A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Her health issues did not get in the way of another strong performance with Neal winning a Golden Globe for her performance. A Face in the Crowd (1957 directed by Elia Kazan) The Miracle Worker (1959 directed by Arthur Penn) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961 co-starring George Peppard) and finally the critical and commercial hit Hud (1963) directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman which also happened to garnered Neal her one and only Academy Award for Best Actress. She returned to the big screen in The Subject Was Roses (1968) for which Patricia Neal was nominated for an Academy Award.

She was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963) for which Patricia Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Patricia Neal (January 20 1926 – August 8 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen.