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

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. To date, no film has won four Academy Awards in an acting category.

## Four acting awards

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

| 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

* Marlon Brando was nominated for Best Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire. However, he lost to Humphrey Bogart, who won for The African Queen.
* Ned Beatty was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Network. However, he lost to Jason Robards, who won for All the President's Men.
* William Holden was also nominated for Best Actor for Network, losing to his co-star Finch.
* Stephanie Hsu was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once, losing to her co-star Curtis.
* Everything Everywhere All at Once is the only film of the three to not have an eligible nominee in the category that they missed (Best Actor).
* Everything Everywhere All at Once is the only film to win three acting Oscars, as well as the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director.

## Best Actor and Best Actress

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

There are six possible combinations by which a film can win two Academy Awards for acting.
* The first film to win two acting awards was It Happened One Night (1934), which won Best Actor and Best Actress at the 7th Academy Awards.
* The most recent film to win at least two acting awards was Oppenheimer (2023), which won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the 96th Academy Awards.
* The combination that has occurred most often is Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress (eleven films).
* The combination that has occurred least often is Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor (six films).
* The combination that occurred the longest time ago is Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, with My Left Foot (1989) winning both at the 62nd Academy Awards.
* The combination with the longest gap between award wins is Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, which occurred 44 years apart: first with Ben-Hur (1959) at the 32nd Academy Awards, and again with Mystic River (2003) at the 76th Academy Awards.
* The Miracle Worker (1962) and Hud (1963) are the only films to win two or more acting Oscars without getting nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
* Jezebel (1938), Separate Tables (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), As Good as It Gets (1997), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) are the only films to win multiple acting Oscars without receiving an Academy Award for Best Director nomination.