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Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning consecutive Best Actor Oscars.
Tom Hanks is one of the two actors who won the Best Actor award at the Oscars two years in a row. Hanks won his first Oscar for his role in the 1993 film "Philadelphia," which tackles ...
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Mar 10, 2024 · Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson, who have three Oscars apiece, are tied as the actors with the most Academy Award wins, while three actresses — Ingrid...
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- Ingrid Bergman: 2 Wins* “Gaslight” (1944) Claudette Colbert, “Since You Went Away” Bette Davis, “Mr. Skeffington” Greer Garson, “Mrs. Parkington”
- Bette Davis: 2 Wins. “Dangerous” (1935) Elisabeth Bergner, “Escape Me Never” Claudette Colbert, “Private Worlds” Katharine Hepburn, “Alice Adams”
- Olivia de Havilland: 2 Wins. “To Each His Own” (1946) Celia Johnson, “Brief Encounter” Jennifer Jones, “Duel in the Sun” Rosalind Russell, “Sister Kenny”
- Sally Field: 2 Wins. “Norma Rae” (1979) Jill Clayburgh, “Starting Over” Jane Fonda, “The China Syndrome” Marsha Mason, “Chapter Two” Bette Midler, “The Rose”
- Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn is the leader of the pack when it comes to winning Oscars for acting. She has four of them, and they are all Best Actress performances.
- Daniel Day-Lewis. Lewis has gotten real bang for his buck. Hepburn starred in dozens of movies, while Day-Lewis is more selective. He’s been nominated only six times, but he’s won three Oscars for Best Actor.
- Meryl Streep. The Academy loves Streep. She’s been nominated a whopping 21 times for her acting work. Nobody else has more than 12. All those nominations have resulted in three Oscars.
- Jack Nicholson. Nicholson has more nominations than any male actor, with 12. He got his first Best Actor for 1975's “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and won a second for “As Good as It Gets”at the 1998 awards ceremony.
Mar 12, 2023 · More than two decades after his first Oscar nomination, DiCaprio took home the award for Best Actor for his role as frontiersman Hugh Glass in The Revenant in 2016. 2015: Eddie Redmayne, The...
The record for most wins is three, held by Daniel Day-Lewis, while nine other actors have won twice. The record for most nominations is nine, jointly held by Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier. James Dean remains the only actor to have been posthumously nominated for this award more than once.
