Is age just a number? Oscar winners are getting older, analysis reveals

A best actress Oscar win for Glenn Close would come 37 years after her 1982 breakthrough role in The World According to Garp. But Guardian analysis suggests that she is not the only one waiting

How long is too long? If Glenn Close, as she is widely tipped to do, wins the best actress Oscar for her performance in The Wife at the 91st Academy Awards, it will mark the end of a 37-year wait for the industry’s top honour.

Close, who has been nominated six times previously, made a splash with her breakthrough role in 1982 in The World According to Garp, adapted from the John Irving novel. She was nominated for best supporting actress that year, but lost to Jessica Lange for Tootsie.

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