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Academy Awards
Most Wins for Acting
This list features actors that have won the most acting awards at the Academy Awards.
RANK | ACTOR | 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 | Jack Nicholson | 12 | 3 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Terms of Endearment (1984) As Good as It Gets (1998) |
4 | Bette Davis | 11 | 2 | Dangerous (1935) Jezebel (1938) |
5 | Spencer Tracy | 9 | 2 | Captains Courageous (1937) Boys Town (1938) |
6 | Denzel Washington | 9 | 2 | Glory (1989) Training Day (2001) |
7 | Marlon Brando | 8 | 2 | On the Waterfront (1954) The Godfather (1972) |
8 | Jack Lemmon | 8 | 2 | Mister Roberts (1955) Save the Tiger (1973) |
9 | Robert De Niro | 8 | 2 | The Godfather Part II (1974) Raging Bull (1980) |
10 | Cate Blanchett | 8 | 2 | The Aviator (2004) Blue Jasmine (2013) |
11 | Ingrid Bergman | 7 | 3 | Gaslight (1944) Anastasia (1956) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) |
12 | Jane Fonda | 7 | 2 | Klute (1971) Coming Home (1978) |
13 | Dustin Hoffman | 7 | 2 | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Rain Man (1988) |
14 | Daniel Day-Lewis | 6 | 3 | My Left Foot (1989) There Will Be Blood (2007) Lincoln (2012) |
15 | Frances McDormand | 6 | 3 | Fargo (1996) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Nomadland (2020) |
16 | Maggie Smith | 6 | 2 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) California Suite (1978) |
17 | Jessica Lange | 6 | 2 | Tootsie (1982) Blue Sky (1994) |
18 | Tom Hanks | 6 | 2 | Philadelphia (1993) Forrest Gump (1994) |
19 | Michael Caine | 6 | 2 | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) The Cider House Rules (1999) |
20 | Anthony Hopkins | 6 | 2 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) The Father (2020) |
21 | Olivia de Havilland | 5 | 2 | To Each His Own (1946) The Heiress (1949) |
22 | Gary Cooper | 5 | 2 | Sergeant York (1941) High Noon (1952) |
23 | Elizabeth Taylor | 5 | 2 | BUtterfield 8 (1960) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) |
24 | Jodie Foster | 5 | 2 | The Accused (1988) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
25 | Fredric March | 5 | 2 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) |
26 | Gene Hackman | 5 | 2 | The French Connection (1971) Unforgiven (1992) |
27 | Sean Penn | 5 | 2 | Mystic River (2003) Milk (2008) |
28 | Emma Stone | 5 | 2 | La La Land (2016) Poor Things (2023) |
29 | Walter Brennan | 4 | 3 | Come and Get It (1936) Kentucky (1938) The Westerner (1940) |
30 | Anthony Quinn | 4 | 2 | Viva Zapata! (1952) Lust for Life (1956) |
31 | Shelley Winters | 4 | 2 | The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) A Patch of Blue (1965) |
32 | Glenda Jackson | 4 | 2 | Women in Love (1970) A Touch of Class (1973) |
33 | Renée Zellweger | 4 | 2 | Cold Mountain (2003) Judy (2019) |
34 | Peter Ustinov | 3 | 2 | Spartacus (1960) Topkapi (1964) |
35 | Jason Robards | 3 | 2 | All the President’s Men (1976) Julia (1977) |
36 | Melvyn Douglas | 3 | 2 | Hud (1963) Being There (1979) |
37 | Sally Field | 3 | 2 | Norma Rae (1979) Places in the Heart (1984) |
38 | Dianne Wiest | 3 | 2 | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) |
39 | Luise Rainer | 2 | 2 | The Great Ziegfeld (1936) The Good Earth (1937) |
40 | Vivien Leigh | 2 | 2 | Gone with the Wind (1939) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
41 | Helen Hayes | 2 | 2 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) Airport (1970) |
42 | Kevin Spacey | 2 | 2 | The Usual Suspects (1995) American Beauty (1999) |
43 | Hilary Swank | 2 | 2 | Boys Don’t Cry (1999) Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
44 | Christoph Waltz | 2 | 2 | Inglourious Basterds (2009) Django Unchained (2012) |
45 | Mahershala Ali | 2 | 2 | Moonlight (2016) Green Book (2018) |
46 | Adrien Brody | 2 | 2 | The Pianist (2002) The Brutalist (2024) |
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