- One of only a few performers to receive an Oscar-nomination for their movie debut, as Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Great White Hope (1970), and one of even fewer performers to receive an Oscar-nomination the same role in which they had already received Broadway's Tony-award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "The Great White Hope" (1969), on stage, one year earlier.
- Portrayed Sara Delano Roosevelt, the mother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs (2005), for which she won the Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, almost 30 years after her most famous role, portraying Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the made-for-TV films Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977), both of which brought her Emmy nominations as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special.
- Won Broadway's 1969 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "The Great White Hope," a role she recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in a film of the same name, The Great White Hope (1970). Since winning the 1969 Tony, she has received six additional Tony nominations: as Best Actress (Dramatic), in 1973 for "6 Rms Riv Vu," and in 1974 for "Find Your Way Home;" as Best Actress (Play), in 1979 for "First Monday in October," in 1992, for a revival of "The Visit," in 1993, for "The Sisters Rosensweig," and in 1998 for "Honour.".
- Received an Honorary Degree from Smith College in Northampton, MA. (1999)
- As of 2022, she has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: All the President's Men (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and The Cider House Rules (1999). Of those, only Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) won Best Picture. All three are winners in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
- Named to Chair the National Endowment for the Arts by President Bill Clinton in August 1993.
- Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1988.
- Mother of Jace Alexander.
- She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: All the President's Men (1976).
- Was the commencement speaker for Duke University's Class of 1996.
- Was the Commencement speaker for Bennington College's Class of 1997.
- Was the Commencement speaker for Smith College's Class of 1999.
- Mother-in-law of Maddie Corman.
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