Oscars

Thirteen women have won two or more Academy Awards for Best Actress:

1. Katharine Hepburn --

• Best Actress: "Morning Glory" (1932/33).
• Best Actress: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967).
• Best Actress: "The Lion in Winter" (1968) [Tied with Barbra Streisand].
• Best Actress: "On Golden Pond" (1981).

2. Luise Rainer --

• Best Actress: "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936).
• Best Actress: "The Good Earth" (1937).

3. Bette Davis --

• Best Actress: "Dangerous" (1935).
• Best Actress: "The Heiress" (1938).

4. Vivien Leigh --

• Best Actress: "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
• Best Actress: "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951).

5. Ingrid Bergman --

• Best Actress: "Gaslight" (1944).
• Best Actress: "Anastasia" (1956).

6. Olivia de Havilland --

• Best Actress: "To Each His Own" (1946).
• Best Actress: "The Heiress" (1949).

7. Elizabeth Taylor --

• Best Actress: "BUtterfield 8" (1960).
• Best Actress: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966).

8. Glenda Jackson --

• Best Actress: "Women in Love" (1970).
• Best Actress: "A Touch of Class" (1973).

9. Jane Fonda --

• Best Actress: "Klute" (1971).
• Best Actress: "Coming Home" (1978).

10. Sally Field --

• Best Actress: "Norma Rae" (1979).
• Best Actress: "Places in the Heart" (1984).

11. Jodie Foster --

• Best Actress: "The Accused" (1988).
• Best Actress: "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991).

12. Hilary Swank --

• Best Actress: "Boys Don't Cry" (1999).
• Best Actress: "Million Dollar Baby" (2004).

13. Meryl Streep --

• Best Actress: "Sophie's Choice" (1982).
• Best Actress: "The Iron Lady" (2011).

One of the finest films ever-made, AFI* has rated "The Godfather"(1972) as the 2nd greatest film in World Cinema. Based on Mario Puzo's 1969 novel of the same name, was an influential Gangster genre saga based on a NYC Crime family of Sicilian descent led by the patriarch "Don Vito Corleone" played by Marlon Brando.Though Brando ultimately got the role, Paramount studio executives were unhappy over the director Francis Ford Coppola's initial choice of Brandoplaying the patriarch, since his reputation for being difficult and his moody nature had gained notoriety sullying his career, delaying production on a number of films.

On Coppola's persistent pleading, Paramount chief Stanley Jaffe said that he will yield only if Brando would agree to a pay-packet lesser than his usual fee, agree to a screen-test, and sign a bond insuring he wouldn't delay production. Coppola chose Brando based on the Screen-Test in which Ernest Borgnine too had appeared.

Other main contenders or choice for this role were Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Danny Thomas, Richard Conte, and Anthony Quinn but it was Brando who played it earning an Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role.

*AFI- American Film Institute.

Nine: Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Sound, Score, Visual Effects, Sound Effects Editing. It won the last four categories.

At the Golden Globe Awards, the film won Best Picture in the Drama category and Best Score; it was also nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best New Male Star for Henry Thomas.
Four: Best Sound, Score, Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing.

At the 86th Academy Awards on March 2, 2014, Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" was tied with "American Hustle" with 10 nominations for the year 2013. The Mexican-born filmmaker's space disaster tale wound up with seven awards -- more than any other film. The nominations were (Oscar winners in bold):

• Best Picture.
• Best Actress (Sandra Bullock).
• Best Director (Cuarón).
• Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki).
• Best Film Editing (Cuarón and Mark Sanger).
• Best Production Design (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woodlard).
• Best Original Score (Steven Price).
• Best Visual Effects (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould).
• Best Sound Editing (Glenn Freemantle).
• Best Sound Mixing (Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro).

Beyoncé has won 22 GRAMMY Awards -- 19 as a solo artist and three as a member of Destiny's Child. At the 2010 Grammys, she set a record for the most wins by a female solo artist with six. That feat was duplicated by Adele, who had six wins at the 2012 Grammys.
At the 57th Grammy Awards on February 8, 2015, Beyoncé's three wins helped her surpass Aretha Franklin's total of 18 and land her in second place as the most-honored woman in the history of the awards. Country Music performer Alison Krauss has won 27 Grammys, more than any other woman.

Here is a list of the Grammys that Beyoncé has been awarded:

2001

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (with Destiny's Child)

Best R&B Song (with Destiny's Child)

2002

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (with Destiny's Child)

2004

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Shared with Luther Vandross)

Best R&B Song (Shared with Jay-Z)

Best Contemporary R&B Album

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (Shared with Jay-Z)

2006

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Shared with Stevie Wonder)

2007

Best Contemporary R&B Album

2010

Song of the Year

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance

Best R&B Song

Best Contemporary R&B Album.

2013

Best Traditional R&B Performance

2014

Best Surround Sound Album

Best R&B Performance ("Drunk in Love")

Best R&B Song ("Drunk in Love").

Sidney Poitier was the first African American to win an academy award for a leading role. He was won the Best Actor award for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963).

Previously Hattie McDaniel won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind(1939).

James Baskettreceived an Honorary Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in Song of the South(1946)

And Dorothy Dandridge was nominated for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones (1954)