List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees

Anthony Hopkins and Tatum O'Neal are the oldest and youngest winners of acting Oscars, winning at age 83 and age 10 respectively.

This is a list of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees in the award categories Acting and Directing.

This list is based on "statistics valid through the nomination announcement for the 2015 (88th Academy Awards), announced on January 14, 2016", as documented in The Official Academy Awards Database.^[1]

At the 90th Academy Awards, James Ivory became the oldest-ever Oscar winner in any category, at age 89, after receiving the award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Call Me by Your Name.^[2] At the 93rd Academy Awards, Ann Roth became the oldest-ever woman to win an Oscar in any category, at age 89, after receiving the award for Best Costume Design for her work on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.^[3]

At the 95th Academy Awards, John Williams became the oldest Oscar nominee in any category, at age 90, after receiving his 53rd Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for his work on The Fabelmans.^[4] At the 96th Academy Awards, he beat the record again, at age 91, after receiving his 54th Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for his work on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.^[5]^[6]

There are only five people in Oscar history who have won two Oscars by the age of 30 or younger:

Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth
Jodie Foster for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs
Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby
Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell for the songs No Time to Die from No Time to Die and What Was I Made for? from Barbie

Rainer, Foster, and Swank won their awards in the Best Actress category, while Eilish and O'Connell won theirs in the Best Original Song category. Eilish is the youngest person to have won two Oscars, aged 22 at the time of her second win.

^ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2008-02-24). "The Official Academy Awards Database". oscars.org (AMPAS). Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2008-07-27. The [searchable] Academy Awards Database contains the record of past Academy Award winners and nominees. The data is complete through the 2008 (81st) Academy Awards. ... The ["Academy Award Statistics" in the "Directing" and "Acting" sections of the Awards Database] are based on the most reliable birthdate information available to us at the time of publishing. We welcome any information from primary sources that might indicate a different birthdate for an individual. Such sources might be birth or death certificates or databases based on such records, published interviews with the individual or published documents that cite their sources. This would not include the Internet Movie Database or other web sites that do not cite primary sources for their information. N.B.: Ages (including for those persons receiving nominations and/or awards posthumously) are computed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS); for nominations, all ages are computed "from date of birth to date of nominations announcement"; for awards won, all ages are computed "from date of birth to date of awards ceremony."
^ Verhoeven, Beatrice (March 4, 2018). "James Ivory Becomes Oldest Oscar Winner on Record in Any Category". The Wrap. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
^ Ordoña, Michael (April 25, 2021). "Ann Roth is now the oldest woman to win a competitive Oscar". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
^ Andreeva, Nellie (January 24, 2023). "John Williams Sets Record For Oldest Oscar Nominee; Judd Hirsch Becomes Second-Oldest Acting Nominee 42 Years After His First Nom". Deadline. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
^ France, Lisa Respers (2024-01-23). "Oscar nominations 2024: See the full list of nominees". CNN. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
^ France, Lisa Respers (2024-01-23). "Martin Scorsese and John Williams just made Oscars history". CNN. Retrieved 2024-01-23.

[AAD-1] Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2008-02-24). "The Official Academy Awards Database". oscars.org (AMPAS). Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2008-07-27. The [searchable] Academy Awards Database contains the record of past Academy Award winners and nominees. The data is complete through the 2008 (81st) Academy Awards. ... The ["Academy Award Statistics" in the "Directing" and "Acting" sections of the Awards Database] are based on the most reliable birthdate information available to us at the time of publishing. We welcome any information from primary sources that might indicate a different birthdate for an individual. Such sources might be birth or death certificates or databases based on such records, published interviews with the individual or published documents that cite their sources. This would not include the Internet Movie Database or other web sites that do not cite primary sources for their information. N.B.: Ages (including for those persons receiving nominations and/or awards posthumously) are computed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS); for nominations, all ages are computed "from date of birth to date of nominations announcement"; for awards won, all ages are computed "from date of birth to date of awards ceremony."

[Wrap-2] Verhoeven, Beatrice (March 4, 2018). "James Ivory Becomes Oldest Oscar Winner on Record in Any Category". The Wrap. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

[LAT-3] Ordoña, Michael (April 25, 2021). "Ann Roth is now the oldest woman to win a competitive Oscar". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 26, 2021.

[Deadline-4] Andreeva, Nellie (January 24, 2023). "John Williams Sets Record For Oldest Oscar Nominee; Judd Hirsch Becomes Second-Oldest Acting Nominee 42 Years After His First Nom". Deadline. Retrieved January 25, 2023.

[5] France, Lisa Respers (2024-01-23). "Oscar nominations 2024: See the full list of nominees". CNN. Retrieved 2024-01-23.

[6] France, Lisa Respers (2024-01-23). "Martin Scorsese and John Williams just made Oscars history". CNN. Retrieved 2024-01-23.

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