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Julianne Moore: The veteran nominee triumphs in a year of newbies

Moore won a Best Actress Oscar for her work in 'Still Alice' after having earned four previous nominations at the Academy Awards. Her fellow acting winners 鈥� 'Whiplash' actor J.K. Simmons, Patricia Arquette of 'Boyhood,' and 'The Theory of Everything' actor Eddie Redmayne 鈥� were not only first-time winners but also first-time nominees.

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Julianne Moore accepts the Oscar for Best Actress at the 2015 ceremony.

The rest of the winners for the acting prizes at the 2015 Oscars ceremony may have been new to the show, but actress Julianne Moore knew her way around the Academy Awards.

While Best Actor winner and 鈥淭he Theory of Everything鈥� actor Eddie Redmayne, 鈥淏oyhood鈥� actress and Best Supporting Actress winner Patricia Arquette, and 鈥淲hiplash鈥� actor and Best Supporting Actor winner J.K. Simmons were all first-time nominees, Moore had been nominated four times before at the Oscars, with her first nod coming in 1998 in the Best Supporting Actress category for the film 鈥淏oogie Nights.鈥澛�

Many seem to see Moore鈥檚 2015 win as an overdue honor. 鈥淛ulianne Moore Finally Wins Academy Award,鈥� the headline for the story about her win reads, while writer Kristopher Tapley wrote that 鈥渁fter鈥� a career鈥檚 worth of bold, varied performances, Julianne Moore is finally an Oscar winner.鈥澛�

The movie 鈥淪till Alice,鈥� in which Moore portrays a woman diagnosed with Alzheimer鈥檚, was based off a novel by Lisa Genova. Monitor film critic Peter Rainer called Moore 鈥渟tartlingly good鈥� in 鈥淎lice.鈥�

Moore鈥檚 other Oscar nominations came for her 2000 role in 鈥淭he End of the Affair,鈥� for which she earned a Best Actress nod, and in 2003, when she was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in 鈥淭he Hours鈥� and in the Best Actress category for the film 鈥淔ar from Heaven.鈥�

As one might imagine, being nominated in two categories in the same year in the acting categories is a rare feat. In achieving it, Moore is in the company of, among others, actress Jessica Lange, who was nominated for 鈥淔rances" and Tootsie鈥�; Al Pacino, who earned nods for 鈥淪cent of a Woman鈥� and 鈥淕lengarry Glen Ross鈥�; and last year鈥檚 Best Actress winner Cate Blanchett, who at one point in her career earned nominations for the movies 鈥淓lizabeth: The Golden Age鈥� and 鈥淚鈥檓 Not There."

Last year's Oscars acting categories were also a triumph of the newcomers. Best Actor winner Matthew McConaughey, Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong鈥檕, and Best Supporting Actor winner Jared Leto were all first-time nominees. Best Actress winner Blanchett had not only been nominated before but had also won an Oscar previously in the Best Supporting Actress category for the movie 鈥淭he Aviator.鈥�

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