Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award. As of 2021, 44 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn leads the way with four (all Best Actress).
Who has the highest number of Oscars for a 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.
To date, no film has won all four Academy Awards in the four acting categories (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress). However, there have been fifteen films containing at least one nominated performance in each of the four Academy Award acting categories.
Jane Fonda winning Best Actress | 44th Oscars (1972)
Which actor has 52 Oscar nominations?
The individual with the most Academy Award nods is not an actor, but a behind-the-scenes talent. With 52 Academy Award nominations to his name, Star Wars composer John Williams is the most Oscar-nominated person alive.
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.
Since the dawn of movie-making, Hollywood has seen a number of talented dynasties: the Coppolas, the Barrymores, the Fondas. In some cases, as with sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine—the only pair of siblings to win lead acting Oscars—sibling rivalry hung like a dark cloud over family bonds.
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.
In fact, Titanic's Oscar trove tied the record for most nominations, alongside All About Eve (1950) and Ben-Hur (1959), as did La La Land in 2016. Out of the 14, James Cameron's period piece won a whopping 11 Oscars, including the great honor of Best Picture.
Daniel Day-Lewis became the first and currently only man to win three best actor Oscars, while Frances McDormand became only the second woman and third of her counterparts overall to achieve the same. Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937 and 1941.
Walt Disney (1901–1966) won or received a total of twenty-six Academy Awards and holds the record for most Academy Awards in history. He won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards from a total of fifty-nine nominations, and also holds the records for most wins and most nominations for an individual in history.
A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations.
Katharine Hepburn holds the distinction of winning the most Oscars for acting, with four Academy Awards and a total of 12 nominations. Hepburn won for her roles in the films Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981).
TIL Keanu Reeves has never won an Oscar, Golden Globe, or Emmy award of any kind. In fact, he has never even been nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, or Emmy.
Alas, a representative for the actor later told People that Cruise was overseas filming Mission: Impossible 8, making any appearance at the Oscars—well, impossible.
Luise Rainer won her two Best Actress awards in back-to-back years in 1936 and 1937, winning her second Oscar at 27 years old. Jodie Foster was 29 when she won her second Oscar for Silence of the Lambs at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992.
Acting wise, Katharine Hepburn still holds the record title of the most wins for a female actor in Oscar history (4 Oscars and a total of 12 nominations), with Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep all not far behind with 3 Oscars to their names.
The "Big Five" Oscars award categories are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay, either Original or Adapted.
Forrest Gump, American film, released in 1994, that chronicled 30 years (from the 1950s through the early 1980s) of the life of a intellectually disabled man (played by Tom Hanks) in an unlikely fable that earned critical praise, large audiences, and six Academy Awards, including best picture.
It's the second-biggest film franchise of all-time and beloved by millions across the globe — and now available on Netflix — but although it was nominated for 12 Academy Awards across eight movies, the Harry Potter series never won one.
The 1972 film 'The Godfather' had 11 nominations and won three Academy Awards in the 1973 ceremony, in the following categories: Best Picture. Best Actor: Marlon Brando. Best Adapted Screenplay: Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola.
