Who has won an Oscar 3 times?

A three-time Oscar winner, Meryl Streep is the most nominated performer in the acting categories, with 21 nominations between 1979 and 2018.
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Who is the only man to have won 3 Best Oscars?

Day-Lewis, 60, the only man to have won three best actor Oscars, gave no reason for his decision, calling it private.
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Who Won 3 Oscars one night?

Walt Disney won an armload of Academy Awards® one unforgettable Hollywood night. On March 25, 1954, Walt won Oscars for the films The Living Desert, Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo, and the cartoon short Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom.
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Who has won Oscar many times?

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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How many men won three Oscars?

Jack Nicholson is one of three actors to have won three times — for 1975's “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” 1983's “Terms of Endearment” and 1997's “As Good as It Gets.” Daniel Day-Lewis won for “My Left Foot” (1990), “There Will Be Blood” (2008) and “Lincoln” (2013).
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The Most Oscar Award Winners in History



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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Has any film won all four acting Oscars?

To date, no film has won four (or more) Academy Awards in acting categories. However, there have been fifteen films containing at least one nominated performance in each of the four Academy Award acting categories.
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Who is the best actor of all time?

Marlon Brando

With an illustrious career spanning over five decades, Brando is easily the greatest actor of the 20th century. He was the most famous student of Stella Adler, from whom he learned the method acting technique proposed by Stanislavski.
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Who is the youngest person to win an Oscar?

7. Youngest Oscar Winner. 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 has had 52 Oscar nominations?

Such is the case of John Williams, the renowned American composer who throughout his career in the medium has been nominated 52 times, setting a record that is far from being matched. Despite his steadfastness, he has won only five Oscars in his more than 60 year career for his extraordinary compositions.
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Who won 2 Best Actor Oscars?

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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Who won 4 Oscars for Best Actress?

1 Katharine Hepburn: 4 Wins (12 Nominations)

She has four to her name spanning a 50-year period. The first was in 1934 for Morning Glory. The second came more than 30 years later in 1968 for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, followed by another one the next year for The Lion in the Winter.
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Who is God of acting?

Mohanlal is referred as the god of acting. His talent of natural acting is amazing. He received these awards and honours as a part of this.
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Who is the most respected actor in Hollywood?

The Best Actors In Hollywood History
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Who is the goat actor?

Tom Hanks. Best Roles: Forrest Gump Andrew Beckett Paul Edgecomb Woody Michael Sullivan Sr.
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Who won most Best Actress Oscars?

Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars. With 17 nominations, Meryl Streep is the most nominated in this category, resulting in two wins. Luise Rainer became the first actress to win the award twice and in consecutive years for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937).
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What female actress has won the most Oscars?

The actress with the most Oscars is Katharine Hepburn scooping her awards in: 1933, 1967, 1968, and 1981. The films for which she won the award were: Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond.
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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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What 3 movies won 5 Oscars?

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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Has any actor won 2 Oscars in one night?

Bong matched the record set by Walt Disney in 1954 for most Oscars won in a single night by one person. "Parasite" became the first South Korean film to win an Oscar of any kind, and Bong beat Sam Mendes and "1917" to best director and best picture.
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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 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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Why did Will Smith slap?

The slap was in response to Rock making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, which she had been shaving since 2021 due to alopecia areata. After returning to his seat, Smith shouted profane remarks at Rock.
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