List of films with two or more Academy Awards in an acting category
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This is a list of films with two or more Academy Awards in an acting category.
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.[1][2] To date, no film has won four Academy Awards in an acting category.
Four acting awards[edit]
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[edit]
| Ceremony | Year | Film | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
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| 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[edit]
Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor[edit]
| 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[edit]
Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor[edit]
Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress[edit]
Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress[edit]
Superlatives[edit]
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[edit]
- 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
References[edit]
- ^ "The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ^ "The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
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