Who has the second most Oscars?

Answer 1

As of 2009, 34 Actors have won 2 Academy Awards.

1. Gary Cooper

-----Best Actor in a Leading Role for: High Noon(1952)

-----Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Sergeant York(1941)

2. Marlon Brando

-----Best Actor in a Leading Role for: The Godfather(1972)

-----Best Actor in a Leading Role for: On the Waterfront(1954)

3. Daniel Day-Lewis

-----Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for: There Will Be Blood (2007)

-----Best Actor in a Leading Role for: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

4. Tom Hanks

5. Dustin Hoffman

6. Fredric March

7. Sean Penn

8. Spencer Tracy

9. Robert De Niro (1 supporting)

10. Gene Hackman (1 supporting)

11. Jack Lemmon (1 supporting)

12. Kevin Spacey (1 supporting)

13. Denzel Washington (1 supporting)

14. Michael Caine (2 supporting)

15. Melvyn Douglas (2 supporting)

16. Anthony Quinn (2 supporting)

17. Jason Robards (2 consecutive for supporting)

18. Peter Ustinov (2 supporting)

19. Bette Davis

20. Olivia de Havilland

21. Sally Field

22. Jane Fonda

23. Jodie Foster

24. Glenda Jackson

25. Vivien Leigh

26. Luise Rainer

27. Hilary Swank

28. Elizabeth Taylor

29. Helen Hayes (1 supporting)

30. Jessica Lange (1 supporting)

31. Maggie Smith (1 supporting)

32. Meryl Streep (1 supporting)

33. Dianne Wiest (2 supporting)

34. Shelley Winters (2 supporting)

Katharine Hepburn holds the record of winning 4 Oscars.

Others who have received more than 1 Oscar includes: Spencer Tracy ~ Bette Davis ~ Walter Brennen ~ Olivia de Havilland ~ Vivien Leigh ~ Marlon Brando ~ Shelly Winters.

Luise Rainer ~ Elizabeth Taylor ~ Jane Fonda ~ Meryl Streep ~ Sally Field ~ Dustin Hoffman ~ Tom Hanks ~ Morgan Freeman ~ Kevin Costner ~ Jodie Foster.

Answer 2

Walt Disney was nominated 59 times and won 22 awards, more than any individual in Oscars history, 3 additional special awards and one (1) honorary award.

He won twelve (12) Oscars as producer for Best Short Subject (cartoon):

1. Flowers and Trees,
2. The Three Little Pigs,
3. The Tortoise and the Hare,
4. Three Orphan Kittens,
5. The Country Cousin,
6. The Old Mill,
7. Fredinand the Bull,
8. The Ugly Duckling,
9. Lend a Paw,
10. Der Fuehrer's Face,
11. Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom,
12. Winnie the pooh and the Blustery Day (the last won posthumous).

He won six (6) Oscars for Best Short Subject:

1. Seal Island,
2. In Beaver Valley,
3. Nature's Half Acre,
4. Water Birds,
5. Bear County,
6. Grand Canyon.

He won two (2) Oscars for Best Documentary (feature):

1. The Living Desert,
2. The Vanishing Prairie.

He won two (2) Oscars for Best Documentary (short subject):

1. The Alaskan Eskimo,
2. Men Against the Arctic.

He received three (3) special awards for:

1. The creation of Mickey Mouse,
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and
3. Fantasia.

He was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg award once (1).

He was nominated only once as producer of a Best Picture for Mary Poppins.
Walt Disney with 26.

Answer 3

Walt Disney holds the record for winning the most Oscars with 22 competetive awards. Two men come up in second place with 11 Awards each.

Cedric Gibbons (art director)

1. 1928/29 (2nd) * ART DIRECTION -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey [statuette]

   [NOTE: The award citation reads "for The Bridge of San Luis Rey and other pictures." THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930.]

2. 1934 (7th) * ART DIRECTION -- The Merry Widow [Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope] [statuette]

   [NOTE: won by two votes]

3. 1940 (13th) * ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Pride and Prejudice [Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse] [statuette]
4. 1941 (14th) * ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Blossoms in the Dust [Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis] [statuette]
5. 1944 (17th) * ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Gaslight [Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky] [statuette]
6. 1946 (19th) * ART DIRECTION (Color) -- The Yearling [Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Interior Decoration: Edwin B. Willis] [statuette]
7. 1949 (22nd) * ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Little Women [Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Jack D. Moore] [statuette]
8. 1951 (24th) * ART DIRECTION (Color) -- An American in Paris [Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason] [statuette]
9. 1952 (25th) * ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- The Bad and the Beautiful [Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason] [statuette]
10. 1953 (26th) * ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Julius Caesar [Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt] [statuette]
11. 1956 (29th) * ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Somebody Up There Likes Me [Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason] [statuette]

Iain Neil (science geek)

1. 1990 (63rd) * SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)

   To IAIN NEIL for optical design; TAKUO MIYAGISHIMA for the mechanical design; and PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the concept and development of the Primo Series of spherical prime lenses for 35mm cinematography. [certificate]

2. 1991 (64th) * SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

   To IAIN NEIL for the optical design; ALBERT SAIKI for the mechanical design; and PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the concept and development of the Primo Zoom Lens for 35mm cinematography. [plaque]

3. 1992 (65th) * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

   To AL MAYER for the camera design; IAIN NEIL and GEORGE KRAEMER for the optical design; HANS SPIRAWSKI and BILL ESLICK for the opto-mechanical design; and DON EARL for technical support in developing the Panavision System 65 Studio Sync Sound Reflex Camera for 65mm motion picture photography. [plaque]

4. * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)

   To IAIN NEIL for the optical design and KAZ FUDANO for the mechanical design of the Panavision Slant Focus Lens for motion picture photography. [certificate]

5. 1994 (67th) * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

   To IAIN NEIL for the optical design, AL SAIKI for the mechanical design, and PANAVISION INTERNATIONAL L.P. for the development of the Panavision 11:1 Primo Zoom Lens for motion picture photography. [plaque]

6. 1995 (68th) * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

   To IAIN NEIL for the optical design; RICK GELBARD for the mechanical design; ERIC DUBBERKE for the engineering and PANAVISION INTERNATIONAL, L.P., for the development of the Primo 3:1 Zoom Lens. [plaque]

7. 1997 (70th) * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)

   To JIM FRAZIER, for the design concept, and IAIN NEIL and RICK GELBARD for the further design and development of the Panavision/Frazier Lens System for motion picture photography. [certificate]

8. 1998 (71st) * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

   To IAIN NEIL for the optical design; TAKUO MIYAGISHIMA for the mechanical design; and PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the concept and development of the Primo Series of spherical prime lenses for 35mm cinematography. The Primo Series of lenses for 35mm cinematography represents a thorough and comprehensive approach to prime lens design, development and manufacture. This family of lenses has a wide range of focal lengths, all color matched, with improved modulation transfer function characteristics. [plaque]

9. 1999 (72nd) * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

   To IAIN NEIL for the optical design, RICK GELBARD for the mechanical design, and PANAVISION, INC. for the development of the Millennium Camera System viewfinder. This unique and versatile viewfinder with two independent viewing positions provides a very high-resolution video assist image, greatly enhancing its application for on-set compositing or non-linear editing. [plaque]

10. 2000 (73rd) * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

    To AL MAYER, SR. and AL MAYER, JR., for the mechanical design, IAIN NEIL for the optical design and BRIAN DANG for the electronic design of the Panavision Millennium XL Camera System. This camera brings the full uncompromised performance of larger heavy-duty cameras to the lightest weight category with ruggedness and advanced features previously expected only in specialized or effects cameras. [plaque]

11. 2001 (74th) * SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

    To IAIN NEIL for the concept and optical design and AL SAIKI for the mechanical design of the Panavision Primo Macro Zoom Lens (PMZ). This compact, wide-angle, macro focus lens enhances and expands the picture-capturing ability, both technically and artistically, of the cinematographer. It is the first cine lens that allows macro photography while still being able to zoom. [plaque]

Answer 4

A partial list:

Many director-producers won 2 Oscars when their movie won Best Picture and Best Director, including: Tony Richardson (1963's Tom Jones), Richard Attenborough (1982's Gandhi), Clint Eastwood (1992' Unforgiven and 2004's Million Dollar Baby), Steven Speilberg (1993's Schindler's List), Michael Cimino (1978's The Deer Hunter), Sidney Pollack (1985's Out of Africa), and more.

Other directors won for Best Director and Best Screenplay, including: Leo McCarey (1944's Going My Way), Woody Allen (1977's Annie Hall), Robert Benton (1979's Kramer vs. Kramer), John Huston (1948's The Treasure of Sierra Madre), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949's A Letter to Three Wives and 1950's All About Eve), and more.

Alan Jay Lerner won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Song for Gigi (1958).

Marc Norman won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1998). Paul Haggis won the same two awards for Crash (2005).

Claude Lelouch won Best Foreign Language Film (France) and Best Original Screenplay for A Man and a Woman (1966).

A few composers won Best Score and Best Song: Henry Mancini (1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's), Dimitri Tiomkin (1952's High Noon), Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman (1964's Mary Poppins), Alan Menken (1989's The Little Mermaid, 1991's Beauty and the Beast, 1992's Aladdin and 1994's The Lion King), Ned Washington (1940's Pinocchio), James Horner (1997's Titanic), and more.

Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscars won in one night. He won four Oscars for Best Animated Short, Best Live Short, Best Documenatary Feature and Best Documenatary Short.

Answer 5

Here is list of winners at the 82nd annual Academy Awards, held on March 7, 2010:

- Picture: "The Hurt Locker."

- Actor: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart."

- Actress: Sandra Bullock, "The Blind Side."

- Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds."

- Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

- Director: Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker."

- Foreign Film: "El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Argentina.

- Adapted Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

- Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, "The Hurt Locker."

- Animated Feature Film: "Up."

- Art Direction: "Avatar."

- Cinematography: "Avatar."

- Sound Mixing: "The Hurt Locker."

- Sound Editing: "The Hurt Locker."

- Original Score: "Up," Michael Giacchino.

- Original Song: "The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart," Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.

- Costume: "The Young Victoria."

- Documentary Feature: "The Cove."

- Documentary (short subject): "Music by Prudence."

- Film Editing: "The Hurt Locker."

- Makeup: "Star Trek."

- Animated Short Film: "Logorama."

- Live Action Short Film: "The New Tenants."

- Visual Effects: "Avatar."

Answer 6

Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis are the only actors who have won three Academy Awards.

Answer 7

Behind Walt Disney who holds the record with 22 Academy Awards is Cedric Gibbons who had won 11 Oscars for Art Direction (he was nominated 38 times).

Answer 8

Walt Disney, with 22 such awards.