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List of Academy Award records
This is a list of Academy Award records. This list is cur- • • Rick Baker won 7 Academy Awards (all for Best
rent as of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony held on Makeup)
February 27, 2011.
Awards for debut acting or di-
Most awards recting performances on film
• • Three films won 11 Academy Awards. They are:
• Ben-Hur (1959) • • Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952)
• Titanic (1997) • Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King • Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, 1968)
(2003) • Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God,
• • Two films received 14 nominations. They are: 1986)[2][3][4]
• All About Eve (1950) • • Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields, 1984)[3][4][5]
• Titanic (1997) • Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946)
• • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) • • Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse, 1936)
won all 11 categories it was nominated for: • Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943)
Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original • Mercedes McCambridge (All the King’s Men, 1949)
Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, Art • Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, • Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
Visual Effects • Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon, 1973)
• • Walt Disney won 26 Oscars (22 competitive, 4 • Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993)
honorary). He also won the most Oscars in one • Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006)[3][4][6]
year, with 4. • • Claude Jarman, Jr. (The Yearling, 1946)
• • Costume designer Edith Head won 8 Oscars. • Vincent Winter (The Little Kidnappers, 1954)[3][4][7]
• • Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won • • Delbert Mann (Marty, 1955)
9 Academy Awards: 6 competitive awards, 2 • Jerome Robbins (West Side Story, 1961)
"Special Achievement" awards, and 1 "Technical • Robert Redford (Ordinary People, 1980)
Achievement" award • James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, 1983)
• • Composer Alan Menken has won 8 competitive • Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, 1990)
Academy Awards. • Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999)[3][4][8]
• • John Ford won the most directing awards, with 4
• • Katharine Hepburn won 4 Academy Awards (all Big Five winners
for Best Actress)
Three films have received the so-called Big Five Academy
• Three other actors have each won three
Awards (best picture, director, actor, actress, and writ-
Academy Awards:
ing):[9][10][11]
• Ingrid Bergman (2 Best Actress, 1 Best
• It Happened One Night (1934)
Supporting Actress)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
• Jack Nicholson (2 Best Actor, 1 Best
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Supporting Actor)
• Walter Brennan (3 Best Supporting Actor)
• • The highest number of Academy Awards won by Most consecutive awards
any cinematographer is 4. They are:
• • Two actresses have won two consecutive awards.
• Joseph Ruttenberg, in 1938, 1942, 1956 and
They are:
1958
• Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936 and The
• Leon Shamroy, in 1942, 1944, 1945 and 1963
Good Earth, 1937)
• • Cedric Gibbons, who designed the Oscar
• Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who’s Coming to
statuette, won 11 awards out of a total of 39
Dinner, 1967 and The Lion in Winter, 1968)
nominations.[1]
• • Two actors have won two consecutive awards.
They are:
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• Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous, 1937 and
Boys Town, 1938)
Academy award firsts
• Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, 1993 and Forrest • • Bette Davis received her tenth Oscar nomination
Gump, 1994)[9][12][13] for Best Actress for the film What Ever Happened to
• • Two directors have won two consecutive awards. Baby Jane? (1962)
They are: • • Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2009)
• John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 and How • • Julia Phillips for The Sting (1973)
Green Was My Valley, 1941) • • Avatar and Up (2009)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives, • • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
1949 and All About Eve, 1950)[9][14][15] • • Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• • Jason Robards won two consecutive awards for • • Toy Story
All the President’s Men in 1976 and Julia in • • Waltz with Bashir representing Israel (2008)
1977[16][17][18] • • Dreamgirls (2006), with eight nominations
• • David O. Selznick won two consecutive awards • • Midnight Cowboy (1969). It was also the first X-
for producing Best Picture winners Gone with the rated film to be nominated for Best Picture.
Wind in 1939 and Rebecca in 1940. • • Omar Sharif (from Egypt) for Lawrence of Arabia
• • No consecutive winner for Best Original (1962).
Screenplay • • Jeanne Eagels, nominated for Best Actress in 1929
• • Joseph L. Mankiewicz won two consecutive for The Letter.
adapted screenplay awards for A Letter to Three • • James Dean, nominated for Best Actor in 1956 for
Wives in 1949 and All About Eve in 1950. East of Eden.
• Robert Bolt won for Doctor Zhivago in 1965 and A • • Peter Finch, who won for Network (1976).
Man for All Seasons in 1966. • • Sophia Loren for Two Women (1960), performing
• • John Toll won for Legends of the Fall in 1994 and in Italian.
Braveheart in 1995. • • Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II (1974),
• • Roger Edens won 3 consecutive awards for performing in Sicilian.
composing the scores for Easter Parade (1948), On • • Charlize Theron (from South Africa) won Best
the Town (1949), and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). Actress for Monster (2003).
• Eight composers have won 2 consecutive awards; • • Omar Sharif (from Egypt) for Lawrence of Arabia
two of them have done so on two different (1962).
occasions. They are: • • Nicole Kidman won Best Actress for The Hours
• Ray Heindorf (Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942 and (2002).
This Is the Army, 1943) • • Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for
• Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard, 1950 and A Gone With the Wind (1939).
Place in the Sun, 1951) • • Sidney Poitier won Best Actor for Lilies of the Field
• Alfred Newman (twice) (1963).
• With a Song in My Heart, 1952 and Call Me • • Halle Berry won Best Actress for Monster’s Ball
Madam, 1953 (2001).
• Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, 1955 and • [19]
The King and I, 1956 • Jackie Cooper, age 9, was nominated for Best
• Adolph Deutsch (Seven Brides for Seven Actor for Skippy (1931).
Brothers, 1954 and Oklahoma!, 1955) • • Rick Baker won Best Makeup for An American
• André Previn (twice) Werewolf In London (1982).
• Gigi, 1958 and Porgy and Bess, 1959
• Irma la Douce, 1963 and My Fair Lady, 1964
• Leonard Rosenman (Barry Lyndon, 1975, and
Age-related records
Bound for Glory, 1976) • • Tatum O’Neal, age 10 (Best Supporting Actress,
• Alan Menken (Beauty and The Beast, 1991 and Paper Moon, 1973)
Aladdin, 1992) • • Justin Henry, age 8 (Best Supporting Actor,
• Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, 2005 Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979)
and Babel, 2006). • • Shirley Temple, age 6, who was awarded the
inaugural (now retired) non-competitive
Academy Juvenile Award in 1934.
• • John Singleton, age 24 (Boyz n the Hood, 1991)
• • Jessica Tandy, age 80 (Best Actress, Driving Miss
Daisy, 1989)
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• • Gloria Stuart, age 87 (Best Supporting Actress, • • Luise Rainer won her first Oscar in 1937, thereby
Titanic, 1997) holding the Oscar for 74 years, longer than any
other Oscar winner.
Film records • • Harold Russell played Homer Parish in The Best
Years of Our Lives in 1946. For this role he received
• • Two films received 14 nominations. They are: 2 Oscars, a Best Supporting and one for being an
• All About Eve (1950) inspiration to all returning veterans.
• Titanic (1997)
• • Cabaret won 8 awards (1972)
• • Two films received 11 nominations without
Miscellaneous records
winning any awards. They are: • • Federico Fellini was nominated for 12 Oscars as a
• The Turning Point (1977) director or screenwriter without winning any.[20]
• The Color Purple (1985) (He received an Honorary Award in 1992).[21]
• • They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) with 9 Randy Newman’s first Oscar (for Best Original
nominations. Song in 2002) came after fifteen unsuccessful
• • The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) with 5 wins nominations.
• • Two films have been nominated in all 7 technical • • Walt Disney with 59 nominations.
categories. They are: • • Film composer John Williams with 45
• Titanic (1997) nominations.
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World • • Edith Head with 35 nominations.
(2003) • • Sound editor Mark Berger has four nominations
and four wins.
Acting records • • Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O’Connell with
20.
• • Two actresses have been nominated 5 years in a • • William Wyler with 12 nominations.
row. They are: • • Two people have received 2 nominations for Best
• Bette Davis (1938–1942) Director in the same year. They are:
• Greer Garson (1941–1945) • Michael Curtiz for Angels with Dirty Faces and
• • Marlon Brando with four nominations (1951 to Four Daughters in 1938.
1954) • Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and
• • Meryl Streep with 16 nominations. Traffic in 2000.
• • Peter O’Toole with 8 nominations. (He received • • The Godfather series with 2 (for The Godfather and
an Honorary Award in 2002.) The Godfather Part II).
• • Helen Hayes won in 1932 for The Sin of Madelon • • The Lord of the Rings trilogy with 17 wins out of
Claudet and in 1971 for Airport, a 39-year gap. 30 nominations.
• • Katharine Hepburn (48 years from 1932/33 to • • Woody Allen with 14 nominations and 2 wins
1981) • • Limelight (1952) is the only film to have won an
• • James Dean with 2 (1956 for East of Eden and 1957 award twenty years after its official release. Since
for Giant). it was not released in Los Angeles County until
• • Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) - 5 minutes 1972, it was not eligible for any Academy Awards
and 40 seconds. until that time.
• • David Niven in Separate Tables (1958) - 15 minutes • • William A. Horning won in 1958 for Best Art
and 38 seconds. Direction for Gigi and for Best Art Direction for
• • Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) - 2 Ben-Hur in 1959.
minutes and 32 seconds. • • Howard Ashman with four.
• • Denzel Washington with 2, winning Best
Supporting Actor for Glory (1989) and Best Actor
for Training Day (2001).
See also
• • Two acting winners have reached the age of 100. • Academy Awards
• Two-time Best Actress winner Luise Rainer, • List of Academy Award-winning films
who won for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The • List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best
Good Earth (1937). She is still alive at age 102. Picture Academy Award winners
• George Burns, who won for Best Supporting • List of Big Five Academy Award winners and
Actor for The Sunshine Boys. He died in 1996 at nominees
age 100. • List of films receiving six or more Academy Awards
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• List of films with all four Academy Award Acting [12] Film site
Nominations [13] Theoscarsite
• List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners [14] Academy Awards Best Directors
and nominees [15] Theoscar site
• List of people who have won multiple Academy [16] Help Page - Academy Awards Database - AMPAS
Awards in a single year [17] Film site
• List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, [18] Theoscar site
Grammy, and Tony Awards [19] Former Child Star Jackie Cooper Dies at Age 88
• List of posthumous Academy Award winners and [20] Four directing and eight writing nominations did
nominees not yield Fellini an award, see:"The AMPAS Awards
• List of superlative Academy Award winners and Database - Federico Fellini".
nominees awardsdatabase.oscars.org.
• List of fictitious Academy Award nominees http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/
• List of Black Academy Award winners and nominees DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1276945952001.
• Little Golden Guy Retrieved 2010-06-19. "1992 (65th) HONORARY
AWARD To Federico Fellini in recognition of his
References place as one of the screen’s master storytellers"
[21] Dargis, M. (2005-02-27). "FILM; We Like Us! We
[1] "Cedric Gibbons". theoscarsite.com. Really, Really Like Us!". New York Times.
http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho/gibbons_c.htm. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/
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[2] Filmsite Retrieved 2010-06-19. "Federico Fellini, would
[3] ^ Entertainment Weekly receive 12 nominations from a besotted academy
[4] ^ Academy Awards database before winning an honorary Oscar in 1992. (And,
[5] Filmsite yes, he died the next year.)"
[6] Filmsite
[7] Classic Film Guide
[8] Filmsite
External links
[9] ^ Awards Database • Oscars.org (official Academy site)
[10] Awards Database • The Academy Awards Database (official site)
[11] Media Awareness web site • Filmsite.org
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