Most of them won only once. Here are a few one-time-winners: Ben Kingsley, Al Pacino, Peter Finch, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Martin Landau, Morgan Freeman, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Henry Fonda, ...
Three actors are tied with three Oscar wins: Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Audra McDonald has won a record six Tony Awards, followed by theater legends Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury, who won five each. Actors who have won four Tony Awards include Boyd Gaines, Frank Langella, Gwen Verdon, and Zoe Caldwell.
They have both been awarded two Oscars and have been nominated for five. They are both completely equal. :)
Douglas Fairbanks
Ben Affleck is most famous for his acting career on movies such as Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and Argo. He is an American actor, director, and producer.
Jamie Foxx's first appeared as an actor for various roles in the sketch comedy show "In Living Color." Jamie Foxx began acting in 1991 and most notably played the role of Wanda.
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 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.
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.
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.
Jack Nicholson won 3; One for 'One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest', 'As Good as it Gets', & 'Terms of Endearment'. He holds the record for most acting Oscars won by a male, ands is second for most acting Oscars won, under Katharine Hepburn.
Burt Lancaster
The actor how worked hard.
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.
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.
Audra McDonald has won a record six Tony Awards, followed by theater legends Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury, who won five each. Actors who have won four Tony Awards include Boyd Gaines, Frank Langella, Gwen Verdon, and Zoe Caldwell.
They have both been awarded two Oscars and have been nominated for five. They are both completely equal. :)
Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep have won three Academy Awards each. Day-Lewis is the only person ever to win three Best Actor awards.