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Mar 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/25/97

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LOS ANGELES, USA, 24-MAR-97: Best Actress Frances McDormand
celebrates onstage with her Oscar at the 69th annual Academy Awards,
March 24. McDormand won for her role in "Fargo." [Photo by Gary
Hershorn, Reuters]
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 LOS ANGELES, March 24 (UPI) -- Frances McDormand has won the best
actress Oscar for her performance as the folksy, pregnant Minnesota
sheriff in the dark comedy ``Fargo.''
 McDormand, 39, was directed in her winning performance by her
husband, Oscar nominee Joel Coen.
 All five movies in the best actress field were independent projects
and the best-known nominee was Diane Keaton for ``Marvin's Room,'' which
was not a major box-office draw. Those factors made the competition very
close.
 But McDormand had strong backing from critics as well as the Screen
Actors Guild Award.
 In ``Fargo,'' McDormand personified a dowdy but affable central
Minnesotan, a law enforcement officer more likely to use the word
``freeze'' to describe the weather than as a command to a fleeing
suspect.
 She was far from glamorous as she waddled through snow drifts, the
earflaps of her hat pulled down, using regional idiom such as ``yah''
and ``you betcha.''
 She said, ``Joel was always telling me, 'You don't have to look that
bad.'''
 But McDormand says she prefers to ``err on the side of truthfulness.''
 While she was acting pregnant on location in Minnesota, she and Coen
were adopting their son, Pedro, from Paraguay.
 McDormand met Joel Coen and his brother Ethan when she auditioned and
was cast in their first feature together, ``Blood Simple'' in 1984. She
later appeared in the Coens' comedy ``Raising Arizona.''
 In addition to ``Fargo,'' McDormand also was seen last year in
``Primal Fear'' and ``Lone Star.'' Her other screen credits include
``Short Cuts,'' ``The Butcher's Wife,'' and ``Mississippi Burning,'' for
which she received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination in 1988.
 She has two movies due in April: dramas ``Paradise Road'' and ``Talk
of Angels.''
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LOS ANGELES, USA, 24-MAR-97: Best Actor Geoffrey Rush (L) and Best
Actress Frances McDormand pose with their Oscars backstage at the
Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, March 24. Rush won for his
role in "Shine" and McDormand won for her role in "Fargo." [Photo by
Blake Sell, Reuters]
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