Who has won the most Oscars in history?

The individual who has been awarded the most Oscars ever is Walt Disney, who won 22 awards from a total of 59 nominations.
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Who won the most Oscars of all time?

This includes the 1959 movie 'Ben-Hur', 1997's 'Titanic' and 2003's 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King'. Walt Disney has been honored with the most Academy Awards of all time, having won 22 awards out of 59 nominations. Katharine Hepburn holds the record for the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time.
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Who got 11 Oscars?

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Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories. Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories.
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What celebrity has won 3 Oscars?

Day-Lewis remains the only actor in history to have earned three Best Actor Academy Awards. There has been a numberof actos who havepicked up two awards in the past. Jack Nicholson has earned 12 nominations in total and has three wins, though not all for Best Actor.
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Who won 2 Oscars in India?

Resul Pookutty and A. R. Rahman won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing and Best Original Score respectively for the 2008 British film Slumdog Millionaire. Rahman also shared the Best Original Song Award with lyricist Gulzar for the song "Jai Ho". Rahman is the only Indian to win more than one Academy Award.
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Who got Oscar 36 times?

Walt Disney was an American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of cartoon films and as the creator of Disneyland.
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Which Indian movie won Oscar?

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, a drama about the life of a Mumbai street child, stole the show at the 2009 Oscar awards, winning in eight of the ten categories it was nominated in. Among the winners was Indian sound designer Resul Pookutty.
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Who was the youngest Oscar winner?

Tatum O'Neal

Finally, we get to the youngest Oscar winner ever. O'Neal was only 10 years old when she won Best Supporting Actress. She starred in “Paper Moon” alongside her father, actor Ryan O'Neal.
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Who is the youngest male Oscar winner?

Anthony Hopkins and Tatum O'Neal are the oldest and youngest winners of acting Oscars, winning at age 83 and age 10 respectively.
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Who is the best actor in the world?

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Who lost the most Oscars?

Sound engineer Greg P. Russell has racked up the most nods without a win, having received 16 nominations. But there are a few others in that department who have had repeat disappointments: Sound engineers Rick Kline (11 nominations) and Anna Behlmer (10 nominations) have also never had their moment at the podium.
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Which actress has the most Oscars?

We look back at past winners revealing a veritable 'who's who' in the history of cinema. The actress with most Best Actress Oscars is Katharine Hepburn, who scooped her awards in 1933, 1967, 1968, and 1981 for 'Morning Glory', 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner', 'The Lion in Winter', and 'On Golden Pond'.
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Who got 1st Oscar in India?

When Bhanu Athaiya won the Best Costume Design prize at the 55th Annual Academy Awards in 1983, she became the first Indian to win an Oscar.
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How many Indians won Oscar?

The Indians first participated at the Olympics in 1900. As of 2021, 13 Indians have been nominated and eight have won Oscars including in the scientific and technical category…. Competitive awards.
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Who got first Oscar prize in India?

When Bhanu Athaiya won the Best Costume Design prize at the 55th Annual Academy Awards in 1983, she became the first Indian to win an Oscar. For their work on the movie “Gandhi,” she and British costume designer John Mollo received a joint award.
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Has any actor 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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Who has been nominated for 52 Oscars?

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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Which actress has won 3 Oscars?

A three-time Oscar winner, Meryl Streep is the most nominated performer in the acting categories, with 21 nominations between 1979 and 2018. Streep's total includes a record 17 best actress nominations.
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Who won Oscar over Titanic?

By the time James Cameron took the stage to accept his Academy Award for Best Director on the night of March 23, 1998, the Oscar dominance of his blockbuster film Titanic was all but assured.
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Has anyone been kicked out of the Oscars?

Actor Carmine Caridi, best known for his roles in The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III, was the first person to be expelled from the Academy.
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