After claiming more Grammys than she can carry, Beyoncé has now set her sights on an Oscar, which she hopes to win by making a film about the life of Saartjie Baartman. The UK's The Sun newspaper reports that the Drunk in Love singer has assembled a team of acting coaches and writers who will help her put together her film about Baartman, a Khoi woman who became the main attraction at a freak show in early 19th-century Europe.The singer plans to take the lead role in the film.Beyoncé has acted before. She made her film debut in 2002 as Foxxy Cleopatra in Goldmember.But it was her performance in 2006's Dreamgirls that garnered praise.Despite this she was pipped at the post when her co-star, Jennifer Hudson, walked away with the Oscar for best actress in a supporting role.Now she's hoping to earn respect from the film industry and telling Baartman's story could be the answer.Baartman, who was nicknamed the "Hottentot Venus", was displayed half naked in a cage in Europe as an oddity.Europeans at the time were fascinated by her large buttocks. Later she travelled to Paris, where she fell into prostitution and alcoholism. She died in December 1815.Georges Cuvier, professor of comparative anatomy at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, dissected her body and put it on display.She has become an icon in post-apartheid South Africa and President Nelson Mandela, asked France to return her remains.Baartman was repatriated in 2002 and was buried near Hankey, in Eastern Cape...