List of Academy Award records

This is a list of Academy Award records. This list is current as of the 81st Academy Awards ceremony held on February 22, 2009.

Most awards

• Films
  • The highest number of Academy Awards won by any film is 11. Three films have achieved this:
    • Ben-Hur (1959) (11/12)
    • Titanic (1997) (11/14)
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (11/11)

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

• Acting
  • Katharine Hepburn won 4 Academy Awards (all for Best Actress)
  • Three actors have each won 3 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 3. They are:
    • Arthur C. Miller, in 1942, 1944 and 1947 (for black and white cinematography)
    • Conrad Hall, in 1969, 1999 and 2002
    • Vittorio Storaro, in 1980, 1982 and 1988

• Overall
  • Walt Disney won the most Academy Awards, with 26 (22 competitive, 4 honorary)
  • Nick Park has won 4 Academy Awards, and nominated for a further 1.
  • Disney also won the most Oscars in one year, 4.
  • Costume designer Edith Head won a total of 8 Oscars, more than any other woman.
  • Meryl Streep holds the record of 16 for the most acting Academy Award nominations received by any actor (male or female). From these 16 nominations, she won two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and Best Actress for Sophie's Choice in 1982.
  • Ingmar Bergman was nominated for nine Oscars overall as a director or screenwriter without winning any.
  • Peter O'Toole has been nominated for eight Oscars overall as an actor without winning any (he received an Honorary Award in 2002).

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)

Honorary 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)

Consecutive awards

• Best Actress: Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936 and The Good Earth, 1937) and Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967 and The Lion in Winter, 1968–tie with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl)
• Best Actor: Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous, 1937 and Boys Town, 1938) and Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, 1993 and Forrest Gump, 1994)
• Best Director: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 and How Green Was My Valley, 1941) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives, 1949 and All About Eve, 1950)
• Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards (All the President's Men, 1976 and Julia, 1977)

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)
• 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)

17th Academy Awards–1944

Barry Fitzgerald became the first actor to be nominated for two Academy Awards for the same performance when he was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way. He won Best Supporting Actor, while losing Best Actor to Bing Crosby (also for Going My Way). As a result of this, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences subsequently changed its rules to prevent an acting performance from being nominated for more than one award.

19th Academy Awards–1946

Harold Russell became the first (and only) actor to receive two Academy Awards for the same performance when he won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in The Best Years of Our Lives and was also presented with an Academy Honorary Award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives".

• In 1944, Laurence Olivier was presented with a Special Academy Award for his "outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V to the screen". He was also nominated for Best Actor for his performance in the title role, but did not win.

23rd Academy Awards–1950

All About Eve set the current record of 14 for the most Academy Award nominations received by a film. This record was subsequently matched by Titanic in 1997. All About Eve won six Academy Awards and Titanic won eleven.

32nd Academy Awards–1959

Ben-Hur set the current record at 11 for the most Academy Awards won by a film. This record was subsequently matched by Titanic in 1997 and again by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. Of these three films, only The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won every Academy Award for which it was nominated.

54th Academy Awards–1981

Katharine Hepburn set the current record of four for the most acting Academy Awards won by an individual when she won Best Actress for On Golden Pond. Previously, she won Best Actress for Morning Glory in 1933, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967, and The Lion in Winter in 1968.

72nd Academy Awards–1999

Roberto Benigni became the first male actor to win an acting Oscar for an entirely foreign language performance. He became the first male actor to win for a Italian-language performance; he won the Best Actor award for his work in Life is Beautiful.

75th Academy Awards–2002

Jack Nicholson set the then-current record of 12 for the most acting Academy Award nominations received by an actor when he was nominated for Best Actor for About Schmidt. From these 12 nominations, he won three Academy Awards: Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975, Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment in 1983, and Best Actor for As Good as It Gets in 1997.

76th Academy Awards–2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King becomes the third movie to win eleven Academy Awards and the only movie of the three which won every award for which it was nominated.

Shohreh Aghdashloo became the first Middle-Eastern actor or actress to be nominated in an acting category for her performance in House of Sand and Fog.

80th Academy Awards–2007

Marion Cotillard became the third person to win an acting Oscar for an entirely foreign language performance. She became the first actress to win for a French-language performance; she won the Best Actress award for her work as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose.

81st Academy Awards–2009

Slumdog Millionaire is the lowest-budget film to win the most Oscars (8), including Best Picture, since 1961 (West Side Story). It is also the first film since Schindler's List (1993) to win Best Picture, Director and Screenplay at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Oscars.

A. R. Rahman is the first Indian to win two Oscars, and the first Asian to do so in the same year. His and Gulzar's song "Jai Ho" is also the third foreign-language song to win Best Original Song. Resul Pookutty is also the first and only Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Sound.

The Dark Knight is the first comic book movie ever to get 8 Academy Award nominations. It is also the second comic book movie to get a nomination for Best Film Editing (Superman was the first movie to do so in 1978) and is the fourth to get a Best Supporting Actor nomination (Dick Tracy was the first movie to do so in 1990, Road To Perdition was the second one in 2002, and A History of Violence was the third in 2005). Furthermore, it is the first superhero movie to win a major Academy Award. Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for portraying the Joker.

82nd Academy Awards–2010

Meryl Streep set the current record of 16 for the most acting Academy Award nominations received by any actor (male or female) when she was nominated for Best Actress for Julie & Julia. From these 16 nominations, she won two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and Best Actress for Sophie's Choice in 1982.

Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in history to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker.

Film records

• In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the first fantasy film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
• The film which received the most Oscars without winning Best Picture is Cabaret with 8 awards in 1972. Although the film was nominated for Best Picture, it lost to The Godfather.
• The two films which share the record for most nominations (11) with no Oscar wins are The Turning Point (1977) and The Color Purple (1985).
• The film with the most nominations without a Best Picture nomination is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) with nine nominations.
• The only two animated films ever nominated for Best Picture are Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Up (2009). Beauty and the Beast shares the record for the most nominations for an animated film, six, with WALL-E (2008). The earlier film's nominations spanned only four categories, however, with three nominations for Best Original Song; the latter title has been nominated in six separate categories. Also in 2008, Waltz with Bashir also became the first animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (representing Israel).
• No film to date has produced Oscar-winning performances in each of the four competitive acting categories (Leading Actor, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress). The two films which came closest to achieving this feat were A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Network (1976) with each film earning three out of the four acting Oscars.
• The Red Balloon (1956), a film with no dialogue, is the only such film ever to win an Oscar (as even silent films have scripted dialogue). This film won the Best Original Screenplay Award. It is also the only short film to win an Oscar outside of the short film categories.
• In 2006, Dreamgirls became the first film to ever have the most Oscar nominations of that year without having a Best Picture nomination. The film did win Best Picture at the Golden Globes in that same year. Though films from previous years had had more nominations without receiving a Best Picture nomination, there was always at least one other film with more nominations that included Best Picture.
• Films that won Best Picture without receiving a single acting nomination include: Wings (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Hotel (1932), An American in Paris (1951), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Gigi (1958), The Last Emperor (1987), Braveheart (1995), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), and Slumdog Millionaire (2008).
• Grand Hotel (1932) is the only film to win Best Picture without receiving any other nominations.
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) is to date the only X-rated film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. A Clockwork Orange (1971) is the only other X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture, or any Oscar for that matter.

Acting records

Most consecutive leading actor nominations

• Bette Davis and Greer Garson are the most consecutively nominated leading actresses, with each having five nominations in a row (Davis 1938–1942, Garson 1941–1945), followed by Elizabeth Taylor, with four consecutive nominations (1958-1961) and Jennifer Jones with four consecutive nominations (1943-1946). Marlon Brando is the most consecutively nominated leading actor (with four nominations from 1951–1954).

Actors who have won in two different categories

• Emma Thompson is the only person to win an Oscar for both acting (Best Actress, Howards End, 1992) and screenwriting (Best Screenplay, Sense and Sensibility, 1995).
• Barbra Streisand is the only person to win an Oscar for both acting (Best Actress, Funny Girl, 1968) and songwriting (Best Original Song, "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born (1976) with lyrics by Paul Williams).
• Laurence Olivier was the first person to win an Oscar for both acting (Best Actor, Hamlet, 1948) and Best Picture (as the producer of Hamlet, 1948). Michael Douglas is the only other actor to have achieved this same distinction (Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975, and Best Actor, Wall Street, 1987)

Most acting nominations or wins

• Meryl Streep holds the record for most nominations of any actor (male or female) with 16 as of 2010.
• Katharine Hepburn holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations (48 years from 1932/33 to 1981). She also holds the record for having won most acting Oscars, with 4. She did not attend any of the Oscars ceremonies in the years she won.
• Peter O'Toole holds the record for having the most Oscar nominations (8 for Best Actor) without ever winning a competitive acting award. He was given an Honorary Award in 2002.
• Richard Burton received the highest number of acting nominations (7) with two distinctions combined: without winning and without ever being given any kind of honorary award.

Posthumous acting nominations and winners

• Jeanne Eagels was the first female and only the second person to be posthumously nominated for any Oscar (Best Actress, 1929, for The Letter). She is still the only woman ever posthumously nominated for an Oscar in an acting category.
• James Dean was the first male to receive a posthumous acting nomination. He is also the only actor (male or female) to receive two posthumous acting nominations, and the only actor (male or female) to be posthumously nominated in different years. Dean was nominated for the Best Actor Award in 1956 for East of Eden (1955) and again in 1957 for Giant (1956).
• Peter Finch and Heath Ledger, both of whom were Australians, are the only persons posthumously nominated for an acting Oscar to win the award. Finch is the sole posthumous Best Actor winner (for Network, 1976) and Ledger is the sole posthumous Best Supporting Actor winner (for The Dark Knight, 2008).

Shortest performances to win an acting Oscar

• The shortest performance ever to win a Best Supporting Actress Award is Beatrice Straight's performance, which lasted 5 minutes and 40 seconds, in Network (1976).
• Contrary to popular belief, the shortest performance ever to win a Best Actor Award is David Niven in Separate Tables (1958), with 15 minutes and 38 seconds of screen time. Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor award in 1991 for his role as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. His screen time measured up to 24 minutes and 17 seconds.
• The shortest performance ever to be nominated for an acting Oscar is that of Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top, who was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award in 1960. She had 2 minutes and 32 seconds of screen time, and lost the award to Shelley Winters for The Diary of Anne Frank.

Non-speaking roles

• Only seven actors have received Oscar nominations for non-speaking roles. Jane Wyman won Best Actress for Johnny Belinda (1948). Patty Duke won Best Supporting Actress for The Miracle Worker (1962). John Mills won Best Supporting Actor for Ryan's Daughter (1970). Marlee Matlin won Best Actress for Children of A Lesser God (1986). Holly Hunter won Best Actress for The Piano (1993). Samantha Morton was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Sweet and Lowdown (1999). Rinko Kikuchi was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Babel (2006). While several of these actors used sign language extensively in their performances and/or spoke a few words, only Duke had no intelligible dialogue and used minimal sign language.

• Sir John Mills is the only male actor to win an Oscar for a non-speaking role (Ryan's Daughter, 1970).

Actors who have declined to accept their Oscars

• Only two actors have ever declined to accept their Oscars. George C. Scott refused to accept the Best Actor Award for Patton (1970); he claimed that acting should not be competitive. Marlon Brando refused to accept the Best Actor Award for The Godfather (1972); he sent Sacheen Littlefeather (nee Maria Cruz) to decline it on his behalf to protest America's treatment of indigenous peoples.

Actors who have won for performing in a language other than English

• Sophia Loren, Roberto Benigni, Robert DeNiro, Benicio del Toro, Marion Cotillard, and Penélope Cruz are the only six actors to win Oscars for performing in a spoken language other than English. In Italian, Loren won for Two Women, Benigni for Life Is Beautiful, and DeNiro for The Godfather Part II. In Spanish, Benicio del Toro won for Traffic, and Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona. In French, Cotillard won for La Vie en Rose.

Actors who have won acting Oscars via direction of themselves

• Laurence Olivier and Roberto Benigni are the only people to have directed themselves to an acting Oscar. Olivier's win was for Hamlet (1948), and Benigni won for Life Is Beautiful (1998). Neither of them won the award for Best Director.

Actors who have been nominated in leading and supporting categories during the same year

• Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx, and Cate Blanchett are the only actors who have been nominated for both leading and supporting acting categories in the same year. Bainter, Wright, Fitzgerald, Lange, Pacino, Hunter and Foxx each won one of the two Oscars they were up for. Barry Fitzgerald has the distinction of being nominated for lead and supporting for the same role, in Going My Way.

Actors who have won or been nominated for playing a real-life acting Oscar winner or nominee

• The only actor to win an Oscar for playing a real-life winner of an acting Oscar is Cate Blanchett. She won Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for The Aviator, in which she played Katharine Hepburn.
• Robert Downey, Jr. was nominated in 1993 for Best Actor in Chaplin for his portrayal of real-life 1941 Best Actor nominee Charlie Chaplin.

African winners

• Charlize Theron (from South Africa) won Best Actress for Monster (2003).
• Djimon Hounsou (from Benin) has been nominated twice, first for In America (2003) and then for Blood Diamond (2006). He lost both times.

Black winners

• Hattie McDaniel Best Supporting Actress for Gone With the Wind (1939)
• Sidney Poitier Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963)
• Louis Gossett, Jr. Best Supporting Actor for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
• Denzel Washington Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989)
• Whoopi Goldberg Best Supporting Actress for Ghost (1990)
• Cuba Gooding, Jr. Best Supporting Actor for Jerry Maguire (1996)
• Halle Berry Best Actress for Monster's Ball (2001)
• Denzel Washington Best Actor for Training Day (2001)
• Morgan Freeman Best Supporting Actor for Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Jamie Foxx Best Actor for Ray (2004)
• Jennifer Hudson Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls (2006)
• Forest Whitaker Best Actor for The Last King Of Scotland (2006)
• Mo'Nique Best Supporting Actress for Precious (2009)

NOTE:

Denzel Washington is the only black actor to have won two acting Oscars — the first for Supporting Actor, the second for Leading Actor — an achievement that landed him in the company of only ten other performers to have won Oscars in both the leading and supporting categories:

• Helen Hayes Leading Actress for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Supporting Actress for Airport (1970)
• Jack Lemmon Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts (1955) and Leading Actor for Save the Tiger (1973)
• Ingrid Bergman Leading Actress for Gaslight (1944); Anastasia (1956) and Supporting Actress for Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• Robert DeNiro Supporting Actor for The Godfather, Part II (1974) and Leading Actor for Raging Bull (1980)
• Maggie Smith Leading Actress forThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978)
• Meryl Streep Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Leading Actress for Sophie's Choice (1982)
• Jack Nicholson Leading Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); As Good As It Gets (1997) and Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment (1983)
• Gene Hackman Leading Actor for The French Connection (1971) and Supporting Actor for Unforgiven (1992)
• Jessica Lange Supporting Actress for Tootsie (1982) and Leading Actress for Blue Sky (1994)
• Kevin Spacey Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects (1995) and Leading Actor for American Beauty (1999)

Films receiving 3 or more acting nominations

(Note: the films in bold received acting nominations in all four acting categories.)

No.	Won	Film	Year	Nominees
5	1	All About Eve	1950	Actress (Anne Baxter and Bette Davis); Supporting Actor (George Sanders–won); Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter)
5	1	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	Actor (Warren Beatty); Actress (Faye Dunaway); Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard); Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons–won)
5	2	From Here to Eternity	1953	Actor (Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster); Actress (Deborah Kerr); Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra–won); Supporting Actress (Donna Reed–won)
5	1	The Godfather Part II	1974	Actor (Al Pacino); Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro–won, Michael V. Gazzo, and Lee Strasberg); Supporting Actress (Talia Shire)
5	2	Mrs. Miniver	1942	Actor (Walter Pidgeon); Actress (Greer Garson–won); Supporting Actor (Henry Travers); Supporting Actress (May Whitty and Teresa Wright–won)
5	3	Network	1976	Actor (Peter Finch–won and William Holden); Actress (Faye Dunaway–won); Supporting Actor (Ned Beatty); Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight–won)
5	2	On the Waterfront	1954	Actor (Marlon Brando–won); Supporting Actor (Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger); Supporting Actress (Eva Marie Saint–won)
5	0	Peyton Place	1957	Actress (Lana Turner); Supporting Actor (Arthur Kennedy and Russ Tamblyn); Supporting Actress (Hope Lange and Diane Varsi)
5	0	Tom Jones	1963	Actor (Albert Finney); Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith); Supporting Actress (Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, and Joyce Redman)
4	1	Chicago	2002	Actress (Renée Zellweger); Supporting Actor (John C. Reilly); Supporting Actress (Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones–won)
4	2	Coming Home	1978	Actor (Jon Voight–won); Actress (Jane Fonda–won); Supporting Actor (Bruce Dern); Supporting Actress (Penelope Milford)
4	0	Doubt	2008	Actress (Meryl Streep); Supporting Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman); Supporting Actress (Amy Adams and Viola Davis)
4	1	For Whom the Bell Tolls	1943	Actor (Gary Cooper); Actress (Ingrid Bergman); Supporting Actor (Akim Tamiroff); Supporting Actress (Katina Paxinou–won)
4	1	Gentleman's Agreement	1947	Actor (Gregory Peck); Actress (Dorothy McGuire); Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm–won and Anne Revere)
4	1	The Godfather	1972	Actor (Marlon Brando–won); Supporting Actor (James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino)
4	2	Gone with the Wind	1939	Actor (Clark Gable); Actress (Vivien Leigh–won); Supporting Actress (Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel–won)
4	1	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	1967	Actor (Spencer Tracy); Actress (Katharine Hepburn–won); Supporting Actor (Cecil Kellaway); Supporting Actress (Beah Richards)
4	0	The Hustler	1961	Actor (Paul Newman); Actress (Piper Laurie); Supporting Actor (Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott)
4	1	Johnny Belinda	1948	Actor (Lew Ayres); Actress (Jane Wyman–won); Supporting Actor (Charles Bickford); Supporting Actress (Agnes Moorehead)
4	1	Judgment at Nuremberg	1961	Actor (Maximilian Schell–won and Spencer Tracy); Supporting Actor (Montgomery Clift); Supporting Actress (Judy Garland)
4	2	Julia	1977	Actress (Jane Fonda); Supporting Actor (Jason Robards–won and Maximilian Schell); Supporting Actress (Vanessa Redgrave–won)
4	2	Kramer vs. Kramer	1979	Actor (Dustin Hoffman–won); Supporting Actor (Justin Henry); Supporting Actress (Jane Alexander and Meryl Streep–won)
4	2	The Last Picture Show	1971	Supporting Actor (Jeff Bridges and Ben Johnson–won); Supporting Actress (Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman–won)
4	0	My Man Godfrey	1936	Actor (William Powell); Actress (Carole Lombard); Supporting Actor (Mischa Auer); Supporting Actress (Alice Brady)
4	1	Reds	1981	Actor (Warren Beatty); Actress (Diane Keaton); Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson); Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton–won)
4	0	Rocky	1976	Actor (Sylvester Stallone); Actress (Talia Shire); Supporting Actor (Burt Young and Burgess Meredith)
4	1	The Song of Bernadette	1943	Actress (Jennifer Jones–won); Supporting Actor (Charles Bickford); Supporting Actress (Gladys Cooper and Anne Revere)
4	3	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951	Actor (Marlon Brando); Actress (Vivien Leigh–won); Supporting Actor (Karl Malden–won); Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter–won)
4	0	Sunset Boulevard	1950	Actor (William Holden); Actress (Gloria Swanson); Supporting Actor (Erich von Stroheim); Supporting Actress (Nancy Olson)
4	2	Terms of Endearment	1983	Actress (Shirley MacLaine–won and Debra Winger); Supporting Actor (John Lithgow and Jack Nicholson–won)
4	0	The Turning Point	1977	Actress (Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine); Supporting Actor (Mikhail Baryshnikov); Supporting Actress (Leslie Browne)
4	2	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966	Actor (Richard Burton); Actress (Elizabeth Taylor–won); Supporting Actor (George Segal); Supporting Actress (Sandy Dennis–won)
3	1	Adaptation	2002	Actor (Nicolas Cage); Supporting Actor (Chris Cooper–won); Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep)
3	0	Anatomy of a Murder	1959	Actor (James Stewart); Supporting Actor (Arthur O'Connell and George C. Scott)
3	0	Anne of the Thousand Days	1969	Actor (Richard Burton); Actress (Genevieve Bujold); Supporting Actor (Anthony Quayle)
3	0	The Apartment	1960	Actor (Jack Lemmon); Actress (Shirley MacLaine); Supporting Actor (Jack Kruschen)
3	2	As Good as It Gets	1997	Actor (Jack Nicholson–won); Actress (Helen Hunt–won); Supporting Actor (Greg Kinnear)
3	1	The Aviator	2004	Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio); Supporting Actor (Alan Alda); Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett–won)
3	0	Becket	1964	Actor (Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole); Supporting Actor (John Gielgud)
3	0	Birdman of Alcatraz	1962	Actor (Burt Lancaster); Supporting Actor (Telly Savalas); Supporting Actress (Thelma Ritter)
3	0	Broadcast News	1987	Actor (William Hurt); Actress (Holly Hunter); Supporting Actor (Albert Brooks)
3	0	Brokeback Mountain	2005	Actor (Heath Ledger); Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal); Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams)
3	0	Bugsy	1991	Actor (Warren Beatty); Supporting Actor (Harvey Keitel and Ben Kingsley)
3	1	Children of a Lesser God	1986	Actor (William Hurt); Actress (Marlee Matlin–won); Supporting Actress (Piper Laurie)
3	0	The Color Purple	1985	Actress (Whoopi Goldberg); Supporting Actress (Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey)
3	0	Dances with Wolves	1990	Actor (Kevin Costner); Supporting Actor (Graham Greene); Supporting Actress (Mary McDonnell)
3	0	Death of a Salesman	1951	Actor (Fredric March); Supporting Actor (Kevin McCarthy); Supporting Actress (Mildred Dunnock)
3	1	The Deer Hunter	1978	Actor (Robert De Niro); Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken–won); Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep)
3	1	Driving Miss Daisy	1989	Actor (Morgan Freeman); Actress (Jessica Tandy–won); Supporting Actor (Dan Aykroyd)
3	1	The English Patient	1996	Actor (Ralph Fiennes); Actress (Kristin Scott Thomas); Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche–won)
3	0	The Exorcist	1973	Actress (Ellen Burstyn); Supporting Actor (Jason Miller); Supporting Actress (Linda Blair)
3	0	Giant	1956	Actor (James Dean and Rock Hudson); Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge)
3	1	Good Will Hunting	1997	Actor (Matt Damon); Supporting Actor (Robin Williams–won); Supporting Actress (Minnie Driver)
3	1	The Goodbye Girl	1977	Actor (Richard Dreyfuss–won); Actress (Marsha Mason); Supporting Actress (Quinn Cummings)
3	0	The Graduate	1967	Actor (Dustin Hoffman); Actress (Anne Bancroft); Supporting Actress (Katharine Ross)
3	0	Heaven Can Wait	1978	Actor (Warren Beatty); Supporting Actor (Jack Warden); Supporting Actress (Dyan Cannon)
3	1	The Hours	2002	Actress (Nicole Kidman–won); Supporting Actor (Ed Harris); Supporting Actress (Julianne Moore)
3	2	Hud	1963	Actor (Paul Newman); Actress (Patricia Neal–won); Supporting Actor (Melvyn Douglas–won)
3	0	In the Bedroom	2001	Actor (Tom Wilkinson); Actress (Sissy Spacek); Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei)
3	0	In the Name of the Father	1993	Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis); Supporting Actor (Pete Postlethwaite); Supporting Actress (Emma Thompson)
3	1	Iris	2001	Actress (Judi Dench); Supporting Actor (Jim Broadbent–won); Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet)
3	0	Love Story	1970	Actor (Ryan O'Neal); Actress (Ali MacGraw); Supporting Actor (John Marley)
3	1	A Man for All Seasons	1966	Actor (Paul Scofield–won); Supporting Actor (Robert Shaw); Supporting Actress (Wendy Hiller)
3	1	Marty	1955	Actor (Ernest Borgnine–won); Supporting Actor (Joe Mantell); Supporting Actress (Betsy Blair)
3	1	Michael Clayton	2007	Actor (George Clooney); Supporting Actor (Tom Wilkinson); Supporting Actress (Tilda Swinton–won)
3	0	Midnight Cowboy	1969	Actor (Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight); Supporting Actress (Sylvia Miles)
3	2	Million Dollar Baby	2004	Actor (Clint Eastwood); Actress (Hilary Swank–won); Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman–won)
3	2	Moonstruck	1987	Actress (Cher–won); Supporting Actor (Vincent Gardenia); Supporting Actress (Olympia Dukakis–won)
3	0	Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	Actor (Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Franchot Tone)
3	1	My Fair Lady	1964	Actor (Rex Harrison–won); Supporting Actor (Stanley Holloway); Supporting Actress (Gladys Cooper)
3	2	Mystic River	2003	Actor (Sean Penn–won); Supporting Actor (Tim Robbins–won); Supporting Actress (Marcia Gay Harden)
3	2	On Golden Pond	1981	Actor (Henry Fonda–won); Actress (Katharine Hepburn–won); Supporting Actress (Jane Fonda)
3	2	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	Actor (Jack Nicholson–won); Actress (Louise Fletcher–won); Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif)
3	0	Only When I Laugh	1981	Actress (Marsha Mason); Supporting Actor (James Coco); Supporting Actress (Joan Hackett)
3	1	Ordinary People	1980	Actress (Mary Tyler Moore); Supporting Actor (Timothy Hutton–won and Judd Hirsch)
3	1	Places in the Heart	1984	Actress (Sally Field–won); Supporting Actor (John Malkovich); Supporting Actress (Lindsay Crouse)
3	1	Prizzi's Honor	1985	Actor (Jack Nicholson); Supporting Actor (William Hickey); Supporting Actress (Anjelica Huston–won)
3	0	Pulp Fiction	1994	Actor (John Travolta); Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson); Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman)
3	1	Raging Bull	1980	Actor (Robert De Niro–won); Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci); Supporting Actress (Cathy Moriarty)
3	1	Room at the Top	1959	Actor (Laurence Harvey); Actress (Simone Signoret–won); Supporting Actress (Hermione Baddeley)
3	2	Separate Tables	1958	Actor (David Niven–won); Actress (Deborah Kerr); Supporting Actress (Wendy Hiller–won)
3	2	Shakespeare in Love	1998	Actress (Gwyneth Paltrow–won); Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush); Supporting Actress (Judi Dench–won)
3	1	Sweet Bird of Youth	1962	Actress (Geraldine Page); Supporting Actor (Ed Begley–won); Supporting Actress (Shirley Knight)
3	1	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	1969	Actress (Jane Fonda); Supporting Actor (Gig Young–won); Supporting Actress (Susannah York)
3	1	Tootsie	1982	Actor (Dustin Hoffman); Supporting Actress (Teri Garr and Jessica Lange–won)
3	-	Up in the Air	2009	Actor (George Clooney); Supporting Actress (Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick)
3	0	Victor/Victoria	1982	Actress (Julie Andrews); Supporting Actor (Robert Preston); Supporting Actress (Lesley Ann Warren)
3	0	Working Girl	1988	Actress (Melanie Griffith); Supporting Actress (Joan Cusack and Sigourney Weaver)

Miscellaneous records

• Only one individual has received both an Academy Award and Nobel Prize: George Bernard Shaw was awarded an Oscar (Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938) and a Nobel Prize (the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925). Contrary to popular belief, Al Gore did not win an Academy Award for An Inconvenient Truth, even though he accepted the prize at the ceremony (director Davis Guggenheim is listed as the sole winner). However, Nobel laureate John Steinbeck was nominated for his screenplay for Lifeboat (1944), and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter was nominated for his screenplays for both The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and Betrayal (1983).
• Walt Disney holds the record for receiving as well as being nominated for the most Academy Awards. He won 22 competitive awards and received four honorary awards. He was also nominated for 60 Academy Awards during his lifetime.
• With 45 Oscar nominations, film composer John Williams is currently the most-nominated person alive, and the second most-nominated of all-time, a title he shares with Alfred Newman.
• Edith Head's 35 Oscar nominations make her the most nominated woman of all time.
• Sound editor Mark Berger has the highest perfect score at the Academy Awards, with four nominations and four wins. He won Best Sound Mixing for his work in Apocalypse Now, The Right Stuff, Amadeus and The English Patient.
• Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell currently holds the record for most Oscar nominations without a win at 20. His most recent nomination was for Transformers (2007).
• For the Best Director Award, John Ford holds the record for the most awards (four awards resulting from five nominations), while William Wyler holds the record for the most nominations (12 nominations resulting in three awards).
• Leo McCarey (Going My Way), Billy Wilder (The Apartment), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II), James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment), Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), and Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) are currently the only filmmakers to receive Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
• The youngest person ever to be awarded an Oscar is Shirley Temple (age 6), who was awarded the inaugural (now retired) non-competitive Academy Juvenile Award in 1934.
• The youngest person ever to be nominated for Best Director is John Singleton, who was 24 years old when he was nominated for Boyz N the Hood (1991). Additionally, he was the only African American to have been nominated for Best Director until Lee Daniels was nominated in 2010.
• Dudley Nichols was the first artist ever to decline an Oscar. He refused to accept the Best Writing (Screenplay) Award for The Informer (1935); he boycotted against the Academy for its support of company unions instead of the newly formed independent actors guilds and unions.
• Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro are the only two actors to win Oscars portraying the same character. Brando won Best Actor as Vito Corleone in (The Godfather) (1972) and De Niro won Best Supporting Actor also as Vito Corleone in (The Godfather Part II) (1974).
• Michael Curtiz and Steven Soderbergh are the only filmmakers to receive two Best Director nominations in the same year. Curtiz was nominated for Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters 1938 (and won neither, though he would eventually win for directing Casablanca). Soderbergh was nominated for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000, and went on to win the award for Traffic.
• The Godfather series is the only film series to win more than one Best Picture award, for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the most successful film series at the Academy Awards, with 17 wins out of 30 nominations (the series failed to win in only one category it was nominated for, Best Supporting Actor for Ian McKellen).
• There have been a total of 70 posthumous nominations for competitive Academy Awards, involving 54 people (49 males and 5 females), the most recent being Heath Ledger for his role in The Dark Knight, and Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack for producing The Reader. Of these 70 nominations, 14 have been successful, the first being Sidney Howard in 1939 (Writing–Adapted Screenplay for Gone with the Wind). No woman has ever won a posthumous Oscar in a competitive category.
• Twelve people have been posthumously nominated for more than one award, and not necessarily in the same year. The first person to be posthumously nominated for two awards was Frank Churchill (both in 1942). The first person to be posthumously nominated in different years was Jerome Kern (two nominations in 1945, another in 1946). Kern was also the first person to be posthumously nominated for three awards. The only person to be posthumously nominated for four awards was Howard Ashman (three in 1991, one in 1992). The only person to win more than one posthumous Academy Award was William A. Horning (1958, his sole nomination that year; 1959, from two nominations).
  • The only actor (male or female) to be posthumously nominated for more than one award was James Dean (1955, 1956).
• Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack are the only people to have received posthumous nominations for the same film (The Reader).
• A number of people have been posthumously awarded honorary Oscars, the only woman being Audrey Hepburn, who died eight days after the Academy voted in January 1993 to award her the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
• 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.

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