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For an actor, getting an Oscar is a huge honor. Some, like Leonardo DiCaprio, seem to spend years striving to get their hands on an Academy Award. DiCaprio has his Oscar now, but he still has something to chase, because some actors have more than one of the little gold men to their names \u2014 42, in fact, who have won multiple Oscars for acting. This doesn\u2019t include directing, producing or writing Academy Awards. So here are the 42 men and women with multiple acting Oscars.
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Katharine Hepburn
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Hepburn is the leader of the pack when it comes to winning Oscars for acting. She has four of them, and they are all Best Actress performances. No supporting wins here! Hepburn\u2019s wins also span a long period of time. She got her first win for the 1933 movie \u201cMorning Glory\u201d and her fourth and final win for \u201cOn Golden Pond\u201d at the 1982 Academy Awards.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
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Lewis has gotten real bang for his buck. Hepburn starred in dozens of movies, while Day-Lewis is more selective. He\u2019s been nominated only six times, but he\u2019s won three Oscars for Best Actor. The Irish thespian had said that 2017's \u201cPhantom Thread\u201d was his last film, so he may be retired. Of course, Joe Pesci said that once, and then \u201cThe Irishman\u201d happened.
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The Academy loves Streep. She\u2019s been nominated a whopping 21 times for her acting work. Nobody else has more than 12. All those nominations have resulted in three Oscars. Streep has won twice for Best Actress, though \u201cThe Iron Lady\u201d felt a little dubious, and once for Best Supporting Actress for \u201cKramer vs. Kramer.\u201d
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Nicholson has more nominations than any male actor, with 12. He got his first Best Actor for 1975's \u201cOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest\u201d and won a second for \u201cAs Good as It Gets\u201dat the 1998 awards ceremony. In between he won a Best Supporting Actor. Nicholson definitely seems retired, so this is probably the end of the line for him.
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Frances McDormand
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McDormand stole our hearts as the good, kind Marge Gunderson in \u201cFargo.\u201d As for \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri,\u201d well\u2026that movie is a bit more controversial. By and large, though, people thought McDormand did a great job, and she gave a great acceptance speech as well. Then, McDormand made history when she added a third Best Actress win for \"Nomadland.\" Now only two women can say they have won that award thrice: McDormand and Hepburn.
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Ingrid Bergman
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Bergman\u2019s best-known role is as Ilsa in \u201cCasablanca,\u201d but she didn\u2019t win for that. Instead, she has two Best Actress wins, for \u201cGaslight\u201d and \u201cAnastasia.\u201d Later in her career, once she had left the ing\u00e9nue work behind, the Swedish actress added a Best Supporting Actress for \u201cMurder on the Orient Express.\u201d That was a stacked cast, but she stood out.
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Walter Brennan
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If you wanted a great supporting performance in early Hollywood, apparently you gave Brennan a role. All three of his Oscars are for Best Supporting Actor. His last win came in 1940. Of all the actors with three or more Oscars, Brennan is definitely the least remembered, which is a shame, because he was quite talented and memorable.
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Bette Davis
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We\u2019re now out of actors with more than two Oscars, so from here on out it\u2019s all two-time winners. Davis is up first, as she won twice out of her whopping 10 nominations. Her career took an odd path, as after her Oscar-winning peak she ended up doing a lot of TV guest work and infamously made the movie \u201cWhatever Happened to Baby Jane?\u201d Still, you can\u2019t take her Oscars from her.
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Spencer Tracy
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Tracy was a steady presence in Hollywood for years. He was making impressive work well into the \u201860s, which is notable since he won both his Oscars in the '30s. Tracy was also famously involved with Katharine Hepburn for many years, so the couple combined had an impressive six Oscars (though Tracy died before Hepburn won her final Academy Award).
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Marlon Brando
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It\u2019s not surprising that Brando has multiple Oscars. He is considered by many the greatest actor of his era. What may be surprising is that he has only two. That\u2019s the case, though. Brando won for \u201cOn the Waterfront\u201d and then, of course, for playing Don Vito Corleone in \u201cThe Godfather.\u201d
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Some people think of Fonda primarily for her political activism. Some think of her as the lady with the workout tapes. Not enough people remember what a successful actress she was and, frankly, is. She has seven nominations for acting Oscars, and she won for her work in \u201cKlute\u201d and \u201cComing Home.\u201d
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Hoffman\u2019s showy performance in \u201cRain Man\u201d was an obvious Oscar bait piece of acting. Well, it worked. It\u2019s not that Hoffman needed an Oscar though. He had previously won for \u201cKramer vs. Kramer,\u201d much like Meryl Streep.
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March is not one of the names of old Hollywood that have stood the test of time, but in his day he was a huge star. You know the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. March has the definitive Hollywood performance of that dual role. That was the first of his two wins. His other was for \"The Best Years of Our Lives.\"
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Olivia de Havilland
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Olivia de Havilland and her acting sister, Joan Fontaine, were purported to have quite the heated rivalry. Well, de Havilland has two Best Actress Oscars and Fontaine won only once, so score one for Olivia. De Havilland only recently just passed away, which was remarkable as she was 104 years old.
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Cooper is the second multitime Oscar winner who got name-dropped in a hit song from the \u201880s (He\u2019s mentioned in Taco\u2019s \u201cPuttin\u2019 on the Ritz,\u201d while Kim Carnes performed a song called \u201cBette Davis Eyes.\") He was one of the steady, stern, \u201cAll-American\u201d presences of early Hollywood. It\u2019s fitting that he won one of his Oscars for the iconic Western \u201cHigh Noon.\u201d
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Taylor started acting as a kid and became one of the biggest stars in the world. She also was tabloid fodder thanks to her many marriages. Stardom and infamy have perhaps overshadowed her acting skills, given that she won two Best Actress awards on five nominations.
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The \u201890s were a good time for Hanks. He pulled off an incredible feat by winning back-to-back Best Actor awards. First he won for \u201cPhiladelphia,\u201d and then he added another statue for \u201cForrest Gump.\u201d Neither of those movies necessarily holds up great, but the Oscars still count.
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It took Penn a little while to get his first Best Actor Oscar, with \u201cMystic River,\u201d which is a movie where everybody seems to be turning it up to 11 to get an Academy Award. It worked for Penn and also Tim Robbins. Penn toned it down a bit in the biopic \u201cMilk\u201d when he got his second Best Actor win. Nowadays Penn spends his time writing terrible novels for some reason.
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Jackson is the forgotten gem among \u201870s actresses. Rarely do you ever hear her name mentioned, but she won not one but two Best Actress awards in that decade. She was also nominated two more times in the \u201870s. Seriously, why don\u2019t we talk about Glenda Jackson more?
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Given how early she started acting \u2014 for better or worse you can\u2019t forget her in \u201cTaxi Driver,\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s easy to forget that Foster was still relatively young when she won her first Best Actress award, for 1988's \"The Accused.\" A few years later, she was part of the massive success that was \u201cSilence of the Lambs,\u201d giving her another statue to go with her first.
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Like her occasional co-star Tom Hanks, it\u2019s Field who plays Hanks\u2019 mother in \u201cForrest Gump.\u201d After all, Field has two Oscars for her acting efforts. People tend to remember her first win, for \u201cNorma Rae.\u201d People also remember her \u201cYou like me, you really like me\u201d acceptance speech. Let\u2019s not forget her second win, for 1984's \u201cPlaces in the Heart,\u201d though.
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Rainer is the distaff Tom Hanks of the \u201830s. By that we mean she won back-to-back Best Actress awards, in 1937 and 1938. Those were her only nominations, and she won them both. Not too shabby for the earliest days of the Academy Awards.
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Leigh\u2019s two wins are definitely memorable, because they came in two iconic roles. First, there was \u201cGone with the Wind,\u201d of course. Then she took on the role of Blanche DuBois in \u201cA Streetcar Named Desire.\u201d That\u2019s a great career right there, but Leigh did much more.
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Hillary Swank
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Swank is the third of three women who have won two Best Actress awards in as many nominations. Unlike Rainer and Leigh, though, Swank has the opportunity to add to her tally. It\u2019s been a while since Swank\u2019s last nomination, and win, which came in 2005.
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Jack Lemmon
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We are entering the section of actors with one lead role win and one supporting role win. This is a great jumping off point, because Lemmon is Hollywood royalty. And yet both of his wins came in movies he\u2019s not really remembered for. When he was younger he got his Supporting Actor Oscar in \u201cMister Roberts.\u201d Then in the \u201870s, he got a bit of a career nod with \u201cSave the Tiger.\u201d
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Washington had a similar arc to Lemmon in some ways. He won his Best Supporting Actor at the 1990 Oscars for \u201cGlory\u201d when he was on the rise. Then once he was a movie star, he got another win, this time for Best Actor for his bombastic performance in \u201cTraining Day.\u201d Indeed, \"King Kong\" had nothing on him that day.
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Like Brando, it feels a little surprising that De Niro has only two Oscars. Also like Brando, he won one of his Academy Awards for playing the character of Vito Corleone. That\u2019s a weird twist of fate. De Niro is still acting, but he couldn't even get a nomination for \"The Irishman,\" so his Oscar days may be behind him.
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Speaking of strange occurrences, here\u2019s another one. Blanchett won her Best Supporting Actress award for \u201cThe Aviator\u201d where she played\u2026Katharine Hepburn. She does a great job, naturally, and then she added a Best Actress for \u201cBlue Jasmine\u201d for good measure.
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You may know her as the woman who kept getting nominated for \u201cDownton Abbey\u201d even though she refused to show up to the Emmys. You can get away with that when you are a Dame. She helped earn that cache by winning two Oscars, earlier in her career, out of six nominations.
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Jessica Lange
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We all remember Lange\u2019s turn in \u201cTootsie\u201d alongside Dustin Hoffman, for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Her Best Actress win came in an almost entirely forgotten film, though. Do you remember \u201cBlue Sky\u201d at all? Maybe not, but the Oscar still counts for Lange.
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Hackman killed it in both of his Oscar-winning roles. He\u2019s fantastic in \u201cThe French Connection,\u201d which won Best Picture, and he was menacing and terrific in \u201cUnforgiven,\u201d which also won Best Picture. Hackman retired many years ago, weirdly after the dud \u201cWelcome to Mooseport,\u201d so he seems content with having \u201conly\u201d two Oscars.
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Hayes had an incredible career. This is an amazing fact. Hayes, who was known as \u201cThe First Lady of American Theater,\u201d won Best Actress in 1932. Then she took home a Best Supporting Actress award in\u20261971. No, really. Hayes went almost 40 years between wins. Those were also her only two nominations.
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OK, let\u2019s just breeze through this. Spacey won for \u201cAmerican Beauty\u201d and \u201cThe Usual Suspects.\u201d That\u2019s all we want to say about him at this point in time.
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Now we move to the actors who have two Oscars to their names for supporting roles. That starts with Caine, who won for \u201cHannah and Her Sisters\u201d and \u201cThe Cider House Rules.\u201d Somehow, he didn\u2019t win for \u201cJaws IV: The Revenge.\u201d
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As a Mexican-American actor in a different era of Hollywood, Quinn was called upon to play several different ethnicities over his career. At least it wasn\u2019t too much of a stretch when Quinn played the real-life Eufemio Zapata for his win in \u201cViva Zapata!\u201d Oh, and the guy who played Zapata? That would be Marlon Brando. It seems that Hollywood used to play it fast and loose on the ethnicity front.
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Winters acted for almost 60 years, starting in the \u201840s and making her last appearance in 2006. Also, she was a villain on the \u201860s \u201cBatman\u201d TV show, which his awesome. As fun as that is, we\u2019re here to acknowledge her for her two Oscar wins and also for her two other nominations.
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Comedy and the Oscars don\u2019t always go hand-in-hand. As such, it\u2019s impressive that Ustinov won both of his Oscars for comedic performances. Sure, \u201cSpartacus\u201d isn\u2019t a comedy, but Ustinov\u2019s role is to provide the comedic relief. \u201cTopkapi\u201d is decidedly more comedic, and that got him a win as well.
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A few different people have played Ben Bradlee over the years, including Tom Hanks. However, the quintessential performance as Bradlee is Robards in \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men.\u201d The next year, Robards took home his second and final Oscar for his work in \u201cJulia.\u201d
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Douglas began his career in the \u201830s as a suave leading man in the vein of an Errol Flynn. However, it\u2019s not until he got older and became more of a character actor that he started to really come into his own as a critical darling. In fact, his second win, for \u201cBeing There,\u201d came when he was in his late 70s! That\u2019s what we call running the gamut. Douglas would die in 1981, the year after his second win, putting a great capper on his career.
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Wiest owes both of her Oscars to Woody Allen (for better or worse at this point). She won Best Supporting Actress twice, both for Allen films. One of those movies was \u201cHannah and Her Sisters,\u201d which you may remember from Michael Caine\u2019s Oscar win.
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Much like Wiest, Waltz has his Oscars thanks to one director\u2019s love for his work. In this case, that director is Quentin Tarantino. Waltz was a European actor basically unknown in America when Tarantino cast him in \u201cInglourious Basterds.\u201d He stole the movie with his incredible performance, won an Oscar and then ran it back with \u201cDjango Unchained.\u201d
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Ali burst onto the scene in \u201cMoonlight,\u201d for which he won his first Oscar in 2017. Then, two years later, he added a second Best Supporting Actor, for \u201cGreen Book.\u201d He\u2019s two-for-two on nominations turning into wins, and he\u2019s just getting started. Don\u2019t be surprised to see Ali add to his Oscar collection someday.
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We end this list with the most recent addition to this club. Zellweger had a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for \"Cold Mountain,\" and then she got what was considered a puzzling win for Best Actress for playing Judy Garland. Her speech was also strange, but the fact is she has two Oscars now.
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Many were stunned when Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for Best Actor over the late Chadwick Boseman. However, when you set that aside, Hopkins' turn in \"The Father\" is considered maybe his best performance. The 83-year-old's reputation as one of the best actors of his generation is further solidified by joining this group of multi-Oscar-winning actors.
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Even if \"La La Land\" didn't end up winning Best Picture (turns out \"Moonlight\" won), Stone was established as one of the brightest young thespians out there, picking up Best Actress. In 2023, the only real question among the big Oscar categories was Best Actress. Would Lily Gladstone win for \"Killers of the Flower Moon,\" or would Stone win a second Best Actress? Well, the Academy in general enjoyed \"Poor Things\" more than \"Killers,\" and Stone did win. She's not got two best Actress awards with a lot of career ahead of her. Could she join the rarefied Three Oscars Club? Only seven actors have done that.
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