Six have won exactly three acting
No male actor has yet won four Academy Awards but three have achieved a hat-trick, with Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis and the little-remembered Water Brennan, all in the three Oscars club.
5 Meryl Streep (3 Oscars)
Meryl Streep might not hold the title for the most wins in Oscar history, but she does maintain the record for the most Oscar-nominated performer in the acting categories, with an impressive total of 21 nominations.
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.
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 most awards have been won by Walt Disney, who won four Academy Awards in 1954. Of these, ten individuals have achieved this feat on more than one occasion.
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Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscars won by an individual with total of 22 competitive awards and four honorary awards. Disney was nominated 59 times throughout his career, receiving one award posthumously.
At 11 victories apiece, the current three record-holders are “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” “Titanic” and “Ben-Hur.” But where do other Academy Awards faves like “West Side Story,” “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Gone with the Wind” fall on the all-time list?
My Fair Lady - 8
This 1964 George Cukor film won eight Oscars for best picture, director, actor, cinematography (color), set decoration (color), costume design (color), score and sound.
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.
The record for the youngest Academy Award winner of all time goes to the brilliantly talented Tatum O'Neal. At a mere ten years and 148 days old, she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Addie Loggins in 1973's Paper Moon, becoming the youngest Oscar winner of any competitive category.
Sandler has never won, nor been nominated, for a single Oscar throughout his decades-long film career, despite receiving rave reviews for his dramatic turns in Uncut Gems, Punch-Drunk Love, and The Meyerowitz Stories.
Billy Wilder's The Apartment brought home five Oscars at the 1960 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, and Best Film Editing.
As of the 95th Academy Awards (2022), 40 films have won at least two acting awards. Of these, three films – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Network (1976), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) – have won three acting awards. To date, no film has won four Academy Awards in an acting category.
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 film composer has won five Oscars, four Golden Globes, seven BAFTAs and 25 Grammys. With 52 Oscar nominations, he is second only to Walt Disney as most nominated person ever.
'Everything Everywhere All At Once' takes home 7 Oscars, including Best Picture. It was a huge night for the sci-fi multiverse movie. The multiverse was a major hit at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night (March 12).
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.
The statuettes that have been sold
Actor Harold Russell sold the Oscar he won for his role in 'For the Best Years of Our Lives' in 1944 in exchange for 60,500 dollars in order to pay for his wife's illness.
Celebrate 100th Anniversaries at Oscars 2023 - IMDb.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on Sunday February 29, 2004.
Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award.
Tom Hanks (USA) won Best Actor Academy Awards in two consecutive Oscar ceremonies (held in 1994 and 1995) for Philadelphia (USA, 1993) and Forrest Gump (USA, 1994), a record he shares with Spencer Tracy (USA), who won Best Actor in 1938 and 1939 for Captains Courageous (USA, 1937) and Boys Town (USA, 1938), ...
2021: 36 Nominations – 7 wins. 2020: 24 Nominations – 2 wins. 2019: 14 Nominations – 4 wins.