List of films that won two or more Academy Awards acting categories

This is a list of films that won two or more Academy Awards acting categories.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards for acting performances in the following four categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

As of the 96th Academy Awards (2023), 41 films have won at least two acting awards. Of these, three films A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Network (1976), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) have won three acting awards. The former two were also nominated at least once in each acting category. To date, no film has won four acting Academy Awards, nor has any film swept all four acting categories.

Four acting awards

To date, no film has won all four Academy Awards in the four acting categories (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress).

However, there have been fifteen films containing at least one nominated performance in each of the four Academy Award acting categories.

Three acting awards

Ceremony Year Film Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress 24th 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Vivien Leigh Karl Malden Kim Hunter 49th 1976 Network Peter Finch Faye Dunaway Beatrice Straight 95th 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh Ke Huy Quan Jamie Lee Curtis

Notes

Marlon Brando was nominated for Best Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire. However, he lost to Humphrey Bogart, who won for The African Queen. Ned Beatty was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Network. However, he lost to Jason Robards, who won for All the President's Men. William Holden was also nominated for Best Actor for Network, losing to his co-star Finch. Stephanie Hsu was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once, losing to her co-star Curtis. Everything Everywhere All at Once is the only film of the three to not have an eligible nominee in the category that they missed (Best Actor). Everything Everywhere All at Once is the only film to win three acting Oscars, as well as the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director.

Best Actor and Best Actress

Ceremony Year Film Best Actor Best Actress 7th 1934 It Happened One Night Clark Gable Claudette Colbert 48th 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher 49th 1976 Network Peter Finch Faye Dunaway 51st 1978 Coming Home Jon Voight Jane Fonda 54th 1981 On Golden Pond Henry Fonda Katharine Hepburn 64th 1991 The Silence of the Lambs Anthony Hopkins Jodie Foster 70th 1997 As Good as It Gets Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt

Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor

Ceremony Year Film Best Actor Best Supporting Actor 17th 1944 Going My Way Bing Crosby Barry Fitzgerald 19th 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives Fredric March Harold Russell 32nd 1959 Ben-Hur Charlton Heston Hugh Griffith 76th 2003 Mystic River Sean Penn Tim Robbins 86th 2013 Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey Jared Leto 96th 2023 Oppenheimer Cillian Murphy Robert Downey Jr.

Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress

Ceremony Year Film Best Actor Best Supporting Actress 22nd 1949 All the King's Men Broderick Crawford Mercedes McCambridge 27th 1954 On the Waterfront Marlon Brando Eva Marie Saint 31st 1958 Separate Tables David Niven Wendy Hiller 33rd 1960 Elmer Gantry Burt Lancaster Shirley Jones 49th 1976 Network Peter Finch Beatrice Straight 52nd 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer Dustin Hoffman Meryl Streep 62nd 1989 My Left Foot Daniel Day-Lewis Brenda Fricker

Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor

Ceremony Year Film Best Actress Best Supporting Actor 24th 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Vivien Leigh Karl Malden 36th 1963 Hud Patricia Neal Melvyn Douglas 45th 1972 Cabaret Liza Minnelli Joel Grey 56th 1983 Terms of Endearment Shirley MacLaine Jack Nicholson 77th 2004 Million Dollar Baby Hilary Swank Morgan Freeman 90th 2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Frances McDormand Sam Rockwell 95th 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh Ke Huy Quan

Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress

Ceremony Year Film Best Actress Best Supporting Actress 11th 1938 Jezebel Bette Davis Fay Bainter 12th 1939 Gone with the Wind Vivien Leigh Hattie McDaniel 15th 1942 Mrs. Miniver Greer Garson Teresa Wright 24th 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Vivien Leigh Kim Hunter 35th 1962 The Miracle Worker Anne Bancroft Patty Duke 39th 1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Elizabeth Taylor Sandy Dennis 49th 1976 Network Faye Dunaway Beatrice Straight 60th 1987 Moonstruck Cher Olympia Dukakis 66th 1993 The Piano Holly Hunter Anna Paquin 71st 1998 Shakespeare in Love Gwyneth Paltrow Judi Dench 95th 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh Jamie Lee Curtis

Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress

Ceremony Year Film Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress 24th 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Karl Malden Kim Hunter 26th 1953 From Here to Eternity Frank Sinatra Donna Reed 30th 1957 Sayonara Red Buttons Miyoshi Umeki 34th 1961 West Side Story George Chakiris Rita Moreno 44th 1971 The Last Picture Show Ben Johnson Cloris Leachman 50th 1977 Julia Jason Robards Vanessa Redgrave 59th 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters Michael Caine Dianne Wiest 83rd 2010 The Fighter Christian Bale Melissa Leo 95th 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Ke Huy Quan Jamie Lee Curtis

Superlatives

There are six possible combinations by which a film can win two Academy Awards for acting.

The first film to win two acting awards was It Happened One Night (1934), which won Best Actor and Best Actress at the 7th Academy Awards. The most recent film to win at least two acting awards was Oppenheimer (2023), which won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the 96th Academy Awards. The combination that has occurred most often is Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress (eleven films). The combination that has occurred least often is Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor (six films). The combination that occurred the longest time ago is Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, with My Left Foot (1989) winning both at the 62nd Academy Awards. The combination with the longest gap between award wins is Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, which occurred 44 years apart: first with Ben-Hur (1959) at the 32nd Academy Awards, and again with Mystic River (2003) at the 76th Academy Awards. The Miracle Worker (1962) and Hud (1963) are the only films to win two or more acting Oscars without getting nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Jezebel (1938), Separate Tables (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), As Good as It Gets (1997), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) are the only films to win multiple acting Oscars without receiving an Academy Award for Best Director nomination.

See also

List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees List of films with all four Academy Award acting nominations List of movies with more than one Academy Award nomination in the same category List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories

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