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.
The youngest winner at the Academy Awards is still Tatum O'Neal. She won Best Supporting Actress for the film Paper Moon in 1974 at the age of 10. She was nominated alongside her co-star Madeline Kahn in the dramedy, which also netted Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound nominations.
Disney is followed by Iain Neil, a renowned camera optical systems developer with 13 Oscar wins; art director and production designer Cedric Gibbons, with 11 wins, and photographic effects creator Farciot Edouart, with 10 wins.
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As of 2022, a total of three minors (including Duke) have won Oscars, all in the Best Supporting Actress category. The other two are Tatum O'Neal, who was 10, for Paper Moon (1973), and Anna Paquin, who was 11, for The Piano (1993). As of 2022, O'Neal remains the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Award.
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.
Patty Duke was 16 when she re-created her revelatory stage role as Helen Keller in the 1963 film adaptation of “The Miracle Worker.” Frank Sinatra introduced her category at the 35th Academy Awards, and “West Side Story” star George Chakiris presented the statuette.
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.
Beatrice Straight (USA, 1914-2001) won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award at the 1977 American Academy Awards for her portrayal of Louise Schumacher in Network (USA, 1976) - despite appearing on screen for a mere 5 min 40 sec.
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.
Incredibly, the actor with the most Academy Awards never attended the ceremony to collect her Oscars. "As for me, prizes are nothing,” she once said. “My prize is my work.”
Although Zendaya has yet to clinch an Oscar nomination, she has attended the event quite a few times over the years: She made her debut in 2015 and returned in 2018, 2021, and 2022.
LeAnn Rimes is the youngest individual winner. She was 14 years old when she won her first two awards in 1997. She was also the first country artist to win the Best New Artist Grammy.
The youngest performer to win a Tony Award was Frankie Michaels, who was honored in 1966 for his work in Mame, shortly after he turned 11. The youngest actress is Daisy Eagan, who was 11 when she won for The Secret Garden in 1991.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Marlee Matlin won her award for Best Actress at twenty-one for 'Children of a Lesser God' making her the youngest to earn a golden statuette for the category. Jennifer Lawrence comes a close second with her 2012 win at age twenty-two for 'Silver Linings Playbook'.
For best actor, the median age of the winners is two years older than that of the nominees, while for women it is two years younger. This year's nominees have a wide age range, from 23 (Jennifer Lawrence) to 84 (June Squibb) for actresses, and from 28 (Barkhad Abdi) to 77 (Bruce Dern) for actors.
8–11 years old: Agents and managers love to find actors in this age range. Their voice is still unchanged, they're disciplined enough to handle long work hours, they're reading, they're not old enough to develop acne, and they're still child-size.
The movies shown here were created by kids age s 6 and 7, in the summer Curiosity Club. The kids wrote the stories, directed their story, acted in their friend's movies, and shot most of the footage. They also offer this brief example of stop-motion animation.
Elisabeth Waldo is 105 years old, making her the oldest living celebrity still alive today. A violinist, composer and conductor, Elisabeth Waldo began her impressive musical career on her family's ranch in Washington State. She was singing by the age of three and playing a small violin by the age of five.
