Jodie Foster is amazed at her nomination for Oscar again, 47 years after Taxi Driver

Acclaimed actress-filmmaker Jodie Foster finds it ‘cool’ that there has been 47 years between her first Oscar nomination for Taxi Driver and her most recent for Nyad.

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The 61-year-old actress was recently shortlisted for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role accolade for her work on Nyad, a biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad’s multiple attempts in the early 2010s to swim the Straits of Florida, with flashbacks to her early life. Jodie, whose first nomination was for Taxi Driver in 1976, said, “Oh, really. That’s cool, I like that statistic. Look, I worked in the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, the noughts, the tens and the twenties… That’s amazing, all those different eras.”

The True Detective actress became the youngest double Oscar winner in history when she was 29, taking Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Accused in 1988 and Silence of the Lambs in 1991. She appreciated the freedom of being able to take her career in her own direction, including choosing more unorthodox roles and directing her first movie, Little Man Tate.

Jodie, who was also nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Nell in 1994, was just six years old when she began her acting career.