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Academy Awards
Most Wins by Female Actor
This list features female actors that have won the most acting awards at the Academy Awards.
RANK | ACTRESS | NOMINATIONS | WINS | FILMS |
1 | Meryl Streep | 21 | 3 | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Sophie’s Choice (1982) The Iron Lady (2011) |
2 | Katharine Hepburn | 12 | 4 | Morning Glory (1934) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1968) The Lion in Winter (1969) On Golden Pond (1982) |
3 | Bette Davis | 11 | 2 | Dangerous (1935) Jezebel (1938) |
4 | Cate Blanchett | 8 | 2 | Elizabeth (1998) Blue Jasmine (2014) |
5 | Ingrid Bergman | 7 | 3 | Gaslight (1944) Anastasia (1956) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) |
6 | Jane Fonda | 7 | 2 | Klute (1971) Coming Home (1978) |
7 | Frances McDormand | 6 | 3 | Fargo (1996) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Nomadland (2020) |
8 | Maggie Smith | 6 | 2 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) California Suite (1978) |
9 | Jessica Lange | 6 | 2 | Tootsie (1982) Blue Sky (1994) |
10 | Olivia de Havilland | 5 | 2 | To Each His Own (1946) The Heiress (1949) |
11 | Elizabeth Taylor | 5 | 2 | BUtterfield 8 (1960) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) |
12 | Jodie Foster | 5 | 2 | The Accused (1988) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
13 | Emma Stone | 5 | 2 | La La Land (2016) Poor Things (2023) |
14 | Shelley Winters | 4 | 2 | The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) A Patch of Blue (1965) |
15 | Glenda Jackson | 4 | 2 | Women in Love (1970) A Touch of Class (1973) |
16 | Renée Zellweger | 4 | 2 | Cold Mountain (2003) Judy (2019) |
17 | Sally Field | 3 | 2 | Norma Rae (1979) Places in the Heart (1984) |
18 | Dianne Wiest | 3 | 2 | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) |
19 | Luise Rainer | 2 | 2 | The Great Ziegfeld (1936) The Good Earth (1937) |
20 | Vivien Leigh | 2 | 2 | Gone with the Wind (1939) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
21 | Helen Hayes | 2 | 2 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) Airport (1970) |
22 | Hilary Swank | 2 | 2 | Boys Don’t Cry (1999) Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
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