Renée Zellweger has won the Best Actress Academy Award at the 2020 Oscars Sunday night in Los Angeles for her celebrated turn as Judy Garland in “Judy.” Zellweger beat out Cynthia Erivo in “Harriet,” Scarlett Johansson in “Marriage Story,” Saoirse Ronan in “Little Women,” and Charlize Theron in “Bombshell” for tonight’s win. Her victory marks Zellweger’s second Academy Award win, as she previously received Best Supporting Actress for “Cold Mountain” in 2004. She also previously received Oscar nominations for “Bridget Jones’s Diary” in 2002 and “Chicago” in 2003.

Zellweger’s Oscar win arrives on the heels of a virtual awards-season sweep, having previously picked up the Ee BAFTA Award for Best Leading Actress, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, amid myriad other accolades along the way. Her...