List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for their performances in films since its inception. Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, there have been actors and actresses who have received multiple Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, or Best Supporting Actress. The only restriction is that actors cannot receive multiple nominations for the same performance. This rule was implemented after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way.

, 46 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn holds the record with four Oscars (all Best Actress). Seven 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 Supporting Actor award), Ingrid Bergman (two Best Actress awards and one Best Supporting Actress award), Sean Penn (two Best Actor awards and one Best Supporting Actor award), and Walter Brennan (three Best Supporting Actor awards). Brennan became the first to receive three or more Academy Awards (winning the third in 1940), followed by Hepburn (1968), Bergman (1974), Nicholson (1997), Streep (2011), Day-Lewis (2012), McDormand (2020) and, most recently, Penn (2025). Of the eight, Nicholson, Streep, Day-Lewis, McDormand, and Penn are still living. There have been five performers who have won an acting Oscar in two consecutive years: Luise Rainer (1936–37), Spencer Tracy (1937–38), Hepburn (1967–68), Jason Robards (1976–77), and Tom Hanks (1993–94).

There have been fourteen actors/actresses cumulatively (seven each) who have won at least one Academy Award for a leading performance and another for a supporting performance, in various sequences. While there is no restriction on a performer winning the Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress awards in the same year for two roles in two movies, this has yet to happen—although there have been occasions where performers have been nominated for both in the same year.

List † = deceased Actor/Actress Best Actor/Actress Awards Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards Total awards Total nominations (for acting) † Morning Glory (1933)Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)The Lion in Winter (1968) On Golden Pond (1981) 4 12 Sophie's Choice (1982)The Iron Lady (2011) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 3 21 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)As Good as It Gets (1997) Terms of Endearment (1983) 3 12 † Gaslight (1944)Anastasia (1956) Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 3 7 My Left Foot (1989)There Will Be Blood (2007)Lincoln (2012) 3 6 Fargo (1996)Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)Nomadland (2020) 3 6 Mystic River (2003)Milk (2008) One Battle After Another (2025) 3 6 † Come and Get It (1936)Kentucky (1938)The Westerner (1940) 3 4 † Dangerous (1935)Jezebel (1938) 2 1110 official + 1 write-in † Captains Courageous (1937)Boys Town (1938) 2 9 Training Day (2001) Glory (1989) 2 9 † On the Waterfront (1954)The Godfather (1972) 2 8 Blue Jasmine (2013) The Aviator (2004) 2 8 Raging Bull (1980) The Godfather Part II (1974) 2 8 † Save the Tiger (1973) Mister Roberts (1955) 2 8 Klute (1971)Coming Home (1978) 2 7 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)Rain Man (1988) 2 7 Philadelphia (1993)Forrest Gump (1994) 2 6 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)The Father (2020) 2 6 Blue Sky (1994) Tootsie (1982) 2 6 † The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) California Suite (1978) 2 6 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)The Cider House Rules (1999) 2 6 † Sergeant York (1941)High Noon (1952) 2 5 † To Each His Own (1946)The Heiress (1949) 2 5 The Accused (1988)The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 2 5 † Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 2 5 La La Land (2016)Poor Things (2023) 2 5 † BUtterfield 8 (1960)Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 2 5 † The French Connection (1971) Unforgiven (1992) 2 5 † Women in Love (1970)A Touch of Class (1973) 2 4 Judy (2019) Cold Mountain (2003) 2 4 † Viva Zapata! (1952)Lust for Life (1956) 2 4 † The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)A Patch of Blue (1965) 2 4 Norma Rae (1979)Places in the Heart (1984) 2 3 † Hud (1963)Being There (1979) 2 3 † All the President's Men (1976)Julia (1977) 2 3 † Spartacus (1960)Topkapi (1964) 2 3 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)Bullets Over Broadway (1994) 2 3 The Pianist (2002)The Brutalist (2024) 2 2 † Gone with the Wind (1939)A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 2 2 † The Great Ziegfeld (1936)The Good Earth (1937) 2 2 Boys Don't Cry (1999)Million Dollar Baby (2004) 2 2 † The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) Airport (1970) 2 2 American Beauty (1999) The Usual Suspects (1995) 2 2 Moonlight (2016)Green Book (2018) 2 2 Inglourious Basterds (2009)Django Unchained (2012) 2 2

List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories

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