Who is the person with the most Oscar nominations?

Who is the person with the most Oscar nominations?

Meryl Streep
The individual with the most Oscar nominations of all time is Meryl Streep, with 21 nominations in total and three wins. Katharine Hepburn received 12 nominations but took home one more award than Streep throughout her acting career, winning four Oscars in total.

Which family has won Oscars across three generations?

There have only been two families with three generations of Oscar winners: The Hustons – Walter Huston, Best Supporting Actor (1949); Walter’s son, John Huston, Best Director (1949) and Best Screenplay (1949); John’s daughter, Angelica Huston, as Best Supporting Actress (1986).

Who is the only Oscar winner whose parents were also both Oscar winners?

Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli is the only Oscar winner to have had both parents win Oscars. Judy Garland was awarded the short-lived Academy Juvenile Award for her performances in The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms. And Liza Minnelli’s father, Vincent Minnelli, won the Best Director Academy Award for Gigi.

Who are the only brothers nominated for Oscars?

River Phoenix (USA, 23 August 1970 – 31 October 1993) received an American Academy Award nomination (at the 1989 ceremony) for Best Actor at the age of 17 for his role in Sidney Lumet’s (USA) Running on Empty (USA, 1988); his brother Joaquin (USA, b.

Who is the most Oscar nominated male actor?

Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson is the most nominated male performer in the acting categories, with three wins (two for best actor and one for best supporting actor) from a total of 12 nominations.

Which male has won the most Oscars?

Since its inception, the award has been given to 83 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category, with three wins. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor.

Who were the first siblings to win acting Oscar?

The only siblings to win in the leading category. Sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland are the only siblings to ever both win the best acting category.

Which Oscar winning actor is the father of a daughter who has also won an Oscar?

Finally, iconic Hollywood veteran Henry Fonda scored his best actor Oscar after several nominations in a legendary career playing Norman Thayer, the cranky and distant estranged father of daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda). Henry’s Academy Award win would come in his final film role.

Which Oscar winning actor is the father of an Oscar winning daughter?

Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda However, the following year, his last film finally brought him a competitive statue, as he won Best Actor for “On Golden Pond,” which costarred daughter Jane (for which she earned a supporting bid) and which made them the first pair of father-daughter acting Oscar winners.

Which siblings have both won Oscars?

Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland Joan won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Suspicion (1941), while Olivia won two Best Actress awards, for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949). They are the only siblings to both win lead acting awards.

Who was the oldest performer to win the Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role?

Superlatives

Superlative	Overall	Actor/Supporting Actor
Oldest Nominee	Christopher Plummer	Christopher Plummer
Oldest Winner	Anthony Hopkins	Anthony Hopkins
Youngest Nominee	Justin Henry	Justin Henry
Youngest Winner	Tatum O’Neal	Timothy Hutton

Who is the most famous actor?

Top 100 Stars in Leading Roles at the Worldwide Box Office

Rank	Name	Movies
1	Robert Downey, Jr.	43
2	Samuel L. Jackson	63
3	Scarlett Johansson	32
4	Chris Hemsworth	25