How many women have won an Oscar twice?

Answer 1

6 Amazing Women of color have won an Academy Award:

Hattie McDaniel - Best Supporting Actress (Gone with the Wind), 1939.

Whoopi Goldberg - Best Supporting Actress (Ghost), 1990.

Halle Berry - Best Actress (Monster's Ball), 2001.

Jennifer Hudson - Best Supporting Actress (Dreamgirls), 2006.

Mo'nique - Best Supporting Actress (Precious), 2010.

Octvia Spencer - Best Supporting Actress (The Help), 2012.

Answer 2

Many, many, many women have won Oscars, see related links below.

No woman has ever won best director, and only four have ever been nominated: Lina Wertmüller for 1976's Seven Beauties, Jane Campionfor 1993's The Piano, Sofia Coppola for 2003's Lost in Translation, and Kathryn Bigelow for 2009's The Hurt Locker.

Answer 3

In the acting categories, 19 women have won two or more Academy Awards:

• Helen Hayes (Best Actress 1931/32; Best Supporting Actress 1970).
• Katharine Hepburn (Best Actress 1932/33, 1967, 1968, 1981).
• Bette Davis (Best Actress 1935, 1938).
• Luise Rainer (Best Actress 1936, 1937).
• Vivien Leigh (Best Actress 1939, 1951).
• Ingrid Bergman (Best Actress 1944, 1956; Best Supporting Actress 1974).
• Olivia de Havilland (Best Actress 1946, 1949).
• Shelley Winters (Best Supporting Actress 1959, 1965).
• Elizabeth Taylor (Best Actress 1960, 1966).
• Dame Maggie Smith (Best Actress 1969; Best Supporting Actress 1978).
• Glenda Jackson (Best Actress, 1970, 1973).
• Jane Fonda (Best Actress 1971, 1978).
• Sally Field (Best Actress 1979, 1984).
• Meryl Streep (Best Supporting Actress 1979; Best Actress 1982, 2011).
• Dianne Wiest (Best Supporting Actress 1986, 1994).
• Jodie Foster (Best Actress 1988, 1991).
• Jessica Lange (Best Supporting Actress 1982; Best Actress 1994).
• Hilary Swank (Best Actress 1999, 2004).
• Cate Blanchett (Best Supporting Actress 2004; Best Actress 2013).

Note: Actress Emma Thompson has two Oscars -- one for Best Actress of 1992 and one for adapting the screenplay of "Sense and Sensibility" (1995).

Answer 4

According to moviecitynews.com, around 2622 Oscars have been awarded. Taking into account multiple Oscar winners, the number of actual people would be less, possibly around 2000.

Answer 5

132 actresses have won an Oscar.