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Katharine Hepburn holds the record with four Oscars (all Best Actress). [4] Six have won exactly three acting Academy Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor awards), Frances McDormand (three Best Actress awards), Meryl Streep (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award), Jack Nicholson (two Best Actor awards and one Best ...
Only people to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. George Bernard Shaw: Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925, and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Pygmalion in 1938; Bob Dylan: Won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the song "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys in 2000, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016
Chloé Zhao was the first woman of color to win multiple Oscars in a single year; she won Best Director and Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards, honoring the films of 2020 and 2021. Frances McDormand co-produced with Zhao and won Best Actress for Nomadland, which makes them the first women to simultaneously win multiple Oscars.
Douglas won two Oscars, for Hud (1963) and for acting alongside a revelatory Peter Sellers in Being There (1969). The actor was known for being an outspoken anti-fascist ever since visiting Europe ...
EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major performing art awards in the United States of America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television , audio recording, film , and Broadway theatre . [ 3 ]
Joe Pesci won a supporting actor Oscar, but “Wolves” and Costner won the big prizes. Today, “Goodfellas” has a place on AFI’s top 100; “Wolves” does not. Walmart
First time two African-American performers won in supporting role Oscars in the same year (Viola Davis, Fences). 2018: Green Book: Don Shirley: Won Second time two African-American performers won supporting role Oscars in the same year (Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk). First African-American actor to win two Oscars in the same category.
Seven actors have won three or more Oscars in the acting categories, with Hepburn being the only person to win four acting Oscars, spanning from her first in 1934 to her fourth in 1982. Ingrid Bergman and Streep each have two statuettes for leading and one supporting actress win, while Jack Nicholson nabbed the same tally for male actors.