Who won 3 Oscars?

Answer 1

Three people have won 3 Oscars for acting: Walter Brennan, Ingrid Bergman and Jack Nicholson. (Katharine Hepburn has won 4 Oscars.)
Four actors have won three or more Academy Awards. Katharine Hepburn won four for Best Actress. Jack Nicholson won two Best Actor Oscars and a Best Supporting Actor award. Ingrid Bergman won two Best Actress awards and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Walter Brennan won three Best Supporting Actor awards.

Answer 2

In 1960 Billy Wilder won 3 awards for The Apartment as Producer, Director and Screenwriter. In 1973 Composer Marvin Hamlisch for Score (The Way We Were), Song (The Way We Were) and Adapted Score (The Sting). In 1983 James L. Brooks won 3 awards for Terms of Endearment as Producer, Director and Screenwriter. In 1974 Francis Ford Coppola won 3 awards for The Godfather Part II as Producer, Director and Screenwriter. In 1997 James Cameron won 3 awards for Titanic as Producer, Director and Editor. In 2003 Peter Jacksonwon 3 awards for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Producer, Director and Screenwriter. In 2007 Joel & Ethan Coen won 3 awards for No Country for Old Men as Producers, Directors and Screenwriters. ~ And Walt Disney won 4 Oscars (in 4 categories) in 1953.

Answer 3

Daniel Day-Lewis is the only person ever to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor. Jack Nicholson won two Best Actor Oscars and one for Best Supporting Actor. Walter Brennan received three Best Supporting Actor awards. Three actresses have won three or more Oscars: Katharine Hepburn with four and Ingrid Bergman and Meryl Streep with three.

Answer 4

Only Katharine Hepburn has won Best Actress more than twice. She won four times. Both Ingrid Bergman and Meryl Streep won three Oscars -- two for Best Actress and one for Best Supporting Actress.

Twelve women have won two Best Actress Academy Awards. In chronological order, they are:

1. Luise Rainer,
2. Bette Davis,
3. Olivia de Havilland,
4. Vivien Leigh,
5. Ingrid Bergman,
6. Elizabeth Taylor,
7. Glenda Jackson,
8. Jane Fonda,
9. Sally Field,
10. Jodie Foster,
11. Hilary Swank,
12. Meryl Streep

The only actresses to win the Best Supporting Actress award twice were Shelley Winters and Dianne Wiest. Winters won in 1959 and 1965 (she was also nominated in 1972, in addition to being nominated in the Best Actress category in 1951); Wiest won in 1986 and 1994 (she was also nominated in 1989).

Answer 5

Only three actors have won three Academy Awards (Oscars): Walter Brenan (1940), Ingrid Bergman (1974) and Jack Nicholson (1997). And now a fourth actor has been added to that list. Meryl Streep (2012)

Walter Brennan

1. Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Westerner(1940)
2. Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Kentucky(1938)
3. Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Come and Get It(1936)

He also received the following nominations

• Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Sergeant York(1941)

Ingrid Bergman

1. Best Actress in a Supporting Rolefor: Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
2. Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Anastasia(1956)
3. Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Gaslight (1944)

She also received the following nominations

• Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Höstsonaten(1978)
• Best Actress in a Leading Role for: Joan of Arc(1948)
• Best Actress in a Leading Role for: The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
• Best Actress in a Leading Role for: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Jack Nicholson

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)
3. Best Actor in a Leading Role for: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

He also received the following nominations

• Best Actor in a Leading Role for: About Schmidt(2002)
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: A Few Good Men(1992)
• Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Ironweed (1987)
• Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Prizzi's Honor(1985)
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Reds (1981)
• Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Chinatown (1974)
• Best Actor in a Leading Role for: The Last Detail(1973)
• Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Five Easy Pieces(1970)
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Easy Rider(1969)

Meryl StreepBest Actress in a Supporting Role For Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sophie's Choice (1982)

Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Iron Lady (2012)

Plus a record 14 other Oscar nominations

Answer 6

In the acting categories, six people have received three or more Academy Awards: Katharine Hepburn (four Best Actress Oscars); Daniel Day-Lewis (three Best Actor awards); Jack Nicholson (two Best Actor awards and one for Supporting Actor); Ingrid Bergman (two Best Actress awards and one for Supporting Actress); Meryl Streep (two Best Actress awards and one for Supporting Actress); and Walter Brennan (three Supporting Actor awards).

Answer 7

Both Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan won three competitive Academy Awards for different films.