List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees. This list is current as of the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, which will be held on April 25, 2021.

Best Picture[]

Superlative	Film	Record Set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Ben-Hur	11 awards	1959	11 awards    |    12 nominations
	Titanic		1997	11 awards    |    14 nominations
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King		2003	11 awards    |    11 nominations
Most Nominations	All About Eve	14 nominations	1950	6 awards    |    14 nominations
	Titanic		1997	11 awards    |    14 nominations
	La La Land		2016	6 awards    |    14 nominations
Longest Winner	Gone with the Wind	3 hours 54 minutes	1939	8 awards    |    13 nominations
Longest Nominee	Cleopatra	4 hours 2 minutes	1963	4 awards    |    9 nominations
Shortest Winner	Marty	1 hour 28 minutes	1955	4 awards    |    8 nominations
Shortest Nominee	She Done Him Wrong	1 hour 6 minutes	1933	0 awards    |    1 nomination
Most Awards (Producer)	Sam Spiegel	3 awards	1962	3 awards    |    4 nominations
	Saul Zaentz	3 awards	1996	3 awards    |    3 nominations
Most Nominations (Producer)	Steven Spielberg	10 nominations	2018	1 award    |    10 nominations
Most Awards (Studio)	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	5 awards	1942	5 awards    |    40 nominations
Most Nominations (Studio)		40 nominations	1950	5 awards    |    40 nominations

Best Director[]

Superlative	Director	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	John Ford	4 awards	1935, 1940, 1941, 1952	Awards resulted from 5 nominations
Most Nominations	William Wyler	12 nominations	1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965	Nominations resulted in 3 awards
Oldest Winner	Clint Eastwood	74 years old	2004	Million Dollar Baby
Oldest Nominee	John Huston	79 years old	1985	Prizzi's Honor
Youngest Winner	Damien Chazelle	32 years old	2016	La La Land
Youngest Nominee	John Singleton	24 years old	1991	Boyz n the Hood

Best Original Screenplay[]

Superlative	Writer	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Woody Allen	3 awards	1977, 1986, 2011	Awards resulted from 16 nominations
Most Nominations		16 nominations	1977, 1978, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2005, 2011, 2013	Nominations resulted in 3 awards
Oldest Winner		76 years old	2011	Midnight in Paris
Youngest Winner	Ben Affleck	25 years old	1997	Good Will Hunting. Co-wrote with Matt Damon, 27 years old.

Best Actor in a Leading Role[]

Superlative	Actor	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Daniel Day-Lewis	3 awards	1989, 2007, 2012	Awards resulted from 6 nominations
Most Nominations	Spencer Tracy	9 nominations	1936, 1937, 1938, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1967	Nominations resulted in 2 awards
	Laurence Olivier		1939, 1940, 1946, 1948, 1956, 1960, 1965, 1972, 1978	Nominations resulted in 1 award.
Oldest Winner	Anthony Hopkins	83 years old	2020/2021	The Father
Oldest Nominee
Youngest Winner	Adrien Brody	29 years old	2002	The Pianist
Youngest Nominee	Jackie Cooper	9 years old	1930/1931	Skippy

Best Actress in a Leading Role[]

Superlative	Actress	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Katharine Hepburn	4 awards	1932/1933, 1967, 1968, 1981	Awards resulted from 12 nominations
Most Nominations	Meryl Streep	17 nominations	1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017	Nominations resulted in 2 awards
Oldest Winner	Jessica Tandy	80 years old	1989	Driving Miss Daisy
Oldest Nominee	Emmanuelle Riva	85 years old	2012	Amour
Youngest Winner	Marlee Matlin	21 years old	1986	Children of a Lesser God
Youngest Nominee	Quvenzhané Wallis	9 years old	2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Actor in a Supporting Role[]

Superlative	Actor	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Walter Brennan	3 awards	1936, 1938, 1940	Awards resulted from 4 nominations
Most Nominations		4 nominations	1936, 1938, 1940, 1941	Nominations resulted in 3 awards
	Jack Nicholson		1969, 1981, 1983, 1992	Nominations resulted in 1 award.
	Claude Rains		1939, 1943, 1944, 1946	Nominations resulted in no awards
	Arthur Kennedy		1949, 1955, 1957, 1958
	Robert Duvall		1972, 1979, 1998, 2014
	Jeff Bridges		1971, 1974, 2000, 2016
	Al Pacino		1972, 1990, 1992, 2019
Oldest Winner	Christopher Plummer	82 years old	2011	Beginners
Oldest Nominee		88 years old	2017	All the Money in the World
Youngest Winner	Timothy Hutton	20 years old	1980	Ordinary People
Youngest Nominee	Justin Henry	8 years old	1979	Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actress in a Supporting Role[]

Superlative	Actress	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Shelley Winters	2 awards	1959, 1965	Awards resulted from 3 nominations
	Dianne Wiest		1986, 1994	Awards resulted from 3 nominations
Most Nominations	Thelma Ritter	6 nominations	1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1962	Nominations resulted in no awards
Oldest Winner	Peggy Ashcroft	77 years old	1984	A Passage to India
Oldest Nominee	Gloria Stuart	87 years old	1997	Titanic
Youngest Winner	Tatum O'Neal	10 years old	1973	Paper Moon
Youngest Nominee

Combined Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role[]

Superlative	Actor	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Walter Brennan	3 awards	1936, 1938, 1940	Awards resulted from 4 nominations
	Jack Nicholson		1975, 1983, 1997	Awards resulted from 12 nominations
	Daniel Day-Lewis		1989, 2007, 2012	Awards resulted from 6 nominations
Most Nominations	Jack Nicholson	12 nominations - 8 for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and 4 for Best Supporting Actor	1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002	Nominations resulted in 3 awards

Combined Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role[]

Superlative	Actress	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Katharine Hepburn	4 awards for Best Actress	1932/1933, 1967, 1968, 1981	Awards resulted from 12 nominations
Most Nominations	Meryl Streep	21 nominations – 17 for Best Actress, and 4 for Best Supporting Actress	1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017	Nominations resulted in 3 awards

Note: Walt Disney is the highest earning individual with wins and nominations in any category in the Academy Awards, with fifty-nine nominations and twenty-two Oscar wins (as well as four Honorary Awards), including a record four in one year.

Performances of the Same Character[]

Performances of the same characters portrayed by different actors who gather them nominations and/or wins.

Character	Actor	Movie	Year	Status
Chuck O'Malley	Bing Crosby	Going My Way	1944	Won
		The Bells of St. Mary's	1945	Nominated
Henry Higgins	Leslie Howard	Pygmalion	1938	Nominated
	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady	1964	Won
Henry II of England	Peter O'Toole	Becket	1964	Nominated
		The Lion in Winter	1968	Nominated
Arthur Chipping	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	1939	Won
	Peter O'Toole	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	1969	Nominated
King Henry VIII	Charles Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII	1933	Won
	Robert Shaw	A Man for All Seasons	1966	Nominated
	Richard Burton	Anne of the Thousand Days	1969	Nominated
Joe Pendleton	Robert Montgomery	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	1941	Nominated
	Warren Beatty	Heaven Can Wait	1978	Nominated
Eddie Felson	Paul Newman	The Hustler	1961	Nominated
		The Color of Money	1986	Won
Henry V	Laurence Olivier	Henry V	1944	Nominated
	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	1989	Nominated
Cyrano de Bergerac	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	1950	Won
	Gérard Depardieu	Cyrano de Bergerac	1990	Nominated
Richard Nixon	Anthony Hopkins	Nixon	1995	Nominated
	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon	2008	Nominated
Rooster Cogburn	John Wayne	True Grit	1969	Won
	Jeff Bridges	True Grit	2010	Nominated
Abraham Lincoln	Raymond Massey	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	1940	Nominated
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	2012	Won
Vincent van Gogh	Kirk Douglas	Lust for Life	1956	Nominated
	Willem Dafoe	At Eternity's Gate	2018	Nominated
Vito Corleone	Marlon Brando	The Godfather	1972	Won
	Robert De Niro	The Godfather Part II	1973	Won
Rose Dewitt Bukater	Kate Winslet	Titanic	1997	Nominated
	Gloria Stewart			Nominated
Iris Murdoch	Kate Winslet	Iris	2001	Nominated
	Judi Dench			Nominated
Joker	Heath Ledger	The Dark Knight	2008	Won
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	2019	Won

See also[]

• List of Academy Award records
• List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees

External links[]

• Oscars.org Official site
• Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees