Who is the biggest Oscar winner of all time?
As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
Walt Disney has won the most Oscars ever
Disney's first win was in 1932 for the short animated film "Flowers and Trees," which was the first time an animated film had achieved such a feat.
The British method actor Daniel Day-Lewis is the only performer to have ever achieved the feat of winning three Academy Awards for 'Best Actor', rightfully claiming the statuette for three excellent movies.
Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscars won by an individual with a total of 22 competitive awards and four honorary awards. Disney was nominated 59 times throughout his career, receiving one award posthumously.
- 1 Tom Hanks Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. ...
- 2 Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker, who has performed for over 60 years.
- 1 Eric Roberts – 455 movies.
- 2 Gertrude Astor – 276 movies. ...
- 3 John Carradine – 222 movies. ...
- 4 Danny Glover – 219 movies. ...
- 5 Danny Trejo – 215 movies. ...
- 6 Christopher Lee – 211 movies. ...
- 7 Ward Bond – 200 movies. ...
- 8 Harry Strang – 196 movies. ...
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 11. Photo : ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection. ...
- Titanic - 11. ...
- Ben-Hur - 11. ...
- West Side Story - 10. ...
- The English Patient - 9. ...
- The Last Emperor - 9. ...
- Gigi - 9. ...
- Slumdog Millionaire - 8.
Jack Nicolson leads the pack with an impressive 12 noms, with Sir Laurence Olivier in second place with 10 (though he only won once, for 1948's Hamlet). Spencer Tracy (two wins), Denzel Washington (two wins), Paul Newman (one win) and Al Pacino (one win) all have nine.
Alan Menken won eight awards in musical categories. John Williams won five awards, holds the record for the most nominations by a living person at 53. Sammy Cahn won four awards, all for Best Original Song.
The record for the youngest Academy Award winner of all time goes to the brilliantly talented Tatum O'Neal. At a mere ten years and 148 days old, she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Addie Loggins in 1973's Paper Moon, becoming the youngest Oscar winner of any competitive category.
Which male actor won most Oscars?
Since its inception, the award has been given to 85 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has won the award a record three times. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated a record nine times. Peter O'Toole is the most nominated actor in this category without a single win.
Daniel Day-Lewis became the first and currently only man to win three best actor Oscars, while Frances McDormand became only the second woman and third of her counterparts overall to acheieve the same. Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937-1941.

Visual effects artist Dennis Muren currently holds the record for most Oscars won by a person still living. He has nine Oscars to his name honoring his work on films such E.T., Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Jurassic Park.
Actors with the most Oscar nominations and their wins 1929-2022. As of March 2022, Meryl Streep was the person with the most Oscar nominations of all time, with an impressive 21 nominations and three wins.
Renee Zellweger
Zellweger had a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Cold Mountain," and then she got what was considered a puzzling win for Best Actress for playing Judy Garland. Her speech was also strange, but the fact is she has two Oscars now.
- Jami Gertz (Net Worth: $3 Billion)
- Tyler Perry (Net Worth: $1 Billion)
- Jerry Seinfeld (Net Worth: $950 Million)
- Dwayne Johnson (Net Worth: $800 Million)
- Shahrukh Khan (Net Worth: $715 Million)
- Tom Cruise (Net Worth: $570 Million)
- Tom Cruise - 100M.
- Will Smith - 35M.
- Leonardo DiCaprio - 30M.
- Brad Pitt - 30M.
- Dwayne Johnson - 22,5M.
- Chris Hemsworth - 20M.
- Vin Diesel - 20M.
- Tom Hardy - 20M.
Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards (all for Best Actress), more than any other actor or actress in the history of the award.
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1 | Barack Obama | Politician |
2 | Jennifer Lopez | Singer-Actress |
3 | The Rock | Former Wrestler Actor |
4 | Michael Jackson | Musician |
Eric Roberts doesn't hold the Guinness World Record for the most screen credits for a living actor. That honor goes to the Indian star Brahmanandam, currently with more than 1,170 titles to his name.
Which actor has acted more than 1000 movies?
Brahmanandam acted in more than 1,000 films.
The three movies to hold the Guinness World Record of winning 11 Oscars — the highest by a film — are The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Titanic and Ben-Hur. On the other hand, Titanic is one of the three films which has received the most number of nominations at 14.
Actor Harold Russell sold the Oscar he won for his role in 'For the Best Years of Our Lives' in 1944 in exchange for 60,500 dollars in order to pay for his wife's illness.
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.
Previously, Netflix won a total of 16 Oscars out of 116 nominations overall. However, the streaming giant has yet to secure a win in the coveted best picture category.
Academy Awards wins in 2023, by film
At the 95th Academy Awards in 2023, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" won in seven categories, including Best Picture and Best Actress. "All Quiet on the Western Front," distributed and produced by Netfiix, won four Oscars, including the one for Best International Feature Picture.
Depicting a knight holding a crusader's sword, the Oscar was designed in 1928 by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley. It is composed of 24-karat gold-plated bronze. The sleek award stands 13.5 inches tall and weighs a hefty 8.5 pounds.
The oldest winner in any category is James Ivory, who was 89 when he took home the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2018. Ivory won for the Call Me By Your Name screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by André Aciman.
Oldest living Oscar winners as of March 2022, by age
As of March 2022, the oldest living Academy Award winner was Walter Mirisch, who won an Oscar for producing "In the Heat of the Night" (1967). Eva Marie Saint won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in "On the Waterfront" (1954).
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