Sophia Loren won Best Actress for Two Women (1961), the movie's only Oscar nomination.
No. An actor (or actress) cannot be nominated twice in the same category, unlike directors, composers, etc. In the past a nominated actor could have more than one movie associated with his nomination.
Four actors in all four categoriesNone of them won Best Picture. 1936 My Man Godfrey1943 To Whom the Bells Toll (won Supporting Actress)1950 Sunset Blvd.1951 A Streetcar Named Desire (won Lead Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress)1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (won Lead Actress and Supporting Actress)1968 Guess Who's Coming for Dinner (won Lead Actress)1978 Coming Home (won Lead Actor and Lead Actress)1981 Reds (won Supporting Actress)Five actors in all four categories (lead actor, lead actress, supporting actor, supporting actress)All of them won Best Supporting Actress, Faye Dunaway the lead actress in the last two. 1942 Mrs. Miviner (2 supporting actress) [won Lead Actress and Supporting Actress]*won Best Picture1953 From Here to Eternity (2 lead actors) [wonSupporting Actor and Supporting Actress]*1967 Bonnie and Clyde (2 supporting actors) [wonSupporting Actress]1976 Network (2 lead actors) [won Lead Actor, Lead Actress and Supporting Actress]
No. But the Australian actress recently has attracted international attention for receiving two Academy Award nominations in three years. Weaver was nominated for Best Supporting Actress of 2010 for her performance in the Australian drama "Animal Kingdom," in which she played a mob-affiliated grandmother. She received a second Best Supporting Actress nomination for "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012), in which she played the mother of Bradley Cooper's character.
Natalie Wood never won an Oscar, but was nominated three times. In 1956, she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for "Rebel Without A Cause." She received two nominations for Best Actress, the first in 1962 for "Splendor in the Grass," and the second in 1964 for "Love With The Proper Stranger."
There are two movies in which Kathy Bates appears nude. The first movie was back in 1991 just after her best actress Oscar win for "Misery". That film is "At play in the fields of the lord". The second movie is "About Schmidt", in which she earned her third Oscar nomination, best supporting actress.
Sophia Loren [Best Supporting Actress]
In 2007, Helen Mirren won two awards. She won the best actress drama award for The Queen. she also won the Best actress in a mini series/made for tv movie for Elizabeth 1. She also received another nomination in the latter category for Prime Suspect.
Two: Best Supporting Actor (Christian Bale) and Best Supporting Actress (Melissa Leo).
If you were thinking of Jennifer Lawrence, who stars as Katniss Everdeen in the "Hunger Game" films, she actually received Best Actress nominations for "Winter's Bone" (2010) and "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012). She received a third nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "American Hustle" (2013).
So far, the only women to have two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress are Diane West (Hannah and her Sisters, Bullets over Broadway) and Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank, A Patch of Blue)
Two: Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.