Which actresses won more than 1 Oscar?

Answer 1

Many actresses have won more than one Oscar.

• Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress four times
• Luise Rainer won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Bette Davis won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Olivia de Havilland won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Vivien Leigh won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Ingrid Bergman won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Elizabeth Taylor won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Glenda Jackson won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Jane Fonda won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Sally Field won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Jodie Foster won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Hilary Swank won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.
• Helen Hayes won the Oscar for Best Actress and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
• Ingrid Bergman won the Oscar for Best Actress and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
• Maggie Smith won the Oscar for Best Actress and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
• Meryl Streep won the Oscar for Best Actress and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
• Jessica Lange won the Oscar for Best Actress and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
• Emma Thompson won the Oscar for Best Actress for Howards End (1992) and an Oscar for Best Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995).
• Shelley Winters won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress twice (1959 and 1965).
• Dianne Wiest won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress twice (1986 and 1994).

Answer 2

No actress has ever won more than four (4) Oscars. In 2006, Meryl Strep received her 14th Oscar nomination, but she didn't win. She reamins the most nominated actress in Hollywood (but not the winningest).

1. Best Supporting Actress: The Deer Hunter (1978)
2. Best Supporting Actress: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - winner
3. Best Actress: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
4. Best Actress: Sophie's Choice (1982) - winner
5. Best Actress: Silkwood (1983)
6. Best Actress: Out of Africa (1985)
7. Best Actress: Ironweed (1987)
8. Best Actress: A Cry in the Dark (1988)
9. Best Actress: Postcards from the Edge (1990)
10. Best Actress: The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
11. Best Actress: One True Thing (1998)
12. Best Actress: Music of the Heart (1999)
13. Best Supporting Actress: Adaptation. (2002)
14. Best Actress: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
15. Best Actress: Doubt (2008)
16. Best Actress: Julie & Julia (2009)

Answer 3

Katharine Hepburn won 4 Best Actress Awards: Morning Glory (1933); Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967); The Lion In Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond(1981).

Twelve actresses have won 2 Best Actress Oscars:

Luise Rainer: The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Good Earth (1937)

Bette Davis: Dangerous (1935); Jezebel (1938)

Olivia de Havilland: To Each His Own (1946); The Heiress (1949)

Vivien Leigh: Gone With The Wind (1939); A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Ingrid Bergman: Gaslight (1944); Anastasia(1957)

Elizabeth Taylor: Butterfield 8 (1960); Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Glenda Jackson: Women In Love (1970); A Touch Of Class (1973)

Jane Fonda: Klute (1971); Coming Home (1978)

Sally Field: Norma Rae (1979); Places In The Heart(1984)

Jodie Foster: The Accused (1988); Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Hilary Swank: Boys Don't Cry (1999); Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Meryl Streep: Sophie's Choice (1982); The Iron Lady (2011)

Two Best Actress Oscar winners have also won one award for Best Supporting Actress; Ingrid Bergman for Murder On The Orient Express (1974), and Meryl Streep for Kramer vs. Kramer(1979).

Helen Hayes, Jessica Lange and Maggie Smith have each won one Best Actress and one Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have each won two Best Supporting Actress Oscars.