Holly Hunter is a person.
Holly Hunter . For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 film The Piano , she won the Academy Award for Best Actress , BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role , AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role , Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Drama , and the Cannes Best Actress Award . She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Broadcast News ( 1987 ) , and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Firm ( 1993 ) and Thirteen ( 2003 ) . A seven-time Emmy Award nominee , Hunter won Emmys for Roe vs. Wade ( 1989 ) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom ( 1993 ) . Her other film roles include Raising Arizona ( 1987 ) , Always ( 1989 ) , Copycat ( 1995 ) , Crash ( 1996 ) , O Brother , Where Art Thou ?