No actor has ever won more than three Oscars in the acting categories. Jack Nicholson won Best Actor awards for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "As Good As It Gets" (1997). He also won a Best Supporting Actor award for "Terms of Endearment" (1983).
Walter Brennan won three Best Supporting Actor awards for "Come and Get It" (1936), "Kentucky" (1938) and "The Westerner" (1940).
Several people have won exactly four Academy Awards (Oscars). The following list includes honorary awards and other awards distributed by the Academy.
Katharine Hepburn and Clint Eastwood are the only two actors to win four Academy Awards (Oscars)
Katharine Hepburn is the only actor (male or female) to win four Oscars for acting.
She also received the following nominations
Clint Eastwood is also an actor, and he has also won four Oscars, but none of them were in an acting category. He won two Oscars for Best Director and two Oscars for Best Picture.
He also received the following nominations
He also received the following memorial award, but since it is a non-competetive award, he cannot be said to have won it.
No actor has won five Oscars in the competitive acting awards. The most any one person has won is four. Katharine Hepburn won Best Actress awards for "Morning Glory" (1933), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), "The Lion in Winter" (1968) and "On Golden Pond" (1981).
Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars for Best Actress during her distinguished career. She won for the movies "Morning Glory" (1932/1933), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), "The Lion in Winter" (1968) and "On Golden Pond" (1981).
Katharine Hepburn, whose distinguished film career spanned the early 1930s and the early 1990s, became the only person to win four Academy Awards for acting. She received Best Actress Oscars for her performances in "Morning Glory" (1933), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), "The Lion in Winter" (1968 -- a tie with Barbra Streisand of "Funny Girl") and "On Golden Pond" (1981).
As of 2009, no one has won the Best Actor Oscar four times.
Jeremy Irons did not win an Oscar for best actor until 1990 for his role in Reversal of Fortune.
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.
He won Best Picture and Best Director for both Unforgiven(1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
The first and third movies weren't nominated to any Academy Awards. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) was nominated for six Oscars and won four: Best Sound, Visual Effects, Sound Effects Editing and Makeup.
Four: Best Picture, Best Director (Clint Eastwood), Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman) and Editing.
Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards during her distinguished career -- all for Best Actress.
It won four Oscars including: best picture, best actor (Dustin Hoffman), best director (Barry Levinson), and best original screenplay.
Four Oscars: Best Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress and Art Direction.
Two: Best Actor (Sean Penn) and Best Supporting Actor (Tim Robbins).
The movie won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.4No Country for Old Men was the big 2008 winner, taking home Best Picture, Best Directors, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor, for a total of four Oscars.
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.
Katharine Hepburn was the only person to win four acting Oscars.
2003's The Last Samurai was nominated for four Oscars: Best Supporting Actor, Art Direction, Costume Design and Sound.
Clint Eastwood has been nominated for ten Oscars and won four. In 1993 he won an Oscar for Best Director and another for Best Picture for his movie Unforgiven. In 2005 he won two more Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for his movie Million Dollar Baby.
It won four, with him winning the Best Film and the Best Director Oscars.
"The King's Speech" won four 2010 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Director (Tom Hooper) and Best Original Screenplay (David Seidler). The only other 2010 film to win four Oscars was "Inception," which won in several technical categories.
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.