‘Nomadland’ actor Frances McDormand joined an elite group of
Hollywood’s successful actors on Sunday, after receiving her third Oscar and situating
herself alongside the likes of Meryl Streep, Ingrid Bergman, and Katharine
Hepburn, reported AFP.

While Meryl Streep and Bergman have won three Oscars each,
and will be levelled alongside McDormand, Hepburn has won fourth and alone occupies
the pinnacle.

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“I have no words. My voice is in my sword. We know the
sword is our work. And I like work. Thank you for knowing that. And thanks for
this,” McDormand was quoted by AFP as saying to the audience present in the
Union Station in Los Angeles, which acted as one of the venues for Oscars.

McDormand becomes the seventh actor, and the fourth woman
after Streep, Bergman and Hepburn, to achieve the feat.

Fern, the character McDormand plays in ‘Nomadland’, is the
latest in a series of tough, long-suffering women played by the actor, who, as
per the plot, leaves her hometown of Empire, Nevada after the death of her
husband as a local plant closing down forces the entire population to leave.

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Reportedly, Fern’s exile is symbolic of the Great Recession of
the late 2000s, and to some extent, the much more recent coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s a great document of a very specific time in our
world. Everybody’s hitting the road”, McDormand was quoted by AFP as saying regarding
the theme of the film.

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Her last Academy Award came three years ago, in 2018, for
the film ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’.