Who won the most acting 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 has the most Oscars for acting?

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 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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Who is the person who won the most Oscars?

Who Has Won The Most Oscars Ever In History? The reigning titleholder, in the race for most oscars awards ever, remains Katharine Hepburn. Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars throughout her career.
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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 has 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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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 won 8 Oscars?

Edith was known for her signature glasses and candid personality. The American composer and pianist has won eight Oscars in the Best Score and Best Song categories. Without knowing it, many of us can name Alan's famous scores heard in: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Tangled.
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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 in the world?

Al Pacino. One of the greatest actors in all of film history, Al Pacino established himself during one of film's greatest decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies. Pacino was born on April 25, 1940, in the Bronx, New York, to an Italian-American family.
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Has any actor won 2 Oscars in one 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. This one-night jackpot added four to Walt's overall Oscar score; with 32 golden statuettes to his name, Walt holds the record for Academy Award wins.
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Who is the youngest actor to win Best actor?

Adrien Brody: Best Actor 2002

Adrien Brody made history as the youngest Best Actor winner ever at the 75th Academy Awards — but a passionate impromptu kiss with presenter Halle Berry almost overshadowed the then 29-year-old's haunting work in “The Pianist.”
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Which movie won all 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). Eight films failed to win any of the five major awards after being nominated in each category.
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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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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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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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What actor has won back to back Oscars?

Two actors have won two consecutive awards: Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938) Tom Hanks – Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994)
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