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

Table columns:
Actor
Total
Wins
Nominated films

Table rows:
cells: Jack Nicholson
12
3
Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Reds (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983), Prizzi's Honor (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Few Good Men (1992), As Good as it Gets (1997), About Schmidt (2002)
cells: Laurence Olivier
10
1
Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940), Henry V (1946), Hamlet (1948), Richard III (1956), The Entertainer (1960), Othello (1965), Sleuth (1972), Marathon Man (1976), The Boys from Brazil (1978)
cells: Spencer Tracy
9
2
San Francisco (1936), Captains Courageous (1937), Boys Town (1938), Father of the Bride (1950), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
cells: Paul Newman
9
1
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1959), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Absence of Malice (1981), The Verdict (1982), The Color of Money (1986), Nobody's Fool (1994), Road to Perdition (2002)
cells: Marlon Brando
8
2
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Julius Caesar (1953), On the Waterfront (1954), Sayonara (1957), The Godfather (1972), Last Tango in Paris (1973), A Dry White Season (1989)
cells: Jack Lemmon
8
2
Mister Roberts (1955), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Save the Tiger (1973), The China Syndrome (1979), Tribute (1980), Missing (1982)
cells: Denzel Washington
8
2
Cry Freedom (1987), Glory (1989), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), Flight (2012), Fences (2016), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
cells: Al Pacino
8
1
The Godfather (1972), Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), ...And Justice for All (1979), Dick Tracy (1990) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Scent of a Woman (1992)
cells: Peter O'Toole
8
0
Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982), Venus (2006)
cells: Robert De Niro
7
2
The Godfather Part II (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Raging Bull (1980), Awakenings (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
cells: Dustin Hoffman
7
2
The Graduate (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Lenny (1974), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Tootsie (1982), Rain Man (1988), Wag the Dog (1997)
cells: Jeff Bridges
7
1
The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Starman (1984), The Contender (2000), Crazy Heart (2009), True Grit (2010), Hell or High Water (2016)
cells: Robert Duvall
7
1
The Godfather (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Great Santini (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), The Apostle (1997), A Civil Action (1998), The Judge (2014)
cells: Richard Burton
7
0
My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Robe (1954), Becket (1964), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Equus (1977),
cells: Daniel Day-Lewis
6
3
My Left Foot (1989), In the Name of the Father (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), Lincoln (2012), Phantom Thread (2017)
cells: Michael Caine
6
2
Alfie (1966), Sleuth (1972), Educating Rita (1983), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The Cider House Rules (1999), The Quiet American (2002)
cells: Gary Cooper
5
2
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), High Noon (1952)
cells: Gene Hackman
5
2
Bonnie and Clyde (1967), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), The French Connection (1971), Mississippi Burning (1988), Unforgiven (1992)
cells: Tom Hanks
5
2
Big (1988), Philadelphia (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Cast Away (2000)
cells: Fredric March
5
2
The Royal Family of Broadway (1930), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), A Star Is Born (1937), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Death of a Salesman (1951)
cells: Sean Penn
5
2
Dead Man Walking (1995), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), I Am Sam (2001), Mystic River (2003), Milk (2008)
cells: Leonardo DiCaprio
5
1
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Revenant (2015)
cells: Morgan Freeman
5
1
Street Smart (1987), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Invictus (2009)
cells: Paul Muni[C]
5
1
The Valiant (1929), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1933), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Last Angry Man (1959)
cells: Gregory Peck
5
1
The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
cells: James Stewart
5
1
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1941), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Harvey (1951), Anatomy of a Murder (1960)
cells: Albert Finney
5
0
Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), Under the Volcano (1984), Erin Brockovich (2000)
cells: Arthur Kennedy
5
0
Champion (1949), Bright Victory (1951), Trial (1955), Peyton Place (1957), Some Came Running (1958)
cells: Walter Brennan
4
3
Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), The Westerner (1940), Sergeant York (1941)
cells: Anthony Quinn
4
2
Viva Zapata! (1952), Lust for Life (1956), Wild is the Wind (1957), Zorba the Greek (1964)
cells: Alan Arkin
4
1
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Argo (2012)
cells: George Clooney
4
1
Syriana (2005), Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air (2009), The Descendants (2011)
cells: Alec Guinness
4
1
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Star Wars (1977), Little Dorrit (1988)
cells: Philip Seymour Hoffman
4
1
Capote (2005), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Doubt (2008), The Master (2012)
cells: Anthony Hopkins
4
1
The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997)
cells: William Hurt
4
1
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986), Broadcast News (1987), A History of Violence (2005)
cells: Walter Huston
4
1
Dodsworth (1936), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
cells: Tommy Lee Jones
4
1
JFK (1991), The Fugitive (1993), In the Valley of Elah (2007), Lincoln (2012)
cells: Ben Kingsley
4
1
Gandhi (1982), Bugsy (1991), Sexy Beast (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2005)
cells: Burt Lancaster
4
1
From Here to Eternity (1953), Elmer Gantry (1960), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Atlantic City (1980)
cells: Geoffrey Rush
4
1
Shine (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Quills (2000), The King's Speech (2010)
cells: George C. Scott
4
1
Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Hustler (1961), Patton (1970), The Hospital (1971)
cells: Jon Voight
4
1
Midnight Cowboy (1969), Coming Home (1978), Runaway Train (1985), Ali (2001)
cells: Robin Williams
4
1
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), The Fisher King (1991), Good Will Hunting (1997)
cells: Warren Beatty
4
0
Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Bugsy (1991)
cells: Charles Boyer
4
0
Conquest (1937), Algiers (1938), Gaslight (1944), Fanny (1961)
cells: Montgomery Clift
4
0
The Search (1948), A Place in the Sun (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
cells: Ed Harris
4
0
Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000), The Hours (2002)
cells: Claude Rains
4
0
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Casablanca (1942), Mr. Skeffington (1944), Notorious (1946)
cells: Mickey Rooney
4
0
Babes in Arms (1939), The Human Comedy (1943), The Bold and the Brave (1956), The Black Stallion (1980)
cells: Melvyn Douglas
3
2
Hud (1963), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), Being There (1979)
cells: Jason Robards
3
2
All the President's Men (1976), Julia (1977), Melvin and Howard (1980)
cells: Peter Ustinov
3
2
Quo Vadis (1951), Spartacus (1960), Topkapi (1964)
cells: Christian Bale
3
1
The Fighter (2010), American Hustle (2013), The Big Short (2015)
cells: Javier Bardem
3
1
Before Night Falls (2000), No Country for Old Men (2007), Biutiful (2010)
cells: Humphrey Bogart
3
1
Casablanca (1943), The African Queen (1951), The Caine Mutiny (1954)
cells: James Cagney
3
1
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
cells: Charles Coburn
3
1
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The More the Merrier (1943), The Green Years (1946)
cells: Ronald Colman
3
1
Bulldog Drummond / Condemned, (1930) Random Harvest (1942), A Double Life (1947)
cells: Bing Crosby
3
1
Going My Way (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), The Country Girl (1954)
cells: Russell Crowe
3
1
The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001)
cells: Jose Ferrer
3
1
Joan of Arc 1948), Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Moulin Rouge (1952)
cells: Clark Gable
3
1
It Happened One Night (1934), Muting on the Bounty (1935), Gone with the Wind (1939)
cells: William Holden
3
1
Sunset Boulevard (1950), Stalag 17 (1953), Network (1976)
cells: Martin Landau
3
1
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Ed Wood (1994)
cells: Charles Laughton
3
1
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
cells: Walter Matthau
3
1
The Fortune Cookie (1966), Kotch (1971), The Sunshine Boys (1975)
cells: Jack Palance
3
1
Sudden Fear (1952), Shane (1953), City Slickers (1991)
cells: Christopher Plummer
3
1
The Last Station (2009), Beginners (2011), All the Money in the World (2017)
cells: Maximilian Schell
3
1
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), Julia (1977)
cells: Rod Steiger
3
1
On the Waterfront (1954), The Pawnbroker (1964), In the Heat of the Night (1967)
cells: Gig Young
3
1
Come Fill the Cup (1951), Teacher's Pet (1958), They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
cells: Charles Bickford
3
0
The Song of Bernadette (1943), Farmer's Daughter (1947), Johnny Belinda (1948)
cells: Bradley Cooper
3
0
Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Hustle (2013), American Sniper (2014)
cells: Tom Cruise
3
0
Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999)
cells: Willem Dafoe
3
0
Platoon (1986), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017)
cells: Matt Damon
3
0
Good Will Hunting (1997), Invictus (2009), The Martian (2015)
cells: Johnny Depp
3
0
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Finding Neverland (2004), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
cells: Kirk Douglas
3
0
Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for Life (1956)
cells: Woody Harrelson
3
0
The People vs Larry Flynt (1996), The Messenger (2009), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
cells: James Mason
3
0
A Star Is Born (1954), Georgy Girl (1966), The Verdict (1982)
cells: Marcello Mastroianni
3
0
Divorce Italian Style (1962), A Special Day (1977), Dark Eyes (1987)
cells: Nick Nolte
3
0
The Prince of Tides (1991), Affliction (1998), Warrior (2011)
cells: Edward Norton
3
0
Primal Fear (1996), American History X (1998), Birdman (2014)
cells: Joaquin Phoenix
3
0
Gladiator (2000), Walk the Line (2005), The Master (2012)
cells: Brad Pitt
3
0
12 Monkeys (1995), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Moneyball (2011)
cells: William Powell
3
0
The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), Life with Father (1947)
cells: Mark Ruffalo
3
0
The Kids Are All Right (2010), Foxcatcher (2014), Spotlight (2015)
cells: Clifton Webb
3
0
Laura (1944), The Razor's Edge (1946), Sitting Pretty (1948)
cells: Kevin Spacey
2
2
The Usual Suspects (1995), American Beauty (1999)
cells: Christoph Waltz
2
2
Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012)
cells: Casey Affleck
2
1
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Manchester by the Sea (2016)
cells: Nicolas Cage
2
1
Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Adaptation (2002)
cells: Benicio del Toro
2
1
Traffic (2000), 21 Grams (2003)
cells: Richard Dreyfuss
2
1
The Goodbye Girl (1977), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
cells: Peter Finch
2
1
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Network (1976)
cells: Colin Firth
2
1
A Single Man (2009), The King's Speech (2010)
cells: Henry Fonda
2
1
The Grapes of Wrath (1940), On Golden Pond (1981)
cells: Jamie Foxx
2
1
Collateral (2004), Ray (2004)
cells: John Gielgud
2
1
Becket (1964), Arthur (1981)
cells: Hugh Griffith
2
1
Ben-Hur (1959), Tom Jones (1963)
cells: Edmund Gwenn
2
1
Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Mister 880 (1950)
cells: Rex Harrison
2
1
Cleopatra (1963), My Fair Lady (1964)
cells: Heath Ledger
2
1
Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Dark Knight (2008)
cells: Karl Malden
2
1
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954)
cells: Victor McLaglen
2
1
The Informer (1935), The Quiet Man (1952)
cells: Thomas Mitchell
2
1
The Hurricane (1937), Stagecoach (1939)
cells: Edmond O'Brien
2
1
The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Seven Days in May (1964)
cells: Gary Oldman
2
1
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Darkest Hour (2017)
cells: Joe Pesci
2
1
Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990)
cells: Sidney Poitier
2
1
The Defiant Ones (1958), Lilies of the Field (1963)
cells: Eddie Redmayne
2
1
The Theory of Everything (2014), The Danish Girl (2015)
cells: Frank Sinatra
2
1
From Here to Eternity (1953), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
cells: Paul Scofield
2
1
A Man for All Seasons (1966), Quiz Show (1994)
cells: Christopher Walken
2
1
The Deer Hunter (1978), Catch Me if You Can (2002)
cells: John Wayne
2
1
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), True Grit (1969)
cells: Eddie Albert
2
0
Roman Holiday (1953), The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
cells: Kenneth Branagh
2
0
Henry V (1989), My Week with Marilyn (2011)
cells: Charlie Chaplin[G]
2
0
The Circus (1928), The Great Dictator (1940)
cells: Lee J. Cobb
2
0
On the Waterfront (1954), The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
cells: Tom Courtenay
2
0
Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Dresser (1983)
cells: James Dean
2
0
East of Eden (1955), Giant (1956)
cells: Bruce Dern
2
0
Coming Home (1978), Nebraska (2013)
cells: Robert Downey Jr.
2
0
Chaplin (1992), Tropic Thunder (2008)
cells: Charles Durning
2
0
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), To Be or Not to Be (1983)
cells: Clint Eastwood
2
0
Unforgiven (1992), Million Dollar Baby (2004)
cells: Peter Falk
2
0
Murder, Inc. (1960), Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
cells: Richard Farnsworth
2
0
Comes a Horseman (1978), The Straight Story (1999)
cells: Michael Fassbender
2
0
12 Years a Slave (2013), Steve Jobs (2015)
cells: Ralph Fiennes
2
0
Schindler's List (1993), The English Patient (1996)
cells: Vincent Gardenia
2
0
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), Moonstruck (1987)
cells: Ryan Gosling
2
0
Half Nelson (2006), La La Land (2016)
cells: Cary Grant
2
0
Penny Serenade (1941), None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
cells: Richard Harris
2
0
This Sporting Life (1963), The Field (1990)
cells: Ethan Hawke
2
0
Training Day (2001), Boyhood (2014)
cells: Jonah Hill
2
0
Moneyball (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
cells: Djimon Hounsou
2
0
In America (2003), Blood Diamond (2006)
cells: Leslie Howard
2
0
Berkeley Square (1933), Pygmalion (1938)
cells: John Hurt
2
0
Midnight Express (1978) The Elephant Man (1980)
cells: Richard Jenkins
2
0
The Visitor (2008), The Shape of Water (2017)
cells: Cecil Kellaway
2
0
The Luck of the Irish (1948), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
cells: Jude Law
2
0
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Cold Mountain (2003)
cells: John Lithgow
2
0
The World According to Garp (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983)
cells: John Malkovich
2
0
Places in the Heart (1984), In the Line of Fire (1993)
cells: Ian McKellen
2
0
Gods and Monsters (1998), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
cells: Burgess Meredith
2
0
The Day of the Locust (1975), Rocky (1976)
cells: Sal Mineo
2
0
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Exodus (1960)
cells: Robert Montgomery
2
0
Night Must Fall (1937), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
cells: Viggo Mortensen
2
0
Eastern Promises (2007), Captain Fantastic (2016)
cells: Arthur O'Connell
2
0
Picnic (1955), Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
cells: Walter Pidgeon
2
0
Mrs. Miniver (1942), Madame Curie (1943)
cells: Basil Rathbone
2
0
Romeo and Juliet (1936), If I Were King (1938)
cells: Ralph Richardson
2
0
The Heiress (1949), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
cells: Jeremy Renner
2
0
The Hurt Locker (2009), The Town (2010)
cells: Roy Scheider
2
0
The French Connection (1971), All That Jazz (1979)
cells: Peter Sellers
2
0
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Being There (1979)
cells: Michael Shannon
2
0
Revolutionary Road (2008), Nocturnal Animals (2016)
cells: Will Smith
2
0
Ali (2001), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
cells: Sylvester Stallone
2
0
Rocky (1976), Creed (2015)
cells: Max von Sydow
2
0
Pelle the Conqueror (1987), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012)
cells: Akim Tamiroff
2
0
The General Died at Dawn (1936), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
cells: Billy Bob Thornton
2
0
Sling Blade (1996), A Simple Plan (1998)
cells: John Travolta
2
0
Saturday Night Fever (1977), Pulp Fiction (1994)
cells: Jack Warden
2
0
Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978)
cells: James Whitmore
2
0
Battleground (1949), Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975)
cells: Tom Wilkinson
2
0
In the Bedroom (2001), Michael Clayton (2007)
cells: James Woods
2
0
Salvador (1986), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

Questions about this table:
originalText: who has been nominated for the most best actor oscars
answer: answerTexts: Jack Nicholson