The podium of actors or actresses with the most Oscars in history is led by Katharine Hepburn with four statuettes and Daniel Day-Lewis or Jack Nicholson, some of the most awarded with a total of three awards.
The Oscar for Best Actor/Actress is one of the awards given by the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in recognition of actors with outstanding performances in a film from the previous year.
The long-awaited statuette achieves a direct pass to the cinema hall of fame, but only a few actors or actresses have been able to repeat in the categories reserved for the protagonists.
Since the birth of these awards, in 1929, it is the actresses who have obtained the most nominations and awards.
With 4 Oscar Awards: Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn She is the actress with the most Oscars in history who worked at the time of classic Hollywood. She was awarded for her roles in glory for a day (1933), Guess who is coming for dinner tonight (1967), The lion in winter (1968) y in the golden pool (1981).
He shot close to fifty films, never submitting to the demands of Hollywood. Film director Frank Capra said of her: “There are women, and then there is Kathe. There are actresses and actresses, and then there is Hepburn ”, when he was directing her in The State of the Union (1948).
What actors or actresses have won 3 Oscars?
Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand She has six Oscar nominations to her credit, three for Best Supporting Actress and another three, won, for Best Leading Actress.
The films for which he won the Oscars were Fargo (1996), Three ads outside (2016) and, the last one, by Nomadland (2020).
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep is another of the most awarded. Nominated 21 times, she bagged three Oscars for her roles in Kramer contra Kramer (1979), where she won the award for Best Supporting Actress, Sophie’s Choice (1982) and in The woman of iron (2011).
She was also nominated 31 times for the Golden Globes and has won eight times, thus accumulating more nominations in this contest than any other person in history.
Ingrid Bergman
The actress Ingrid Bergman she has won three statuettes, of which two were in the Best Leading Actress category, and has been nominated up to seven times.
The films that won him the Oscar were dying light (1945) Anastasia (1957) y The Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis has three other Oscars, who did not have a very prolific career, but was characterized by knowing how to choose his characters well.
He has three Oscars to his credit for the films ‘My Left Foot’ (1989), ‘Wells of Ambition’ (2007) and ‘Lincoln’ (2012).
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson He also has three statuettes in his record, two for Best Actor for Some one flies over the cuco’s nidus (1975) y Better… impossible (1997), and another for Best Supporting Actor for The Strength of Endearment (1983).
He is also the actor with the most Academy Award nominations, racking up a dozen.
Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan is considered one of the best supporting actors in movie history. The awards come to him precisely as Best Supporting Actor for his appearance in the films: rivals (1935), Kentucky (1938) y The foreigner (1940).
He was one of the most respected interpreters within the genre Western.
With 2 Oscars:
Among the actors or actresses with the most Oscars, big names like Marlon Brando or Tom Hanks would also stand out. Next we remember the most outstanding ones.
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando won two Oscars for The law of silence (1954) y The Godfather (1972). Both interpretations are movie history.
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman scooped up the awards for Kramer contra Kramer (1979) and after an excellent role playing a man with autism in Rain Man (1988).
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks is one of the few who has won two Oscars in a row for best actor thanks to movies Philadelphia (1993) y Forrest Gump (1994).
Gary Cooper
He is one of the most recognized stars in the history of Hollywood, with a very extensive career, with more than 100 films.
Gary Cooper won the Oscar for Best Actor in two of them: sergeant york (1941) y alone in the face of danger (1952).
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett has a Best Actress award for Blue Jasmine(2014) and another for Best Supporting Actress for The aviator (2005). In addition, she was awarded this year with the first International Goya from the Spanish Film Academy.
Blanchett has been nominated with the film Tarat the 95th edition of the Oscars to be held on March 12 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda has two Oscars for the best leading performance in Klute (1972) y Coming home (1979).
Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange won Best Actress for Blue sky (1995) and Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie (1983).