List of Academy Award records

This is a list of Academy Award records. This list is current as of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony held on February 27, 2011.

Most awards

• Most awards won by a single film
  • Three films won 11 Academy Awards. They are:
    • Ben-Hur (1959)
    • Titanic (1997)
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

• Most nominations received by a single film
  • Two films received 14 nominations. They are:
    • All About Eve (1950)
    • Titanic (1997)

• Highest Sweep (Winning every nominated category)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won all 11 categories for which it was nominated: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Visual Effects

• Most awards won by a man
  • Walt Disney won 26 Oscars (22 competitive, 4 honorary). He also won the most Oscars in one year, with 4.

• Most awards won by a woman
  • Costume designer Edith Head won 8 Oscars.

• Most awards won by a person who is still living
  • Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won 9 Academy Awards: 6 competitive awards, 2 "Special Achievement" awards, and 1 "Technical Achievement" award

• Most competitive awards won by a person who is still living
  • Composer Alan Menken has won 8 competitive Academy Awards.

• Directing
  • John Ford won the most directing awards, with 4

• Acting
  • Katharine Hepburn won 4 Academy Awards (all for Best Actress)
  • Three other actors have each won three Academy Awards:
    • Ingrid Bergman (2 Best Actress, 1 Best Supporting Actress)
    • Jack Nicholson (2 Best Actor, 1 Best Supporting Actor)
    • Walter Brennan (3 Best Supporting Actor)

• Cinematography
  • The highest number of Academy Awards won by any cinematographer is 4. They are:
    • Joseph Ruttenberg, in 1938, 1942, 1956 and 1958
    • Leon Shamroy, in 1942, 1944, 1945 and 1963

• Art Direction
  • Cedric Gibbons, who designed the Oscar statuette, won 11 awards out of a total of 39 nominations.

• Makeup
  • Rick Baker won 7 Academy Awards (all for Best Makeup)

Most nominated movies without Best Picture nominations

Annual	Year	Film	Awards	Noms	Milestone
21st	1948	Joan of Arc	2	7	First film to receive 7 nominations without receiving a Best Picture nomination
22nd	1949	Come to the Stable	0	7
33rd	1960	Pepe	0	7
36th	1963	Hud	3	7
37th	1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	0	7	First horror film to receive at least 7 nominations
39th	1966	Hawaii	0	7
40th	1967	Thoroughly Modern Millie	1	7
41st	1968	Star!	0	7
42nd	1969	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	1	9	Film that received the most competitive nominations (9) without being nominated for Best Picture
45th	1972	The Poseidon Adventure	2	8	Film received 8 competitive nominations (won 1) and was awarded a non-competitive Special Achievement Oscar (Visual Effects)
50th	1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	2	8	Film received 8 competitive nominations (won 1) and was awarded a non-competitive Special Achievement Oscar (Sound Effects Editing)
54th	1981	Ragtime	0	8
55th	1982	Victor/Victoria	1	7
59th	1986	Aliens	2	7
63rd	1990	Dick Tracy	3	7	First film based on a comic book, comic strip, or graphic novel to receive an Academy Award nomination for acting (Best Supporting Actor)
67th	1994	Bullets Over Broadway	1	7
76th	2003	Cold Mountain	1	7
79th	2006	Dreamgirls	2	8	Only film not nominated for Best Picture to receive more nominations than any other film in its year.
81st	2008	The Dark Knight	2	8

Awards for debut acting or directing performances on film

• Best Actress
  • Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952)
  • Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964)
  • Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, 1968)
  • Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God, 1986)

• Best Supporting Actor
  • Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields, 1984)
  • Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946)

• Best Supporting Actress
  • Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse, 1936)
  • Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943)
  • Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men, 1949)
  • Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
  • Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
  • Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973)
  • Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993)
  • Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006)

• Academy Juvenile Award
  • Claude Jarman, Jr. (The Yearling, 1946)
  • Vincent Winter (The Little Kidnappers, 1954)

• Best Director
  • Delbert Mann (Marty, 1955)
  • Jerome Robbins (West Side Story, 1961)
  • Robert Redford (Ordinary People, 1980)
  • James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, 1983)
  • Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, 1990)
  • Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999)

Big Five winners

Three films have received the so-called Big Five Academy Awards (best picture, director, actor, actress, and writing):

• It Happened One Night (1934)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Most consecutive awards

• Best Actress
  • Two actresses have won two consecutive awards. They are:
    • Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936 and The Good Earth, 1937)
    • Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967 and The Lion in Winter, 1968)

• Best Actor
  • Two actors have won two consecutive awards. They are:
    • Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous, 1937 and Boys Town, 1938)
    • Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, 1993 and Forrest Gump, 1994)

• Best Director
  • Two directors have won two consecutive awards. They are:
    • John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 and How Green Was My Valley, 1941)
    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives, 1949 and All About Eve, 1950)

• Best Supporting Actor
  • Jason Robards won two consecutive awards for All the President's Men in 1976 and Julia in 1977

• Best Picture
  • David O. Selznick won two consecutive awards for producing Best Picture winners Gone with the Wind in 1939 and Rebecca in 1940.

• Best Original Screenplay
  • No consecutive winner for Best Original Screenplay

• Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz won two consecutive adapted screenplay awards for A Letter to Three Wives in 1949 and All About Eve in 1950.
  • Robert Bolt won for Doctor Zhivago in 1965 and A Man for All Seasons in 1966.

• Best Cinematography
  • John Toll won for Legends of the Fall in 1994 and Braveheart in 1995.

• Best Original Score
  • Roger Edens won 3 consecutive awards for composing the scores for Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), and Annie Get Your Gun (1950).
  • Eight composers have won 2 consecutive awards; two of them have done so on two different occasions. They are:
    • Ray Heindorf (Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942 and This Is the Army, 1943)
    • Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard, 1950 and A Place in the Sun, 1951)
    • Alfred Newman (twice)
      • With a Song in My Heart, 1952 and Call Me Madam, 1953
      • Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, 1955 and The King and I, 1956
    • Adolph Deutsch (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1954 and Oklahoma!, 1955)
    • André Previn (twice)
      • Gigi, 1958 and Porgy and Bess, 1959
      • Irma la Douce, 1963 and My Fair Lady, 1964
    • Leonard Rosenman (Barry Lyndon, 1975, and Bound for Glory, 1976)
    • Alan Menken (Beauty and The Beast, 1991 and Aladdin, 1992)
    • Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, 2005 and Babel, 2006).

Academy award firsts

• First Asian and non-Caucasian to win a directing award
  • Ang Lee (from Taiwan) won Best Director for Brokeback Mountain (2005).

• First person to accrue ten Oscar nominations
  • Bette Davis received her tenth Oscar nomination for Best Actress for the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

• First woman to win Best Director
  • Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2009)

• First woman to win Best Picture
  • Julia Phillips for The Sting (1973)

• First 3-D films to be nominated for Best Picture
  • Avatar and Up (2009)

• First fantasy film to win Best Picture
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

• First animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991)

• First animated film to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay
  • Toy Story

• First animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
  • Waltz with Bashir representing Israel (2008)

• First film to have the most Oscar nominations of its year without having a Best Picture nomination
  • Dreamgirls (2006), with eight nominations

• First X-rated film to win for Best Picture
  • Midnight Cowboy (1969). It was also the first X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture.

• First Middle-Eastern actor to be nominated
  • Omar Sharif (from Egypt) for Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

• First posthumous nomination for acting
  • Jeanne Eagels, nominated for Best Actress in 1929 for The Letter.

• First posthumous nomination for a male actor
  • James Dean, nominated for Best Actor in 1956 for East of Eden.

• First posthumous win for acting
  • Peter Finch, who won for Network (1976).

• First actress to win for performing in a language other than English
  • Sophia Loren for Two Women (1960), performing in Italian.

• First actor to win for performing in a language other than English
  • Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974), performing in Sicilian.

• First African to win an acting award
  • Charlize Theron (from South Africa) won Best Actress for Monster (2003).

• First African man to be nominated for acting
  • Omar Sharif (from Egypt) for Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

• First Australian actress to win for acting in a lead role
  • Nicole Kidman won Best Actress for The Hours (2002).

• First black actress to win for acting
  • Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for Gone With the Wind (1939).

• First black actor to win for acting
  • Sidney Poitier won Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963).

• First black actress to win for acting in a lead role
  • Halle Berry won Best Actress for Monster's Ball (2001).

• First child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination
  • Jackie Cooper, age 9, was nominated for Best Actor for Skippy (1931).

• First Academy Award given for Best Makeup
  • Rick Baker won Best Makeup for An American Werewolf In London (1982).

Age-related records

• Youngest winner of an acting award
  • Tatum O'Neal, age 10 (Best Supporting Actress, Paper Moon, 1973)

• Youngest nominee of an acting award
  • Justin Henry, age 8 (Best Supporting Actor, Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979)

• Youngest winner of an Oscar
  • Shirley Temple, age 6, who was awarded the inaugural (now retired) non-competitive Academy Juvenile Award in 1934.

• Youngest nominee for Best Director
  • John Singleton, age 24 (Boyz n the Hood, 1991)

• Oldest winner of an acting award
  • Jessica Tandy, age 80 (Best Actress, Driving Miss Daisy, 1989)

• Oldest nominee of an acting award
  • Gloria Stuart, age 87 (Best Supporting Actress, Titanic, 1997)

Film records

• Most nominations for a single film
  • Two films received 14 nominations. They are:
    • All About Eve (1950)
    • Titanic (1997)

• Most Oscars without winning Best Picture
  • Cabaret won 8 awards (1972)

• Most nominations without any wins
  • Two films received 11 nominations without winning any awards. They are:
    • The Turning Point (1977)
    • The Color Purple (1985)

• Most nominations without a Best Picture nomination
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) with 9 nominations.

• Most Oscars without a nomination for Best Picture
  • The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) with 5 wins

• Nominations in the most different technical categories
  • Three films have been nominated in all 7 technical categories. They are:
    • Titanic (1997)
    • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
    • Hugo (2011)

Acting records

• Most consecutive leading actress nominations
  • Two actresses have been nominated 5 years in a row. They are:
    • Bette Davis (1938–1942)
    • Greer Garson (1941–1945)

• Most consecutive leading actor nominations
  • Marlon Brando with four nominations (1951 to 1954)

• Most total nominations for acting
  • Meryl Streep with 17 nominations.

• Most acting nominations without a win
  • Peter O'Toole with 8 nominations. (He received an Honorary Award in 2002.)

• Longest gap between 1st and 2nd win
  • Helen Hayes won in 1932 for The Sin of Madelon Claudet and in 1971 for Airport, a 39-year gap.

• Longest time span between first and last nomination
  • Katharine Hepburn (48 years from 1932/33 to 1981)

• Most posthumous nominations
  • James Dean with 2 (1956 for East of Eden and 1957 for Giant).

• Shortest performance to win an acting Oscar
  • Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) - 5 minutes and 40 seconds.

• Shortest performance to win a lead acting Oscar
  • David Niven in Separate Tables (1958) - 15 minutes and 38 seconds.

• Shortest performance to be nominated for an acting Oscar
  • Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) - 2 minutes and 32 seconds.

• Most wins by a black actor
  • Denzel Washington with 2, winning Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989) and Best Actor for Training Day (2001).

• Longest Life Span for a Acting winner
  • Two acting winners have reached the age of 100.
    • Two-time Best Actress winner Luise Rainer, who won for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937). She is still alive at age 102.
    • George Burns, who won for Best Supporting Actor for The Sunshine Boys. He died in 1996 at age 100.

• Longest to hold the Oscar after they won
  • Luise Rainer won her first Oscar in 1937, thereby holding the Oscar for 74 years, longer than any other Oscar winner.

• Most awards for one acting performance
  • Harold Russell played Homer Parish in The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946. For this role he received 2 Oscars, a Best Supporting and one for being an inspiration to all returning veterans.

Miscellaneous records

• Most total nominations without a win
  • Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell has had 20 unsuccessful nominations since 1983, with his most recent coming in 2007.

• Most total nominations before receiving an award
  • Randy Newman's first Oscar (for Best Original Song in 2002) came after fifteen unsuccessful nominations.
  • Federico Fellini was nominated for 12 Oscars as a director or screenwriter before receiving an Honorary Award in 1992.

• Most nominations for a person
  • Walt Disney with 59 nominations.

• Most nominated living person
  • Film composer John Williams with 47 nominations.

• Most nominated woman
  • Edith Head with 35 nominations.

• Highest "perfect score"
  • Sound editor Mark Berger has four nominations and four wins.

• Most nominations for directing
  • William Wyler with 12 nominations.

• Most nominations for directing in a single year
  • Two people have received 2 nominations for Best Director in the same year. They are:
    • Michael Curtiz for Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters in 1938.
    • Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000.

• Most Best Picture awards for a film series
  • The Godfather series with 2 (for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II).

• Most nominations and awards for a film series
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy with 17 wins out of 30 nominations.

• Most nominations for Best Original Screenplay
  • Woody Allen with 14 nominations and 2 wins

• Longest time between the release of a film and winning an Oscar
  • Limelight (1952) is the only film to have won an award twenty years after its official release. Since it was not released in Los Angeles County until 1972, it was not eligible for any Academy Awards until that time.

• Most posthumous award wins
  • William A. Horning won in 1958 for Best Art Direction for Gigi and for Best Art Direction for Ben-Hur in 1959.

• Most posthumous award nominations
  • Howard Ashman with four.

See also

• Academy Awards
• List of Academy Award-winning films
• List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners
• List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards
• List of films with all four Academy Award Acting Nominations
• List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of people who have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year
• List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
• List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of fictitious Academy Award nominees
• List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees
• Little Golden Guy

External links

• Oscars.org (official Academy site)
• The Academy Awards Database (official site)
• Filmsite.org