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Can Cate Blanchett catch Katharine Hepburn’s Oscar record? Can anyone?

An Oscar this year would be Cate Blanchett’s third,
An Oscar this year would be Cate Blanchett’s third.
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A lead actress win for her performance in “Tár” would bring Cate Blanchett closer to Katharine Hepburn’s seemingly untouchable record of four acting Oscars.

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An Oscar this year would be Blanchett’s third, after winning in 2005 for her supporting performance as Hepburn in “The Aviator” and in 2014 as the lead in “Blue Jasmine.”

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people — Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Frances McDormand, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep — have won three acting Oscars.

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Blanchett would be the second youngest to reach three-timer status, after Brennan, who was 46.

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Hepburn’s age when she won for the fourth time, in 1982 for “On Golden Pond.”

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years between Blanchett’s Oscars, if she wins this year. This steadiness breaks from the long or longish gaps between wins for most three-timers, and could …

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... put Blanchett on pace to snag a fourth Oscar by her early 60s, or a full decade younger than Hepburn was when she won a fourth. Although the …

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times nominated Streep, who at 73 is nearing “Golden Pond”-era Hepburn Hollywood titan/sentimental favorite status and is also Meryl Streep, might get there first.

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The four-plus decades Hepburn’s record has stood make Blanchett, Streep or nobody matching it seem like equally reasonable outcomes.

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