Frances McDormand Wins Best Actress For 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'

All hail Frances McDormand! The formidable actress has capped off her awards season by winning for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” with the Academy Award for Best Actress. In the film, McDormand plays Mildred, a grieving and steely mother who rents three billboards to incite the local police chief into restarting the investigation into her daughter’s brutal murder.

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McDormand has been sweeping up awards left and right this whole season winning the Golden Globe, SAG Award, the BAFTA, as well as most of the critics’ groups. This is her second Oscar win for Best Actress after her 1997 win for the Coen brothers‘ “Fargo.” McDormand joins the elite group of 13 other women who have won more than one Oscar for Best Actress. Some of the incredible women in that winner’s circle are Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Hilary Swank, Jane Fonda, Ingrid Bergman, and Katharine Hepburn (who actually has four Best Actress wins) just to name a few.

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In addition to her two Oscar wins, McDormand also has three nominations for supporting actress. Another winner’s group McDormand is very close to joining is the EGOT club. She has two Emmy Awards and a Tony to match her two Oscars – all she is missing is that elusive Grammy win (is it just me or does anyone else suddenly need her to do a spoken word album immediately?).

In classic Frances McDormand fashion, she gave a humble and hilarious speech. The usually shy actress has been making the rounds this whole season and blessing us with wonderful speeches. At last night’s Independent Spirit Awards, McDormand joked about “how hard it has been not to swear for the last six months” while on the awards circuit (which, in her words, “lasts for fucking ever”). Well, Frances, big congrats on the win and being able to freely swear.