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)