Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which film earned Cher her Academy Award for Best Actress?"
On this day in 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the actress and singer Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Moonstruck. Directed by Norman Jewison, the film featured Cher as a widow who falls in love with her fiance’s brother (played by Nicolas Cage). Cher remains an icon of pop culture and is one of the best-selling music artists in history. She is also the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s.