Lots and lots and lots.
Throughout the past 81 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 82 Best Actor awards to 73 different actors
Throughout the past 81 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 82 Best Actress awards to 68 different actresses.
Throughout the past 73 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 73 Best Supporting Actor awards to 66 different actors.
Throughout the past 73 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 73 Best Supporting Actress awards to 71 different actresses.
In addition, actors occassionaly win awards as directors, producers and writers.
Katharine Hepburn is the female actor with the most Oscars. She won 4 Oscars for Best Actress. She was nominated 12 times.
Clint Eastwood is the male actor with the most Oscars. He won 4 Oscars, none of them for acting. He won 2 Oscars for Best Director and 2 Oscars for Best Picture.
Daniel Day Lewis is the male actor with the most Oscars for acting. He has won 3 Oscars for Best Actor for his leading roles in My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007), and Lincoln (2012). He has been nominated 5 times for the Best Actor award.
Runners up:
No actor has ever won more than four Academy Awards (Oscars).
Katharine Hepburn won 4 Oscars for Best Actress.
Clint Eastwood also won 4 Oscars, none of them for acting. He won 2 Oscars for Best Director and 2 Oscars for Best Picture.
Daniel Day-Lewis is the only person to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor. Jack Nicholson has two Best Actor wins and one for Best Supporting Actor. Walter Brennan won three Best Supporting Actor awards.
No one. Walt Disney, who has won the most Oscars, won 22 times.
It won four Oscars including: best picture, best actor (Dustin Hoffman), best director (Barry Levinson), and best original screenplay.
Titanic and Lord of the Rings:The Return of The King-Titanic won 11 Oscars-Lord of the rings : The Return of The King won 11 Oscars
Two: Best Actor (Sean Penn) and Best Supporting Actor (Tim Robbins).
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Clint Eastwood is the male actor with the most Oscars. He won 4 Oscars, none of them for acting. He won 2 Oscars for Best Director and 2 Oscars for Best Picture.Katharine Hepburn is the female actor with the most Oscars. She won 4 Oscars for Best Actress.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan each won three Academy Awards. Day-Lewis is the only person to win three Best Actor Oscars.
No actor won both awards in the same year.
Daniel Day-Lewis is the only person to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor. Jack Nicholson has two Best Actor wins and one for Best Supporting Actor. Walter Brennan won three Best Supporting Actor awards.
Silence of the Lambs (1991) won the Big Five Oscars
No African-American actor or actress has won more than one Oscar for Best Actor/Actress. Denzel Washington is the only one who won 2 Oscars, one of them for Best Supporting Actor.
No actor or actress, from New Zealand or anywhere else, has won 8 Oscars.
Alfred Newman won 11 Oscars for Score and Song. Cedric Gibbons won 11 times for Art Direction. Katharine Hepburn won 4 Oscars for Acting. The most Oscars for Directing-Writing-Acting? No one won for all three. Billy Wilder, who wasn't an actor, won 6 Oscars, more than any writer-director, for: The Lost Weekend (writer and director), Sunset Blvd. (writer) and The Apartment (writer, director and producer). As for the most Oscars in any category: that would be Walt Disney.
2: Best Actor and Best Cinematography.
One. He won Best Actor for Patton (1970).