List of Academy Award records

• Most awards won by a single film: 11
  • Three films have won 11 Academy Awards:
    • Ben-Hur (1959) – 15 categories available for nomination; nominated for 12
    • Titanic (1997) – 17 categories available for nomination; nominated for 14
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) – 17 categories available for nomination; nominated for 11
• Most nominations received by a single film: 14
  • Three films have received 14 nominations:
    • All About Eve (1950) – 16 categories available for nomination; won 6 awards
    • Titanic (1997) – 17 categories available for nomination; won 11 awards
    • La La Land (2016) – 17 categories available for nomination; won 6 awards
• Largest sweep (winning awards in every nominated category): 11
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won all 11 categories 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 awards won by a man: 22
  • Walt Disney won 22 Oscars.
• Most awards won by a woman: 8
  • Edith Head won eight Oscars, all for Costume Design
• Most nominations in a single year / Most awards in a single year: 6/4
  • In 1954, Walt Disney won four awards out of six nominations, 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 nominations received for an Animated feature film: 3
  • All received 3 nominations.
    • Brad Bird
    • Ron Clements
    • Dean DeBlois
    • Pete Docter
    • Travis Knight
    • Hayao Miyazaki
    • Rich Moore
    • Chris Sanders

• Most awards won for Animated feature film: 2
  • All won 2 awards.
    • Brad Bird
    • Pete Docter
    • Jonas Rivera
    • Andrew Stanton
    • Lee Unkrich

• Most competitive awards won by a person who is still living
  • Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won nine Academy Awards – six competitive awards, two "Special Achievement" awards, and one "Technical Achievement" award
  • Composer Alan Menken has won eight competitive awards
• Acting: 4
  • Katharine Hepburn won the most acting awards, all for Best Actress, with four
• Directing: 4
  • John Ford won the most directing awards, with four
• Writing: 3
  • All won 3 awards.
    • 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
  • Both won 3 awards.
    • Michael Kahn, in 1981, 1993, and 1998
    • Thelma Schoonmaker, in 1980, 2004, and 2006
• Cinematography: 4
  • The highest number of Academy Awards won by a cinematographer is four:
    • Joseph Ruttenberg, in 1938, 1942, 1956, and 1958
    • Leon Shamroy, in 1942, 1944, 1945, and 1963
• Songwriter and Composition
  • Alfred Newman won nine Academy Awards, all for Best Original Score; in 1939, 1941, 1944, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957 and 1968
  • Alan Menken won eight awards in musical categories
  • 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
  • Cedric Gibbons, who designed the Oscar statuette, won 11 awards out of a total of 38 nominations
• Costume Design: 8
  • Edith Head, won 8 awards out of a total of 35 nominations
• Makeup: 7
  • Rick Baker, won 7 awards out of a total of 11 nominations
• Visual Effects: 8
  • Dennis Muren, won 8 awards out of a total of 15 nominations
• Special Effects (discontinued in 1962): 3
  • A. Arnold Gillespie, won 3 awards out of a total of 12 nominations
• Most awards won by a country for Best Foreign Language Film: 14
  • Italy won 14 awards in this category and received, in total, 32 nominations
• Most nominations received by a country for Best Foreign Language Film
  • France received 40 nominations and won the award 12 times
• Most nominations received by a country for Best Foreign Language Film without an award: 10
  • Israel
• Most awards won by a foreign-language film: 4
  • Three foreign-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
• Most nominations received by a foreign-language film: 10
  • Two foreign language films have been nominated for ten Academy Awards (both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and for the Academy Award for Best Director):
    • 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

The following individuals won Academy Awards for their film debut acting performances:

• Best Actor
  • None
• Best Actress
  • Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952)
  • Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964)
  • Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, 1968)
  • Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God, 1986)
• Best Supporting Actor
  • Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946)
  • Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, 1980)
  • Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields, 1984)
• Best Supporting Actress
  • Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse, 1936)
  • Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943)
  • Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men, 1949)
  • Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954)
  • Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955)
  • Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973)
  • Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993)
  • Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006)
  • Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, 2013)[1][2][3]
• Honorary Award
  • Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946)
• Academy Juvenile Award
  • Claude Jarman Jr. (The Yearling, 1946)
  • Vincent Winter (The Little Kidnappers, 1954)[1][2][4]

The following individuals won Academy Awards for their film debut direction.

• Best Director
  • Delbert Mann (Marty, 1955)
  • Jerome Robbins (West Side Story, 1961)
  • Robert Redford (Ordinary People, 1980)
  • James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, 1983)
  • Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, 1990)
  • Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999)[1][2][5]

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

• It Happened One Night (1934)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

• Any awards
  • Walt Disney was awarded a record of 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
  • Three directors have won two consecutive awards (of which, one of each of their movies has won the Academy Award for Best Picture and one has not):[9]
    • John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950)
    • Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Revenant (2015)
• Best Actor
  • Two actors have won two consecutive awards:[10]
    • Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938)
    • Tom Hanks – Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994)
• Best Actress
  • Two actresses have won two consecutive awards:[11]
    • Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937)
    • Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968)
• Best Supporting Actor
  • Jason Robards won two consecutive awards[12] for All the President's Men in 1976 and Julia in 1977[13]
• Best Supporting Actress
  • No consecutive winner for Best Supporting Actress
• Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Two screenwriters have won two consecutive awards:
    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950)
    • Robert Bolt – Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• 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 has 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
  • Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter won for The Social Network in 2010, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2011
• 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).
  • Alan Menken won two consecutive awards for composing the scores for Beauty and the Beast in 1991 and Aladdin in 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
  • Thomas Moulton won three consecutive awards for The Snake Pit in 1948, Twelve O'Clock High in 1949, and All About Eve in 1950
• Best Visual Effects

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)
  • Walt Disney won two consecutive awards for The Living Desert in 1953 and The Vanishing Prairie in 1954
• Best Short Subject (Cartoon)
  • Of Walt Disney's many awards for Best Animated Short, eight of these wins were in consecutive years, for Flowers and Trees in 1931/32, Three Little Pigs in 1932/33, The Tortoise and the Hare in 1934, Three Orphan Kittens in 1935, The Country Cousin in 1936, The Old Mill in 1937, Ferdinand the Bull in 1938, and The Ugly Duckling in 1939
• Best Short Subject (Two-Reel)
  • Of Walt Disney's multiple awards for Best Live Action Short, four of his wins were in consecutive years, in 1950 for In Beaver Valley, in 1951 for Nature's Half Acre, in 1952 for Water Birds, and in 1953 for Bear Country

• First woman to win Best Picture
  • Julia Phillips for The Sting (1973). She was also the first woman to be nominated for Best Picture.
• First woman to win Best Director
  • Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2009). She was the only woman to win this award of five nominated (as of 2020).
• First woman to win Best Animated Feature
  • Brenda Chapman for Brave (2012)
• First woman to win Best Original Score
  • Rachel Portman for Emma (1996)
• First woman to receive each of the Honorary Awards
  • 6-year old Shirley Temple received an Academy Juvenile Award in 1934
  • Greta Garbo received an Honorary Award in 1954
  • Martha Raye received a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1969
  • Kay Rose received a Special Achievement Academy Award for Sound Effects Editing of The River in 1985
  • Kathleen Kennedy received an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2018
• First person born in the 20th century to win an Academy Award
  • Janet Gaynor, for Best Actress, 7th Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise, 1928. She was also the first person born in the 20th century to be nominated for Academy Award.
• First person born in the 21st century to be nominated for an Academy Award
  • Quvenzhané Wallis, for Best Actress, Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012
• First foreign-language film to be nominated for Best Picture
  • La Grande Illusion (1937), in French
• First science fiction film to be nominated for Best Picture
  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• First horror film to be nominated for Best Picture
  • The Exorcist (1973)
• First animated film to be nominated for Best Picture
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• First 3-D films to be nominated for Best Picture
  • Avatar and Up (2009)
• First horror film to win Best Picture
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• First fantasy film to win Best Picture
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• First film with an entirely non-white cast to win Best Picture[14]
  • Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• First film with an all-black cast to win Best Picture
  • Moonlight (2016)
• First foreign-language film to win Best Picture
  • Parasite (2019), in Korean
• First science-fiction film to win Best Picture
  • The Shape of Water (2017)
• First X-rated film to win Best Picture
  • Midnight Cowboy (1969). It was also the first X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture and the only one to date to have won it.
• First highest-grossing film of all time to not be nominated for Best Picture
  • Jurassic Park (1994)
• First highest-grossing film of all time to not win an Academy Award
  • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• First animated film to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
  • Waltz with Bashir (2008), representing Israel
• First animated film to be nominated for any Screenplay award, specifically Best Original Screenplay
  • Toy Story (1995)
• First animated film to be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Shrek (2001)
• First woman to be nominated for Best Director
  • Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1976)
• First actress to be nominated for a performance in a 3-D film
  • Sandra Bullock for Gravity (2013)
• First actor to be nominated for a performance in a 3-D film
  • Matt Damon for The Martian (2015)
• First film to receive the most nominations of its year without receiving a Best Picture nomination
  • Dreamgirls (2006), with eight nominations
• First actor to receive ten nominations for acting
  • Laurence Olivier received his tenth nomination (for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor) for the film The Boys from Brazil (1978)
• First actress to receive ten nominations for acting
  • Bette Davis received her tenth official nomination (all for Best Actress) for the film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• First actor or actress to receive twenty nominations for acting
  • Meryl Streep received her twentieth nomination (for Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress) for the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
• 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 be nominated for a lead acting performance and songwriting in the same year
  • Lady Gaga, nominated for Best Actress and Best Original Song ("Shallow") for A Star Is Born (2018)
• First posthumous nomination for acting
  • Jeanne Eagels, nominated for Best Actress for The Letter (1929)
• First posthumous nomination for an actor
  • James Dean, nominated for Best Actor for East of Eden (1955)
• First posthumous win for acting
  • Peter Finch won Best Actor for Network (1976)
• First actress to be nominated for performing in a language other than English
  • Melina Mercouri was nominated for Best Actress for Never on Sunday (1960), performing in Greek
• First actor to be nominated for performing in a language other than English
  • Marcello Mastroianni was nominated for Best Actor for Divorce, Italian Style (1962), performing in Italian
• First actress to win for performing in a language other than English
  • Sophia Loren won Best Actress for Two Women (1961), performing in Italian
• First actor to win for performing in a language other than English
  • Robert De Niro won Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather Part II (1974), performing in Italian
• First actress to win for performing in a sign language
  • Marlee Matlin won Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God (1986), performing in American Sign Language
• First French actress to be nominated for performing in the French language
  • Anouk Aimée was nominated for Best Actress for A Man and a Woman (1966)
• First French actress to win for performing in the French language
  • Marion Cotillard won Best Actress for La Vie en rose (2007). She is the only actress to date to have won it.
• First Nordic actress to be nominated for acting
  • Greta Garbo (from Sweden) was nominated for Best Actress for Anna Christie (1930)
• First Nordic actor to be nominated for acting
  • Max von Sydow (from Sweden) was nominated for Best Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
• First Nordic actress to win for acting
  • Ingrid Bergman (from Sweden) won Best Actress for Gaslight (1944)
• First actor from Africa to be nominated for acting
  • Basil Rathbone (from South Africa), nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Romeo and Juliet (1936)
• First actress from Africa to win for acting
  • Charlize Theron (from South Africa), won Best Actress for Monster (2003)
• First actress from Asia to win for acting
  • Miyoshi Umeki (from Japan), won Best Supporting Actress for Sayonara (1957)
• First Asian (and non-Caucasian) to win Best Director
  • Ang Lee (from Taiwan) for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• First Australian to win Best Actress
  • Nicole Kidman (born in U.S.) for The Hours (2002)
• First Australian to win Best Actor
  • Peter Finch for Network (1976)
• First French actress to win Best Actress
  • Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934)
• First French actor to win Best Actor
  • Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011)
• First Italian to win Best Actress
  • Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (1955)
• First Italian to win Best Actor
  • Roberto Benigni for Life Is Beautiful (1998)
• First German to win Best Actress
  • Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1937)
• First German to win Best Actor
  • Emil Jannings (born in Switzerland) for The Way of All Flesh (1927) and The Last Command (1928)
• First actor of Russian descent to win in an acting category
  • Yul Brynner won Best Actor for The King and I (1956)
• First actress of Russian descent to win in an acting category
  • Lila Kedrova won Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek (1964)
• First Austrian to win twice for acting
  • Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012)
• First Canadian to win in any category
  • Mary Pickford in the Best Actress category for Coquette (1928/9)
• First Canadian actor to win in an acting category
  • Harold Russell won Best Supporting Actor for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• First Canadian director to win Best Director
  • James Cameron for Titanic (1997)
• First persons from India to win in any music category
  • A. R. Rahman won Best Original Score and Best Original Song ("Jai Ho") for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  • Gulzar also won Best Original Song ("Jai Ho") for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• First Middle Eastern/North African actor to be nominated for acting
  • Omar Sharif (born in Egypt), nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• First Middle Eastern movie to win Best Foreign Language Film
  • A Separation (2011), representing Iran
• First foreign actress to be nominated twice for Best Actress for foreign-language films without the films receiving a Best Foreign Language Film nomination
  • Marion Cotillard (from France) won Best Actress for La Vie en Rose (2007) and was nominated for Two Days, One Night (2014)
• First black filmmaker to win Best Picture
  • Steve McQueen won for producing 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• First black filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director
  • John Singleton for Boyz n the Hood (1991)
• First black actress to win for acting
  • Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939)
• First black actor to win for acting
  • Sidney Poitier won Best Actor for Lilies of the Field (1963)
• First black actress to win Best Actress
  • Halle Berry for Monster's Ball (2001)
• First black actress to win for film acting debut
  • Jennifer Hudson won Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls (2006)
• First year in which two black actors/actresses won for acting
  • 74th Academy Awards (in 2002, for 2001): Denzel Washington won Best Actor for Training Day; Halle Berry won Best Actress for Monster's Ball
• First black African actor to be nominated for acting
  • Djimon Hounsou (born in Benin, U.S.-Benin dual citizen), nominated for Best Supporting Actor for In America (2003)
• 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 African American to receive an Honorary Award
  • James Baskett received a Special Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in Song of the South (1946)
• First Latin American director to win Best Director
  • Alfonso Cuarón (from Mexico) won for Gravity (2013)
• First South American actress to be nominated for Best Actress
  • Fernanda Montenegro (from Brazil) was nominated for Best Actress for Central Station (1998)
• First Latin American actor to win Best Actor
  • José Ferrer (from Puerto Rico) won for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
• First Latin American actress to win in any category
  • Rita Moreno (from Puerto Rico) won Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story (1961)
• First Muslim actor to win in an acting category
  • Mahershala Ali for Moonlight in 2016
• First child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination[15]
  • 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
  • The Red Balloon (1956) for Best Original Screenplay
• First professional athlete to win an Academy Award
  • Kobe Bryant won Best Animated Short Film for Dear Basketball (2017)
• First actor with dwarfism to be nominated in an acting category
  • Michael Dunn for Best Supporting Actor in Ship of Fools (1965)
• First actor with dwarfism to win in an acting category
  • Linda Hunt for Best Supporting Actress in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
• First actor to win for a portrayal of a character of the opposite gender
  • Linda Hunt for Best Supporting Actress as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
• First portrayals of living persons to win in each acting category
  • Best Actor: Gary Cooper as Sergeant Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941)
  • Best Actress: Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
  • Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976)
  • Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
    • Note: While Joanne Woodward's portrayal of Eve White in The Three Faces of Eve (1957) was based on a real person, Chris Costner Sizemore, her identity was not known until 1977.
• First hip hop song to win Best Original Song
  • Lose Yourself by Eminem, which was used in film 8 Mile (2002)

• Youngest winner of an acting award
  • Tatum O'Neal, age 10 (for Best Supporting Actress, Paper Moon, 1973)
• Youngest nominee for an acting award
  • Justin Henry, age 8 (for Best Supporting Actor, Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979)
• Youngest Best Actress winner
  • Marlee Matlin, age 21 (for Best Actress, Children of a Lesser God, 1986)
• Youngest Best Actor winner
  • Adrien Brody, age 29 (for Best Actor, The Pianist, 2002)
• Youngest Best Actor nominee
  • Jackie Cooper, age 9 (for Best Actor, Skippy, 1931)
• Youngest Best Actress nominee
  • Quvenzhané Wallis, age 9 (for Best Actress, Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012)[16][17]
• Youngest winner of an Oscar
  • Shirley Temple, age 6, who was awarded the inaugural (now retired) non-competitive Academy Juvenile Award in 1934
• Youngest winner of an award for Best Original Screenplay
  • Ben Affleck, age 25 (Good Will Hunting, 1997)
• Youngest Best Director winner
  • Damien Chazelle, age 32 (La La Land, 2016)
• Youngest Best Director nominee
  • John Singleton, age 24 (Boyz n the Hood, 1991)
• Oldest Best Director winner
  • Clint Eastwood, age 74 (Million Dollar Baby, 2004)
• Oldest Best Director nominee
  • John Huston, age 79 (Prizzi's Honor, 1985)
• Oldest winner of an acting award
  • Christopher Plummer, age 82 (Best Supporting Actor, Beginners, 2011)
• Oldest Best Actress winner
  • Jessica Tandy, age 80 (Driving Miss Daisy, 1989)
• Oldest Best Actor winner
  • Henry Fonda, age 76 (On Golden Pond, 1981)
• Oldest nominee for an acting award
  • Christopher Plummer, age 88 (Best Supporting Actor, All the Money in the World, 2017)
• Oldest nominee for a lead acting award
  • Emmanuelle Riva, age 85 (Best Actress, Amour, 2012)[16][17]
• Oldest competitive Oscar winner
  • James Ivory, age 89 (Best Adapted Screenplay, Call Me by Your Name, 2017).
• Oldest competitive Oscar nominee
  • Agnès Varda, age 89 (Best Documentary Feature, Faces Places, 2017)
• Earliest-born Oscar winner by birth year
  • George Arliss, born 10 April 1868 (Best Actor, Disraeli, 1929)
• Earliest-born Oscar nominee by birth year
  • May Robson, born 19 April 1858 (Best Actress, Lady for a Day, 1933)
• Year where all four Acting winners had the oldest age average
  • 1981 with a combined average age of 70.5 years old.[18]
    • Henry Fonda (aged 77)
    • Katharine Hepburn (72)
    • John Gielgud (77)
    • Maureen Stapleton (56)
• Year where all four Acting winners had the youngest age average
  • 1980 with a combined average age of 29 years old.
    • Robert De Niro (aged 37)
    • Sissy Spacek (31)
    • Timothy Hutton (20)
    • Mary Steenburgen (28)
• Youngest multiple nominees for an acting award (Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor)

• Youngest multiple nominees for an acting award (Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress)

• Most nominations for a single film
  • Three films received 14 nominations:
    • All About Eve (1950)
    • Titanic (1997)
    • La La Land (2016)
• Most Oscars 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 Oscars without a nomination for Best Picture
  • The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) with 5 wins
• Fewest nominations for a Best Picture winner
  • Grand Hotel (1932) received only the Best Picture nomination.
• Nominations in the most different technical categories
  • Titanic (1997) has been nominated in all 10 technical categories (Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Production Design/Art Direction, Score, Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, and Makeup):
• Most nominations without a major nomination (Picture, Director, Acting and Screenplay)
  • Pepe (1960) received 7 nominations with no major nominations.
  • These six films got 6 nominations with no major nominations:
    • The Rains Came (1939)
    • Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
    • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
    • Empire of the Sun (1987)
    • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (note: received 7 nominations when you include a "special achievement")
    • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• Best Picture nominees that won every nomination except Best Picture
  • These 15 films were nominated for Best Picture and won in every category they were nominated for, except Best Picture:
    • Bad Girl (1931), 2/3
    • The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932), 1/2
    • Naughty Marietta (1935), 1/2
    • The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), 3/4
    • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), 3/4
    • Miracle on 34th Street (1947), 3/4
    • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), 3/4
    • A Letter to Three Wives (1949), 2/3
    • King Solomon's Mines (1950), 2/3
    • Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), 2/3
    • Jaws (1975), 3/4
    • Traffic (2000), 4/5
    • The Blind Side (2009), 1/2
    • Selma (2014), 1/2
    • Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), 4/5
• Films nominated for Best Picture with no other major nominations
  • These 28 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 (winner)
    • 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: really had 2, but 2 more were write in noms)
    • 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
    • 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
• Stories made into multiple Best Picture nominees
  • 8 sets of Best Picture nominees share either original source material or were revised versions of the same story (* =winner):
    • Cleopatra (1934), Cleopatra (1963)
    • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)*, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
    • Romeo and Juliet (1936), West Side Story (1961)*, Romeo and Juliet (1968). (The plot of another Best Picture winner, Shakespeare in Love, revolves around the original production of Romeo and Juliet)
    • Les Misérables (1935), Les Misérables (2012)
    • Pygmalion (1938), My Fair Lady (1964)*
    • Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1978)
    • A Star Is Born (1937), A Star Is Born (2018)
    • Little Women (1933), Little Women (2019)
• First Best Picture produced wholly by non-Americans
  • Hamlet (1948), United Kingdom
• First Best Picture produced wholly by non-Americans or non-British
  • The Artist (2011), France
• First Best Picture produced wholly by non-Caucasians
  • Parasite (2019), South Korea
• Most wins by a film produced wholly or partially by non-Americans
  • The Last Emperor (1987), Italy/Hong Kong/United Kingdom, 9 wins
• 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
• Best Picture with no female speaking roles
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Best Picture winners adapted from Best Play/Musical Tony Award Winners
  • My Fair Lady (1964)
  • The Sound of Music (1965)
  • A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  • Amadeus (1984)
• Best Picture winners based on Pulitzer Prize winning sources
  • You Can't Take It With You - play
  • Gone with the Wind - novel
  • All the King's Men - novel
  • Driving Miss Daisy - play
  • Spotlight - public service reporting
    • On the Waterfront was an original screenplay suggested from Pulitzer-winning newspaper articles.
• Acting nominations from a single film
  • Nine films have earned a record 5 acting nominations.
    • Mrs. Miniver
    • All About Eve
    • From Here to Eternity
    • On the Waterfront
    • Peyton Place
    • Tom Jones
    • Bonnie and Clyde
    • The Godfather Part II
    • Network
  • Most nominations for male actors (4)
    • On the Waterfront
    • The Godfather
    • The Godfather Part II
  • Most nominations for actresses (4)
    • All About Eve

• Most awards for leading actress
  • Katharine Hepburn with 4 awards (1933, 1967, 1968, 1981)
• Most awards for leading actor
  • Daniel Day-Lewis with 3 awards (1989, 2007, 2012)
• Most awards for supporting actor
  • Walter Brennan with 3 awards (1936, 1938, 1940)
• Most awards for supporting actress
  • Shelley Winters (1959, 1965) and Dianne Wiest (1986, 1994) with 2 awards
• Most consecutive leading actress nominations
  • Two actresses have been nominated 5 years in a row:
    • Bette Davis (1938–1942)
    • Greer Garson (1941–1945)
• Most consecutive leading actor nominations
  • Marlon Brando with four nominations (1951 to 1954)
• Actor with most total nominations for acting
  • Jack Nicholson with 12 nominations
• Actress with most total nominations for acting
  • Meryl Streep with 21 nominations
• Most acting nominations without an award
  • Peter O'Toole with 8 nominations (He received an Honorary Award in 2002)
• Most nominations for an actress without an award
  • Glenn Close with 7 nominations
• Most nominations for an actor performing in a foreign language
  • Marcello Mastroianni with 3 nominations. He was nominated for Best Actor for Divorce, Italian Style (1962); A Special Day (1977) and Dark Eyes (1987), performing in Italian
• Longest gap between first and second award
  • Helen Hayes won in 1932 for The Sin of Madelon Claudet and in 1971 for Airport, a 39-year gap
• Longest time span between first and last nomination and between first and last award
  • Katharine Hepburn: 48 years from Morning Glory (1933, in the 1932/33 awards) until On Golden Pond (1981)
• Most acting nominations before first award
  • Both Geraldine Page and Al Pacino won on their 8th nomination
• Most posthumous nominations
  • James Dean with 2 (1955 for East of Eden and 1956 for Giant)
• Shortest performance to win an acting Oscar
  • Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) – 5 minutes and 2 seconds
• Shortest performance to win a lead acting Oscar
  • Patricia Neal in Hud (1963) – 21 minutes and 51 seconds[19]
• Shortest performance to be nominated for an acting Oscar
  • Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) – 2 minutes and 19 seconds
• Shortest male performance to be nominated for a lead acting Oscar
  • Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936) – 14 minutes and 58 seconds
• Shortest female performance to be nominated for a lead acting Oscar
  • Eleanor Parker in Detective Story (1951) – 20 minutes and 10 seconds
• Longest performance to win an acting Oscar
  • Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939) – 2 hours, 23 minutes and 32 seconds
• Longest performance to win a supporting acting Oscar
  • Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973) – 1 hour, 6 minutes and 58 seconds
• Longest performance to be nominated for an acting Oscar
  • Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939) – 2 hours, 23 minutes and 32 seconds
• Longest male performance to be nominated for a supporting acting Oscar
  • Frank Finlay in Othello (1965) – 1 hour, 30 minutes and 43 seconds
• Longest female performance to be nominated for a supporting acting Oscar
  • Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away (1944) – 1 hour, 15 minutes and 38 seconds
• Most awards by an African American actor
  • Two African-American actors have won two Oscars:
    • Denzel Washington, winning Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989) and Best Actor for Training Day (2001)
    • Mahershala Ali winning Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight (2016) and for Green Book (2018)
• Most awards for one acting performance
  • Harold Russell played Homer Parish in The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946. For this role he received 2 Oscars, one for Best Supporting Actor and an honorary award for being an inspiration to all returning veterans.
• Most nominations for one acting performance
  • Barry Fitzgerald was nominated as Best Actor and won for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Father Fitzgibbon in 1944's Going My Way
• Years where all four Acting winners were born outside the United States
  • 1964
    • Best Actor – Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady, United Kingdom
    • Best Actress – Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins, United Kingdom
    • Best Supporting Actor – Peter Ustinov for Topkapi, United Kingdom
    • Best Supporting Actress – Lila Kedrova for Zorba the Greek, Russia
  • 2007
    • Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood, United Kingdom
    • Best Actress – Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose, France
    • Best Supporting Actor – Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men, Spain
    • Best Supporting Actress – Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton, United Kingdom
• Acting winners who won a Tony Award for portraying the same character
  • Anne Bancroft – Anne Sullivan
  • Helen Mirren – Queen Elizabeth II (Won Tony Award for 2015 play The Audience)
  • Jack Albertson – John Cleary
  • Joel Grey – Master of Ceremonies
  • Jose Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Lila Kedrova – Madame Hortense (Won Tony Award for 1984 musical Zorba)
  • Paul Scofield – Sir Thomas More
  • Rex Harrison – Henry Higgins
  • Shirley Booth – Lola Delaney
  • Viola Davis – Rose Maxson

• Most nominations in different decades
  • John Williams:
    • 1960s: 1968
    • 1970s: 1970 (2 nominations), 1972, 1973 (2 nominations), 1974 (3 nominations), 1975, 1976, 1978 (2 nominations), 1979
    • 1980s: 1981, 1982, 1983 (2 nominations), 1984, 1985 (2 nominations), 1988 (2 nominations), 1989
    • 1990s: 1990 (2 nominations), 1991 (2 nominations), 1992 (2 nominations), 1994, 1996 (3 nominations), 1997, 1998, 1999
    • 2000s: 2000, 2001, 2002 (2 nominations), 2003, 2005, 2006 (2 nominations)
    • 2010s: 2012 (2 nominations), 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018
    • 2020s: 2020
• Only people to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar
  • George Bernard Shaw: Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925, and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Pygmalion in 1938.
  • Bob Dylan: Won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the song "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys in 2000, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.
• People who won both a Pulitzer Prize and an Oscar
  • Aaron Copland: Won an Oscar for Best Original Score for the film The Heiress in 1949, and the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1945.
  • John Corigliano: Won an Oscar for Best Original Score for the film The Red Violin in 1999, and the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2001.
  • Bob Dylan: Won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the song "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys in 2000, and an additional citation in the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006.
  • Horton Foote: Won two Oscars; Best Adapted Screenplay for the film To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962, and Best Original Screenplay for the film Tender Mercies in 1983, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995.
  • Marvin Hamlisch: Won three Oscars in 1973; Best Score-Adaptation or Treatment for the film The Sting, and Best Original Score and Best Original Song for the title song of the film The Way We Were, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976.
  • Oscar Hammerstein II: Won two Oscars; Best Original Song for the songs "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from the film Lady Be Good in 1941, and "It Might as Well Be Spring" for the film from the film State Fair in 1945, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950, along with an additional citation in 1943.
  • Sidney Howard: Posthumously won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Gone With the Wind in 1939, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925
  • William Inge: Won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film Splendor in the Grass in 1961, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1953.
  • Frank Loesser: Won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from the film Neptune's Daughter in 1949, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1962
  • Richard Rodgers: Won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the song "It Might as Well Be Spring" from the film State Fair in 1945, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950, along with an additional citation in 1943.
  • William Saroyan: Won an Oscar for Best Story, Screenplay for the film The Human Comedy in 1943, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940.
  • John Patrick Shanley: Won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film Moonstruck in 1987, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2005.
  • Robert E. Sherwood: Won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1936, 1938, and 1941, and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1949.
  • Stephen Sondheim: Won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the song "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from the film Dick Tracy in 1990, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985.
  • Alfred Uhry: Won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Driving Miss Daisy in 1989, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the stage version in 1988.
• Only person to win both an Olympic medal and an Oscar
  • Kobe Bryant: Won gold medals in Basketball in 2008 and 2012, and an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2017 for the film Dear Basketball
• Only person to win for Acting and Songwriting
  • Barbra Streisand: Best Actress for Funny Girl (1968); Best Original Song for the Love Theme ("Evergreen") from A Star Is Born (1976)
• Only person to win for Acting and Writing
  • Emma Thompson: Best Actress for Howards End (1992); Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Only person nominated for Acting, Writing, Producing, and Directing for the same film
  • Warren Beatty was nominated in the four categories for Heaven Can Wait (1978), and again for Reds (1981).
• Only actor to win an Oscar for portraying a real Oscar winner
  • Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress for portraying Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator
    • Additionally, Renée Zellweger won Best Actress for portraying Judy Garland in Judy. Garland received the Academy Juvenile Award, an honorary award, but never won a competitive Oscar.
• Only actor to win an Oscar for portraying a fictional Oscar nominee
  • Maggie Smith won Best Supporting Actress for California Suite
• Only actor to appear in two movies with 11 Oscar wins
  • Bernard Hill in Titanic and Lord of The Rings: Return of The King
• Most total nominations without a win
  • Greg P. Russell has earned 16 nominations in the Best Sound Mixing category. (This does not include his nomination at the 89th Academy Awards for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which was revoked the day before the ceremony.)[20]
• Most total nominations before receiving an award
  • Film composer Victor Young was nominated 21 times without winning. He was often nominated multiple times in one year; twice, four times at the same Oscars. He won posthumously for Around the World in 80 Days, alongside yet another nomination (also posthumous).
  • Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell comes in at a close second, with 20 unsuccessful nominations from 1983 until 2016, when he finally won for Hacksaw Ridge.
• Most nominations for a person
  • Walt Disney with 59; followed by composer John Williams with 52; composer Alfred Newman with 45; production designer Cedric Gibbons with 39; costume designer Edith Head with 35; songwriter Sammy Cahn with 26; composer Max Steiner with 25; filmmaker Woody Allen with 24; composers Victor Young and Dimitri Tiomkin tied with 22; sound mixer Kevin O'Connell, filmmaker Billy Wilder and actress Meryl Streep tied with 21.
• Most nominations for a living person
  • Film composer John Williams with 52
• Only write-in nominee to win a competitive award
  • Cinematographer Hal Mohr for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
• Most nominations in distinct categories
  • George Clooney: eight nominations in six categories, winning two
    • Best Picture
    • Best Director
    • Best Actor
    • Best Supporting Actor
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • Best Original Screenplay
  • Alfonso Cuarón: 11 nominations in six categories, winning four
    • Best Picture
    • Best Director
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • Best Original Screenplay
    • Best Cinematography
    • Best Film Editing
• Most nominated woman
  • Costume designer Edith Head with 35
• Highest "perfect score"
  • Sound editor Mark Berger has four nominations and four wins
• Most nominations for directing
  • William Wyler with 12 nominations
• Most nominations for directing without an award
  • [21]All received 5 nominations.
    • Robert Altman
    • Clarence Brown
    • Alfred Hitchcock
    • King Vidor
• Most wins for producing
  • Two producers received 3 awards:
    • Sam Spiegel
    • Saul Zaentz
• Most nominations for producing
  • Steven Spielberg with 10 nominations
• Most nominations for directing in a single year
  • Two people have received 2 nominations for Best Director in the same year:
    • Michael Curtiz for Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters in 1938
    • Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000
• Most Best Picture awards for a film series
  • The Godfather series with 2 (for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II)
• Most nominations and awards for a film series
  • The Middle-earth series with 17 competitive wins out of 37 nominations (for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit).
• Most nominations for Best Original Screenplay
  • Woody Allen with 16 nominations and 3 wins
• Longest time between the release of a film and winning an Oscar
  • Limelight (1952) is the only film to have won an award twenty years after its official release. Since it was not released in Los Angeles County until 1972, it was not eligible for any Academy Awards until that time.
• Most posthumous award wins
  • William A. Horning won in 1958 for Best Art Direction for Gigi, and for Best Art Direction for Ben-Hur in 1959
• Most posthumous award nominations
  • Howard Ashman with four
• Highest-grossing film to win Best Picture
  • Titanic with $2,187,463,944
• Lowest-grossing film to win Best Picture
  • Cimarron with $1,380,000
• Longest film to win Best Picture
  • Gone with the Wind, 224 minutes (238 with overture, entr'acte, and exit music)
• Longest film to win an award
  • O.J.: Made in America (2016), 467 minutes (Best Documentary)
  • The longest fictional film to win an award was War and Peace (1968), 431 minutes (Best Foreign Language Film)
• Shortest film to win Best Picture
  • Marty, 90 minutes
• Shortest film to win an award
  • The Crunch Bird, 2 minutes (Best Animated Short Film)
• Most acting awards for a character
  • Portrayals of Vito Corleone won:
    • Best Actor for Marlon Brando in The Godfather
    • Best Supporting Actor for Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II
  • Portrayals of the Joker won:
    • Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
    • Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix in Joker
• Most nominations for a character
  • Three portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I of England earned nominations for:
    • Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Best Actress)
    • Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love (winner, Best Supporting Actress)
  • Three portrayals of King Henry VIII of England earned nominations for:
    • Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII (winner, Best Actor)
    • Robert Shaw in A Man for All Seasons (Best Supporting Actor)
    • Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days (Best Actor)
  • The lead characters of three different versions of A Star Is Born have been nominated:
    • Female leads:
      • 1937 : Janet Gaynor as actress Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester
      • 1954 : Judy Garland as actress/singer Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester
      • 2018 : Lady Gaga as singer/musician Ally Campana
    • Male leads:
      • 1937 : Fredric March as actor Norman Maine
      • 1954 : James Mason as actor Norman Maine
      • 2018 : Bradley Cooper as singer/musician Jackson Maine
  • 23 other characters have been nominated twice – (*) = winning portrayal:
    • Abraham Lincoln – Raymond Massey, Daniel Day-Lewis (*)
    • Arthur Chipping – Robert Donat (*), Peter O'Toole
    • Cyrano de Bergerac – Jose Ferrer (*), Gerard Depardieu
    • "Fast Eddie" Felson – Paul Newman (*); Newman played Felson in The Hustler and its sequel, The Color of Money, winning for the sequel.
    • Father Chuck O'Malley – Bing Crosby (*); Crosby played O’Malley in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's, winning for Going My Way.
    • Father Fitzgibbons – Barry Fitzgerald (*) – nominated for Best Actor and won for Best Supporting Actor, for the same performance in Going My Way
    • Henry Higgins – Leslie Howard, Rex Harrison (*)
    • Howard Hughes – Jason Robards, Leonardo DiCaprio
    • Iris Murdoch – Judi Dench, Kate Winslet – portrayals of the same character at different ages in the same film (Iris)
    • Jo March – Winona Ryder, Saoirse Ronan
    • Joe Pendleton – Robert Montgomery, Warren Beatty
    • The Joker – Heath Ledger (*), Joaquin Phoenix (*)
    • King Henry II of England – Peter O'Toole
    • King Henry V of England – Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh
    • Leslie Crosbie – Jeanne Eagels, Bette Davis
    • Max Corkle – James Gleason, Jack Warden
    • Michael Corleone – Al Pacino
    • Richard Nixon – Anthony Hopkins, Frank Langella
    • Rocky Balboa – Sylvester Stallone
    • Rooster Cogburn – John Wayne (*), Jeff Bridges
    • Rose DeWitt Bukater – Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart – portrayals of the same character at different ages in the same film (Titanic)
    • Vincent van Gogh – Kirk Douglas, Willem Dafoe
    • Vito Corleone – Marlon Brando (*), Robert De Niro (*)
• Most Royalty and Leaders portrayed
  • 47 portrayals of monarchs or civil leaders (real and fictional), have been nominated for acting awards, with 11 winners.
  • The United Kingdom is the most represented nation.
    • Overall, there have been 16 nominations and 5 wins for portrayals of British monarchs.
      • In addition, Vanessa Redgrave was nominated for her portrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots in Mary, Queen of Scots.
    • Three portrayals of British Prime Ministers have been nominated, with 3 wins.
  • Portrayals of four French kings and Emperor Napoleon have received nominations.
  • The only portrayal of a non-British monarch to win an award was Yul Brynner as King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I.
  • 11 portrayals of Presidents of the United States – three of them fictional – have been nominated, with Daniel Day-Lewis's portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln the only winner.
  • Two portrayals of popes (the head of state for Vatican City) have been nominated, both from the film The Two Popes.
  • 11 portrayals of spouses/consorts of leaders have been nominated, with Katharine Hepburn's Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter the only winner.
  • Three portrayals of dictators have been nominated:
    • Forest Whitaker won for his portrayal of Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
    • Charlie Chaplin and Jack Oakie were nominated for their respective turns as the dictators of Tomainia and Bacteria in The Great Dictator.
• Most Honorary Awards
  • Bob Hope received 5 honorary awards – 2 Special, 2 Honorary, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.[22]
• Tallest Oscar winner/nominee
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2.05m/6ft 9in) – Best International Feature Film (The Lives of Others)
• Shortest Oscar winner
  • Linda Hunt (1.45m/4ft 9in) – Best Supporting Actress (The Year of Living Dangerously)
• Shortest Oscar nominee
  • Michael Dunn (1.17m/3ft 10in) – Best Supporting Actor (Ship of Fools)

• Longest speech
  • The longest Oscar speech was that given by Greer Garson at the 15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. Her speech ran for nearly six minutes.[23] 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.[24] (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.)

There have been six two-way ties:

• 1931/32: Best Actor – Wallace Beery (The Champ) and Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
• 1949: Best Documentary Short – A Chance to Live and So Much for So Little
• 1968: Best Actress – Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl)
• 1986: Best Documentary – Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got and Down and Out in America
• 1994: Best Short Film (Live Action) – Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life and Trevor
• 2012: Best Sound Editing – Paul N. J. Ottosson (Zero Dark Thirty) and Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers (Skyfall)

• 1927/1928: Wings (2)
  • Outstanding Picture: Paramount Pictures
  • Best Engineering Effects: Roy Pomeroy
• 1934: It Happened One Night (5)
  • Outstanding Production: Frank Capra and Harry Cohn
  • Best Director: Frank Capra
  • Best Actor: Clark Gable
  • Best Actress: Claudette Colbert
  • Best Adaptation: Robert Riskin
• 1940: Pinocchio (2)
  • Best Original Score: Leigh Harline, Paul Smith and Ned Washington
  • Best Song: Leigh Harline and Ned Washington ("When You Wish Upon a Star")
• 1947: Black Narcissus (2)
  • Best Cinematography (Colour): Jack Cardiff
  • Best Art Direction (Colour): Alfred Junge (Art Direction and Set Decoration)
• 1958: Gigi (9)
  • Best Motion Picture: Arthur Freed
  • Best Director: Vincente Minnelli
  • Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Alan Jay Lerner
  • Best Cinematography (Color): Joseph Ruttenberg
  • Best Costume Design: Cecil Beaton
  • Best Film Editing: Adrienne Fazan
  • Best Scoring of a Musical Picture: André Previn
  • Best Song: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner ("Gigi")
  • Best Art Direction: William A. Horning and E. Preston Ames (Art Direction) / Henry Grace and F. Keogh Gleason (Set Decoration)
• 1966: Born Free (2)
  • Best Original Music Score: John Barry
  • Best Song: John Barry and Don Black ("Born Free")
• 1966: Grand Prix (3)
  • Best Film Editing: Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stu Linder and Frank Santillo
  • Best Sound Effects: Gordon Daniel
  • Best Sound: Franklin Milton
• 1971: Sentinels of Silence (2)
  • Best Documentary Short Subject: Robert Amram and Manuel Arango
  • Best Live Action Short Subject: Robert Amram and Manuel Arango
• 1974: The Great Gatsby (2)
  • Best Costume Design: Theoni V. Aldredge
  • Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation: Nelson Riddle
• 1985: Cocoon (2)
  • Best Supporting Actor: Don Ameche
  • Best Visual Effects: Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar and David Berry
• 1987: The Last Emperor (9)
  • Best Picture: Jeremy Thomas
  • Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe
  • Best Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro
  • Best Costume Design: James Acheson
  • Best Film Editing: Gabriella Cristiani
  • Best Original Score: Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su
  • Best Art Direction: Ferdinando Scarfiotti (Art Direction) / Bruno Cesari and Osvaldo Desideri (Set Decoration)
  • Best Sound: Bill Rowe and Ivan Sharrock
• 1993: Jurassic Park (3)
  • Best Sound Effects Editing: Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns
  • Best Sound: Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Ron Judkins and Shawn Murphy
  • Best Visual Effects: Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri
• 1994: Ed Wood (2)
  • Best Supporting Actor: Martin Landau
  • Best Makeup: Rick Baker, Ve Neill and Yolanda Toussieng
• 1995: Pocahontas (2)
  • Best Original Musical or Comedy Score: Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
  • Best Original Song: Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz ("Colors of the Wind")
• 1995: Restoration (2)
  • Best Costume Design: James Acheson
  • Best Art Direction: Eugenio Zanetti (Art Direction and Set Decoration)
• 1995: The Usual Suspects (2)
  • Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey
  • Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Christopher McQuarrie
• 1999: The Matrix (4)
  • Best Film Editing: Zach Staenberg
  • Best Sound Effects Editing: Dane Davis
  • Best Sound: John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David E. Campbell and David Lee
  • Best Visual Effects: John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley and Jon Thum
• 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (11)
  • Best Picture: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M. Osborne
  • Best Director: Peter Jackson
  • Best Adapted Screenplay: Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens
  • Best Costume Design: Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
  • Best Film Editing: Jamie Selkirk
  • Best Makeup: Peter King and Richard Taylor
  • Best Original Score: Howard Shore
  • Best Original Song: Howard Shore, Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox ("Into the West")
  • Best Art Direction: Grant Major (Art Direction) / Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration)
  • Best Sound Mixing: Christopher Boyes, Hammond Peek, Michael Hedges and Michael Semanick
  • Best Visual Effects: Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
• 2006: An Inconvenient Truth (2)
  • Best Documentary Feature Film: Davis Guggenheim
  • Best Original Song: Melissa Etheridge ("I Need to Wake Up")
• 2007: The Bourne Ultimatum (3)
  • Best Film Editing: Christopher Rouse
  • Best Sound Editing: Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
  • Best Sound Mixing: Scott Millan, Kirk Francis and David Parker
• 2011: The Iron Lady (2)
  • Best Actress: Meryl Streep
  • Best Makeup: Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
• 2013: Frozen (2)
  • Best Animated Feature Film: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
  • Best Original Song: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez ("Let It Go")
• 2013: The Great Gatsby (2)
  • Best Costume Design: Catherine Martin
  • Best Production Design: Catherine Martin (Production Design) / Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration)
• 2017: Coco (2)
  • Best Animated Feature Film: Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
  • Best Original Song: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez ("Remember Me")

• Oscars.org (official Academy site)
• The Academy Awards Database (official site)
• Filmsite.org