Every actor who has won multiple acting Oscars

Hepburn is the leader of the pack when it comes to winning Oscars for acting. She has four of them, and they are all Best Actress performances. No supporting wins here! Hepburn’s wins also span a long period of time. She got her first win for the 1933 movie “Morning Glory” and her fourth and final win for “On Golden Pond” at the 1982 Academy Awards.

Lewis has gotten real bang for his buck. Hepburn starred in dozens of movies, while Day-Lewis is more selective. He’s been nominated only six times, but he’s won three Oscars for Best Actor. The Irish thespian had said that 2017's “Phantom Thread” was his last film, so he may be retired. Of course, Joe Pesci said that once, and then “The Irishman” happened.

The Academy loves Streep. She’s been nominated a whopping 21 times for her acting work. Nobody else has more than 12. All those nominations have resulted in three Oscars. Streep has won twice for Best Actress, though “The Iron Lady” felt a little dubious, and once for Best Supporting Actress for “Kramer vs. Kramer.”

Nicholson has more nominations than any male actor, with 12. He got his first Best Actor for 1975's “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and won a second for “As Good as It Gets”at the 1998 awards ceremony. In between he won a Best Supporting Actor. Nicholson definitely seems retired, so this is probably the end of the line for him.

McDormand stole our hearts as the good, kind Marge Gunderson in “Fargo.” As for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri,” well…that movie is a bit more controversial. By and large, though, people thought McDormand did a great job, and she gave a great acceptance speech as well. Then, McDormand made history when she added a third Best Actress win for "Nomadland." Now only two women can say they have won that award thrice: McDormand and Hepburn.

Bergman’s best-known role is as Ilsa in “Casablanca,” but she didn’t win for that. Instead, she has two Best Actress wins, for “Gaslight” and “Anastasia.” Later in her career, once she had left the ingénue work behind, the Swedish actress added a Best Supporting Actress for “Murder on the Orient Express.” That was a stacked cast, but she stood out.

If you wanted a great supporting performance in early Hollywood, apparently you gave Brennan a role. All three of his Oscars are for Best Supporting Actor. His last win came in 1940. Of all the actors with three or more Oscars, Brennan is definitely the least remembered, which is a shame, because he was quite talented and memorable.

We’re now out of actors with more than two Oscars, so from here on out it’s all two-time winners. Davis is up first, as she won twice out of her whopping 10 nominations. Her career took an odd path, as after her Oscar-winning peak she ended up doing a lot of TV guest work and infamously made the movie “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” Still, you can’t take her Oscars from her.

Tracy was a steady presence in Hollywood for years. He was making impressive work well into the ‘60s, which is notable since he won both his Oscars in the '30s. Tracy was also famously involved with Katharine Hepburn for many years, so the couple combined had an impressive six Oscars (though Tracy died before Hepburn won her final Academy Award).

It’s not surprising that Brando has multiple Oscars. He is considered by many the greatest actor of his era. What may be surprising is that he has only two. That’s the case, though. Brando won for “On the Waterfront” and then, of course, for playing Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.”

Some people think of Fonda primarily for her political activism. Some think of her as the lady with the workout tapes. Not enough people remember what a successful actress she was and, frankly, is. She has seven nominations for acting Oscars, and she won for her work in “Klute” and “Coming Home.”

Hoffman’s showy performance in “Rain Man” was an obvious Oscar bait piece of acting. Well, it worked. It’s not that Hoffman needed an Oscar though. He had previously won for “Kramer vs. Kramer,” much like Meryl Streep.

March is not one of the names of old Hollywood that have stood the test of time, but in his day he was a huge star. You know the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. March has the definitive Hollywood performance of that dual role. That was the first of his two wins. His other was for "The Best Years of Our Lives."

Olivia de Havilland and her acting sister, Joan Fontaine, were purported to have quite the heated rivalry. Well, de Havilland has two Best Actress Oscars and Fontaine won only once, so score one for Olivia. De Havilland only recently just passed away, which was remarkable as she was 104 years old.

Cooper is the second multitime Oscar winner who got name-dropped in a hit song from the ‘80s (He’s mentioned in Taco’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” while Kim Carnes performed a song called “Bette Davis Eyes.") He was one of the steady, stern, “All-American” presences of early Hollywood. It’s fitting that he won one of his Oscars for the iconic Western “High Noon.”

Taylor started acting as a kid and became one of the biggest stars in the world. She also was tabloid fodder thanks to her many marriages. Stardom and infamy have perhaps overshadowed her acting skills, given that she won two Best Actress awards on five nominations.

The ‘90s were a good time for Hanks. He pulled off an incredible feat by winning back-to-back Best Actor awards. First he won for “Philadelphia,” and then he added another statue for “Forrest Gump.” Neither of those movies necessarily holds up great, but the Oscars still count.

It took Penn a little while to get his first Best Actor Oscar, with “Mystic River,” which is a movie where everybody seems to be turning it up to 11 to get an Academy Award. It worked for Penn and also Tim Robbins. Penn toned it down a bit in the biopic “Milk” when he got his second Best Actor win. Nowadays Penn spends his time writing terrible novels for some reason.

Jackson is the forgotten gem among ‘70s actresses. Rarely do you ever hear her name mentioned, but she won not one but two Best Actress awards in that decade. She was also nominated two more times in the ‘70s. Seriously, why don’t we talk about Glenda Jackson more?

Given how early she started acting — for better or worse you can’t forget her in “Taxi Driver,” — it’s easy to forget that Foster was still relatively young when she won her first Best Actress award, for 1988's "The Accused." A few years later, she was part of the massive success that was “Silence of the Lambs,” giving her another statue to go with her first.

Like her occasional co-star Tom Hanks, it’s Field who plays Hanks’ mother in “Forrest Gump.” After all, Field has two Oscars for her acting efforts. People tend to remember her first win, for “Norma Rae.” People also remember her “You like me, you really like me” acceptance speech. Let’s not forget her second win, for 1984's “Places in the Heart,” though.

Rainer is the distaff Tom Hanks of the ‘30s. By that we mean she won back-to-back Best Actress awards, in 1937 and 1938. Those were her only nominations, and she won them both. Not too shabby for the earliest days of the Academy Awards.

Leigh’s two wins are definitely memorable, because they came in two iconic roles. First, there was “Gone with the Wind,” of course. Then she took on the role of Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” That’s a great career right there, but Leigh did much more.

Swank is the third of three women who have won two Best Actress awards in as many nominations. Unlike Rainer and Leigh, though, Swank has the opportunity to add to her tally. It’s been a while since Swank’s last nomination, and win, which came in 2005.

We are entering the section of actors with one lead role win and one supporting role win. This is a great jumping off point, because Lemmon is Hollywood royalty. And yet both of his wins came in movies he’s not really remembered for. When he was younger he got his Supporting Actor Oscar in “Mister Roberts.” Then in the ‘70s, he got a bit of a career nod with “Save the Tiger.”

Washington had a similar arc to Lemmon in some ways. He won his Best Supporting Actor at the 1990 Oscars for “Glory” when he was on the rise. Then once he was a movie star, he got another win, this time for Best Actor for his bombastic performance in “Training Day.” Indeed, "King Kong" had nothing on him that day.

Like Brando, it feels a little surprising that De Niro has only two Oscars. Also like Brando, he won one of his Academy Awards for playing the character of Vito Corleone. That’s a weird twist of fate. De Niro is still acting, but he couldn't even get a nomination for "The Irishman," so his Oscar days may be behind him.

Speaking of strange occurrences, here’s another one. Blanchett won her Best Supporting Actress award for “The Aviator” where she played…Katharine Hepburn. She does a great job, naturally, and then she added a Best Actress for “Blue Jasmine” for good measure.

You may know her as the woman who kept getting nominated for “Downton Abbey” even though she refused to show up to the Emmys. You can get away with that when you are a Dame. She helped earn that cache by winning two Oscars, earlier in her career, out of six nominations.

We all remember Lange’s turn in “Tootsie” alongside Dustin Hoffman, for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Her Best Actress win came in an almost entirely forgotten film, though. Do you remember “Blue Sky” at all? Maybe not, but the Oscar still counts for Lange.

Hackman killed it in both of his Oscar-winning roles. He’s fantastic in “The French Connection,” which won Best Picture, and he was menacing and terrific in “Unforgiven,” which also won Best Picture. Hackman retired many years ago, weirdly after the dud “Welcome to Mooseport,” so he seems content with having “only” two Oscars.

Hayes had an incredible career. This is an amazing fact. Hayes, who was known as “The First Lady of American Theater,” won Best Actress in 1932. Then she took home a Best Supporting Actress award in…1971. No, really. Hayes went almost 40 years between wins. Those were also her only two nominations.

OK, let’s just breeze through this. Spacey won for “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects.” That’s all we want to say about him at this point in time.

Now we move to the actors who have two Oscars to their names for supporting roles. That starts with Caine, who won for “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “The Cider House Rules.” Somehow, he didn’t win for “Jaws IV: The Revenge.”

As a Mexican-American actor in a different era of Hollywood, Quinn was called upon to play several different ethnicities over his career. At least it wasn’t too much of a stretch when Quinn played the real-life Eufemio Zapata for his win in “Viva Zapata!” Oh, and the guy who played Zapata? That would be Marlon Brando. It seems that Hollywood used to play it fast and loose on the ethnicity front.

Winters acted for almost 60 years, starting in the ‘40s and making her last appearance in 2006. Also, she was a villain on the ‘60s “Batman” TV show, which his awesome. As fun as that is, we’re here to acknowledge her for her two Oscar wins and also for her two other nominations.

Comedy and the Oscars don’t always go hand-in-hand. As such, it’s impressive that Ustinov won both of his Oscars for comedic performances. Sure, “Spartacus” isn’t a comedy, but Ustinov’s role is to provide the comedic relief. “Topkapi” is decidedly more comedic, and that got him a win as well.

A few different people have played Ben Bradlee over the years, including Tom Hanks. However, the quintessential performance as Bradlee is Robards in “All the President’s Men.” The next year, Robards took home his second and final Oscar for his work in “Julia.”

Douglas began his career in the ‘30s as a suave leading man in the vein of an Errol Flynn. However, it’s not until he got older and became more of a character actor that he started to really come into his own as a critical darling. In fact, his second win, for “Being There,” came when he was in his late 70s! That’s what we call running the gamut. Douglas would die in 1981, the year after his second win, putting a great capper on his career.

Wiest owes both of her Oscars to Woody Allen (for better or worse at this point). She won Best Supporting Actress twice, both for Allen films. One of those movies was “Hannah and Her Sisters,” which you may remember from Michael Caine’s Oscar win.

Much like Wiest, Waltz has his Oscars thanks to one director’s love for his work. In this case, that director is Quentin Tarantino. Waltz was a European actor basically unknown in America when Tarantino cast him in “Inglourious Basterds.” He stole the movie with his incredible performance, won an Oscar and then ran it back with “Django Unchained.”

Ali burst onto the scene in “Moonlight,” for which he won his first Oscar in 2017. Then, two years later, he added a second Best Supporting Actor, for “Green Book.” He’s two-for-two on nominations turning into wins, and he’s just getting started. Don’t be surprised to see Ali add to his Oscar collection someday.

We end this list with the most recent addition to this club. Zellweger had a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Cold Mountain," and then she got what was considered a puzzling win for Best Actress for playing Judy Garland. Her speech was also strange, but the fact is she has two Oscars now.

Many were stunned when Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for Best Actor over the late Chadwick Boseman. However, when you set that aside, Hopkins' turn in "The Father" is considered maybe his best performance. The 83-year-old's reputation as one of the best actors of his generation is further solidified by joining this group of multi-Oscar-winning actors.

Even if "La La Land" didn't end up winning Best Picture (turns out "Moonlight" won), Stone was established as one of the brightest young thespians out there, picking up Best Actress. In 2023, the only real question among the big Oscar categories was Best Actress. Would Lily Gladstone win for "Killers of the Flower Moon," or would Stone win a second Best Actress? Well, the Academy in general enjoyed "Poor Things" more than "Killers," and Stone did win. She's not got two best Actress awards with a lot of career ahead of her. Could she join the rarefied Three Oscars Club? Only seven actors have done that.