Burt Lancaster
Clint Eastwood is the male actor with the most Oscars. He won 4 Oscars, none of them for acting. He won 2 Oscars for Best Director and 2 Oscars for Best Picture.Katharine Hepburn is the female actor with the most Oscars. She won 4 Oscars for Best Actress.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan each won three Academy Awards. Day-Lewis is the only person to win three Best Actor Oscars.
They have both been awarded two Oscars and have been nominated for five. They are both completely equal. :)
Daniel Day-Lewis is the only person to win three Academy Awards for Best Actor. Jack Nicholson has two Best Actor wins and one for Best Supporting Actor. Walter Brennan won three Best Supporting Actor awards.
Silence of the Lambs (1991) won the Big Five Oscars
Alan Menken is a music composier who has won 8 OscarsAlso of note:Walt Disney was a film producter who won 20 Oscars, but he died in 1966Cedric Gibbons was an art director who won 11 Oscars, but he died in 1960Alfred Newman was a composer who won 9 Oscars, but he died in 1970.Edith Head was a costume designer who won 8 Oscars, but she died in 1971.Edwin B. Willis was a set designer who won 8 Oscars, but he died in 1963.
The male who has won the most oscars is Walt Disney with 22 oscars. He also won the most oscars in one year which was 4 in 1953. The female who has won the most oscars is Edith Head with 8 oscars, all for costume design.
Lots and lots and lots.Throughout the past 81 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 82 Best Actor awards to 73 different actorsThroughout the past 81 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 82 Best Actress awards to 68 different actresses.Throughout the past 73 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 73 Best Supporting Actor awards to 66 different actors.Throughout the past 73 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 73 Best Supporting Actress awards to 71 different actresses.In addition, actors occassionaly win awards as directors, producers and writers.
No African-American actor or actress has won more than one Oscar for Best Actor/Actress. Denzel Washington is the only one who won 2 Oscars, one of them for Best Supporting Actor.
Alfred Newman won 11 Oscars for Score and Song. Cedric Gibbons won 11 times for Art Direction. Katharine Hepburn won 4 Oscars for Acting. The most Oscars for Directing-Writing-Acting? No one won for all three. Billy Wilder, who wasn't an actor, won 6 Oscars, more than any writer-director, for: The Lost Weekend (writer and director), Sunset Blvd. (writer) and The Apartment (writer, director and producer). As for the most Oscars in any category: that would be Walt Disney.
Katharine Hepburn won the most competitive Academy Awards -- four. All were in the Best Actress category. Walter Brennan, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis are in second place with three Oscar wins each. Day-Lewis is the only person to win three Best Actor Oscars.
Walter Brennan won three Best Supporting Actor Oscars. In fact, he won three of the first five to be awarded, beginning in 1936, for Come And Get It. He also won in 1938 for Kentuckyand in 1940 for The Westerner.