Wood started acting at four years old and handled a co-featuring role in Wonder on 34th Street (1947) at eight years old. She was named for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as a young person for her work in Renegade Without a Cause (1955).
A retrospect of Natalie Wood’s Oscar-nominated performance
These three Oscar nominations for Natalie Wood are summarized below: Splendor in the Grass, Love with the Proper Stranger, and Rebel Without a Cause.
Rebel without a cause (1955)
Jim Stark (James Dean) is the new kid in town, attempting to break free from the troublemaking habits that drove his family to relocate. He befriends Plato (Sal Mineo), a classmate, and falls for Judy (Natalie Wood), the girlfriend of one of the rough guys at school. Natalie Wood made her cinematic debut in 1946 with Tomorrow Is Forever, and her role in Rebel Without a Cause came nine years later. Director Nicholas Ray initially thought she didn’t match the role of her wild teenage character because she was only known as a kid actress up to this time. Wood received her first Oscar nod for her work in that picture, which was also her lone nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category. She was defeated for East of Eden by an actress from another film starring her co-star James Dean, Jo Van Fleet. Wood won a Golden Globe for her performance as Most Promising Newcomer (Female) while losing the Academy Award that year.
Splendour in the grass (1961)
Natalie Wood’s profession took off in 1961 when she featured in West Side Story, which won numerous Oscars (counting Best Picture). Additionally, Splendour in the Grass gathered the star her most memorable Academy Award nomination in the Best Actress class. Her work in this picture was likewise a significant defining moment for her, as it served to restore her profession following a line of unremarkable movies. Her sensational exhibition in this film is without a doubt her best, procuring her the most praise in her profession, including Golden Globe and BAFTA nods for Best Actress.
Love with the proper stranger (1963)
Angie Rossini (Natalie Wood), a New York City sales clerk, realizes she’s pregnant after a one-night encounter with jazz artist Rocky Papasano (Steve McQueen). She tracks him down in the hopes that he will pay for her abortion. Rocky offers to assist her even though he doesn’t recognize her at first. In some weeks preceding the surgery, the two get to know one other better and develop deeper feelings for one another. Natalie Wood received her final Oscar nomination for her portrayal in Love with the Proper Stranger, two years after Splendour in the Grass. It also made Wood the second actress, after Teresa Wright, to receive three Oscar nominations before the age of 25. Angie was Wood’s most mature role to date, demonstrating how much her acting talent had evolved since she began her career at the age of eight. Despite losing the Oscar to Patricia Neal for Hud, Wood stated that working on this picture was “the most rewarding experience I had in all films, all the way around.”
Her demise
Authorities said the three actors had supper at Doug’s Harbour Reef restaurant in Two Harbours hours before her death and then returned to the yacht, named the Splendour. This was where they drank and Walken and Wagner argued. Wood went missing around midnight, according to the latest report, and an investigation of her stomach contents placed her death around that time. According to the report, Wagner made a radio call at 1:30 a.m. to report her missing.
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