Katharine Hepburn won four
Katherine Hepburn is the only actor ever to win four Academy Awards but both Meryl Streep and Frances McDormand are closing in on her.
The person who has triumphed more times at the Oscars than anyone else in history is Walt Disney. America's most iconic filmmaker racked up a whopping 26 Oscars, four of which were honorary awards, and he also holds the record for the most nominations on record – 59.
As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
Screen legend Katharine Hepburn fashioned herself into a cultural icon by sheer will and a shrewd business sense. She won the first of her record four Best Actress Oscars in 1933 for Morning Glory and made several popular films in the mid-1930s.
The British method actor Daniel Day-Lewis is the only performer to have ever achieved the feat of winning three Academy Awards for 'Best Actor', rightfully claiming the statuette for three excellent movies.
Who is the youngest ever Oscars winner? There are, of course, multiple different types of award on offer at the Oscars, but the youngest person to win any of them at all is Tatum O'Neal. She won Best Supporting Actress at the 1974 Oscars at the age of 10.
Only three films have won all five of these major awards: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Eight films failed to win any of the five major awards after being nominated in each category.
The actor is a constant Hollywood presence but despite three nominations for an Oscar he's never landed one.
The "Parasite" director Bong Joon Ho won four Oscars on Sunday night at the 92nd Academy Awards: best original screenplay, best international feature film, best director, and best picture. Bong matched the record set by Walt Disney in 1954 for most Oscars won in a single night by one person.
Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscars won by an individual with a total of 22 competitive awards and four honorary awards. Disney was nominated 59 times throughout his career, receiving one award posthumously.
This is a list of people have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year in the standard competitive categories. To date, a total of 86 individuals have achieved this feat on 99 distinct occasions with the multiple winners having won more than one awards that year.
The Oscars began in 1929, and since its inception, there have only ever been 3 films in history to sweep all 5 major awards categories.
John Williams: The living person with the most nominations in history. John Williams leads this ranking at 90 years old. He has composed the tunes for 'Star Wars', 'Jaws', 'Harry Potter', and 'E.T.
Katharine Hepburn holds the records for most wins with 12 nominations and 4 wins for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).
Reeves has gained countless accolades and acclaim for his performances on the big screen despite never having won an Oscar.
The three movies to hold the Guinness World Record of winning 11 Oscars — the highest by a film — are The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Titanic and Ben-Hur. On the other hand, Titanic is one of the three films which has received the most number of nominations at 14.
Though worlds away from Oscar bait, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's anarchic ballet of everything bagels, googly-eyed rocks and one messy tax audit emerged as an improbable Academy Awards heavyweight. The indie hit, A24's second best picture winner following “Moonlight,” won seven Oscars in all.
“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” also made history with a clean sweep, becoming (and remaining) the only movie to win every category it was nominated in: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, and ...
A24's Everything Everywhere All At Once has officially become the most-awarded film of all time. The news comes just around the corner of the upcoming 2023 Academy Awards happening on March 12. The film features a star-studded crew including Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan.
Depicting a knight holding a crusader's sword, the Oscar was designed in 1928 by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley. It is composed of 24-karat gold-plated bronze. The sleek award stands 13.5 inches tall and weighs a hefty 8.5 pounds.
Tatum O'Neal won the youngest Oscar on this list with her performance in Paper Moon aged just 10 years old. During filming she turned nine years old, an incredible feat for such a young actress.
The honor was first awarded by the Academy at the 7th Academy Awards to 6-year-old Shirley Temple for her work in motion pictures of 1934.