1959
In Suddenly Last Summer she received five hundred thousand dollars (the most ever earned by an actress for eight weeks of work) and another Academy Award nomination. Taylor and fisher married.
1960
Taylor turned in one of her best performances in Butterfield 8, for which she won an Oscar as Best Actress.
1961
she signed with 20th Century-Fox for $1 million for the film Cleopatra, also starring Richard Burton (1925–1984). The two stars were soon romancing off the set as well as on, leading to criticism from the Vatican, which referred to the two stars as "adult children."