The Portrait Of A Lady

Vivien Leigh & The Stage

Acceptance Speech - Academy Awards, February 29th 1940

• Academy Awards, USA 
   
  1952 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
  for: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  
  Vivien Leigh was not present at the awards ceremony. Greer Garson accepted on her behalf. 
  
  
  
  
  
  Fresh offstage and still in full makeup, Vivien Leigh, 38, learned of her second Oscar via radio in the chorus dressing room of Antony and Cleopatra, the Broadway play in which she was starring opposite her then husband, Laurence Olivier. Things have been different when she won her first Best Actress Oscar for 1939's Gone with the Wind. "I was at the Awards dinner in Hollywood myself, with everyone very tense and excited", she told reporters. The 1952 win, she said, "was a quieter kind of excitement". When Leigh's name was announced for her performance as Blanche Dubois, Olivier gave her a chaste kiss.
  
  1940 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
  for: Gone with the Wind (1939)
  
  The only other actresses with two Best Actress Oscars are Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Louise Rainer, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jodie Foster.
  

• BAFTA Awards 
   
  1953 Won BAFTA Film Award Best British Actress
  for: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  
  
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards 
   
  1951 Won NYFCC Award Best Actress
  for: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  
  1939 Won NYFCC Award Best Actress
  for: Gone with the Wind (1939)

Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) and Blanche Dubois (Vivien Leigh) - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

• Venice Film Festival 
  
  1951 Won Volpi Cup Best Actress
  for: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  
  
•  On May 26th 1957 on the stage of the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre, in Paris, Vivien was given the Knight's Cross of the L�gion d'Honneur "for services rendered to the cultural relations and friendship between France and Great Britain".
  
  
• Vivien also received a Tony Award on Broadway for 'Best Musical Comedy Performance' in April 1963, for her role in Tovarich. She took singing and dancing lessons for several hours a day during rehearsals.

Tatiana in Tovarich (1963)

• �toile Crystal
  
  1966 Won French award �toile Crystal
  for: Ship Of Fools (1965)
  

Mary Treadwell in Ship Of Fools (1965)

• Walk Of Fame 
  
  Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture at 6773 Hollywood Blvd. 

2003 � Vivien Leigh & The Stage.

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