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 was the youngest male to win an Oscar?

Timothy Hutton

There's a big jump from Chakiris down to Hutton. When Hutton won Best Supporting Actor for “Ordinary People,” he was only 20. That makes him by a wide margin the youngest male winner of an acting Oscar.
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Who won an Oscar at age 11?

Anna Paquin: Best Supporting Actress

The Canadian actress who grew up in New Zealand took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11 in 1993. This made her the second-youngest winner in Oscar history after Tatum O'Neal.
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Has a child ever won an Oscar?

As of 2022, a total of three minors (including Duke) have won Oscars, all in the Best Supporting Actress category. The other two are Tatum O'Neal, who was 10, for Paper Moon (1973), and Anna Paquin, who was 11, for The Piano (1993). As of 2022, O'Neal remains the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Award.
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Who is the youngest person to win 2 Oscars?

The record is currently held by Luise Rainer, who was the first actress to win consecutive times, for “The Great Ziegfeld” (1937) and “The Good Earth” (1938) when she was 27 and 28 years old.
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Anna Paquin winning Best Supporting Actress for "The Piano"



Who won 6 Grammys?

Beyonce keeps setting Grammy records. She has more nominations than any other female artist in Grammy history, and she's the biggest female winner. She also holds the record for the most victories by a woman in a single year (six, tied with Adele).
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How old was the youngest person to win a Grammy?

Country-pop sensation LeAnn Rimes made history in 1997 when she, at just 14 years old, became the youngest person ever to win a GRAMMY, taking home Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance (for her rendition of "Blue," a cover of Bill Mack's 1958 track).
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Who won multiple Oscars?

Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award.
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Who is the most famous kid actor?

Macaulay Culkin

One of the most successful child actors of the 1990s, Culkin was already an acting veteran when he gained everlasting fame as the kid left “Home Alone” in 1990.
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Who is the oldest actress to win an Oscar?

Who is the oldest actress to win an Oscar? At 80 years old and 292 days, Jessica Tandy is the oldest actress to ever win an Oscar.
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Are Oscars made of gold?

The statuettes are solid bronze and plated in 24-karat gold. Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted plaster for three years. Following the war, the Academy invited recipients to redeem the plaster figures for gold-plated metal ones.
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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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What actor has the most Oscars?

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 is the oldest actor alive?

Marsha Hunt (October 17, 1917 – Present)

What is this? At the age of 104, Marsha Hunt is currently the oldest living actor in the world. Hunt, who was born in Chicago, moved to New York when she was young and first began her career as a stage actress.
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Which films have won all 5 major 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). Eight films failed to win any of the five major awards after being nominated in each category.
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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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How many girlfriends did Jaden Smith have?

Jaden Smith dated 8 people before her new girlfriend Sab Zada.
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Is Billie Eilish the youngest Grammy winner?

Eilish holds a multitude of other records, including youngest Record of the Year winner at the Grammy Awards (aged 18 years 39 days old with "Bad Guy") and youngest solo artist to win Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards (aged 18 years 1 month 8 days old with debut album When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go).
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Who won 18 Grammys?

Jimmy Sturr And His Orchestra received their first GRAMMY win for their album I Remember Warsaw for 1986. He went on to receive not only five wins in the Best Polka Recording category, but an additional 13 wins for Best Polka Album. With 18 total GRAMMY wins, Sturr is one of the top GRAMMY winners of all time.
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Is Billie Eilish the youngest person to win an Oscar?

Eilish, 20, is the second-youngest winner ever in the category, trailing only Markéta Irglová, who was four days shy of turning 20 when she won in February 2008 for co-writing “Falling Slowly” from Once.
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