Who won an Oscar playing a character of the opposite sex?

[CelluloidKid]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm!!!???

[cmvgor]

Linda Hunt, The Year Of Living Dangerously?

[CelluloidKid]

CLAPS...JUMPS UP AND DOWN ..THROWS CONFETTI.

 

 

WE HAVE A WINNER!!! GOOOD JOB!! HUGS!

[bio47]

Yep she's the only one. And if not for Ryan this year, it may be two with Blanchett if she pulls it off playing Bob Dylan. She was great. But the academy is not handing out many statutes to the same people anymore other than Hank in recent memory. And Blanchett is too recent for the Aviator.

[FredCDobbs]

Keven Hepburn often played a woman in movies under the pseudonym of "Katharine Hepburn"

 

http://praxeology.net/hepburn2.bmp

[cmvgor]

I had a boost calling that factiod to mind. I remembered it as the year that there were three

actresses and only one actor in the winner's circle.