Question: Merely Mary Ann starred Janet Gaynor, recipient of the first Academy Award for Best Actress, which is awarded to honor what?
Context: Janet McTeer, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 5 August 1961) is an English actress.  In 1997, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Olivier Award for Best Actress and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her role as Nora in "A Doll's House" (1996–97).  She also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Mary Jo Walker in the 1999 film "Tumbleweeds", and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Hubert Page in the 2011 film "Albert Nobbs".  She was made an OBE in the 2008 Birthday Honours. The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1953 Technicolor musical comedy film starring Betty Grable.  The picture is a remake of the 1935 film of the same name which starred Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda.  Grable and Dale Robertson first appeared together in the movie "Call Me Mister" (1951). Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress and producer.  For her performance as Ada McGrath in the 1993 film "The Piano", she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, and the Cannes Best Actress Award.  She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for "Broadcast News" (1987), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Firm" (1993) and "Thirteen" (2003). The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).  It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. David Newell was primarily known as an American character actor, whose acting career spanned from the very beginning of the sound film era through the middle of the 1950s.  He made his film debut in a featured role in "The Hole in the Wall", a 1929 film starring Edward G. Robinson and Claudette Colbert.  Early in his career he had many featured roles, in such films as: RKO's "The Runaway Bride" in 1929, starring Mary Astor; 1931's "Ten Cents a Dance", starring Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Lionel Barrymore; and "White Heat" in 1934.  He would occasionally receive a starring role, as in 1930's "Just Like Heaven", which co-starred Anita Louise.  However, by the mid-1930s he was being relegated to mostly smaller supporting roles.  Some of the more notable films he appeared in include: "A Star is Born" (1937), which stars Janet Gaynor and Fredric March; "Blondie" (1938); the Bette Davis vehicle, "Dark Victory" (1939); "Day-Time Wife" (1939), starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell; "It's a Wonderful World" (1939), with James Stewart and Claudette Colbert; "Rings on Her Fingers" (1942), starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney; the Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore film, "Up in Arms" (1944), which also stars Dana Andrews; 1947's "Killer McCoy" with Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, and Ann Blyth; "Homecoming" (1948), starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, and Anne Baxter; "That Wonderful Urge" (1949), starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney; "David and Bathsheba" (1951), starring Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward; and Cecil B. DeMille's 1952 blockbuster, "The Greatest Show on Earth".  During his 25-year acting career, he appeared in over 110 films.  His final appearance in film was in 1954's "The Eddie Cantor Story", in which he had a small supporting role. Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.  His career spanned both silent films and talkies.  He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's "A Woman of Paris", in which he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's "The Marriage Circle"; "The Sheik" with Rudolph Valentino; "Morocco" with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and "A Star Is Born" with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.  He was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Front Page" in 1931. "Génesis" is the name given to the third studio album by the Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and actress, Mary Ann Acevedo, released in January 1, 2012 worldwide through digital download and in December 7, 2012 on compact disc.  Originally the album was confirmed for release in February 2010 as "El Amor es la Solución", but with the birth of her daughter, Mary Ann had to delay the departure of the album to April 2010; then GT Musik announced the album release was delayed for a few months.  She agreed that her homonymous first album was a continuation of her tenure in the third edition of "Objetivo Fama".  On that album, the songs were chosen when Mary Ann left the reality show; in December she was released a special production titled "Cántale a tu Bebé". Amy Adams is an American actress who made her film debut in the 1999 black comedy "Drop Dead Gorgeous".  She went on to guest star in a variety of television shows, including "That '70s Show", "Charmed", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "The Office", and also appeared in minor film roles.  In 2002, she had her first major role in Steven Spielberg's biographical crime drama "Catch Me If You Can".  However, the film did not launch her career as Spielberg had hoped.  Three years later, she made the breakthrough with the comedy-drama "Junebug" (2005), for which she received her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.  Adams also appeared in the romantic comedy "The Wedding Date" that same year.  In 2007, she starred in the Disney romantic comedy "Enchanted", for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical). Merely Mary Ann a 1931 pre-Code romantic comedy drama film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.  Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics "Seventh Heaven" (1927), "Street Angel" (1928), and "Lucky Star" (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's "Sunrise".  The film, involving an orphan (Gaynor) and a flat-broke composer (Farrell), was written by Jules Furthman from Israel Zangwill's play and directed by Henry King. Catherine Elise Blanchett, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director.  She has received international acclaim and many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, six AACTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film "Elizabeth", for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award, and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination.  Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's 2004 film "The Aviator" brought her critical acclaim and many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, making her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor.  In 2013, she starred as Jasmine Francis in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine", for which she won numerous accolades including the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Answer: an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry