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Which people won the Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor for the 1996 film year?

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At the 69th Academy Awards, the top acting honors went to two vastly different but equally memorable performances. Frances McDormand took home her first Oscar for her role as the unflappable and very pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson in the Coen Brothers' darkly comic thriller, *Fargo (Review)*. Her counterpart in the Best Actor category was Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who earned his award for portraying the brilliant but troubled concert pianist David Helfgott in the biopic *Shine*.

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