List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
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]
As of 2021, 44 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn leads the way with four Best Actress awards.[4] Six have won three 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 was the first to receive three or more Academy Awards in 1940, followed by Hepburn in 1968, Bergman in 1974, Nicholson in 1997, Streep in 2011, Day-Lewis in 2012, and most recently McDormand in 2020. Of the seven, only Nicholson, Streep, McDormand, and Day-Lewis 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.
List[]
- † = deceased
| Actor/Actress | Best Actor/Actress Awards | Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards | Total awards | Total nominations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katharine Hepburn † | Morning Glory (1933) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) The Lion in Winter (1968) On Golden Pond (1981) |
4 | 12 | |
| Meryl Streep | Sophie's Choice (1982) The Iron Lady (2011) |
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | 3 | 21 |
| Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) As Good as It Gets (1997) |
Terms of Endearment (1983) | 3 | 12 |
| Ingrid Bergman † | Gaslight (1944) Anastasia (1956) |
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) | 3 | 7 |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot (1989) There Will Be Blood (2007) Lincoln (2012) |
3 | 6 | |
| Frances McDormand | Fargo (1996) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Nomadland (2020) |
3 | 6 | |
| Walter Brennan † | Come and Get It (1936) Kentucky (1938) The Westerner (1940) |
3 | 4 | |
| Bette Davis † | Dangerous (1935) Jezebel (1938) |
2 | 10 | |
| Spencer Tracy † | Captains Courageous (1937) Boys Town (1938) |
2 | 9 | |
| Marlon Brando † | On the Waterfront (1954) The Godfather (1972) |
2 | 8 | |
| Jack Lemmon † | Save the Tiger (1973) | Mister Roberts (1955) | 2 | 8 |
| Denzel Washington | Training Day (2001) | Glory (1989) | 2 | 8 |
| Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine (2013) | The Aviator (2004) | 2 | 7 |
| Robert De Niro | Raging Bull (1980) | The Godfather Part II (1974) | 2 | 7 |
| Jane Fonda | Klute (1971) Coming Home (1978) |
2 | 7 | |
| Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Rain Man (1988) |
2 | 7 | |
| Michael Caine | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) The Cider House Rules (1999) |
2 | 6 | |
| Tom Hanks | Philadelphia (1993) Forrest Gump (1994) |
2 | 6 | |
| Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) The Father (2020) |
2 | 6 | |
| Jessica Lange | Blue Sky (1994) | Tootsie (1982) | 2 | 6 |
| Maggie Smith | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) | California Suite (1978) | 2 | 6 |
| Gary Cooper † | Sergeant York (1941) High Noon (1952) |
2 | 5 | |
| Olivia de Havilland † | To Each His Own (1946) The Heiress (1949) |
2 | 5 | |
| Gene Hackman | The French Connection (1971) | Unforgiven (1992) | 2 | 5 |
| Fredric March † | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
2 | 5 | |
| Sean Penn | Mystic River (2003) Milk (2008) |
2 | 5 | |
| Elizabeth Taylor † | Butterfield 8 (1960) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) |
2 | 5 | |
| Jodie Foster | The Accused (1988) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
2 | 4 | |
| Glenda Jackson | Women in Love (1970) A Touch of Class (1973) |
2 | 4 | |
| Anthony Quinn † | Viva Zapata! (1952) Lust for Life (1956) |
2 | 4 | |
| Shelley Winters † | The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) A Patch of Blue (1965) |
2 | 4 | |
| Renée Zellweger | Judy (2019) | Cold Mountain (2003) | 2 | 4 |
| Melvyn Douglas † | Hud (1963) Being There (1979) |
2 | 3 | |
| Sally Field | Norma Rae (1979) Places in the Heart (1984) |
2 | 3 | |
| Jason Robards † | All the President's Men (1976) Julia (1977) |
2 | 3 | |
| Peter Ustinov † | Spartacus (1960) Topkapi (1964) |
2 | 3 | |
| Dianne Wiest | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Bullets over Broadway (1994) |
2 | 3 | |
| Mahershala Ali | Moonlight (2016) Green Book (2018) |
2 | 2 | |
| Helen Hayes † | The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) | Airport (1970) | 2 | 2 |
| Vivien Leigh † | Gone with the Wind (1939) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
2 | 2 | |
| Luise Rainer † | The Great Ziegfeld (1936) The Good Earth (1937) |
2 | 2 | |
| Kevin Spacey | American Beauty (1999) | The Usual Suspects (1995) | 2 | 2 |
| Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry (1999) Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
2 | 2 | |
| Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds (2009) Django Unchained (2012) |
2 | 2 |
See also[]
- List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories
- List of actors nominated for Academy Awards for foreign language performances
- List of directors with two or more Academy Awards for Best Director
- List of Academy Award records
References[]
- ^ "Acting Two or More Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 8, 2008. Archived from the original on March 8, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
- ^ "Rule 6 – 80th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 13, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Allen, Jamie (June 30, 2003). "Katharine Hepburn dead at 96". CNN. Archived from the original on March 23, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
- ^ "Jack Nicholson – Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2010. Archived from the original on May 29, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
- ^ "Ingrid Bergman – Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2007. Archived from the original on November 13, 2007. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
- ^ "Walter Brennan – Awards". Moviefone. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
External links[]
- The Official Academy Awards Database
- The Motion Picture Credits Database at the Wayback Machine (archived May 9, 2008)
- IMDb Academy Awards Page
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