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.
Walter Brennan won three Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor.
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.
Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1935), nominations for the Best Actor award were intended to include all actors, whether the performance was in a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), however, the Best Supporting Actor category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actor category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time
No one! Most ever won were two! The only male actors to win three Oscars are Walter Brennan (with three Best Supporting Actor awards) and Jack Nicholson (won two for lead, one as supporting actor).
Male: Jack Nicholson, with 12 nominations. He won twice for Best Actor and once for Best Supporting Actor. Female: Meryl Streep, with 19 nominations. She won twice for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress.
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The record holders for the most Filmfare Best Actor Awards goes to Kamal Hassan he got 19 filmfare awards ranging across 5 Languages........Dilip Kumar & Shahrukh Khan Each of them have 8 Best Actor Awards, the most anyone has got as of 2011.dilip kumar...raaj kapoor..shahrukh khan...amitabh bachen
Sir Anthony Hopkins received one Academy Award and earned three other nominations during the 1990s. He won the 1991 Best Actor Oscar for his performance as the evil Dr. Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs." He also was nominated as Best Actor of 1993 for "The Remains of the Day," Best Actor of 1995 for "Nixon" and Best Supporting Actor of 1997 for "Amistad."
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.
The most best actor awards won by a single actor at the Academy awards are 2, the following actors have achieved this: Spencer Tracy Fredric March Gary Cooper Marlon Brando Dustin Hoffman Tom Hanks Jack Nicholson Daniel Day-Lewis Sean Penn
Spencer Tracy and Sir Laurence Olivier both earned nine Academy Award nominations for Best Actor. Tracy won back-to-back awards for the films "Captains Courageous" (1937) and "Boys Town" (1938). Olivier won once, for his performance as the title character in "Hamlet" (1948). In the Best Supporting Actor category, four actors have earned four nominations -- Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson, Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy. Brennan won three times, for his performances in "Come and Get It" (1936), "Kentucky" (1938) and "The Westerner" (1940). Nicholson, who holds the overall Academy Awards record as the most-nominated male actor with 12, won the Best Supporting Actor award once, for his performance in "Terms of Endearment" (1983). Rains and Kennedy never won Oscars.
Dr. Kamal Hasan can be said as the best actor. He has won the most national awards. He has also won the most filmfares.