DIANE LADD Award Winning Actress, Producer, & Author Diane Ladd - actress, director, writer, author and producer is a 3x Emmy and 3x Oscar nominee Emmy and 3xOscar nominee and the winner of twenty seven international awards, including the British Academy Award, the Independent Spirit Award and the Eleanor Duse Award. Three time Oscar nominee. Much like the Barrymore's, Hollywood's First Family, the Ladd-Dern Dynasty throughout the twentieth century has built a strong legacy. The multi award winning trio, Diane Ladd, Laura Dern and Bruce Dern, known as the Ladd – Dern Dynasty leads our modern art cultural into a new era. Ladd received her "STAR" on the Hollywood ?Walk of Fame" along with her ex-husband Bruce Dern and Daughter Laura Dern, marking the first time in Hollywood's history a Mother, Father and Daughter in tandem have been honored.