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List of films with two or more Academy Awards in an acting category

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This is a list of films with two or more Academy Awards in an acting category.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards for acting performances in the following four categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

As of the 96th Academy Awards (2023), 41 films have won at least two acting awards. Of these, three films – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Network (1976), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) – have won three acting awards.[1][2] To date, no film has won four Academy Awards in an acting category.

Four acting awards

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To date, no film has won all four Academy Awards in the four acting categories (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress).

However, there have been fifteen films containing at least one nominated performance in each of the four Academy Award acting categories.

Three acting awards

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Ceremony Year Film Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
24th 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Vivien Leigh Karl Malden Kim Hunter
49th 1976 Network Peter Finch Faye Dunaway Beatrice Straight
95th 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh Ke Huy Quan Jamie Lee Curtis
Notes

Best Actor and Best Actress

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Ceremony Year Film Best Actor Best Actress
7th 1934 It Happened One Night Clark Gable Claudette Colbert
48th 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher
49th 1976 Network Peter Finch Faye Dunaway
51st 1978 Coming Home Jon Voight Jane Fonda
54th 1981 On Golden Pond Henry Fonda Katharine Hepburn
64th 1991 The Silence of the Lambs Anthony Hopkins Jodie Foster
70th 1997 As Good as It Gets Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt

Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor

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Ceremony Year Film Best Actor Best Supporting Actor
17th 1944 Going My Way Bing Crosby Barry Fitzgerald
19th 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives Fredric March Harold Russell
32nd 1959 Ben-Hur Charlton Heston Hugh Griffith
76th 2003 Mystic River Sean Penn Tim Robbins
86th 2013 Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey Jared Leto
96th 2023 Oppenheimer Cillian Murphy Robert Downey Jr.

Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress

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Ceremony Year Film Best Actor Best Supporting Actress
22nd 1949 All the King's Men Broderick Crawford Mercedes McCambridge
27th 1954 On the Waterfront Marlon Brando Eva Marie Saint
31st 1958 Separate Tables David Niven Wendy Hiller
33rd 1960 Elmer Gantry Burt Lancaster Shirley Jones
49th 1976 Network Peter Finch Beatrice Straight
52nd 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer Dustin Hoffman Meryl Streep
62nd 1989 My Left Foot Daniel Day-Lewis Brenda Fricker

Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor

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Ceremony Year Film Best Actress Best Supporting Actor
24th 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Vivien Leigh Karl Malden
36th 1963 Hud Patricia Neal Melvyn Douglas
45th 1972 Cabaret Liza Minnelli Joel Grey
56th 1983 Terms of Endearment Shirley MacLaine Jack Nicholson
77th 2004 Million Dollar Baby Hilary Swank Morgan Freeman
90th 2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Frances McDormand Sam Rockwell
95th 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh Ke Huy Quan

Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress

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Ceremony Year Film Best Actress Best Supporting Actress
11th 1938 Jezebel Bette Davis Fay Bainter
12th 1939 Gone with the Wind Vivien Leigh Hattie McDaniel
15th 1942 Mrs. Miniver Greer Garson Teresa Wright
24th 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Vivien Leigh Kim Hunter
35th 1962 The Miracle Worker Anne Bancroft Patty Duke
39th 1966 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Elizabeth Taylor Sandy Dennis
49th 1976 Network Faye Dunaway Beatrice Straight
60th 1987 Moonstruck Cher Olympia Dukakis
66th 1993 The Piano Holly Hunter Anna Paquin
71st 1998 Shakespeare in Love Gwyneth Paltrow Judi Dench
95th 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh Jamie Lee Curtis

Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress

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Ceremony Year Film Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
24th 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire Karl Malden Kim Hunter
26th 1953 From Here to Eternity Frank Sinatra Donna Reed
30th 1957 Sayonara Red Buttons Miyoshi Umeki
34th 1961 West Side Story George Chakiris Rita Moreno
44th 1971 The Last Picture Show Ben Johnson Cloris Leachman
50th 1977 Julia Jason Robards Vanessa Redgrave
59th 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters Michael Caine Dianne Wiest
83rd 2010 The Fighter Christian Bale Melissa Leo
95th 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Ke Huy Quan Jamie Lee Curtis

Superlatives

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There are six possible combinations by which a film can win two Academy Awards for acting.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
  2. ^ "The 49th Academy Awards (1977) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2013.