List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories
Most nominations in four acting categories
Listed below are the 181 actors who have received three or more Academy Award nominations in the acting categories plus the seven actors who have two wins from two nominations.

List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories

Section Title: Most nominations in four acting categories
Table Section Text: Listed below are the 181 actors who have received three or more Academy Award nominations in the acting categories plus the seven actors who have two wins from two nominations.

Actor/Actress	BA	BSA	Total	Wins	Winning films

Meryl Streep	17	4	21	3	Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Sophie's Choice (1982), The Iron Lady (2011)

Katharine Hepburn	12	0	12	4	Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), On Golden Pond (1981)

Jack Nicholson	8	4	12	3	One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Terms of Endearment (1983), As Good as It Gets (1997)

Bette Davis	10	0	10	2	Dangerous (1935), Jezebel (1938)

Laurence Olivier	9	1	10	1	Hamlet (1948)

Spencer Tracy	9	0	9	2	Captains Courageous (1937), Boys Town (1938)

Paul Newman	8	1	9	1	The Color of Money (1986)

Marlon Brando	7	1	8	2	On the Waterfront (1954), The Godfather (1972)

Jack Lemmon	7	1	8	2	Mister Roberts (1955), Save the Tiger (1973)

Denzel Washington	6	2	8	2	Glory (1989), Training Day (2001)

Al Pacino	5	3	8	1	Scent of a Woman (1992)

Geraldine Page	4	4	8	1	The Trip to Bountiful (1985)

Peter O'Toole	8	0	8	0	—

Ingrid Bergman	6	1	7	3	Gaslight (1944), Anastasia (1956), Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Cate Blanchett	4	3	7	2	The Aviator (2004), Blue Jasmine (2013)

Robert De Niro	5	2	7	2	The Godfather Part II (1974), Raging Bull (1980)

Jane Fonda	6	1	7	2	Klute (1971), Coming Home (1978)

Dustin Hoffman	7	0	7	2	Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Rain Man (1988)

Jeff Bridges	3	4	7	1	Crazy Heart (2009)

Judi Dench	5	2	7	1	Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Robert Duvall	3	4	7	1	Tender Mercies (1983)

Greer Garson	7	0	7	1	Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Kate Winslet	4	3	7	1	The Reader (2008)

Richard Burton	6	1	7	0	—

Glenn Close	4	3	7	0	—

Daniel Day-Lewis	6	0	6	3	My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007), Lincoln (2012)

Michael Caine	4	2	6	2	Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The Cider House Rules (1999)

Jessica Lange	5	1	6	2	Tootsie (1982), Blue Sky (1994)

Maggie Smith	2	4	6	2	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), California Suite (1978)

Ellen Burstyn	5	1	6	1	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

Vanessa Redgrave	4	2	6	1	Julia (1977)

Sissy Spacek	6	0	6	1	Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Amy Adams	1	5	6	0	—

Deborah Kerr	6	0	6	0	—

Thelma Ritter	0	6	6	0	—

Gary Cooper	5	0	5	2	Sergeant York (1941), High Noon (1952)

Olivia de Havilland	4	1	5	2	To Each His Own (1946), The Heiress (1949)

Gene Hackman	2	3	5	2	The French Connection (1971), Unforgiven (1992)

Tom Hanks	5	0	5	2	Philadelphia (1993), Forrest Gump (1994)

Fredric March	5	0	5	2	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Frances McDormand	2	3	5	2	Fargo (1996), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Sean Penn	5	0	5	2	Mystic River (2003), Milk (2008)

Elizabeth Taylor	5	0	5	2	BUtterfield 8 (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Anne Bancroft	5	0	5	1	The Miracle Worker (1962)

Leonardo DiCaprio	4	1	5	1	The Revenant (2015)

Morgan Freeman	3	2	5	1	Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Susan Hayward	5	0	5	1	I Want to Live! (1958)

Audrey Hepburn	5	0	5	1	Roman Holiday (1953)

Jennifer Jones	4	1	5	1	The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Shirley MacLaine	5	0	5	1	Terms of Endearment (1983)

Julianne Moore	3	2	5	1	Still Alice (2014)

Paul Muni	5	0	5	1	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

Gregory Peck	5	0	5	1	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Susan Sarandon	5	0	5	1	Dead Man Walking (1995)

Norma Shearer	5	0	5	1	The Divorcee (1930)

James Stewart	5	0	5	1	The Philadelphia Story (1941)

Irene Dunne	5	0	5	0	—

Albert Finney	4	1	5	0	—

Arthur Kennedy	1	4	5	0	—

Walter Brennan	0	4	4	3	Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), The Westerner (1940)

Jodie Foster	3	1	4	2	The Accused (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Glenda Jackson	4	0	4	2	Women in Love (1970), A Touch of Class (1973)

Anthony Quinn	2	2	4	2	Viva Zapata! (1952), Lust for Life (1956)

Shelley Winters	1	3	4	2	The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), A Patch of Blue (1965)

Alan Arkin	2	2	4	1	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Christian Bale	2	2	4	1	The Fighter (2010)

Ethel Barrymore	0	4	4	1	None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Julie Christie	4	0	4	1	Darling (1965)

George Clooney	3	1	4	1	Syriana (2005)

Lee Grant	0	4	4	1	Shampoo (1975)

Alec Guinness	2	2	4	1	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Anthony Hopkins	3	1	4	1	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Holly Hunter	2	2	4	1	The Piano (1993)

William Hurt	3	1	4	1	Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

Walter Huston	2	2	4	1	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Jennifer Lawrence	3	1	4	1	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Tommy Lee Jones	1	3	4	1	The Fugitive (1993)

Diane Keaton	4	0	4	1	Annie Hall (1977)

Nicole Kidman	3	1	4	1	The Hours (2002)

Ben Kingsley	2	2	4	1	Gandhi (1982)

Burt Lancaster	4	0	4	1	Elmer Gantry (1960)

Helen Mirren	2	2	4	1	The Queen (2006)

Julia Roberts	2	2	4	1	Erin Brockovich (2000)

Geoffrey Rush	2	2	4	1	Shine (1996)

George C. Scott	2	2	4	1	Patton (1970)

Philip Seymour Hoffman	1	3	4	1	Capote (2005)

Maureen Stapleton	0	4	4	1	Reds (1981)

Emma Thompson	3	1	4	1	Howards End (1992)

Jon Voight	3	1	4	1	Coming Home (1978)

Robin Williams	3	1	4	1	Good Will Hunting (1997)

Joanne Woodward	4	0	4	1	The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

Jane Wyman	4	0	4	1	Johnny Belinda (1948)

Jane Alexander	2	2	4	0	—

Warren Beatty	4	0	4	0	—

Annette Bening	3	1	4	0	—

Charles Boyer	4	0	4	0	—

Montgomery Clift	3	1	4	0	—

Bradley Cooper	3	1	4	0	—

Willem Dafoe	1	3	4	0	—

Ed Harris	1	3	4	0	—

Marsha Mason	4	0	4	0	—

Agnes Moorehead	0	4	4	0	—

Claude Rains	0	4	4	0	—

Mickey Rooney	2	2	4	0	—

Rosalind Russell	4	0	4	0	—

Barbara Stanwyck	4	0	4	0	—

Michelle Williams	2	2	4	0	—

Melvyn Douglas	1	2	3	2	Hud (1963), Being There (1979)

Sally Field	2	1	3	2	Norma Rae (1979), Places in the Heart (1984)

Jason Robards	0	3	3	2	All the President's Men (1976), Julia (1977)

Peter Ustinov	0	3	3	2	Spartacus (1960), Topkapi (1964)

Dianne Wiest	0	3	3	2	Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Bullets over Broadway (1994)

Julie Andrews	3	0	3	1	Mary Poppins (1964)

Fay Bainter	1	2	3	1	Jezebel (1938)

Javier Bardem	2	1	3	1	No Country for Old Men (2007)

Kathy Bates	1	2	3	1	Misery (1990)

Humphrey Bogart	3	0	3	1	The African Queen (1951)

James Cagney	3	0	3	1	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Charles Coburn	0	3	3	1	The More the Merrier (1943)

Claudette Colbert	3	0	3	1	It Happened One Night (1934)

Ronald Colman	3	0	3	1	A Double Life (1947)

Joan Crawford	3	0	3	1	Mildred Pierce (1945)

Bing Crosby	3	0	3	1	Going My Way (1944)

Russell Crowe	3	0	3	1	Gladiator (2000)

Penelope Cruz	1	2	3	1	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Viola Davis	1	2	3	1	Fences (2016)

Faye Dunaway	3	0	3	1	Network (1976)

José Ferrer	2	1	3	1	Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

Joan Fontaine	3	0	3	1	Suspicion (1941)

Clark Gable	3	0	3	1	It Happened One Night (1934)

Wendy Hiller	1	2	3	1	Separate Tables (1958)

William Holden	3	0	3	1	Stalag 17 (1953)

Celeste Holm	0	3	3	1	Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Anjelica Huston	1	2	3	1	Prizzi's Honor (1985)

Martin Landau	0	3	3	1	Ed Wood (1994)

Charles Laughton	3	0	3	1	The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

Walter Matthau	2	1	3	1	The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Jack Palance	0	3	3	1	City Slickers (1991)

Christopher Plummer	0	3	3	1	Beginners (2011)

Natalie Portman	2	1	3	1	Black Swan (2010)

Anne Revere	0	3	3	1	National Velvet (1944)

Maximilian Schell	2	1	3	1	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Octavia Spencer	0	3	3	1	The Help (2011)

Rod Steiger	2	1	3	1	In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Emma Stone	1	2	3	1	La La Land (2016)

Marisa Tomei	0	3	3	1	My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Claire Trevor	0	3	3	1	Key Largo (1948)

Teresa Wright	1	2	3	1	Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Gig Young	0	3	3	1	They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

Renée Zellweger	2	1	3	1	Cold Mountain (2003)

Joan Allen	1	2	3	0	—

Charles Bickford	0	3	3	0	—

Gladys Cooper	0	3	3	0	—

Tom Cruise	2	1	3	0	—

Matt Damon	2	1	3	0	—

Johnny Depp	3	0	3	0	—

Kirk Douglas	3	0	3	0	—

Edith Evans	1	2	3	0	—

Greta Garbo	3	0	3	0	—

Woody Harrelson	1	2	3	0	—

Diane Ladd	0	3	3	0	—

Angela Lansbury	0	3	3	0	—

Piper Laurie	1	2	3	0	—

Laura Linney	2	1	3	0	—

James Mason	1	2	3	0	—

Marcello Mastroianni	3	0	3	0	—

Viggo Mortensen	3	0	3	0	—

Nick Nolte	2	1	3	0	—

Edward Norton	1	2	3	0	—

Eleanor Parker	3	0	3	0	—

Michelle Pfeiffer	2	1	3	0	—

Joaquin Phoenix	2	1	3	0	—

Brad Pitt	2	1	3	0	—

William Powell	3	0	3	0	—

Saoirse Ronan	2	1	3	0	—

Mark Ruffalo	0	3	3	0	—

Gloria Swanson	3	0	3	0	—

Sigourney Weaver	2	1	3	0	—

Clifton Webb	1	2	3	0	—

Natalie Wood	2	1	3	0	—

Debra Winger	3	0	3	0	—

Mahershala Ali	0	2	2	2	Moonlight (2016), Green Book (2018)

Helen Hayes	1	1	2	2	The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), Airport (1970)

Vivien Leigh	2	0	2	2	Gone with the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Luise Rainer	2	0	2	2	The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Good Earth (1937)

Kevin Spacey	1	1	2	2	The Usual Suspects (1995), American Beauty (1999)

Hilary Swank	2	0	2	2	Boys Don't Cry (1999), Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Christoph Waltz	0	2	2	2	Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012)

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Jack Nicholson received 12 Academy Award nominations.

final_sentence: Jack Nicholson received 12 Academy Award nominations.