Acting Awards Trivia
A note on year notation: The Academy Awards are presented in
February or March for the artistic achievements of the previous year. It is for this reason that all dates refer to the year in which the movie was released, not the year in which the award was presented.
Most Acting Nominations - Female
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Meryl Streep - 13 Katharine Hepburn -
12 |
Jane Fonda - 7 Actress, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) Actress, Klute (1971) [w] Actress, Julia (1977) Actress, Coming Home (1978) [w] Actress, The China Syndrome (1979) Supporting Actress, On Golden Pond (1981) Actress, The Morning After (1986) Ingrid Bergman - 7 Actress, For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943) Actress, Gaslight (1944) [w] Actress, The Bells Of St. Mary’s (1945) Actress, Joan Of Arc (1948) Actress, Anastasia (1956) [w] Supporting Actress, Murder On The Orient Express (1974) [w] Actress, Autumn Sonata (1978) Deborah Kerr - 6 Actress, Edward, My Son (1949) Actress, From Here To Eternity (1953) Actress, The King And I (1956) Actress, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) Actress, Separate Tables (1958) Actress, The Sundowners (1960) * Honorary (1993) Thelma Ritter - 6 Supporting Actress, All About Eve (1950) Supporting Actress, The Masting Season (1951) Supporting Actress, With A Song In My Heart (1952) Supporting Actress, Pickup On South Street (1953) Supporting Actress, Pillow Talk (1959) Supporting Actress, Bird Man Of Alcatraz (1962) Ellen Burstyn - 6 Supporting Actress, The Last Picture Show (1971) Actress, The Exorcist (1973) Actress, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) [w] Actress, Same Time, Next Year (1978) Actress, Resurrection (1980) Actress, Requiem For A Dream (2000) Sissy Spacek - 6 Actress, Carrie (1976) Actress, Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)[w] Actress, Missing (1982) Actress, The River (1984) Actress, Crimes Of The Heart (1986) Actress, In The Bedroom (2001) Maggie Smith - 6 Supporting Actress, Othello (1965) Actress, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)[w] Actress, Travels With My Aunt (1972) Supporting Actress, California Suite (1978)[w] Supporting Actress, A Room With A View (1986) Supporting Actress, Gosford Park (2001) |
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Most Acting Nominations - Male
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Jack Nicholson - 12 Supporting Actor, Easy Rider (1969) Actor, Five Easy Pieces (1970) Actor, The Last Detail (1973) Actor, Chinatown (1974) Actor, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) [w] Supporting Actor, Reds (1981) Supporting Actor, Terms Of Endearment (1983) [w] Actor, Prizzi’s Honor (1985) Actor, Ironweed (1987) Supporting Actor, A Few Good Men (1992) Actor, As Good As It Gets (1997) [w] Actor, About Schmidt (2002) Laurence Olivier - 10 Actor, Wuthering Heights (1939) Actor, Rebecca (1939) Actor, Henry V (1946) Actor, Hamlet (1948) [w] Actor, Richard III (1956) Actor, The Entertainer (1960) Actor, Othello (1965) Actor, Sleuth (1972) Supporting Actor, Marathon Man (1976) Actor, The Boys From Brazil (1979) *Honorary (1946) [w] *Honorary (1979) [w] *Director, Hamlet (1948) *Producer, Hamlet (1948) [w] Spencer Tracy - 9 Actor, San Francisco (1936) Actor, Captains Courageous (1937) [w] Actor, Boys Town (1938) [w] Actor, Father Of The Bride (1950) Actor, Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) Actor, The Old Man And The Sea (1958) Actor, Inherit The Wind (1960) Actor, Judgement At Nuremberg (1961) Actor, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? (1967) Paul Newman - 9 Actor, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) Actor, The Hustler (1961) Actor, Hud (1963) Actor, Cool Hand Luke (1967) Actor, Abscence Of Malice (1981) Actor, The Verdict (1982) Actor, The Color Of Money (1987) [w] Actor, Nobody’s Fool (1994) Supporting Actor, Road To Perdition (2002) * Producer, Rachel, Rachel (1968) * Honarary (1982) [w] * Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1993) [w] |
Marlon Brando - 8 Actor, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Actor,Viva Zapata! (1952) Actor, Julius Caesar (1953) Actor, On The Waterfront (1954) [w] Actor, Sayonara (1957) Actor, The Godfather (1972) [w] Actor, Last Tango In Paris (1973) Supporting Actor, A Dry White Season (1989)
Jack Lemmon - 8 |
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Most Nominations
Without a Single Win
For 21 years this dubious distinction was shared by Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, and while neither ever won a competitive Academy Award (they were each nominated 7 times), O'toole was presented with a lifetime achievement award in 2002.
Thelma Ritter is the woman with the most nominations (6) and no wins.
Performers Nominated for Two Acting Awards in a Single Year:
| Fay Bainter (1938) Best Actress: White Banners Best Supporting Actress: Jezebel [w] Barry Fitzgerald (1942) Theresa Wright (1942) Jessica Lange (1982) Sigourney Weaver (1988) |
Al Pacino (1992) Best Actor: Scent of a Woman [w] Best Supporting Actor: Glengarry Glen Ross
Holly Hunter (1993)
Emma
Thompson (1993) Julianne Moore (2002) Jamie Foxx (2004) |
Only Performers to Win
Consecutive Oscars
Performers
With the Most Consecutive Nominations
Five Consecutive Nominations:
Bette Davis (1938-42)
Greer Garson (1941-45)
Four:
Jennifer Jones (1943-46)
Thelma Ritter (1950-53)
Marlon Brando (1951-54)
Elizabeth Taylor (1957-60)
Al Pacino (1972-75)
Three:
Spencer Tracy (1936-38)
Gary Cooper (1941-43)
Ingrid Bergman (1943-45)
Gregory Peck (1945-47)
Deborah Kerr (1956-58)
Richard Burton (1964-66)
Jack Nicholson (1973-75)
Jane Fonda (1977-79)
Meryl Streep (1981-83)
Glenn Close (1982-84)
William Hurt (1985-87)
Russell Crowe (1999-2001)
Renée Zellweger (2001-2003)
Two People Nominated for the Same
Character
Marlon Brando won Best Actor in 1972 for his performance as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather. In 1974, Robert De Niro won Best Supporting Actor for playing Corleone in The Godfather Part II.
The
only times two people have been nominated for playing the same character in the
same movie were: In 1997, Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart were nominated (as
Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively) for playing Rose DeWitt Bukater in
Titanic, and in 2001 Judi Dench and Kate Winslet were both nominated for
playing novelist Iris Murdoch in the movie Iris. None of the four
actually won her award.
Nominated for the Same Role in Two Different Films
Four performers have been nominated twice, in two separate films, for playing the same role in both films. They are:
Bing Crosby received Oscar nominations for portraying Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells Of St. Mary's (1945).
Paul Newman was twice nominated as "Fast" Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color Of Money (1986).
Peter O'Toole was nominated for playing King Henry II in Beckett (1964) and The Lion In Winter (1968).
Al Pacino was nominated twice as Michael Corleone, for The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974).
Interestingly, Pacino and O'Toole never won for those roles. Crosby won for the former and Newman won for the latter.
Performers to Win a Tony and an Oscar for the Same Role
| Performer | Movie/Play | Year he/she won the Oscar | Year he/she won the Tony |
| Jose Ferrer | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1947 | 1950 |
| Shirley Booth | Come Back, Little Sheba | 1950 | 1953 |
| Yul Brynner | The King and I | 1952 | 1956 |
| Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | 1957 | 1964 |
| Anne Bancroft | The Miracle Worker | 1960 | 1962 |
| Paul Scofield | A Man For All Seasons | 1962 | 1966 |
| Jack Albertson | The Subject Was Roses | 1965 | 1968 |
| Joel Grey | Cabaret | 1967 | 1973 |
| Lila Kedrova | Zorba the Greek | 1984 | 1964 |
Performers to Win For Foreign Language
Roles
Sophia Loren (Two Women, Italian, 1961) [w]
Marcello Mastroianni (Divorce Italian Style, Italian, 1962)
Sophia Loren (Marriage Italian Style, Italian, 1964)
Anouk Aimee (A Man And A Woman, French, 1966)
Ida Kaminska (The Shop On Main Street, Czech, 1966)
Liv Ullman (The Emigrants, Swedish, 1972)
Valentina Cortese (Day for Night, French, 1974)
Robert DeNiro (The Godfather, Part II, Italian, 1974)[w]
Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H, French, 1975)
Marie-Christine Barrault (Cousin Cousine, French, 1976)
Giancarlo Giannini (Seven Beauties, Italian, 1976)
Liv Ullman (Face To Face, Swedish, 1976)
Marcello Mastroianni (A Special Day, Italian, 1977)
Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata, Swedish, 1978)
Marlee Matlin (Children Of A Lesser God, American Sign Language, 1986) [w]
Marcello Mastroianni (Dark Eyes, Italian, 1962)
Max Von Sydow (Pelle The Conqueror, Swedish, 1988)
Isabelle Adjani (Camille Claudel, French, 1989)
Gerard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac, French, 1990)
Catherine Deneuve (Indochine, French, 1992)
Massimo Troisi (Il Postino (The Postman), Italian, 1995)
Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station, Portuguese, 1998)
Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful, Italian, 1998)[w]
Salma Hayek (Frida, Spanish, 2002)
Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace, Spanish, 2004)
Black Performers to Win Oscars
Year With the Most Black Performers Nominated
The year 2004 marked the first time five black performers were nominated for acting awards, they were: Jamie Foxx (Best Actor: Ray & Best Supporting Actor: Collateral), Morgan Freeman (Best Supporting Actor: Million Dollar Baby), Don Cheadle (Best Actor: Hotel Rwanda) and Sophie Okonedo (Best Supporting Actress: Hotel Rwanda). The previous record was three in a single year which occurred in both 2001 and 1972.
Films In Which The Entire Cast Was
Nominated for Oscars
Shortest Performance to Win an Oscar
Shortest Performance to Win a Leading Oscar
Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor in 1991 for less than 16 minutes of screen time as Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs.
The Only Posthumous Acting
Award Winner
Peter Finch, Best Actor, Network (1976)
Only Tie For Best Actor/Only Tie For Best Actress
Only
People To Direct Themselves to Acting Oscars
The Only Films to Win Three
Oscars For Acting
The Only Films to Win Both Best Actor & Best Actress
Youngest performers to
receive Academy
Awards
Youngest Best Actor Nominee: Jackie Cooper, Skippy (1931/32) - Age 9
Youngest Best Actor Winner: Adrien Brody, The Pianist (2002) - Age 29
Youngest Best Actress Nominee: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider (2003) - Age 13
Youngest Best Actress Winner: Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God (1986) - Age 21
Youngest Best Supporting Actor Nominee: Justin Henry, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - Age 8
Youngest Best Supporting Actor Winner: Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People (1980) - Age 20
Youngest Best Supporting Actress Nominee: Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (1973) - Age 8
Youngest Best Supporting Actress Winner: Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (1973) - Age 8
Youngest Honorary Award Recipient: Shirley Temple (1934) Special Award - Age 6
Oldest performer to receive an Academy Award
Oldest Best Actor Nominee: Richard Farnsworth, The Straight Story (1999) - Age 80
Oldest Best Actor Winner: Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond (1981) - Age 76
Oldest Best Actress Nominee: Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Age 80
Oldest Best Actress Winner: Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Age 80
Oldest Best Supporting Actor Nominee: Ralph Richardson, Greystoke (1984) - Age 82
Oldest Best Supporting Actor Winner: George Burns, The Sunshine Boys (1975) - Age 80
Oldest Best Supporting Actress Nominee: Gloria Stuart, Titanic (1997) - Age 87
Oldest Best Supporting Actress Winner: Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India (1984) - Age 77
Oldest Honorary Award Recipient: Groucho Marx (1973) Honorary Award - Age 83
The Longest Gap Between Nomination And Victory
Performers to Win Oscars for Their First On-Screen Performance
Best Actor:
Yul Brynner, Ben Kingsley, Geoffrey Rush.
Best Actress: Shirley Booth, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marlee Matlin.
Best Supporting Actor: Harold Russell, Timothy Hutton, Haing S. Ngor.
Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard, Mercedes McCambridge, Eva Marie
Saint, Jo Van Fleet, Miyoshi Umeki, Estelle Parsons, Tatum O'Neal, Anna Paquin.
Interestingly, while six of these performers have received subsequent acting nominations, none has ever won a second acting Oscar.
Performers Nominated for Films Where They Played Multiple Roles
Fredric March, Best Actor winner for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931/32): Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Laurence Olivier, Best Actor winner for Hamlet (1948): Hamlet and the Voice of the Ghost
Lee Marvin, Best Actor winner for Cat Ballou (1965): Tim Strawn and Kid Shelleen
Nicolas Cage, Best Actor nominee for Adaptation (2002): Charlie & Donald Kauffman
Peter Sellers is
the only actor to be nominated (as Best Actor) for playing three roles in the
same film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb (1964) - as Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and Dr.
Strangelove.
Films With Five Acting Nominees
Footnotes:
1. Although not officially a nomination, she
finished as one of the top three vote-getters due to a write-in campaign. The
Academy now lists her as a nominee in it’s records.
2. O'Toole and Burton are tied for the most nominations in
history without a single win in a competitive category. Peter O' Toole, however, after sharing this distinction with Burton for 21 years, received an honorary
award at the 2002 Oscars.
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