Original sentence: After Simone Signoret in 1959, Marion Cotillard is the second French cinema actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress, though French expatriate Claudette Colbert was given an Oscar in 1934.Cotillard has also been cast to play Luisa Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Nine, alongside fellow Academy Award winner Javier Bardem, Academy Award nominee Penelope Cruz, and Academy Award winning Italian film legend Sophia Loren.On February 22, 2008 she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress, and two days later she received the Academy Award for Best Actress.She is also the first and so far only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language.She is the first Best Actress winner in a non-English language performance since Sophia Loren's win in 1961
Edited sentence: Also, after fellow Frenchwoman Simone Signoret in 1959, Marion Cotillard is the second French cinema actress to win an Academy Award, though French expatriate Claudette Colbert was given an Oscar in 1934.. She is also the first and so far only winner of an Academy Award for a performance in the French language.Cotillard has also been cast to play Luisa Contini in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Nine, alongside Italian film legend Academy Award winner Sophia Loren, Academy Award nominee Penelope Cruz, and Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman and Academy Award winner Dame Judi Dench.In her speech she became tearful, thanking Édith Piaf's best friend and personal secretary of fifteen years, Ginou, for sharing with their many years of companionship together.On February 22, 2008 she was awarded the César Award for Best Actress in Paris, the highest acting award of her native France.Two days later, in an event unseen since 1961, when the great Sophia Loren won for her Italian language performance in Two Women, Marion Cotillard triumphantly ascended the stage of the Kodak Theater to recieve her first Academy Award for Best Actress, defeating her greatest adversary throughout the entire awards season, Julie Christie in Away From Her