Oscarwinner nudity

by The_Melancholic_Alcoholic | created - 29 Sep 2019 | updated - 4 months ago | Public

Academy Award winning actresses who went nude in films, in reverse chronological order. Is nudity bad or good for your Oscar chances? Of the 76 actresses that won the Oscar, 46 (60%) did nudity in one or more films. But of the last 28 Oscarwinners, áll of them appeared nude. So, nudity seems a prerequisite for an Oscar? Probably it's just a sign of the times. Of the first 24, just óne did, Claudette Colbert. Six won the Oscar befóre appearing nude, 38 won the Oscar after. Nicole Kidman is nude in 19 films, followed by Marion Cotillard with 17 and Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron with 16. Youngest is Sopia Loren at 16, oldest is Jessica Tandy at 85.

1. Jessica Chastain

Actress | Zero Dark Thirty

Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...

Was nude in 6 times - The zookeeper's wife (2017), Salomé (2013), Lawless (2012), George & Tammy (2022), Scenes from a marriage (2021) ), first at age 30 for "Jolene (2008)". Won Oscar áfter, in 2022

2. Renée Zellweger

Actress | Chicago

Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (Andreassen), is a Norwegian-born former nurse and midwife, of Norwegian, Kven (Finnish), and Swedish descent. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born engineer. The two married in 1963. Renée ...

Was nude in 2 movies, first at age 32 for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) as Bridget Jones. Won Oscar áfter, in 2019/20

3. Olivia Colman

Actress | The Favourite

Olivia Colman was born on January 30, 1974 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Favourite (2018), Tyrannosaur (2011) and The Lost Daughter (2021). She has been married to Ed Sinclair since August 2001. They have three children.

Was nude in movie, at age 32 for ''Confetti (2006)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 2018/19

4. Frances McDormand

Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...

Was nude in 3 movies, first at age 36 for ''Short Cuts (1993)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 1996, 2017 & 2021

5. Emma Stone

Actress | La La Land

Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...

Was nude in 1 movie, at age 29 for ''The Favourite (2018)''. One of only six who fírst won the Oscar, in 2016

6. Brie Larson

Actress | Room

Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...

Was nude in 1 movie, at age 19 for ''Tanner Hall (2009)''...it's like, three whole frames at best. Won Oscar áfter, in 2015

7. Julianne Moore

Actress | Far from Heaven

Julianne Moore was born Julie Anne Smith in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on December 3, 1960, the daughter of Anne (Love), a social worker, and Peter Moore Smith, a paratrooper, colonel, and later military judge. Her mother moved to the U.S. in 1951, from Greenock, Scotland. Her father, from ...

Was nude in 10 movies, first at age 32 for ''Short Cuts (1993)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 2014.

8. Cate Blanchett

Actress | Carol

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...

Did 6 nude movies, first at age 20 for ''Bordertown (1989)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 2013.

9. Jennifer Lawrence

Actress | The Hunger Games

As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...

Did 3 nude movies, first at age 25 for ''Passengers (2016)''. One of only six who fírst won the Oscar, in 2012.

10. Meryl Streep

Actress | Out of Africa

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...

Did 3 nude movies. First at age 33 for ''Still of the Night (1982)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 2011.

11. Natalie Portman

Actress | Black Swan

Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).

Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...

Did 6 nude movies, First at age 23 for ''Closer (2004)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 2010

12. Sandra Bullock

Producer | The Proposal

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...

Did 3 nude movies, first at age 25 for ''Who Shot Patakango? (1990)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 2009

13. Kate Winslet

Actress | Titanic

Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...

Was nude in 13 movies, first at age 17, 5 months old for ''Heavenly Creatures (1994)". Won Oscar áfter, in 2008 (Melanie Lynskey was 15 years and 10 months old.)

14. Marion Cotillard

Actress | La Môme

Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.

Raised in Orléans, France, she ...

Did 17 nude movies, first at age 18 for ''L'Histoire du garçon qui voulait qu'on l'embrasse (1993)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 2007

15. Helen Mirren

Actress | The Queen

Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...

Did 16 nude movies, first at age 23 for ''Age of Consent (1969)''. Her infamous movie Caligula was unbeknownst to her, turned into a gore-sexploitation movie. She won Oscar áfter, in 2006

16. Reese Witherspoon

Producer | Wild

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...

Was nude in 2 movies, first at age 22 for ''Twilight (1998)''. It's assumed she used a body double for "The man in the moon (1991!)" Won Oscar áfter, in 2005

17. Hilary Swank

Actress | Million Dollar Baby

Hilary was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Judith Kay (Clough), a secretary, and Stephen Michael Swank, who served in the National Guard and was also a traveling salesman. Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Dominguez, was of Mexican descent, and her other roots include German, English, and ...

Was nude in 5 movies, first at age 23 for ''Heartwood (1998)''. Won Oscar áfter, in 2004

18. Charlize Theron

Producer | Monster

Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...

Was nude in 16 movies, first at age 20 for "2 Days in the Valley (1996)". Won Oscar áfter, in 2003

19. Nicole Kidman

Actress | Moulin Rouge!

Elegant Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas.

Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical ...

Was nude in 19 movies (WINNER!), first at age 18 years and 3 months for "Windrider (1986)". Won Oscar áfter, in 2002

20. Halle Berry

Actress | Catwoman

Halle Maria Berry was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Oakwood, Ohio to Judith Ann Berry (née Hawkins), a psychiatric nurse & Jerome Jesse Berry, a hospital attendant. Her father was African-American and her mother is of mostly English and German descent. ...

Did 7 nude movies, first at age 32 for "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)". Won Oscar áfter, in 2001

21. Julia Roberts

Actress | Pretty Woman

Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her ...

Did 1 nude movie, at age 22 for "Pretty Woman (1990)". Won Oscar áfter, in 2000

22. Gwyneth Paltrow

Actress | Shakespeare in Love

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where ...

Did 9 nude movies, first at age 20 for "Flesh and Bone (1993)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1998

23. Helen Hunt

Actress | As Good as It Gets

Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.

Did 6 nude movies, first at age 29 for "The Waterdance (1992)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1997

24. Susan Sarandon

Actress | Thelma & Louise

It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...

Did 16 nude movies, first at age 23 for "Joe (1970)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1995

25. Jessica Lange

Actress | Tootsie

Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis...

Did 6 nude movies, first at age 27 for "King Kong (1976)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1994

26. Holly Hunter

Actress | Broadcast News

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first...

Did 12 nude movies, first at age 35 for "The Piano (1993)". Won Oscar for that role in 1993.

27. Emma Thompson

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...

Did 6 nude movies, first at age 30 for "The Tall Guy (1989)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1992

28. Jodie Foster

Actress | The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...

Did 6 nude movies, first at age 26 for "The Accused (1988)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1991

29. Kathy Bates

Actress | Misery

Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates...

Did 2 nude movies, first at age 43 for "At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)". One of only six who fírst won the Oscar, in 1990

30. Jessica Tandy

Actress | Driving Miss Daisy

A beloved, twinkly blue-eyed doyenne of stage and screen, actress Jessica Tandy's career spanned nearly six and a half decades. In that span of time, she enjoyed an amazing film renaissance at age 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and nubile beauty. She was born Jessie Alice ...

Did 1 nude movie, at age 85 (OLDEST!) for "Camilla (1994)". One of only six who fírst won the Oscar, in 1989.

31. Marlee Matlin

Actress | CODA

Marlee Beth Matlin was born on August 24, 1965 in Morton Grove, Illinois, to Libby (Hammer) and Donald Matlin, an automobile dealer. She has two older brothers. Her family is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.

Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months. That did not stop...

Did 4 nude movies, first at age 20 for "Children of a Lesser God (1986)". Won Oscar for that role in 1986

32. Sally Field

Actress | Forrest Gump

Sally Margaret Field was born November 6, 1946 in Pasadena, California, to actress Margaret Field (née Morlan) and salesman Richard Dryden Field. Her parents divorced in 1950 and her mother then married stuntman Jock Mahoney, and they had a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney. She also has a brother, ...

Did 2 nude movies, first at age 29 for "Stay Hungry (1976)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1984

33. Shirley MacLaine

Actress | Terms of Endearment

Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...

Did 5 nude movies, first at age 33 for "Woman Times Seven (1967)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1983

34. Sissy Spacek

Actress | In the Bedroom

As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.

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Was nude in 6 movies, first at age 22 for "Prime Cut (1972)". She never did underaged nudity....that's just her (extremely young) looks. Won Oscar áfter, in 1980

35. Jane Fonda

Actress | Klute

Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was ...

Did 9 nude movies, first at age 26 (!) for "La ronde (1964)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1978

36. Diane Keaton

Actress | Annie Hall

Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New ...

Did 4 nude movies, first at age 31 for "Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)". One of only six who fírst won the Oscar, in 1978

37. Faye Dunaway

Actress | Bonnie and Clyde

An icy, elegant blonde with a knack for playing complex and strong-willed female leads, enormously popular actress Faye Dunaway starred in several films which defined what many would come to call Hollywood's "second Golden Age." During her tenure at the top of the box office, she was a more than ...

Did 6 nude movies, first at age 26 for "Bonnie and Clyde (1967)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1976

38. Ellen Burstyn

Actress | Requiem for a Dream

Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...

Did 4 nude movies, first at age 37 for "Tropic of Cancer (1970)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1974

39. Glenda Jackson

Actress | Women in Love

Few in modern British history have come as far or achieved as much from humble beginnings as Glenda Jackson did. From acclaimed actress to respected MP (Member of Parliament), she was known for her high intelligence and meticulous approach to her work. She was born to a working-class household in ...

Did 5 nude movies, first at age 32 for "Negatives (1968)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1971

40. Liza Minnelli

Soundtrack | Cabaret

Liza Minnelli was born on March 12, 1946, the daughter of Judy Garland and movie director Vincente Minnelli. She was practically raised at MGM studios while her parents worked long hours there and she made her film debut at 14 months of age in the movie In the Good Old Summertime (1949). Her ...

Did 1 nude movie, at age 24 for "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1973

41. Maggie Smith

Actress | Gosford Park

One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...

Did 2 nude movies, first at age 43 for "California Suite (1978)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1970

42. Barbra Streisand

Actress | Yentl

Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...

Did 2 nude movies, first at age 28 for "The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)". One of only six who won the Oscar befóre, in 1969

43. Julie Christie

Actress | Doctor Zhivago

Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's plantation before being ...

Did 5 nude movies, first at age 24 for "Darling (1965)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1966

44. Julie Andrews

Actress | The Sound of Music

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...

Did 3 nude movies, first at age 34 for "Darling Lili (1970)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1965

45. Sophia Loren

Actress | La ciociara

Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...

Did 3 nude movies, first at age 16 (YOUNGEST) for "Era lui... sí! sí! (1951)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1961

46. Susan Hayward

Actress | With a Song in My Heart

Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father was a transportation worker, and Susan lived a fairly comfortable life as a child, but the precocious little redhead had no idea of the life that awaited her. She attended public school in Brooklyn, where she...

After a hiathus of 20(!) years, Hayward was the 2nd Oscarwinner to go nude in just one movie, at age 35 for "With a Song in My Heart (1952)". Won Oscar áfter, in 1958

47. Claudette Colbert

Actress | It Happened One Night

One of the brightest film stars to grace the screen was born Emilie Claudette Chauchoin on September 13, 1903, in Saint Mandé, France where her father owned a bakery at 57, rue de la République (now Avenue Général de Gaulle). The family moved to the United States when she was three. As Claudette ...

Was nude in 1 movie, at age 29 for "The Sign of the Cross (1932)" (HISTORIC FIRST!). Won the Oscar áfter, in 1934



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