List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for their performances in films since its inception.

List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories

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Table Section Text: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for their performances in films since its inception.

Actor/Actress	Best Actor/Actress Awards	Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards	Total awards	Total nominations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bette Davis †	Dangerous (1935) Jezebel (1938)	2	10

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

Marlon Brando †	On the Waterfront (1954) The Godfather (1972)	2	8

Jack Lemmon †	Save the Tiger (1973)	Mister Roberts (1955)	2	8

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

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

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

Jane Fonda	Klute (1971) Coming Home (1978)	2	7

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

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

Jessica Lange	Blue Sky (1994)	Tootsie (1982)	2	6

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elizabeth Taylor †	Butterfield 8 (1960) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)	2	5

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

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

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

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

Melvyn Douglas †	Hud (1963) Being There (1979)	2	3

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

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

Peter Ustinov †	Spartacus (1960) Topkapi (1964)	2	3

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

Helen Hayes †	The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)	Airport (1970)	2	2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Katharine Hepburn received four Academy Awards for Best Actress.

final_sentence: Katharine Hepburn received four Academy Awards for Best Actress.