Cary Grant may be the greatest actor to have never won an Oscar. And, unfortunately, he didn't get many chances to win one before his death in 1986 at the age of 82. He was only nominated for Best Actor twice (twice?!) in his career; first for 1941's Penny Serenade and later for 1944's None but the Lonely Heart.
Cary Grant is considered one of Hollywood's best known leading men, but he never won an Oscar. The star of "The Philadelphia Story," "North by Northwest" and "An Affair to Remember," he was nominated twice for Best Actor. Finally, after his retirement from film in 1966, Grant was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1970.
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.
Which of people has never won an Academy Award in their career?
The record for the most Academy Awards nominations without a win by an actor or actress is currently held by Glenn Close, who has been nominated for an Academy Award 8 times but has yet to win an Oscar.
Over the course of her storied career, Close has been nominated a whopping eight times for her roles in films including The Big Chill (1983), Fatal Attraction (1987), and Dangerous Liaisons (1988), but she's never taken an Oscar home.
The Top 25 Greatest Actors Who Have Never Won An Oscar
Who has the youngest Oscar ever?
Actress Tatum O'Neal was only 10 years old when she won a competitive Oscar in 1974. She became the youngest person to win the award. Tatum was recognised as the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in “Paper Moon.” In the film, she starred opposite her real-life father, Ryan O'Neal.
In 2021, an 83-year-old Sir Anthony Hopkins became the oldest person to ever win an acting Oscar for his performance in The Father. Hopkins had already won once for his chilling performance in The Silence of the Lambs.
Richard Burton had the honor of being nominated seven times by the Academy before his death in 1984. And while the talented Old Hollywood icon, who may be better known to the casual movie fan as the man who married Elizabeth Taylor not once, but twice, never won an Oscar, it feels rather harsh to call him a loser.
October 13, 2017 – Producer Harvey Weinstein was expelled for "sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment" after an emergency meeting held on October 13, 2017. May 1, 2018 – Actor Bill Cosby and director Roman Polanski were expelled "in accordance with the organization's Standards of Conduct".
Who has the most Oscar wins ever? It may come as a surprise, but the person with the most Oscar awards ever is not a movie star — it's Walt Disney. He received 26 Oscars, of which 22 were competitive awards and four were honorary awards.
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 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)..
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.
(NEXSTAR) – The Academy Award is generally regarded as one of the highest honors that an actor can receive — the keyword being “generally.” In the history of the Oscars, however, there have only been three people who refused their awards: actors George C. Scott and Marlon Brando, and screenwriter Dudley Nichols.
As for Best Actor, Adrien Brody holds the title of youngest winner for his performance in 'The Pianist', winning the accolade in 2002 at age twenty-nine. In the Supporting Actor category, Timothy Hutton won at age twenty for his work in the 1980 film 'Ordinary People'.
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.
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.
Last year, Williams scored a 53rd nomination for his music for Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, making the then 90-year-old maestro the oldest person to be nominated for an Oscar.
In fact, though there are those who have rejected their Oscars (Marlon Brando, Dudley Nichols), only one award has ever been revoked in Academy history — the 1969 prize for Best Documentary, which was given to Young Americans before it was determined that the film was released in 1967 and therefore ineligible.
He learned tap dance for his role as lawyer Billy Flynn in Chicago, and karate for An Officer and a Gentleman. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited Gere as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
Filmmaker Roman Polanski, known for directing movies like "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby," was expelled by the academy in 2018 after years of sexual assault allegations against him had been mounting. He pleaded guilty in 1977 to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
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.
Who is the youngest person nominated for an Oscar?
As of March 2024, the all-time youngest Academy Award nominee in an acting category was Justin Henry, who was just eight years old when he was nominated for his role as Billy in "Kramer vs Kramer" (1979).
Billie Eilish has made history, becoming the youngest person to win two Academy Awards. The 22-year-old and her older brother, Finneas O'Connell, won the best original song Oscar for “What Was I Made For?” from the “Barbie” soundtrack.
