List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories

Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for their performances in films since its inception. Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, there have been actors and actresses who have received multiple Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, or Best Supporting Actress.[1] The only restriction is that actors cannot receive multiple nominations for the same performance.[2] This rule was implemented after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way.[3]

As of 2024, 45 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn holds the record with four Oscars (all Best Actress).[4]. Six have won three acting Academy Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor awards), Frances McDormand (three Best Actress awards), Meryl Streep (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award), Jack Nicholson (two Best Actor awards and one Best Supporting Actor award),[5] Ingrid Bergman (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award),[6] and Walter Brennan (three Best Supporting Actor awards).[7] Brennan became the first to receive three or more Academy Awards (winning the third in 1940), followed by Hepburn (1968), Bergman (1974), Nicholson (1997), Streep (2011), Day-Lewis (2012), and, most recently, McDormand (2020). Of the seven, only Nicholson, Streep, Day-Lewis, and McDormand are still living.

While there is no restriction on a performer winning the Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress awards in the same year for two roles in two movies, this has yet to happen—although there have been occasions where performers have been nominated for both in the same year.

  1. ^ "Acting Two or More Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 8, 2008. Archived from the original on March 8, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
  2. ^ "Rule 6 – 80th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 13, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  3. ^ "Persons nominated in two acting categories in the same year". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 8, 2008. Archived from the original on January 12, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  4. ^ Allen, Jamie (June 30, 2003). "Katharine Hepburn dead at 96". CNN. Archived from the original on March 23, 2008. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  5. ^ "Jack Nicholson – Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2010. Archived from the original on May 29, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  6. ^ "Ingrid Bergman – Awards". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2007. Archived from the original on November 13, 2007. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  7. ^ "Walter Brennan – Awards". Moviefone. Retrieved August 21, 2008.

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