Best Actress coming up. If Emmanuelle Riva wins Best Actress nominee for Amour, she will become the oldest Best Actress winner at 85 and also the fifth French actress to win an Oscar after Claudette Colbert (Best Actress for It Happened One Night), Simone Signoret (Best Actress for Room At The Top), Marion Cotillard (Best Actress for La Vie En Rose), and Juliette Binoche (Best Supporting Actress for The English Patient).