From Carrie Craft,
Your Guide to Adoption / Foster Care.
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Past Winners

Best Actor

• Jamie Foxx - Adoptee - won an Oscar for Ray in 2005.


• Rober De Niro - Adoptive father of one step-daughter - won an Oscar for Raging Bull in 1981.

Best Supporting Actor

• Morgan Freeman - Adoptive father - won an Oscar for best supporting actor in Million Dollar Baby in 2005.


• Rober De Niro - Adoptive father of one step-daughter - won an Oscar for his part in The Godfather II in 1975.

Best Actress

• Nicole Kidman - Adoptive mother of two - won an Oscar for best actress for The Hours in 2003.


• Joan Crawford - Adoptive Mother of four - won an Oscar in 1946 for best actress in Mildred Pierce.


• Bette Davis - Adoptive mother - won two Oscars. The first in 1936 as best actress for Dangerous. The second in 1939 for Jezebel.
  

Best Supporting Actress

• Angelina Jolie - Adoptive mother of three - won an Oscar for best supportive actress for Girl, Interrupted in 2000.

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Woody Allen - Adoptive father of several children - won an Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1987.
• Joel Coen - Adoptive father of one - won an Oscar for Fargo in 1997 and No Country for Old Men in 2007. Both of these honors were shared with his brother Ethan Coen

Director

• Joel Coen - Adoptive father of one - won an Oscar for No Country for Old Men in 2007. This honor is shared with his brother, Ethan Coen
• Steven Spielberg - Adoptive father of two - won two Oscars for his Directing - Saving Private Ryan in 1999, and Schindler's List in 1994.
• Woody Allen - Adoptive father of several children - won an Oscar for Annie Hall in 1978.
  

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