Multiple Oscar Winners - Actors and Actresses
Scroll down for multiple winners of the Best Director Oscar.

There are 44 people who have won multiple Oscars for acting.

All the names of the actors, actresses and directors appear on this page only once.
For example, Jack Nicholson has won 2 best actor and 1 best supporting actor Oscars and could qualify for two categories on this page. However, to avoid confusion we place him in the "2 best acting and 1 best supported acting" category so that all of his awards appear in one location.
Although some actors are also directors (for example Sean Penn, Clint Eastwood, etc.), as of 2020, not one person has won an acting Oscar as well as a directing Oscar.



Winners of Two Oscars for Acting


2 Supported Acting Oscars (Nine Winners)
 Mahershala Ali  Moonlight (2016)   Green Book (2018)  
 Michael Caine  Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)   The Cider House Rules (1999)  
 Melvyn Douglas  Hud (1963)   Being There (1979)
 Anthony Quinn  Viva Zapata! (1952)   Lust for Life (1956)
 Jason Robards  All the President's Men (1976)   Julia (1977)
 Peter Ustinov  Spartacus (1960)   Topkapi (1964)
 Christoph Waltz  Inglourious Basterds! (2009)   Django Unchained (2012)
 Dianne Wiest  Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)   Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
 Shelley Winters     The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)   A Patch of Blue (1965)

2 Best Acting Oscars (Eighteen Winners)
  Marlon Brando  On the Waterfront (1954)   Godfather (1972)
  Gary Cooper  Sergeant York (1941)   High Noon (1952)
  Bette Davis  Dangerous (1935)   Jezebel (1938)
  Olivia De Havilland  To Each His Own (1946)   The Heiress (1949)
  Sally Field  Norma Rae (1979)   Places in the Heart (1984)
  Jane Fonda  Klute (1971)   Coming Home (1978)
  Jodie Foster  The Accused (1988)   The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  Tom Hanks  Philadelphia (1993)   Forrest Gump (1994)
  Dustin Hoffman  Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)   Rain Man (1988)
  Anthony Hopkins  Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)   The Father (2020)
  Glenda Jackson  Women in Love (1970)   A Touch of Class (1973)
  Vivien Leigh  Gone with the Wind (1939)   A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  Fredric March  Jekyll & Hyde (1932)   Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
  Sean Penn  Mystic River (2003)   Milk (2008)
  Luise Rainer  Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)   Good Earth, The (1937)
  Hilary Swank  Boys Don't Cry (1999)   Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  Elizabeth Taylor  Butterfield 8 (1960)   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  Spencer Tracy  Captains Courageous (1937)   Boys Town (1938)

1 Best Acting and 1 Best Supported Acting Oscars (Ten Winners)
  Cate Blanchett  Blue Jasmine (2013)   The Aviator (2004)
  Robert De Niro  Raging Bull (1980)   The Godfather: Part II (1974)  
  Gene Hackman  French Connection, The (1971)   Unforgiven (1992)
  Helen Hayes  Sin of Madelon Claudet, The (1932)   Airport (1970)
  Jessica Lange  Blue Sky (1994)   Tootsie (1982)
  Jack Lemmon  Save the Tiger (1973)   Mister Roberts (1955)
  Maggie Smith  Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1969)   California Suite (1978)
  Kevin Spacey  American Beauty (1999)   Usual Suspects, The (1995)
  Denzel Washington     Training Day (2001)   Glory (1989)
  Renée Zellweger     Judy (2019)   Cold Mountain (2003)



Winners of Three Oscars for Acting


2 Best Acting and 1 Best Supported Acting Oscars (Three Winners)
  Ingrid Bergman  Gaslight (1944)   Anastasia (1956) Murder on the Orient Express (1974)  
  Jack Nicholson  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)   As Good As It Gets (1997) Terms of Endearment (1983)
  Meryl Streep  Sophie's Choice (1982)   The Iron Lady (2011) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

3 Best Supported Acting Oscars (One Winner)
  Walter Brennan  Come and Get It (1936)   Kentucky (1938)   The Westerner (1940)  

3 Best Acting Oscars (Two Winners)
  Daniel Day-Lewis   My Left Foot (1989)   There Will Be Blood (2007)   Lincoln (2012)  
  Frances McDormand     Fargo (1996)   Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)   Nomadland (2020)  



Winners of Four Oscars for Acting


4 Best Acting Oscars (One Winner)
  Katharine Hepburn     Morning Glory (1933)  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)   Lion In Winter (1968)   On Golden Pond (1981)  






Multiple Oscar Winners - Best Director

2 Best Director Oscars (18 Winners)
  Frank Borzage   Seventh Heaven (1928)   Bad Girl (1932)  
  Alfonso Cuarón   Gravity (2014)   Roma (2018)  
  Clint Eastwood  Unforgiven (1992)  Million Dollar Baby (2004) 
  Milos Forman   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)   Amadeus (1984)  
  Alejandro G. Iñárritu   Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)   The Revenant (2015)  
  Elia Kazan   Gentleman's Agreement (1947)   On the Waterfront (1954)  
  David Lean   Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)   Lawrence of Arabia (1962)  
  Ang Lee   Brokeback Mountain (2005)   Life of Pi (2012)  
  Frank Lloyd   Divine Lady, The (1929)   Cavalcade (1933)  
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz     Letter to Three Wives, A (1949)   All About Eve (1950)  
  Leo McCarey   Awful Truth, The (1937)   Going My Way (1944)  
  Lewis Milestone   Two Arabian Knights (1928)   All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)  
  Steven Spielberg   Schindler's List (1993)   Saving Private Ryan (1998)  
  George Stevens   Place in the Sun, A (1951)   Giant (1956)  
  Oliver Stone   Platoon (1986)   Born on the Fourth of July (1989)  
  Billy Wilder   Lost Weekend, The (1945)   Apartment, The (1960)  
  Robert Wise   West Side Story (1961)   Sound of Music, The (1965)  
  Fred Zinnemann   From Here to Eternity (1953)   Man for All Seasons, A (1966)  


3 Best Director Oscars (2 Winners)
  Frank Capra  It Happened One Night (1934)  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)  You Can't Take It With You (1938)  
  William Wyler    Mrs. Miniver (1942)  The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)  Ben-Hur (1959)  


4 Best Director Oscars (1 Winner)
  John Ford     The Informer (1935)   The Grapes of Wrath (1940)  How Green Was My Valley (1941)   The Quiet Man (1952)  


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