List of Academy Award records

Walt Disney, the record-holder for most Academy Awards won (22 Oscars)

This list of Academy Award records is current as of the 96th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place on March 10, 2024.

Most awards or nominations

  • Most awards won by a single film: 11
    • Three films have won 11 Academy Awards:
      • Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories
      • Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories
      • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories
  • Most nominations received by a single film: 14
    • Three films have received 14 nominations:
      • All About Eve (1950): won 6 awards out of 16 possible categories
      • Titanic (1997): won 11 awards out of 17 possible categories
      • La La Land (2016): won 6 awards out of 17 possible categories
  • Largest sweep (winning awards in every nominated category): 11
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won in every category for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects
  • Most total awards won by a person: 22
    • Walt Disney
    • Dennis Muren holds the record for the most awards by a living person: 9
  • Most total awards won by a woman: 8
    • Edith Head, all for Best Costume Design
  • Most total nominations for a person: 59
    • Walt Disney
  • Most nominations and awards for a person in a single year: 6 & 4
    • In 1954, Walt Disney received six nominations and won four awards, both records. He won Best Documentary, Features for The Living Desert; Best Documentary, Short Subjects for The Alaskan Eskimo; Best Short Subject, Cartoons for Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom; and Best Short Subject, Two-reel for Bear Country. He had two additional nominations in Best Short Subject, Cartoons for Rugged Bear; and Best Short Subject, Two-reel for Ben and Me
  • Most competitive awards won by a person who is still living: 8
    • Composer Alan Menken has won 8 competitive awards
    • Of note: Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won 9 Academy Awards: six competitive awards, two "Special Achievement" awards, and one "Technical Achievement" award
  • Acting: 4
    • Katharine Hepburn, all for Best Actress
  • Directing: 4
    • John Ford
  • Writing: 3
    • Woody Allen, all for Best Original Screenplay
    • Charles Brackett, for both Best Adapted and Original Screenplay
    • Paddy Chayefsky, for both Best Adapted and Original Screenplay
    • Francis Ford Coppola, for both Best Adapted and Original Screenplay
    • Billy Wilder, for both Best Adapted and Original Screenplay
  • Film Editing: 3
  • Cinematography: 4
  • Film Music Composition and Songwriting: 9
    • Alfred Newman, all for Best Original Score
    • Of note:
      • Alan Menken has won eight awards in musical categories
      • John Williams has won five awards and holds the record for the most nominations by a living person at 54.
      • Sammy Cahn won four awards, all for Best Original Song
      • Johnny Mercer won four awards, all for Best Original Song
      • Jimmy Van Heusen won four awards, all for Best Original Song
  • Art Direction: 11
    • Cedric Gibbons, who designed the Oscar statuette, received 38 nominations
  • Costume Design: 8
  • Makeup: 7
    • Rick Baker, who has received 11 nominations in total
  • Visual Effects: 8
  • Special Effects (discontinued in 1962): 3
  • Most awards won for an animated feature film: 3
  • Most nominations received for an animated feature film: 4
  • Most awards won by a country for Best International Feature Film: 14
    • Italy, which has received 33 nominations in total
  • Most nominations received by a country for Best International Feature Film: 41
    • France, which has won the award 12 times
  • Most nominations received by a country for Best International Feature Film without an award: 10
  • Most awards won by a non-English language film: 4
    • Four non English-language films have won four Academy Awards:
      • Fanny and Alexander (1982) won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design
      • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score
      • Parasite (2019) won Best International Feature Film, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay
      • All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) won Best International Feature Film, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score
  • Most nominations received by a non English-language film: 10
    • Two non-English language films have been nominated for ten Academy Awards (* = winner):
      • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000): Best Foreign Language Film (*), Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction (*), Best Cinematography (*), Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score (*), and Best Original Song
      • Roma (2018): Best Foreign Language Film (*), Best Picture, Best Director (*), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography (*), Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing

Awards for Acting and Directing Debuts

These people won Academy Awards for their debut performances in film:

These people won Academy Awards for their directing debuts:

Big Five Winners

Three films have received the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay (Original or Adapted; all won for Best Adapted Screenplay).[6][7][8]

Most Consecutive Awards in Each Category

  • Any awards
    • Walt Disney received record 10 awards in the eight consecutive years from 1931/32 through 1939. Eight (listed below) are for Short Subject (Cartoon), and two were Special Awards: one for the creation of Mickey Mouse, and one recognizing the innovation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • Best Picture
    • David O. Selznick produced two consecutive Best Picture winners Gone with the Wind in 1939 and Rebecca in 1940 (He himself was not awarded the Oscars as at the time the statuette went to the studio instead of the producer)
  • Best Director
  • Best Actor
  • Best Actress
  • Best Supporting Actor
  • Best Supporting Actress
    • No consecutive winner for Best Supporting Actress
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Original Screenplay
    • No consecutive winner for Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Art Direction
    • Thomas Little won four consecutive awards for Best Art Direction. He won Best Art Direction, Black and White, for the films How Green Was My Valley in 1941, This Above All in 1942, and The Song of Bernadette in 1943, and then he won an Oscar the next year in 1944 for Best Art Direction, Color for the film Wilson
  • Best Cinematography
    • Emmanuel Lubezki won three consecutive awards for Gravity in 2013, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) in 2014 and The Revenant in 2015
  • Best Costume Design
    • Of Edith Head's eight awards won for Best Costume Design, three were won in consecutive years: in 1949 for The Heiress, in 1950 for All About Eve, and in 1951 for A Place in the Sun for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White; in 1950 she also won for Samson and Delilah for Best Costume Design, Color
  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Original Score
    • Roger Edens won three consecutive awards for composing the scores for Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), and Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
    • Alfred Newman won two consecutive awards in Best Scoring of a Musical Picture for With a Song in My Heart (1952), and Call Me Madam (1953).
    • Alan Menken won two consecutive awards for composing the scores for Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Aladdin (1992)
    • Gustavo Santaolalla won two consecutive awards for composing the scores for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Babel (2006)
  • Best Original Song
    • Three composers have won two consecutive awards for best original song, but under different award names:
      • Henry Mancini (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) shared the awards in Best Music (Song) for "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961, and "Days of Wine and Roses" from Days of Wine and Roses in 1962
      • Alan Menken (music) won twice consecutively in Best Music (Original Song) for "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast (lyrics by Howard Ashman) in 1991, and "A Whole New World" from Aladdin (lyrics by Tim Rice) in 1992
  • Best Sound Mixing
  • Best Visual Effects
    • Glen Robinson won four consecutive non-competitive wins Earthquake in 1974, The Hindenburg in 1975, and both King Kong and Logan's Run in 1976
    • Of Dennis Muren's eight Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, three of them were consecutive wins (under different names); E.T. The Extra Terrestrial in 1982, Return of the Jedi in 1983, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984.
    • Jim Rygiel and Randall William Cook won three consecutive visual effects Oscars for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  • Best Documentary (Feature)
  • Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
  • Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)

Academy Award firsts

Year Film title used in nomination Original title Award recipient(s) Country of production Language(s) Notes
1937
(11th)
La Grande Illusion La Grande Illusion Réalisation d'art cinématographique
(production company)
France France French
(some parts in German, English & Russian)
[A]
1969
(42nd)
Z Z Jacques Perrin
Ahmed Rachedi
France France
Algeria Algeria
French [15]
1971
(45th)
The Emigrants Utvandrarna Bengt Forslund Sweden Sweden Swedish [16]
1972
(46th)
Cries and Whispers Viskningar och rop Ingmar Bergman Sweden Sweden Swedish [17]
1994
(68th)
Il Postino: The Postman Il postino Mario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Gaetano Daniele
Italy Italy Italian
(some parts in Spanish)
[19]
1997
(71st)
Life Is Beautiful La vita è bella Elda Ferri
Gianluigi Braschi
Italy Italy Italian
(some parts in German & English)
[15][20]
2000
(73rd)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Wòhǔ Cánglóng
(pinyin)
臥虎藏龍
(traditional Chinese)
卧虎藏龙
(simplified Chinese)
Bill Kong
Hsu Li-kong
Ang Lee
Taiwan Taiwan
China China
Hong Kong Hong Kong
United States United States
Mandarin [15]
2006
(79th)
Letters from Iwo Jima Letters from Iwo Jima
(English)
Iô-Jima kara no tegami
硫黄島からの手紙
(Japanese)
Clint Eastwood
Steven Spielberg
Robert Lorenz
United States United States Japanese
(some parts in English)
[21]
2006
(79th)
Babel Babel Alejandro González Iñárritu
Jon Kilik
Steve Golin
United States United States
Mexico Mexico
France France
English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Japanese Sign language, Berber languages [21]
2012
(85th)
Amour Amour Margaret Menegoz
Stefan Arndt
Veit Heiduschka
Michael Katz
Austria Austria
France France
Germany Germany
French [15]
2018
(91st)
Roma Roma Gabriela Rodríguez
Alfonso Cuarón
Mexico Mexico

United States United States

Spanish, Mixtec [15]
2019
(92nd)
Parasite Gisaengchung
기생충

(Korean)
Kwak Sin-ae
Bong Joon-ho
South Korea South Korea Korean
2020
(93rd)
Minari Minari
(English)
미나리
(Korean)
Christina Oh United States United States Korean
(some parts in English)
2021
(94th)
Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー

Doraibu mai kā
(Japanese)

Teruhisa Yamamoto Japan Japan Japanese
(some parts in European languages)
2022
(95th)
All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues Malte Grunert Germany Germany German
(some parts in French)
2023
(96th)
Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute Justine Triet France France French, English, German
2023
(96th)
Past Lives Past Lives Celine Song United States United States
South Korea South Korea
Korean, English
2023
(96th)
The Zone of Interest The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer United Kingdom United Kingdom
United States United States
Poland Poland
German, Polish, Yiddish
  • First film by genre to win Best Picture[22]
    • Silent, War, Epic: Wings (1927)
    • Musical: The Broadway Melody (1929)
    • Western: Cimarron (1931)
    • Drama: Grand Hotel (1932)
    • Comedy: It Happened One Night (1934)
    • Historical: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    • Biopic: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
    • Romance: Gone with the Wind (1939)
    • Thriller: Rebecca (1940)
    • Adventure: The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
    • Crime, Mystery, Neo-noir: In the Heat of the Night (1967)
    • Horror: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
    • Disaster: Titanic (1997)
    • Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
    • LGBTQ+: Moonlight (2016)
    • Action, Martial arts, Science-fiction: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
  • First superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture
    • Black Panther (2018)
  • First X-rated film to be nominated for and win Best Picture
  • First film with an entirely non-White cast to win Best Picture[23]
  • First film with an all-Black cast to win Best Picture
    • Moonlight (2016)
  • First 3-D film to be nominated for Best Picture
    • Avatar and Up (2009)
  • First streaming service film to be nominated for Best Picture
  • First streaming service film to win Best Picture
  • First animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
    • Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  • First animated film to be nominated for a writing award
  • First animated film to win Best Animated Feature
  • First animated film to win both music categories
  • First stop motion animated film to win Best Animated Feature
    • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
  • First non-English language film to win Best Animated Feature
  • First PG-13 rated film to win Best Animated Feature
  • First animated film to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature
    • Flee (2021)
  • First actor to receive ten nominations for acting
    • Bette Davis received her tenth acting nomination (all for Best Actress) for the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  • First male actor to receive ten nominations for acting
    • Laurence Olivier received his tenth acting nomination (nine for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor) for the film The Boys from Brazil (1978)
  • First actor to receive twenty nominations for acting
    • Meryl Streep received her twentieth nomination (sixteen for Best Actress and four for Best Supporting Actress) for the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
  • First film to win both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award
  • First actor to be nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award for the same performance in a film
  • First actress to be nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award for the same performance in a film
    • Amy Irving was nominated for both Best Supporting Actress and Worst Supporting Actress for Yentl (1983)
  • First person to be nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year
    • Mary J. Blige, nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song ("Mighty River") for Mudbound (2017)
  • First person to direct themselves to an Oscar win
    • Laurence Olivier won Best Actor for Hamlet (1948) — which he also directed, produced, and adapted
  • First posthumous win for acting
  • First posthumous nomination for acting
  • First posthumous nomination for an actor
    • James Dean, nominated for Best Actor for East of Eden (1955)
  • First posthumous nomination for a Black actor
  • First actress to be nominated for performing in a language other than English
  • First actress to win for performing in a language other than English
  • First actor to be nominated for performing in a language other than English
  • First actor to win for performing in a language other than English
  • First Canadian to win Best Director
  • First people from India to win in a music category
  • First Middle Eastern film to win Best International Feature Film
  • First person to win for acting and producing in the same year
  • First Black writer to win for screenwriting
    • Geoffrey S. Fletcher won Best Adapted Screenplay for Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (2009)
  • First Black person to receive an Honorary Award
  • First Latin American to win Best Director
  • First child actor to receive an acting nomination[25]
    • Jackie Cooper, age 9, was nominated for Best Actor for Skippy (1931)
  • First short film to win an Academy Award outside of the Short Film categories
  • First professional athlete to win an Academy Award
  • First Deaf actress to be nominated for and win an acting award
    • Marlee Matlin won Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God (1986)
  • First Deaf actor to be nominated for and win an acting award
  • First autistic actor to win an Academy Award
  • First actress with dwarfism to win in an acting category
    • Linda Hunt won Best Supporting Actress for The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
  • First actor with dwarfism to be nominated in an acting category
    • Michael Dunn was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Ship of Fools (1965)
  • First acting win for a portrayal of a character of the opposite gender
    • Linda Hunt won Best Supporting Actress for The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
  • First portrayals of living persons to win in each acting category
  • First hip hop song to win Best Original Song
  • First woman of Filipino descent to win in any award
  • First song from an Indian film to win Best Original Song

Age-related records

Nomination Name Age Film Year Date of birth Date of nomination
2nd Sal Mineo 22 years, 17 days Exodus 1960 January 10, 1939 January 27, 1961
3rd Marlon Brando 29 years, 318 days Julius Caesar 1953 April 3, 1924 February 15, 1954
4th Marlon Brando 30 years, 315 days On the Waterfront 1954 April 3, 1924 February 12, 1955
5th Marlon Brando 33 years, 321 days Sayonara 1957 April 3, 1924 February 18, 1958
6th Richard Burton 44 years, 98 days Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 November 10, 1925 February 16, 1970
7th Jack Nicholson 46 years, 300 days Terms of Endearment 1983 April 22, 1937 February 16, 1984
8th Jack Nicholson 48 years, 289 days Prizzi's Honor 1985 April 22, 1937 February 5, 1986
9th Jack Nicholson 50 years, 301 days Ironweed 1987 April 22, 1937 February 17, 1988
10th Jack Nicholson 55 years, 302 days A Few Good Men 1992 April 22, 1937 February 18, 1993
  • Youngest multiple nominees for an acting award (Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress)
Nomination Name Age Film Year Date of birth Date of nomination
2nd Angela Lansbury 20 years, 103 days The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 October 16, 1925 January 27, 1946
3rd Jennifer Lawrence 23 years, 154 days American Hustle 2013 August 15, 1990 January 16, 2014
4th Jennifer Lawrence 25 years, 152 days Joy 2015 August 15, 1990 January 14, 2016
5th Kate Winslet 31 years, 110 days Little Children 2006 October 5, 1975 January 23, 2007
6th Kate Winslet 33 years, 109 days The Reader 2008 October 5, 1975 January 22, 2009
7th Bette Davis 36 years, 304 days Mr. Skeffington 1944 April 5, 1908 February 3, 1945
8th Meryl Streep 39 years, 238 days A Cry in the Dark 1988 June 22, 1949 February 15, 1989
9th Meryl Streep 41 years, 236 days Postcards from the Edge 1990 June 22, 1949 February 13, 1991
10th Meryl Streep 46 years, 236 days The Bridges of Madison County 1995 June 22, 1949 February 13, 1996

Film records

  • Most Oscar wins without winning Best Picture
    • Cabaret (1972) won 8 awards
  • Most nominations without winning Best Picture
    • La La Land (2016) with 14 nominations
  • Most nominations without any wins
    • Two films received 11 nominations without winning any awards:
      • The Turning Point (1977)
      • The Color Purple (1985)
  • Most nominations without a Best Picture nomination
    • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) with 9 nominations
  • Most Oscar wins without a nomination for Best Picture
  • Fewest awards and nominations for a Best Picture winner
    • Grand Hotel (1932) received only the Best Picture nomination
  • Most nominations without a major nomination (Picture, Director, Acting and Screenplay)
    • Pepe (1960) received 7 nominations with no major nominations
    • These seven films got 6 nominations with no major nominations:
  • Best Picture nominees that won every nomination except Best Picture
  • Films nominated for Best Picture with no other major nominations
    • These 32 films were nominated for Best Picture but had no other major nominations (this does not include films that were only nominated for Best Picture and nothing else):
      • Wings (1927), 2 nominations
      • 42nd Street (1933), 2 nominations
      • A Farewell to Arms (1933), 4 nominations
      • Cleopatra (1934), 5 nominations
      • Flirtation Walk (1934), 2 nominations
      • The Gay Divorcee (1934), 5 nominations
      • Imitation of Life (1934), 3 nominations
      • The White Parade (1934), 2 nominations
      • David Copperfield (1935), 3 nominations
      • Les Misérables (1935), 4 nominations
      • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), 4 nominations (note: actually had 2, but 2 more were write-in nominations)
      • Naughty Marietta (1935), 2 nominations
      • Top Hat (1935), 4 nominations
      • A Tale of Two Cities (1936), 2 nominations
      • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), 4 nominations
      • Of Mice and Men (1939), 4 nominations
      • The Wizard of Oz (1939), 6 nominations
      • King Solomon's Mines (1950), 3 nominations
      • Decision Before Dawn (1951), 2 nominations
      • Ivanhoe (1952), 3 nominations
      • Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), 3 nominations
      • The Music Man (1962), 6 nominations
      • Doctor Dolittle (1967), 9 nominations
      • Hello, Dolly! (1969), 7 nominations
      • Jaws (1975), 4 nominations
      • Beauty and the Beast (1991), 6 nominations
      • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), 6 nominations
      • War Horse (2011), 6 nominations
      • Selma (2014), 2 nominations
      • Black Panther (2018), 7 nominations
      • Ford v Ferrari (2019), 4 nominations
      • Nightmare Alley (2021), 4 nominations
      • Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), 4 nominations
  • Stories made into multiple Best Picture nominees
    • 9 sets of Best Picture nominees share either original source material or were revised versions of the same story (* = winner):
      • Romeo and Juliet (1936), West Side Story (1961)*, Romeo and Juliet (1968), West Side Story (2021)
      • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)*, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
      • Cleopatra (1934), Cleopatra (1963)
      • Pygmalion (1938), My Fair Lady (1964)*
      • Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1978)
      • Les Misérables (1935), Les Misérables (2012)
      • A Star Is Born (1937), A Star Is Born (2018)
      • Little Women (1933), Little Women (2019)
      • All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/30)*, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
  • First Best Picture winner produced wholly by non-Americans
    • Hamlet (1948), United Kingdom
  • First Best Picture winner produced wholly by non-Americans or non-British
    • The Artist (2011), France
  • First Best Picture winner produced wholly by non-Caucasians
    • Parasite (2019), South Korea
  • Most wins by a film produced wholly or partially by non-Americans
  • Most nominations for a film produced wholly or partially by non-Americans
    • Two non-American films have received 13 nominations:
      • Shakespeare in Love (1998), United Kingdom/United States
      • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), New Zealand/United States
  • Only animated films to be nominated for Best Picture
    • Beauty and the Beast (1991), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010)
  • Best Picture winners adapted from Best Play or Best Musical Tony Award winners
    • My Fair Lady (1964)
    • The Sound of Music (1965)
    • A Man for All Seasons (1966)
    • Amadeus (1984)
    • Also:
      • All About Eve (1950) was adapted into the musical Applause, which won the Best Musical in 1970.
      • Chicago (2002) was adapted from both the original 1975 musical, which was nominated for Best Musical, and the 1996 revival, which won Best Revival.
      • While the musical Titanic, which won the Best Musical in 1997, and the film Titanic (1997), which won the Best Picture, shared the same name, neither production had anything to do with the other, and by coincidence, both opened in the same year.
  • Best Picture winners based on Pulitzer Prize winning sources
    • You Can't Take It With You (1938) – play
    • Gone with the Wind (1939) – novel
    • All the King's Men (1949) – novel
    • Driving Miss Daisy (1989) – play
    • Spotlight (2015) – public service reporting
      • On the Waterfront (1954) was an original screenplay suggested from Pulitzer-winning newspaper articles.
  • Best Picture winners with the highest prize wins from the "Big Three" (Cannes, Venice, and Berlin)
  • Palme d'Or winning films to be nominated for Best Picture (Best Picture winners designated with ** two asterisks)
  • Golden Lion winning films to be nominated for Best Picture (Best Picture winners designated with ** two asterisks)
  • Golden Bear winning films to be nominated for Best Picture (Best Picture winners designated with ** two asterisks)
    • 12 Angry Men (1957)
    • Rain Man (1988) **
    • In the Name of the Father (1993)
    • Sense and Sensibility (1995)
    • The Thin Red Line (1998)
  • Most acting nominations from a single film
  • Most acting wins from a single film

Acting records

  • Most awards for Best Actress
  • Most awards for Best Actor
  • Most awards for Best Supporting Actor
  • Most awards for Best Supporting Actress
  • Most consecutive Best Actress nominations
  • Most consecutive Best Actor nominations
  • Most consecutive Best Supporting Actress nominations
  • Most consecutive acting nominations across categories
    • Two actors have been nominated 4 years in a row:
      • Jennifer Jones (1943 Best Actress; 1944 Best Supporting Actress; 1945–1946 Best Actress)
      • Al Pacino (1972 Best Supporting Actor; 1973–1975 Best Actor)
  • Actor with most nominations for acting
  • Actress with most nominations for acting
  • Most nominations for an actor without a win
    • Peter O'Toole with 8 nominations (received an Honorary Award in 2002, prior to 8th nomination)
  • Most nominations for an actress without a win
  • Most nominations for an actor performing in a non-English language
  • Longest gap between first and second award
  • Longest gap between first and second nomination
  • Longest time span between first and last wins
    • Katharine Hepburn won in 1934 for Morning Glory and in 1982 for On Golden Pond, a 48-year gap.
  • Longest time span between first and last nomination
  • Most acting nominations before first win
  • Most posthumous nominations
    • James Dean with 2 (1955 for East of Eden and 1956 for Giant)

Shortest and Longest Academy Award Winning and Nominated Performances

Actor Actress
Time in h:mm:ss Shortest Longest Shortest Longest
Lead Won David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
23:39[29]
Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
2:01:23
Patricia Neal in Hud (1963)
21:51[30]
Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)
2:23:32
Nominated Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936)
14:58
Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992)
2:21:58
Eleanor Parker in Detective Story (1951)
20:10
Supporting Won Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
9:54[31]
Mahershala Ali in Green Book (2018)
1:06:38
Beatrice Straight in Network (1976)
5:02
Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973)
1:06:58
Nominated Ned Beatty in Network (1976)
6:00[32]
Frank Finlay in Othello (1965)
1:30:43
Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959)
2:19
Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away (1944)
1:15:38

Miscellaneous records

Oscar speeches

  • Longest speech
    • The longest Oscar speech was given by Greer Garson at the 15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. The exact length of her speech is unknown but it is believed that it ran for nearly six minutes.[39] It was shortly after this incident that the academy set forty-five seconds as the allotted time for an acceptance speech and began to cut the winners off after this time limit. When presenting the Best Actor award at the 24th Academy Awards, Garson quipped, "I think I have ten minutes left over from a highly emotional speech I made a few years ago. I'd be glad to give it to them."
  • Shortest speech
    • The shortest Oscar speech was that given by Patty Duke at the 35th Academy Awards after she was named Best Supporting Actress for 1962 for The Miracle Worker. Duke, age 16, was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category. Her acceptance speech was, simply, two words – "Thank you" – after which she walked off the stage[40] (Note: When Fred Zinnemann accepted the Best Picture Oscar for A Man For All Seasons, he simply nodded and smiled. However, minutes earlier he had won Best Director and made his thank-yous then, and thus felt he had nothing to add.)

Tied winners

There have been six two-way ties

Clean sweep

The following films with at least two nominations won all of their categories.

See also

References

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