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Most Wins for Best Actress

This list features actresses that have won the most Best Actress awards at the Academy Awards.

RANK

ACTRESS

NOMINATIONS

WINS

FILMS

1

Katharine Hepburn

12

4

Morning Glory (1934)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1968)

The Lion in Winter (1969)

On Golden Pond (1982)

2

Frances McDormand

3

3

Fargo (1996)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Nomadland (2020)

3

Meryl Streep

17

2

Sophie’s Choice (1982)

The Iron Lady (2011)

4

Bette Davis

11

2

Dangerous (1935)

Jezebel (1938)

5

Ingrid Bergman

6

2

Gaslight (1944)

Anastasia (1956)

6

Jane Fonda

6

2

Klute (1971)

Coming Home (1978)

7

Elizabeth Taylor

5

2

BUtterfield 8 (1960)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

8

Olivia de Havilland

4

2

To Each His Own (1946)

The Heiress (1949)

9

Glenda Jackson

4

2

Women in Love (1970)

A Touch of Class (1973)

10

Jodie Foster

3

2

The Accused (1988)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

11

Luise Rainer

2

2

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

The Good Earth (1937)

12

Vivien Leigh

2

2

Gone with the Wind (1939)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

13

Sally Field

2

2

Norma Rae (1979)

Places in the Heart (1984)

14

Hilary Swank

2

2

Boys Don’t Cry (1999)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

15

Emma Stone

2

2

La La Land (2016)

Poor Things (2023)


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References

Wikipedia. (2025). Academy Award for Best Actress. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress#Multiple_wins_and_nominations [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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