List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees. This list is current as of the 94th Academy Awards ceremony.

Best Picture

Main article: Academy Award for Best Picture

Superlative	Film	Record Set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Ben-Hur	11 awards	1959	11 awards    |    12 nominations
	Titanic		1997	11 awards    |    14 nominations
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King		2003	11 awards    |    11 nominations
Most Nominations	All About Eve	14 nominations	1950	6 awards    |    14 nominations
	Titanic		1997	11 awards    |    14 nominations
	La La Land		2016	6 awards    |    14 nominations
Longest Winner	Gone with the Wind	3 hours 54 minutes	1939	8 awards    |    13 nominations
Longest Nominee	Cleopatra	4 hours 2 minutes	1963	4 awards    |    9 nominations
Shortest Winner	Marty	1 hour 28 minutes	1955	4 awards    |    8 nominations
Shortest Nominee	She Done Him Wrong	1 hour 6 minutes	1933	0 awards    |    1 nomination
Most Awards (Producer)	Sam Spiegel	3 awards	1962	3 awards    |    4 nominations
	Saul Zaentz	3 awards	1996	3 awards    |    3 nominations
Most Nominations (Producer)	Steven Spielberg	13 nominations	2023	1 award    |    13 nominations
Most Awards (Studio)	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	5 awards	1942	5 awards    |    40 nominations
Most Nominations (Studio)		40 nominations	1950

Best Director

Main article: Academy Award for Best Director

Superlative	Director	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	John Ford	4 awards	1935, 1940, 1941, 1952	Awards resulted from 5 nominations
Most Nominations	William Wyler	12 nominations	1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965	Nominations resulted in 3 awards
Oldest Winner	Clint Eastwood	74 years old	2004	Million Dollar Baby
Oldest Nominee	Martin Scorsese	81 years old	2023	Killers of the Flower Moon
Youngest Winner	Damien Chazelle	32 years old	2016	La La Land
Youngest Nominee	John Singleton	24 years old	1991	Boyz n the Hood

Best Original Screenplay

Main article: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Superlative	Writer	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Woody Allen	3 awards	1977, 1986, 2011	Awards resulted from 16 nominations
Most Nominations		16 nominations	1977, 1978, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2005, 2011, 2013	Nominations resulted in 3 awards
Oldest Winner		76 years old	2011	Midnight in Paris
Youngest Winner	Ben Affleck	25 years old	1997	Good Will Hunting. Co-wrote with Matt Damon, 27 years old.

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Main article: Academy Award for Best Actor

Superlative	Actor	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Daniel Day-Lewis	3 awards	1989, 2007, 2012	Awards resulted from 6 nominations
Most Nominations	Spencer Tracy	9 nominations	1936, 1937, 1938, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1967	Nominations resulted in 2 awards
	Laurence Olivier		1939, 1940, 1946, 1948, 1956, 1960, 1965, 1972, 1978	Nominations resulted in 1 award.
Oldest Winner	Anthony Hopkins	83 years old	2020/2021	The Father
Oldest Nominee
Youngest Winner	Adrien Brody	29 years old	2002	The Pianist
Youngest Nominee	Jackie Cooper	9 years old	1930/1931	Skippy

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Main article: Academy Award for Best Actress

Superlative	Actress	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Katharine Hepburn	4 awards	1932/1933, 1967, 1968, 1981	Awards resulted from 12 nominations
Most Nominations	Meryl Streep	17 nominations	1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017	Nominations resulted in 2 awards
Oldest Winner	Jessica Tandy	80 years old	1989	Driving Miss Daisy
Oldest Nominee	Emmanuelle Riva	85 years old	2012	Amour
Youngest Winner	Marlee Matlin	21 years old	1986	Children of a Lesser God
Youngest Nominee	Quvenzhané Wallis	9 years old	2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Main article: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Superlative	Actor	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Walter Brennan	3 awards	1936, 1938, 1940	Awards resulted from 4 nominations
Most Nominations		4 nominations	1936, 1938, 1940, 1941	Nominations resulted in 3 awards
	Jack Nicholson		1969, 1981, 1983, 1992	Nominations resulted in 1 award
	Mark Ruffalo		2010, 2014, 2015, 2023	Nominations resulted in no awards
	Claude Rains		1939, 1943, 1944, 1946
	Arthur Kennedy		1949, 1955, 1957, 1958
	Robert Duvall		1972, 1979, 1998, 2014
	Jeff Bridges		1971, 1974, 2000, 2016
	Al Pacino		1972, 1990, 1992, 2019
Oldest Winner	Christopher Plummer	82 years old	2011	Beginners
Oldest Nominee		88 years old	2017	All the Money in the World
Youngest Winner	Timothy Hutton	20 years old	1980	Ordinary People
Youngest Nominee	Justin Henry	8 years old	1979	Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Main article: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Superlative	Actress	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Shelley Winters	2 awards	1959, 1965	Awards resulted from 3 nominations
	Dianne Wiest		1986, 1994	Awards resulted from 3 nominations
Most Nominations	Thelma Ritter	6 nominations	1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1962	Nominations resulted in no awards
Oldest Winner	Peggy Ashcroft	77 years old	1984	A Passage to India
Oldest Nominee	Gloria Stuart	87 years old	1997	Titanic
Youngest Winner	Tatum O'Neal	10 years old	1973	Paper Moon
Youngest Nominee

Combined Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Superlative	Actor	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Walter Brennan	3 awards	1936, 1938, 1940	Awards resulted from 4 nominations
	Jack Nicholson		1975, 1983, 1997	Awards resulted from 12 nominations
	Daniel Day-Lewis		1989, 2007, 2012	Awards resulted from 6 nominations
Most Nominations	Jack Nicholson	12 nominations - 8 for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and 4 for Best Supporting Actor	1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002	Nominations resulted in 3 awards

Combined Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Superlative	Actress	Record set	Year	Notes
Most Awards	Katharine Hepburn	4 awards for Best Actress	1932/1933, 1967, 1968, 1981	Awards resulted from 12 nominations
Most Nominations	Meryl Streep	21 nominations – 17 for Best Actress, and 4 for Best Supporting Actress	1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017	Nominations resulted in 3 awards

Note: Walt Disney is the highest-earning individual with wins and nominations in any category in the Academy Awards, with fifty-nine nominations and twenty-two Oscar wins (as well as four Honorary Awards), including a record four in one year.

Performances of the same character

Nominated performances of the same character by different actors or in different films.

† Indicates the actor was either nominated and/or became a recipient posthumously.

§ Indicates the actor refused to accept their award and/or nomination.

Character	Actor	Film	Year	Category	Status
Anita	Rita Moreno	West Side Story	1961	Supporting Actress	Won
	Ariana DeBose	West Side Story	2021		Won
Billie Holiday (née Eleanora Fagan)	Diana Ross	Lady Sings the Blues	1972	Lead Actress	Nominated
	Andra Day	The United States vs. Billie Holiday	2020/ 2021		Nominated
Cyrano de Bergerac	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	1950	Lead Actor	Won
	Gérard Depardieu	Cyrano de Bergerac	1990		Nominated
Dame Iris Murdoch	Judi Dench	Iris	2001	Lead Actress	Nominated
	Kate Winslet			Supporting Actress	Nominated
Don Michael Corleone	Al Pacino	The Godfather	1972	Supporting Actor	Nominated
		The Godfather Part II	1974	Lead Actor	Nominated
Don Vito Corleone (né Andolini)	Robert De Niro			Supporting Actor	Won
	Marlon Brando §	The Godfather	1972	Lead Actor	Won
Eddie "Fast Eddie" Felson	Paul Newman	The Hustler	1961		Nominated
		The Color of Money	1986		Won
Father Chuck O'Malley	Bing Crosby	The Bells of St. Mary's	1945		Nominated
		Going My Way	1944		Won
Father Fitzgibbon	Barry Fitzgerald				Nominated
				Supporting Actor	Won
Howard Hughes	Jason Robards Jr.	Melvin (and Howard)	1980		Nominated
	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Aviator	2004	Lead Actor	Nominated
Joe Pendleton	Robert Montgomery	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	1941		Nominated
	Warren Beatty	Heaven Can Wait	1978		Nominated
The Joker / Arthur Fleck (a.k.a. Joker)	Heath Ledger †	The Dark Knight	2008	Supporting Actor	Won
	Joaquin Phoenix	Joker	2019	Lead Actor	Won
Josephine "Jo" March	Winona Ryder	Little Women	1994	Lead Actress	Nominated
	Saoirse Ronan	Little Women	2019		Nominated
King Henry II of England	Peter O'Toole	Becket	1964	Lead Actor	Nominated
		The Lion in Winter	1968		Nominated
King Henry V of England	Laurence Olivier	Henry V	1946		Nominated
	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	1989		Nominated
King Henry VIII of England & Ireland	Charles Laughton	The Private Life of Henry VIII	1932/ 1933		Won
	Robert Shaw	A Man for All Seasons	1966	Supporting Actor	Nominated
	Richard Burton	Anne of the Thousand Days	1969	Lead Actor	Nominated
Leda Caruso	Olivia Colman	The Lost Daughter	2021	Lead Actress	Nominated
	Jessie Buckley			Supporting Actress	Nominated
Leslie Crosbie	Jeanne Eagels †	The Letter	1928/ 1929	Lead Actress	Nominated
	Bette Davis	The Letter	1940		Nominated
Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jeane Mortenson)	Michelle Williams	My Week with Marilyn	2011		Nominated
	Ana de Armas	Blonde	2022		Nominated
Max "Pop" Corkle	James Gleason	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	1941	Supporting Actor	Nominated
	Jack Warden	Heaven Can Wait	1978		Nominated
Mr. Charles Edward Chipping / Mr. Arthur Chipping	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	1939	Lead Actor	Won
	Peter O'Toole	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	1969		Nominated
Norman Maine (né Hinkle) / Norman Maine (né Ernest Sidney Gubbins) / Jackson "Jack" Maine	Fredric March	A Star Is Born	1937		Nominated
	James Mason	A Star Is Born	1954		Nominated
	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born	2018		Nominated
President Abraham Lincoln	Raymond Massey	Abe Lincoln in Illinois	1940		Nominated
	Daniel Day-Lewis	Lincoln	2012		Won
President Richard Nixon	Anthony Hopkins	Nixon	1995		Nominated
	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon	2008		Nominated
Professor Henry Higgins	Leslie Howard	Pygmalion	1938		Nominated
	Rex Harrison	My Fair Lady	1964		Won
Queen Elizabeth I of England & Ireland	Judi Dench	Shakespeare in Love	1998	Supporting Actress	Won
	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth		Lead Actress	Nominated
		Elizabeth: The Golden Age	2007		Nominated
Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn, D.U.M.S.	John Wayne	True Grit	1969	Lead Actor	Won
	Jeff Bridges	True Grit	2010		Nominated
Robert "Rocky" Balboa, (a.k.a. "The Italian Stallion")	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky	1976		Nominated
		Creed	2015	Supporting Actor	Nominated
Rose DeWitt-Bukater	Gloria Stuart	Titanic	1997	Supporting Actress	Nominated
	Kate Winslet			Lead Actress	Nominated
Sofia	Oprah Winfrey	The Color Purple	1985	Supporting Actress	Nominated
	Danielle Brooks	The Color Purple	2023		Nominated
Vicki Lester (née Esther Victoria Blodgett) / Vicki Lester (née Esther Blodgett) / Ally Maine (née Campano)	Janet Gaynor	A Star Is Born	1937	Lead Actress	Nominated
	Judy Garland	A Star Is Born	1954		Nominated
	Lady Gaga	A Star Is Born	2018		Nominated
Vincent van Gogh	Kirk Douglas	Lust for Life	1956	Lead Actor	Nominated
	Willem Dafoe	At Eternity's Gate	2018		Nominated

See also

• List of Academy Award records
• List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees

External links

• Oscars.org Official site
• Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees