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Emma Thompson has won two Academy Awards: Best Actress for Howards End (1992) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995). She is the only person in history to have won Oscars for both acting and screenwriting.
Emma Thompson is the only person ever to win Academy Awards in both an acting category and a writing category. She won Best Actress for Howards End and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, a feat no one else has achieved.
At the 66th Academy Awards, Thompson was nominated for Best Actress for The Remains of the Day and Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father, making her the eighth performer in history to receive two acting nominations in the same year.
Thompson spent five years developing the Sense and Sensibility screenplay. She also starred in the film as Elinor Dashwood, despite being sixteen years older than the literary character, and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work.
Thompson joined the Cambridge Footlights troupe, invited by its president Martin Bergman, and studied alongside Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. In 1980 she served as Vice President and co-directed the troupe's first all-female revue, Woman's Hour. In 1981 her Footlights team won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the sketch show The Cellar Tapes.
Emma Thompson was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for her services to drama.