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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.

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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.

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  • Walter Brennan won three Oscars for acting: (1) Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Westerner (1940); (2) Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Kentucky (1938) and (3) Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Come and Get It(1936)
  • Ingrid Bergman won three Oscars for acting: (1) Best Actress in a Supporting Rolefor: Murder on the Orient Express (1974); (2) Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Anastasia (1956); and (3) Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Gaslight (1944)
  • Woody Allen is best known as a writer and director, but he has also appeared in approximately 40 films as an actor. He was even nominated once for Best Supporting Actor. He didn't win. He did win three Oscars for writing and directing: (1) Best Director for: Annie Hall (1977) (2) Best Screenplay for: Annie Hall (1977) and (3) Best Screenplay for: Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  • Jack Nicholson won three Oscars for acting: (1) Best Actor in a Leading Role for: As Good as It Gets (1997); (2) Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Terms of Endearment(1983); and (3) Best Actor in a Leading Role for: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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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.

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Walt Disney has won the most Oscars, 26 in all, 22 for competition and 4 honorary ones

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Clint eastwood

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