List of Academy Award records

This list of Academy Award records is current as of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 9, 2020, which honored the best films of 2019.

Walt Disney, the record-holder for most Academy Awards won (22 Oscars)

Most awards
  • Most awards won by a single film: 11
    • Three films have won 11 Academy Awards:
  • Most nominations received by a single film: 14
    • Three films have received 14 nominations:
      • All About Eve (1950) – 16 categories available for nomination; won 6 awards
      • Titanic (1997) – 17 categories available for nomination; won 11 awards
      • La La Land (2016) – 17 categories available for nomination; won 6 awards
  • Largest sweep (winning awards in every nominated category): 11
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won all 11 categories for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects
  • Most awards won by a man: 22
  • Most awards won by a woman: 8
    • Edith Head won eight Oscars, all for Costume Design
  • Most nominations in a single year / Most awards in a single year: 6/4
  • Most competitive awards won by a person who is still living
    • Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won nine Academy Awards – six competitive awards, two "Special Achievement" awards, and one "Technical Achievement" award
    • Composer Alan Menken has won eight competitive awards
  • Acting: 4
  • Directing: 4
    • John Ford won the most directing awards, with four
  • Writing: 3
  • Film Editing: 3
  • Cinematography: 4
    • The highest number of Academy Awards won by a cinematographer is four:
  • Songwriter and Composition
    • Alfred Newman won nine Academy Awards, all for Best Original Score; in 1939, 1941, 1944, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957 and 1968
    • Alan Menken won eight awards in musical categories
    • Sammy Cahn won four awards, all for Best Original Song
    • Johnny Mercer won four awards, all for Best Original Song
    • Jimmy Van Heusen won four awards, all for Best Original Song
  • Art Direction
    • Cedric Gibbons, who designed the Oscar statuette, won 11 awards out of a total of 38 nominations
  • Costume Design: 8
    • Edith Head, won 8 awards out of a total of 35 nominations
  • Makeup: 7
    • Rick Baker, won 7 awards out of a total of 11 nominations
  • Visual Effects: 8
  • Special Effects (discontinued in 1962): 3
  • Most awards won by a country for Best Foreign Language Film: 14
    • Italy won 14 awards in this category and received, in total, 32 nominations
  • Most nominations received by a country for Best Foreign Language Film
    • France received 40 nominations and won the award 12 times
  • Most nominations received by a country for Best Foreign Language Film without an award: 10
  • Most awards won by a foreign-language film: 4
    • Three foreign-language films have won four Academy Awards:
      • Fanny and Alexander (1982) won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design
      • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score
      • Parasite (2019) won Best International Feature Film, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay
  • Most nominations received by a foreign-language film: 10
    • Two foreign language films have been nominated for ten Academy Awards (both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and for the Academy Award for Best Director):
      • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000): Best Foreign Language Film (*), Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction (*), Best Cinematography (*), Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score (*), and Best Original Song
      • Roma (2018): Best Foreign Language Film (*), Best Picture, Best Director (*), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography (*), Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing

Awards for debut acting or directing performances on film

The following individuals won Academy Awards for their film debut acting performances:

The following individuals won Academy Awards for their film debut direction.

Big Five winners
Main article: List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees

Three films have received the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay (Original or Adapted; however, all of the movies listed below won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay).[6][7][8]

Most consecutive awards

Jim Rygiel and Randall William Cook won three consecutive visual effects Oscars for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).

Academy Award firsts
Nomination Name Age Film Year Date of Birth Date of Nomination
2nd Sal Mineo 22 years, 17 days Exodus 1960 January 10, 1939 January 27, 1961
3rd Marlon Brando 29 years, 318 days Julius Caesar 1953 April 3, 1924 February 15, 1954
4th Marlon Brando 30 years, 315 days On the Waterfront 1954 April 3, 1924 February 12, 1955
5th Marlon Brando 33 years, 321 days Sayonara 1957 April 3, 1924 February 18, 1958
6th Richard Burton 44 years, 98 days Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 November 10, 1925 February 16, 1970
7th Jack Nicholson 46 years, 300 days Terms of Endearment 1983 April 22, 1937 February 16, 1984
8th Jack Nicholson 48 years, 289 days Prizzi's Honor 1985 April 22, 1937 February 5, 1986
9th Jack Nicholson 50 years, 301 days Ironweed 1987 April 22, 1937 February 17, 1988
10th Jack Nicholson 55 years, 302 days A Few Good Men 1992 April 22, 1937 February 18, 1993
  • Youngest multiple nominees for an acting award (Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress)
Nomination Name Age Film Year Date of Birth Date of Nomination
2nd Angela Lansbury 20 years, 103 days The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 October 16, 1925 January 27, 1946
3rd Jennifer Lawrence 23 years, 154 days American Hustle 2013 August 15, 1990 January 16, 2014
4th Jennifer Lawrence 25 years, 152 days Joy 2015 August 15, 1990 January 14, 2016
5th Kate Winslet 31 years, 110 days Little Children 2006 October 5, 1975 January 23, 2007
6th Kate Winslet 33 years, 109 days The Reader 2008 October 5, 1975 January 22, 2009
7th Bette Davis 36 years, 304 days Mr. Skeffington 1944 April 5, 1908 February 3, 1945
8th Meryl Streep 39 years, 238 days A Cry in the Dark 1988 June 22, 1949 February 15, 1989
9th Meryl Streep 41 years, 236 days Postcards from the Edge 1990 June 22, 1949 February 13, 1991
10th Meryl Streep 46 years, 236 days The Bridges of Madison County 1995 June 22, 1949 February 13, 1996

Film records

Acting records

Miscellaneous records

Oscar speeches
Main article: Oscar speech
  • Longest speech
    • The longest Oscar speech was that given by Greer Garson at the 15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. Her speech ran for nearly six minutes.[23] It was shortly after this incident that the Academy set forty-five seconds as the allotted time for an acceptance speech and began to cut the winners off after this time limit. When presenting the Best Actor award at the 24th Academy Awards, Garson quipped, "I think I have ten minutes left over from a highly emotional speech I made a few years ago. I'd be glad to give it to them."
  • Shortest speech
    • The shortest Oscar speech was that given by Patty Duke at the 35th Academy Awards after she was named Best Supporting Actress for 1962 for The Miracle Worker. Duke, age 16, was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category. Her acceptance speech was, simply, two words – "Thank you" – after which she walked off the stage.[24] (Note: When Fred Zinnemann accepted the Best Picture Oscar for A Man For All Seasons, he simply nodded and smiled. However, minutes earlier he had won Best Director and made his thank-yous then, and thus felt he had nothing to add.)

Tied winners

There have been six two-way ties:

Clean sweep

See also

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