Actresses Nominated for Oscars Twice in a Single Year

Actors and actresses have been nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year.
 Jessica Lange

Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American actress who works in films, theatre and television and has received six Academy Award nominations and won twice. She got nominated in two categories in the same year for Best Actress in Frances and Best Supporting Actress in Tootsie in 1982, the latter of which she won. She worked as a waitress briefly to support herself before being discovered by fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez. She became a fashion model for Wilhelmina Models agency during which she was offered to join Hollywood by the producer Dino De Laurentiis. She has done television work extensively as well as did theatre. She is also currently serving as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and is known for her charitable causes. She is also expressive about her political views, especially being a harsh critic of the former U.S. President George W. Bush and as a supporter of the Buddhist monks in Nepal.

Sigourney Weaver

Susan Alexandra Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress who has three Oscar nominations so far to her name. In 1988, she was nominated by the Academy for two Oscars, one as Best Actress in Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and the other for Best Supporting Actress in Working Girl. She did not win for any of these. But after making Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, she got involved in working for The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and now is its honorary chairperson. She is an environmental enthusiast. She changed her name to Sigourney Weaver since 1963 inspired by a minor fictional character Sigourney Howard from the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Both of her parents are from the show business, father being a television producer and mother an actress, so she has grown up having genes to do what she does

Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American television and film actress who has been nominated four times for an Oscar and twice in the year 1993. She won the Best Actress Oscar for The Piano and was nominated in the same year for The Firm for Best Supporting Actress Oscar. She is deaf from one ear and this sometimes causes problems while filming which at times lead to altering of scripts and scenes to fit her need. She holds a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and there she was a class fellow of Frances McDormand. She had no deliberate idea about joining films, but a chance encounter with the playwright Beth Henley led to her performing on stage.