Which film has won the most Oscars of all time? Three films hold the record of winning the most Academy Awards, having garnered 11 Oscars each: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
The highest number won by a single film is 11, which three films have achieved in the 95-year history of the awards. Check out the list below to see the most awarded films in Oscar history.
"Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), and "Titanic" (1997) each received 11 Oscars. The musical with the most Oscar wins was "West Side Story" (1961), with ten trophies.
As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021), a total of 43 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories. 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).
There appears to be two distinct paths for Irish actors and actresses to Oscar glory – achieved in 1944 by Fitzgerald for Going My Way, in 1989 by Fricker for My Left Foot and, on three occasions by Day-Lewis in 1989 for My Left Foot, in 2007 for There Will Be Blood and in 2012 for Lincoln.
The oldest winner in any category is James Ivory, who was 89 when he took home the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2018. Ivory won for the Call Me By Your Name screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by André Aciman.
Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson, who have three Oscars apiece, are tied as the actors with the most Academy Award wins, while three actresses — Ingrid Bergman, Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep — have also won three Oscars. Day-Lewis is the only man with three Oscars for best actor.
If you mean, “has any film won Academy Awards in every category for which it was theoretically eligible,” the answer is no. Ben-Hur has come the closest: it won 11 of the 14 categories* in which it was eligible for nomination (78.6%), and 11 of the 12 in which it was actually nominated (91.7%).
Other actors have won two Oscars in a single night, but neither of those awards were for acting, are: Woody Allen won “Best Director” and “Best Original Screenplay” for Annie Hall in 1977. Clint Eastwood won “Best Director” and “Best Picture” for Unforgiven in 1992, and again for Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
It won eleven Oscars, for Best Picture, Director (James Cameron), Cinematography (Russell Carpenter), Art/Set Direction, Costume Design, Sound, Film Editing, Sound Effects, Visual Effects, Original Song (My Heart Will Go On, by James Horner and Will Jennings), and Original Dramatic Score (James Horner).
Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics.
Adam Sandler's four film projects of 2023 propelled him to an annual salary of $73m (£57m), making him the highest-paid performer in Hollywood, according to Forbes magazine.
The late Walt Disney holds the record for the most Academy Award wins by a person, with 26, according to the Motion Picture Academy, while "Ben-Hur," "Titanic" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" are tied for the all-time record for films with the most wins, with 11.
Daniel Day-Lewis has won the most Academy Awards for best actor (three), and a number of actors have received two such Oscars, including Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks, both of whom won in consecutive years. Below is a list of the winning actors and the films for which they won. The year is when the award was presented.
What is the only movie to win every Oscar it was nominated for?
“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 ...
