Superlatives. Woody Allen also holds the record as the oldest winner (76) for Midnight in Paris. Ben Affleck is the youngest winner (25) for Good Will Hunting, co-written with Matt Damon (27). Richard Schweizer was the first to win for a foreign-language film, Marie-Louise.
Youngest Winner of the Best Original Screenplay Oscar
Ben Affleck is the youngest person to win The Academy Award's Best Original Screenplay at age 25. He won in 1997 alongside Matt Damon (who was 27 at the time) for “Goodwill Hunting.”
The next youngest recipient of the award was Orson Welles at age 26.
The record for the youngest Academy Award winner of all time goes to the brilliantly talented Tatum O'Neal. At a mere ten years and 148 days old, she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Addie Loggins in 1973's Paper Moon, becoming the youngest Oscar winner of any competitive category.
Anna Paquin beat Tatum O'Neal by just a year as the second-youngest person to win at the Academy Awards. She won 1994 for Best Supporting Actress for her turn in Jane Campion's The Piano at the age of 11. Her adorable speech is still one of the best in Oscars history.
with the Juvenile Award honoring him as "outstanding child actor of 1946". Twelve years old in 1946, Jarman was honored with the Juvenile Oscar for his screen debut as Jody in the MGM family drama, The Yearling, which was presented to him by former recipient Shirley Temple.
Shirley Temple, one of the earliest and most successful child actors, never officially won an Academy Award. But she did become an Honorary Juvenile Award recipient at the tender age of six, making her one of the most impressive young talents in Hollywood.
On January 10, 2013, at age nine, Wallis was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Wallis, who was 6 when she filmed Beasts of the Southern Wild, is the all-time youngest nominee for Best Actress and the third-youngest nominee in any category.
The record is currently held by Luise Rainer, who was the first actress to win consecutive times, for “The Great Ziegfeld” (1937) and “The Good Earth” (1938) when she was 27 and 28 years old.
How old was Jennifer Lawrence when she won the Oscar?
At the age of 22 she won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Lawrence knew from an early age that she wanted to act, and she began performing in school plays and local theatre in Louisville, Kentucky.
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.
Ben Affleck is the youngest person to win The Academy Award's Best Original Screenplay at age 25. He won in 1997 alongside Matt Damon (who was 27 at the time) for “Goodwill Hunting.” The next youngest recipient of the award was Orson Welles at age 26. He won for “Citizen Kane” in 1941.
PRESS-COVERAGE-YOUNGEST SCREENWRITER IN THE WORLD, MANIKYA SANGHI IS WRITING COMICS AND WEBSERIES OF HIS AWARD WINNING STORIES. Manikya Sanghi, a child author recently made India proud by receiving two World Records for Screen Writing at the age of 13 years.
The youngest credited writer is Aaron Seltzer who co-wrote Spy Hard at just 22. The movies with the oldest average screenwriters were musicals – average age 60.6 years.
The three movies to hold the Guinness World Record of winning 11 Oscars — the highest by a film — are The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Titanic and Ben-Hur. On the other hand, Titanic is one of the three films which has received the most number of nominations at 14.
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.
While Peter O'Toole was nominated for eight Oscars throughout his acting career, he didn't win any except for the honorary award he was given for his accomplishments. Glenn Close tied O'Toole for this feat in 2021.
The youngest person to win a Golden Globe award is Ricky Schroeder, who was 9 years old when he won New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture for “The Champ” in 1990. The oldest person to win one of the HFPA Globes is Jessica Tandy.
Who is the only man to have won three best actor Oscars?
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.
This list includes winners who are direct relatives of other winners, including in-laws, aunts/uncles and first cousins. The Shearers have the most wins, with 16. The Newmans have been nominated the most often, all 95 being for Film Scoring, Arrangement, or Original Song.
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.
