Cotillard is the first actress to win a Golden Globe for a foreign language performance since 1972 , when Liv Ullmann won for '' The Emigrants '' . She is also the first person to win a ( Comedy or Musical ) Golden Globe for a foreign language performance . On 10 February 2008 , Cotillard became the first French actress to be awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role since Stéphane Audran in 1973 . At the Academy Awards , she won Best Actress , becoming the first woman and second person ( after Adrien Brody , '' The Pianist '' ) to win both a César and an Oscar for the same performance . Cotillard is the second French cinema actress to win this award and the third overall to receive an Academy Award after Simone Signoret in 1960 and Juliette Binoche in 1997 . She is the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since Sophia Loren 's win in 1961 . She is also the first and ( as of 2018 ) only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language
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Marion Cotillard