A six-time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir 1975 , and Best Actress nominations for Some Came Running 1958 , The Apartment 1960 , Irma la Douce 1963 , and The Turning Point 1977 , before winning Best Actress for Terms of Endearment 1983.
She received a part in the chorus for Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and then, a year later, the starring role in the duo's Oklahoma! DeMille Award at the 1998 ceremony.
It was work, which she left behind each day when she returned to her roles as wife and mother.