List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories

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Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award. Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph.jpg
Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for their performances in films since its inception. Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, there have been actors and actresses who have received multiple Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, or Best Supporting Actress. [1] The only restriction is that actors cannot receive multiple nominations for the same performance. [2] This rule was implemented after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way . [3]

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As of 2024, 45 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn holds the record with four Oscars (all Best Actress). [4] . Six have won three acting Academy Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor awards), Frances McDormand (three Best Actress awards), Meryl Streep (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award), Jack Nicholson (two Best Actor awards and one Best Supporting Actor award), [5] Ingrid Bergman (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award), [6] and Walter Brennan (three Best Supporting Actor awards). [7] Brennan became the first to receive three or more Academy Awards (winning the third in 1940), followed by Hepburn (1968), Bergman (1974), Nicholson (1997), Streep (2011), Day-Lewis (2012), and, most recently, McDormand (2020). Of the seven, only Nicholson, Streep, Day-Lewis, and McDormand are still living.

While there is no restriction on a performer winning the Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress awards in the same year for two roles in two movies, this has yet to happen—although there have been occasions where performers have been nominated for both in the same year.

List

Actor/ActressBest Actor/Actress AwardsBest Supporting Actor/Actress AwardsTotal awardsTotal nominations
Katharine Hepburn † Morning Glory (1933)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
On Golden Pond (1981)		412
Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Iron Lady (2011)		 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)321
Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
As Good as It Gets (1997)		 Terms of Endearment (1983)312
Ingrid Bergman † Gaslight (1944)
Anastasia (1956)		 Murder on the Orient Express (1974)37
Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Foot (1989)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Lincoln (2012)		36
Frances McDormand Fargo (1996)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Nomadland (2020)		36
Walter Brennan † Come and Get It (1936)
Kentucky (1938)
The Westerner (1940)		34
Bette Davis † Dangerous (1935)
Jezebel (1938)		210
Spencer Tracy † Captains Courageous (1937)
Boys Town (1938)		29
Denzel Washington Training Day (2001) Glory (1989)29
Marlon Brando † On the Waterfront (1954)
The Godfather (1972)		28
Jack Lemmon † Save the Tiger (1973) Mister Roberts (1955)28
Robert De Niro Raging Bull (1980) The Godfather Part II (1974)28
Cate Blanchett Blue Jasmine (2013) The Aviator (2004)28
Jane Fonda Klute (1971)
Coming Home (1978)		27
Dustin Hoffman Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Rain Man (1988)		27
Tom Hanks Philadelphia (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)		26
Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Father (2020)		26
Jessica Lange Blue Sky (1994) Tootsie (1982)26
Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) California Suite (1978)26
Michael Caine Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The Cider House Rules (1999)		26
Fredric March † Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)		25
Gary Cooper † Sergeant York (1941)
High Noon (1952)		25
Jodie Foster The Accused (1988)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)		25
Elizabeth Taylor † BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)		25
Sean Penn Mystic River (2003)
Milk (2008)		25
Olivia de Havilland † To Each His Own (1946)
The Heiress (1949)		25
Gene Hackman The French Connection (1971) Unforgiven (1992)25
Glenda Jackson † Women in Love (1970)
A Touch of Class (1973)		24
Emma Stone La La Land (2016)
Poor Things (2023)		24
Renée Zellweger Judy (2019) Cold Mountain (2003)24
Anthony Quinn † Viva Zapata! (1952)
Lust for Life (1956)		24
Shelley Winters † The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
A Patch of Blue (1965)		24
Sally Field Norma Rae (1979)
Places in the Heart (1984)		23
Melvyn Douglas † Hud (1963)
Being There (1979)		23
Peter Ustinov † Spartacus (1960)
Topkapi (1964)		23
Jason Robards † All the President's Men (1976)
Julia (1977)		23
Dianne Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Bullets over Broadway (1994)		23
Luise Rainer † The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The Good Earth (1937)		22
Vivien Leigh † Gone with the Wind (1939)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)		22
Hilary Swank Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)		22
Helen Hayes † The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) Airport (1970)22
Kevin Spacey American Beauty (1999) The Usual Suspects (1995)22
Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Django Unchained (2012)		22
Mahershala Ali Moonlight (2016)
Green Book (2018)		22

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  2. ↑ "Rule 6 – 80th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 13, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Persons nominated in two acting categories in the same year". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 8, 2008. Archived from the original on January 12, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  4. ↑ Allen, Jamie (June 30, 2003). "Katharine Hepburn dead at 96". CNN. Archived from the original on March 23, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
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