhoso.

[@kateg7298]

Lovely comment. Thank you.

[@janerrahnoble]

It's good to hear it

[@randybohr1273]

wow what a bunch of incredible nominees. Meryl Susan Diane were so young

[@bingovegas4867]

Marsha wasnt exactly 100 ya know? She was ROBBED of the OSCAR a few yrs earlier 4 The Goodbye Girl by guess who? "Diane- I act the same in every movie I'm in Keaton".

[@gra-emed3617]

Bingo Vegas 🤣🤣🤣 I totally agree. Diane only ever plays Diane. So she may be fantastic at presenting herself to the world but she is a lousy actress!

[@drstranger7430]

@@gra-emed3617 u obviously haven't seen the movie she's nominated in this night, Reds.

[@gauravw6947]

@@bingovegas4867 Diane was unbeatable the year she won the Oscar… She delivered two critically acclaimed performances the same year and her performance in Annie Hall is still considered one of the best in the category…

[@timm55]

They all waited because they knew it was her win!

[@wiizaziiw]

omg 5 greatest actresses nominated in the same year

[@BrianMorisky]

Before Jon Voight went insane.

[@carolynm8421]

Exacly. He did a total flip and now says loony things that usually wins one a trip to the psych ward.

[@yonce3363]

Ican see So much Angie in Jon voight

[@anacletwilliams8315]

Oh you can? Don't tell me!

[@Darwaxion]

Katherine Hepburn is THE GREATEST ACTRESS ever.. By the way John Voight looks awesome!

[@terryallen3694]

Darwaxion

[@sliat1981]

Too bad he’s an asshole in real life

[@nedi693]

MERYL STREEP IS THE GREATEST ACTRESS EVER

[@minavamp2811]

@Pat Kat actually they were both nominated 12 times for oscars in 20th century. in 21th century streep got nominated for 9 more times and counting.

[@sickheadache9903]

before he went MAGA Nuts.

[@gamingchild1077]

She deserved the oscar. On Golden Pond is truly a masterpiece.

[@hillio23]

No wonder Angelina is as beautiful as she is lol

[@LPJack02]

RIP Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003), aged 96 You will be remembered as a legend.

[@janalalewicz7385]

Katharine Hepburn went to the Oscars ONCE and that was to present a lifetime achievement award for some producer. She wore PANTS lol. Know what she wore to the Kennedy Center Honors when she received her award? a raincoat,pants, and black Reeboks! I loved that woman!!!

[@ToughXArmy69]

Hepburn justly winter 4 oscars. I would have voted for her long days journey into night. Unforgettable. Hepburn cares for her peers Susan Hayward vivien leigh and of course the great Tracy. His speech at the end of gyess who and her reaction is classic cinema. RIP

[@ServandoIV]

hepburn is proof that it’s not about the awards but the love of the art

[@stevenrobinson7722]

The mid-atlantic accent of Katherine Hepburn is SOOOOOO much easier on the ears much more softly spoken , why it fell out of favour after WWII I’ll never know. It should be revived, it sounds so classy!!!!

[@hardv8]

I just hope that Katharine's record of 4 Oscars is NEVER beaten....obviously Frances is a big threat to it.

[@mikeryan7213]

Mcdormand is a one trick pony, playing kooky offbeat leathery women. Getting tiresome at this stage

[@hardv8]

@@mikeryan7213 YES....I thought it was just me!

[@davidmuller9938]

McDormand deserved her last two Oscars, but Fargo is just a crap.

[@FabinhoFlapp]

The greatest actress in all times. Deserved 4th Oscar. Period.

[@elvisobsessor]

Jon Voight is beautiful!

[@elvisobsessor]

Her dad!

[@samsong24]

I dunno why the Academy insisted on acknowledging Katharine Hepburn when she consistently demonstrated that she didn't care about them.

[@TheNathanj2009]

The best performances were just not nominated! Glenda Jackson for “Stevie” Faye Dunaway for “Mommie Dearest” Sissy Spacek “Raggedy Man”

[@shlokamsrivastava6782]

Stevie is based on Stevie Smith if I recall correctly.

[@zulqarnain9894]

All 5 nominations are legends

[@MrsBlaileen1]

Love how Jon Voight has worn that same tan scarf to every Oscar ceremony ever since!

[@jamesfreeman2258]

I always wondered what his thing was with the scarfs. He wears them to this day.

[@MrsBlaileen1]

@@jamesfreeman2258 Hope he at least washes it…lol

[@jckfmsincty]

The Great Kate won 4 Oscars, but none of them were for her greatest performances. Her win for 1967's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is probably the weakest acting award in the Academy Awards' history. Her non Oscar winning performance in 1962's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" is one of the greatest ever filmed. That's the way the Oscar crumbles.

[@fabianferrada2501]

The best performances of that year weren't even nominated, i'm talking about Bernadette Peters in "Pennies From Heaven" and Glenda Jackson in "Stevie".

[@andreatrujillo5491]

JON VOIGHT HAS ALWAY'S BEEN INCREDIBLY HANDSOME AND OF COURSE VERY TALENTED!

[@aagold76]

since Kate had 3 Oscars going into the night- I hardly see the need for the Academy to think she needed this as an honorary gesture as mentioned below...they felt she deserved it- those who voted for her...Streep had just won 2 years before, Susan was still bldg and largely unknown- people thought Rocky Horror when they thought of her back then....

[@MikeysGayToday]

I wonder if Streep will win one more Oscar?

[@aagold76]

@@MikeysGayToday it's VERY Possible. Since writing the above- Streep has come out and said she HATED her performance in French Lt's Woman- said it's her most over rated performance.

[@reasonrestored9116]

aagold76 get real. She won one of her oscars because Tracey Died!

[@aagold76]

@@reasonrestored9116 and she lost 1 because they were making it up to Bette Davis (they used to release vote totals and she was 2nd to Davis in 1935...Davis was snubbed the year before and was given it the following year- even Davis said Hepburn deserved it that year)...67 was a weak year- yes- Dunaway probably deserved it, but she was too new, Bancroft was in more of a supporting role.

[@johnyossarian8344]

It's Jon Voight. He was in some big movies in the 60's & 70's. Probably his most famous are MIDNIGHT COWBOY, DELIVERANCE, & COMING HOME (for which he won a Best Actor Oscar for). Plus a ton of other movies & TV shows not as well known.

[@duckwrangler]

this was such a shock result at the time that even the director had no idea what shot to cut to !! Classic example of older academy voters being unable to chose between two clear front runners - Streep and Keaton - so opting for a compromise choice.

[@UFOSPACE1999]

The reason that Katharine Hepburn never showed up to pick up her 4 Oscars..according to HER...in a couple of interviews...including Dick Cavette...She was nervous and thought she would lose each time. But remember kiddies...Ms. Hepburn...like her own life and being the greatest Actress ever...she just did her things her way.

[@Dennisanyone-]

Even more a shocked reaction from the audience than her tie with barbra streisand. Four oscars was unprecendented though. Meryl still going strong and will give kate a run for her money.

[@slugerknot]

Imagine making history (unrivaled to this day) by winning a 4th Oscar and not even being there to accept it.

[@joaoluizfonseca6914]

Katharine was NEVER at any ceremony whenever nominated. There was always someone to accept the Oscar for her; it was like that in 1934, 1968, 1969, and then in 1982

[@orlandom394]

I’m surprised she ever won, not that she wasn’t great, just considering how vindictive the academy could be to those who snubbed them or weren’t on the good side of Hollywood.

[@orlathorburn297]

Katharine didn't snub the oscars because she disliked them...she said once that she never went because she was s nervous she would react badly if she didn't win. She did attend to present an award though

[@minavamp2811]

@@orlathorburn297 he never went the 12 times she was nominated because she's afraid that she would lose, and the feeling of losing at the award ceremony was unbearable for her.

[@zuzuspetals2003]

@jerm1810 I agree with you. Calling Hepburn an old bat means this guy knows nothing about movies and has no respect for greatness. It is also a known fact that Katherine Hepburn never attended any oscars even though she was nominated 12 times. Her only appearance in an oscar was to present a special award for one of her friends.

[@machovoce6826]

Hepburn's film canon is so astonishing and rich that it seems almost inevitable that she would have captured a handful of Oscars almost incidentally. But I think it is especially important to note that she worked largely in a time when there were far more great roles for women and, frankly, far more great actresses than in the last 40 or so years. That's what really gilds her achievement to my mind. There were many years during Hepburn's career where every nominee who lost the best actress award was more deserving than most of the women who have won during the Streep era.

[@paulskyekahawaty6133]

Isabelle Adjani should have won for Possession, shame that she wasn't even nominated.

[@ACP2537]

Up

[@ReggieWilson-gm5dl]

I agree

[@brookehanley3659]

Jon Voight seems like a classy guy. I like him here.

[@maxipazz8214]

He’s a trump supporter and an old fool now

[@brookehanley3659]

@@richhopkins6968 Loser comment

[@jaltruff]

The one and only year the two most nominated actresses in the history of the Academy Awards were competing to each other. Hepburn at the end of her great career; and Streep very young and already in her third nomination (and one previous Oscar win)

[@worriestrouble838]

@Robert Anthony Yeadon so did Hepburn... if she didn't retire probably be more Oscars

[@flaccidusminimus2170]

This is a strange one. Hepburn let her great cheekbones do most of the acting in "On Golden Pond". The role doesn't stretch her at all. Streep, Keaton, and Sarandon all had far more challenging roles. As did Marilia Pera in "Pixote", Kathleen Turner in "Body Heat", Sissy Spacek in "Raggedy Man", or even Faye Dunaway in "Mommie Dearest". This is emphatically NOT among Hepburn's best work.

[@connorjones100]

i am a massive Meryl Streep fan, have you seen On Golden Pond? if you have, you should surely know that she truly deserved this Oscar.

[@flix2view]

susan sarandon and meryl streep look the same today!

[@rod1974xx]

You most def can see where Angelina gets her looks from...

[@Starkardur]

Marsha Mason should have won

[@supermariofan03]

This list should have been: Katharine Hepburn Susan Sarandon Meryl Streep Diane Keaton Bernadette Peters

[@fabianferrada2501]

I agree, Peter's performance is so underrated, she should've won.

[@dayzofdrama]

Katharine Hepburn is definitely one of the best, with Bette Davis, jane Fonda, Sissy Spacek, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Susan Sarandon.

[@StevenTorrey]

She was certainly in good company that night!