"Oscar Trivia: Day 8"
"Actors With 2 Or More Acting Oscars"
by Tim Nasson
January 10, 2008
We all know that Meryl Streep is the most Oscar nominated actor in movie history - with fourteen Oscar nominatons. But which actors (when we use the word actor, the word actress is included in the definition) have WON the most Oscars? We bring you that bit of Oscar Trivia today! And you will surely be surprised to find out which handful of actors are batting .1000 - i.e., won the Oscar for each movie they were nominated for an acting Oscar! Hint. Sally Field has only been nominated for two acting Oscars and won both times. For "Norma Rae" and "Places In The Heart," - which was nearly 25 years ago. She is due for a third nomination and win, with the upcoming Steven Spielberg picture, "Lincoln," in which she plays the mentally ill wife of Abe Lincoln.
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Actors Who Have WON 2 Or More Oscars for Acting
* Every nomination resulted in winning the Oscar
Winner of 4 Acting Oscars
Katharine Hepburn -- Actress (1932/33) (1967) (1968) (1981) [12 Oscar Nominations]
Winner of 3 Acting Oscars
Ingrid Bergman -- Actress (1944) (1956); Supporting Actress (1974) [7 Oscar Nominations]
Walter Brennan -- Supporting Actor (1936) (1938) (1940) [4 Oscar Nominations]
Jack Nicholson -- Actor (1975) (1997); Supporting Actor (1983) [12 Oscar Nominations]
Winner of 2 Acting Oscars
Marlon Brando -- Actor (1954) (1972) [8 Oscar Nominations]
Michael Caine -- Supporting Actor (1986) (1999) [6 Oscar Nominations]
Gary Cooper -- Actor (1941) (1952) (also Honorary Award - 1960) [5 Oscar Nominations]
Bette Davis -- Actress (1935) (1938) [10 Oscar Nominations]
Olivia de Havilland -- Actress (1946) (1949) [5 Oscar Nominations]
Robert De Niro -- Supporting Actor (1974); Actor (1980) [6 Oscar Nominations]
Melvyn Douglas -- Supporting Actor (1963) (1979) [3 Oscar Nominations]
Sally Field -- Actress (1979) (1984) [2 Oscar Nominations]*
Jane Fonda -- Actress (1971) (1978) [7 Oscar Nominations]
Jodie Foster -- Actress (1988) (1991) [4 Oscar Nominations]
Gene Hackman -- Actor (1971); Supporting Actor (1992) [5 Oscar Nominations]
Tom Hanks -- Actor (1993) (1994) [5 Oscar Nominations]
Helen Hayes -- Actress (1931/32); Supporting Actress (1970) [2 Oscar Nominations ]*
Dustin Hoffman -- Actor (1979) (1988) [7 Oscar Nominations]
Glenda Jackson -- Actress (1970) (1973) [4 Oscar Nominations]
Jessica Lange -- Supporting Actress (1982); Actress (1994) [6 Oscar Nominations]
Vivien Leigh -- Actress (1939) (1951) [2 Oscar Nominations]*
Jack Lemmon -- Supporting Actor (1955); Actor (1973) [8 Oscar Nominations]
Fredric March -- Actor (1931/32) (1946) [5 Oscar Nominations]
Anthony Quinn -- Supporting Actor (1952) (1956) [4 Oscar Nominations]
Luise Rainer -- Actress (1936) (1937) [2 Oscar Nominations]*
Jason Robards -- Supporting Actor (1976) (1977) [3 Oscar Nominations]
Maggie Smith -- Actress (1969); Supporting Actress (1978) [6 Oscar Nominations]
Kevin Spacey -- Supporting Actor (1995); Actor (1999) [2 Oscar Nominations]*
Meryl Streep -- Supporting Actress (1979); Actress (1982) [14 Oscar Nominations]
Hilary Swank -- Actress (1999) (2004) [2 Oscar Nominations]*
Elizabeth Taylor -- Actress (1960) (1966) [5 Oscar Nominations]
Spencer Tracy -- Actor (1937) (1938) [9 Oscar Nominations]
Peter Ustinov -- Supporting Actor (1960) (1964) [3 Oscar Nominations]
Denzel Washington -- Supporting Actor (1989); Actor (2001) [5 Oscar Nominations]
Dianne Wiest -- Supporting Actress (1986) (1994) [3 Oscar Nominations]
Shelley Winters -- Supporting Actress (1959) (1965) [4 Oscar Nominations]
* The following actors won the acting Oscar for every performance they were nominated for, i.e., they are batting .1000
Hilary Swank - "Boys Don't Cry" & "Million Dollar Baby"
Kevin Spacey - "Usual Suspects" & "American Beauty"
Sally Field - "Norma Rae" & "Places In The Heart"
Luise Rainer - "The Good Earth" & " The Great Ziegfeld"
Vivien Leigh - "Gone With the Wind" & "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Helen Hayes - "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" & "Airport"
