Which male has won the most Oscars?

Who has won the most Oscars of all time? The person who has triumphed more times at the Oscars than anyone else in history is Walt Disney. America's most iconic filmmaker racked up a whopping 26 Oscars, four of which were honorary awards, and he also holds the record for the most nominations on record – 59.
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Which male actor has won the most Oscars ever?

Daniel Day-Lewis has won the most, three. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated a record nine times.
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Who has won the most Oscars ever?

As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
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Who has won 3 Oscars for Best Actor?

Daniel Day-Lewis

Hepburn starred in dozens of movies, while Day-Lewis is more selective. He's been nominated only six times, but he's won three Oscars for Best Actor.
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Who is the greatest actor of all time?

Marlon Brando

With an illustrious career spanning over five decades, Brando is easily the greatest actor of the 20th century.
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Who is the youngest person to win an Oscar?

The youngest ever Oscar winner is actress Tatum O'Neal who was only 10 years old when she won Best Supporting Actress for the film 'Paper Moon'.
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Who won 8 Oscars?

  • Alfred Newman won nine Academy Awards, all for Best Original Score.
  • Alan Menken won eight awards in musical categories.
  • John Williams won five awards, holds the record for the most nominations by a living person at 52.
  • Sammy Cahn won four awards, all for Best Original Song.
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What 3 films have won 11 Oscars?

As of September 2021, three films tied for most Academy Award wins of all time. "Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), and "Titanic" (1997) each received 11 Oscars.
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Can Will Smith lose Oscar?

Both Davis and Noisette say, even though Smith is no longer a member of the academy, he will likely still be eligible to win future Oscars. "He could still go out there and make a great movie, and be nominated, and win. He just would not be part of the voting body of the membership," Noisette said.
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Who won Best Actor twice?

Nine actors have won the Best Actor Oscar twice:
  • Dustin Hoffman for Kramer vs. ...
  • Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and As Good As It Gets (1997)
  • Fredric March for Dr. ...
  • Sean Penn for Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008)
  • Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and The Father (2020)
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How many times Tom Hanks won Best Actor?

He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor for starring as a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993) and a young man with below-average IQ in Forrest Gump (1994).
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Who has been banned from Oscars?

A handful of other notable celebrities and filmmakers have either been banned from attending academy events — like Smith — or gotten expelled from the academy altogether:
  • Harvey Weinstein. ...
  • Roman Polanski. ...
  • Bill Cosby. ...
  • Carmine Caridi.
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Has an Oscar been taken back?

Only one Academy Award has ever been revoked in the history of the Oscars, and it was for a documentary that had been nominated in the wrong year.
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Has an Oscar ever been revoked?

In fact, though there are those who have rejected their Oscars (Marlon Brando, Dudley Nichols), only one award has ever been revoked in Academy history — the 1969 prize for Best Documentary, which was given to Young Americans before it was determined that the film was released in 1967 and therefore ineligible.
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Who nominated Oscar 52?

Legendary composer John Williams has the most Oscar nominations of any living person, with 52 nods. Williams has won five times, for his work on "Fiddler on the Roof," "Jaws," "Star Wars," "E.T. the Extra Terrestrial," and "Schindler's List."
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Which movie won all 5 Oscars?

As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021), a total of 43 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories. Only three films have won all five of these major awards: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Who is the oldest living Oscar winner?

Oldest living Oscar winners as of March 2022, by age

As of March 2022, the oldest living Academy Award winner was Walter Mirisch, who won an Oscar for producing "In the Heat of the Night" (1967). Eva Marie Saint won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in "On the Waterfront" (1954).
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Do actors get money for winning an Oscar?

Much like Super Bowl Halftime performers, there's no cash given to Oscar winners the night they take home the award.
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Who won 2 Oscars in a row?

Tom Hanks (USA) won Best Actor Academy Awards in two consecutive Oscar ceremonies (held in 1994 and 1995) for Philadelphia (USA, 1993) and Forrest Gump (USA, 1994), a record he shares with Spencer Tracy (USA), who won Best Actor in 1938 and 1939 for Captains Courageous (USA, 1937) and Boys Town (USA, 1938), ...
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