List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for their performances in films since its conception. Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, there have been actors and actresses that have received multiple Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, or Best Supporting Actress. The only restriction is that actors cannot receive multiple nominations for the one performance.[1] This rule was implemented after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way.[2]

As of 2008, 37 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Four of these actors and actresses have received more than two Academy Awards: Katharine Hepburn (four Best Actress awards),[3] Ingrid Bergman (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award),[4] Walter Brennan (three Best Supporting Actor awards),[5] and Jack Nicholson (two Best Actor awards and one Best Supporting Actor award).[6]

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Winners

Actor/Actress Category/Winning Film (Ceremony) Number of awards Number of nominations
Bergman, IngridIngrid Bergman Best Actress — Gaslight (1944, 17th Academy Awards)
Best Actress — Anatasia (1956, 29th Academy Awards)
Best Supporting Actress — Murder on the Orient Express (1974, 47th Academy Awards)		 3 7
Brando, MarlonMarlon Brando Best Actor — On the Waterfront (1954, 27th Academy Awards)
Best Actor — The Godfather (1972, 45th Academy Awards)		 2 8
Brennan, WalterWalter Brennan Best Supporting Actor — Come and Get it (1936, 9th Academy Awards), Kentucky (1938, 11th Academy Awards), The Westerner (1942, 13th Academy Awards) 3 4
Caine, MichaelMichael Caine Best Supporting Actor Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules (1986, 59th Academy Awards, 1999, 72nd Academy Awards) 2 6
Cooper, GaryGary Cooper Best Actor Sergeant York, High Noon (1941, 14th Academy Awards, 1952, 25th Academy Awards) 2 5
Davis, BetteBette Davis Best Actress Dangerous, Jezebel (8th Academy Awards, 11th Academy Awards) 2 10
Day-Lewis, DanielDaniel Day-Lewis Best Actor My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood (1989, 62nd Academy Awards, 2007, 80th Academy Awards) 2 4
de Havilland, OliviaOlivia de Havilland Best Actress To Each His Own (1946, 19th Academy Awards)
Best Actress The Heiress (1949, 22nd Academy Awards)		 2 5
De Niro, RobertRobert De Niro Best Supporting Actor The Godfather Part II (1974, 47th Academy Awards)
Best Actor Raging Bull (1980, 53rd Academy Awards)		 2 6
Douglas, MelvynMelvyn Douglas Best Supporting Actor Hud, Being There (1963, 36th Academy Awards, 1979, 52nd Academy Awards) 2 3
Field, SallySally Field Best Actress Norma Rae, Places in the Heart, (1979, 52nd Academy Awards, 1984, 57th Academy Awards) 2 2
Fonda, JaneJane Fonda Best Actress Klute, Coming Home (1971, 44th Academy Awards, 1978, 51st Academy Awards) 2 7
Foster, JodieJodie Foster Best Actress The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs (1988, 61st Academy Awards, 1991, 64th Academy Awards) 2 4
Hackman, GeneGene Hackman Best Actor The French Connection (1971, 44th Academy Awards)
Best Supporting Actor Unforgiven (1992, 65th Academy Awards)		 2 5
Hanks, TomTom Hanks Best Actor Philadelphia, Forrest Gump (1993, 66th Academy Awards, 1994, 67th Academy Awards) 2 5
Hayes, HelenHelen Hayes Best Actress (5th Academy Awards)
Best Supporting Actress (43rd Academy Awards)		 2 2
Hepburn, KatharineKatharine Hepburn Best Actress Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond (1933, 6th Academy Awards, 1967, 40th Academy Awards, 1968, 41st Academy Awards, 1981, 54th Academy Awards) 4 12
Hoffman, DustinDustin Hoffman Best Actor Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man (1979, 52nd Academy Awards, 1988, 61st Academy Awards) 2 7
Jackson, GlendaGlenda Jackson Best Actress Women in Love, A Touch of Class (1970, 43rd Academy Awards, 1973, 46th Academy Awards) 2 4
Lange, JessicaJessica Lange Best Supporting Actress Tootsie (1982, 55th Academy Awards)
Best Actress Blue Sky (1994, 67th Academy Awards)		 2 6
Leigh, VivienVivien Leigh Best Actress Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire (1939, 12th Academy Awards, 1951, 24th Academy Awards) 2 2
Lemmon, JackJack Lemmon Best Supporting Actor Mister Roberts (1955, 28th Academy Awards)
Best Actor Save the Tiger (1973, 46th Academy Awards)		 2 8
March, FredricFredric March Best Actor (5th Academy Awards, 19th Academy Awards) 2 5
Nicholson, JackJack Nicholson Best Actor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, 48th Academy Awards)
Best Supporting Actor Terms of Endearment (1983, 55th Academy Awards)
Best Actor As Good as It Gets (1997, 70th Academy Awards)		 3 12
Penn, SeanSean Penn Best Actor Mystic River, Milk (2003, 76th Academy Awards, 2008, 81st Academy Awards) 2 5
Quinn, AnthonyAnthony Quinn Best Supporting Actor Viva Zapata, Lust for Life (1952, 25th Academy Awards, 1956, 29th Academy Awards) 2 4
Rainer, LuiseLuise Rainer Best Actress The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth (1936, 9th Academy Awards, 1937, 10th Academy Awards) 2 2
Robards, JasonJason Robards Best Supporting Actor All the President's Men, Julia (1976, 49th Academy Awards, 1977, 50th Academy Awards) 2 3
Smith, MaggieMaggie Smith Best Actress The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969, 42nd Academy Awards)
Best Supporting Actress California Suite (1978, 51st Academy Awards)		 2 6
Spacey, KevinKevin Spacey Best Supporting Actor The Usual Suspects (1995, 68th Academy Awards)
Best Actor American Beauty (1999, 72nd Academy Awards)		 2 2
Streep, MerylMeryl Streep Best Supporting Actress Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, 52nd Academy Awards)
Best Actress Sophie's Choice (1982, 55th Academy Awards)		 2 16
Swank, HilaryHilary Swank Best Actress Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby (1999, 72nd Academy Awards, 2004, 77th Academy Awards) 2 2
Taylor, ElizabethElizabeth Taylor Best Actress Butterfield 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1960, 33rd Academy Awards, 1966, 39th Academy Awards) 2 5
Tracy, SpencerSpencer Tracy Best Actor Captains Courageous, Boys Town (10th Academy Awards, 11th Academy Awards) 2 9
Ustinov, PeterPeter Ustinov Best Supporting Actor Spartacus, Topkapi (1960, 33rd Academy Awards, 1964, 37th Academy Awards) 2 3
Washington, DenzelDenzel Washington Best Supporting Actor Glory (1989, 62nd Academy Awards)
Best Actor Training Day (2001, 74th Academy Awards)		 2 5
Wiest, DianneDianne Wiest Best Supporting Actress Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway (1986, 59th Academy Awards, 1994, 67th Academy Awards) 2 3
Winters, ShelleyShelley Winters Best Supporting Actress The Diary of Anne Frank, A Patch of Blue (1959, 32nd Academy Awards, 1965, 38th Academy Awards) 2 4

See also

References

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Specific
  1. ^ "Rule 6 – 80th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule06.html. Retrieved August 21, 2008. 
  2. ^ "Persons nominated in two acting categories in the same year". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 8, 2008. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/statistics/actingtwoinone.html. Retrieved August 21, 2008. 
  3. ^ Allen, Jamie (June 30, 2003). "Katharine Hepburn dead at 96". CNN. Archived from the original on March 23, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080323130032/http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/29/hepburn.obit/index.html. Retrieved August 21, 2008. 
  4. ^ "Ingrid Bergman – Awards". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/5652/Ingrid-Bergman/awards. Retrieved August 21, 2008. 
  5. ^ "Walter Brennan – Awards". Moviefone. http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/walter-brennan/1027197/awards. Retrieved August 21, 2008. 
  6. ^ "Jack Nicholson – Awards". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/104455/Jack-Nicholson/awards. Retrieved August 21, 2008. 

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