It's been over 40 years since the 1974 Academy Awards, when Tatum O'Neal, then age 10, won Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon, making her the youngest Oscar winner in history - a title that she still holds. Tatum took time off from acting in the '80s and '90s to focus on raising her three kids (and to deal with ongoing drug problems), and even ( Read more... )

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards
Held February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. Hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway.


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Film: The Bad News Bears (1976). Young Actress: Tatum O'Neal, 12.

This '70s classic recounts the misadventures of the Bears, a baseball team of talentless, reject kids, reluctantly coached by a boozehound of a former pitcher, Coach Buttermaker (Walter Matthau), who now makes a living cleaning swimming pools. When he realizes just how bad the team ( Read more... )

In honor of the Academy Awards tomorrow, here's a list of all the young actresses who have been given, nominated for, or won Oscars over the years. Click on the cuts to read their reactions to the news and their memories of the ceremony.

• Shirley Temple - Recipient: Honorary Award, 1935. Age: 6 - Youngest person to receive an Oscar. ( Read more... )

This is an old news item, but I wanted to post it because Tatum and Dakota are playing mother and daughter in their next film, The Runaways, which is scheduled for release in spring 2010. The trailer for the film is out, and you can view it here. But best of all, a photo has surfaced of Tatum and Dakota together on the set. I cannot wait to see ( Read more... )

Here's our great big breakdown of young actresses who smoked cigarettes (or rather, pretended to) on film or TV. Please let us know in comments if we've forgotten any.


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It's old news, but I only discovered it yesterday. (How didn't I know about this sooner??)

Tatum O’Neal has been cast as Dakota Fanning’s mom in her new film The Runaways.

I always love it when former young actresses work with current ones. Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin in Nim's Island are a good example; there was a lot of buzz about the two ( Read more... )

Vanity Fair magazine recently did a series of photoshoots recreating scenes from movies made during or set in the Great Depression. Among them was Paper Moon, starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal -- a great movie, and one of my all-time favorite performances from a young actress. Chosen to recreate Tatum's role was current young actress Elle Fanning.

At ( Read more... )