| Exercise: Which actresses were nominated for more than 3 Academy awards, and how many nominations did each have?
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One way to approach this question is to retrieve items of women who have “actor” as occupation (or a subclass thereof, such as “film actor”), and count the number of Academy Awards they have been nominated for. Note, however, that this includes all Academy Awards.
For example, actress Emma Thompson was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
Another approach is to look at the winners of the “Academy Award for Best Actress” and “Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress”: