If anyone scores Best Actress over front-runner Emma Stone at Sundays Oscars , itll probably be 63-year-old Elle star Isabelle Huppert . For some at home, it would make for the nights most exciting moment. For others, itll incite a shrug and a big ol Who?!

If youre in the latter camp, Im here to help. Its high time you know that Isabelle Huppert is a certified legend.

Shes Frances most decorated actress.

Huppert has more nominations (16) from the Csar Awards, Frances equivalent of the Oscars, than any other actress. (One more and shell tie record holder Grard Depardieu, her co-star from 1974s Going Places, 1980s Loulou and 2015s Valley of Love.) Phrased differently, Huppert is Frances Meryl Streep.

Really, Huppert and Streep have little in common apart from their prestige. Where Streep often plays outsized characters, Huppert is an actress of small proportions her performances are relatively restrained, even minimalistic. Roger Ebert described her characters as repressed, closed-off, sexually alert women who are not safe to scorn.

Despite her 45-year movie career and 46-year theater career, this is Hupperts first Oscar nomination. For fans, a win would double as a de facto lifetime achievement recognition.

Doing movies for me is like a vacation, Huppert said in 2014 . Stage for me is like climbing a big mountain, and movies for me is like doing a nice little walk.