 Following her Best Actress win at the 2002 Oscars,  Halle Berry (qv) became the first Academy Award winner to be a  leading Bond Girl in the EON Productions official series. Although  only just. She won the award while shooting this movie.  Kim Basinger (qv) who played Domino in the unofficial  _Never Say Never Again (1983)_ (qv)) won her Oscar for  _L.A. Confidential (1997)_ (qv) long after she had been a Bond Girl.  Judi Dench (qv) who plays M also has an Oscar from  _Shakespeare in Love (1998)_ (qv).