List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have presented their annual Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, for over 90 years. The Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress have been presented since the 1st ceremony in 1929, and the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress have been presented since the 9th ceremony in 1937. Of the 933 Academy Award nominees in an acting category, a total of 346 have received two or more acting nominations, 176 women and 170 men.
A three-time Oscar winner, Meryl Streep is the most nominated performer in the acting categories, with 21 nominations between 1979 and 2018. Streep's total includes a record 17 best actress nominations, followed by Katharine Hepburn with 12 best actress nominations, including a record four wins, and Bette Davis with 10. Thelma Ritter has a record six best supporting actress nominations. The only women to have won two Oscars in the supporting actress category are Shelley Winters and Dianne Wiest. The seven women to have won in both the lead and supporting actress categories are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Cate Blanchett and Renée Zellweger.
Jack Nicholson is the most nominated male performer in the acting categories, with three wins from a total of 12 nominations. The record for most best actor nominations is nine, for both Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier. Daniel Day-Lewis has a record three best actor wins. Seven actors have each received four best supporting actor nominations, including Walter Brennan, who has a record three supporting actor wins. The six men to have won in both the lead and supporting actor categories are Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey and Denzel Washington.
The record for most nominations in the acting categories without a win, is eight by Peter O'Toole, followed by Richard Burton and Glenn Close with seven, and Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter and Amy Adams, all with six. Both O'Toole and Kerr did receive the Academy's Honorary Oscar.
Most nominations in four acting categories
- Listed below are the 184 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.
- BA = Best Actor/Actress nominations.
- BSA = Best Supporting Actor/Actress nominations.
| Actor/Actress | BA | BSA | Total | Wins | Winning film |
| Meryl Streep | 17 | 4 | 21 | 3 | Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, The Iron Lady |
| Katharine Hepburn | 12 | 0 | 12 | 4 | Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond |
| Jack Nicholson | 8 | 4 | 12 | 3 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment, As Good as It Gets |
| Bette Davis | 10 | 0 | 10 | 2 | Dangerous, Jezebel |
| Laurence Olivier | 9 | 1 | 10 | 1 | Hamlet |
| Spencer Tracy | 9 | 0 | 9 | 2 | Captains Courageous, Boys Town |
| Paul Newman | 8 | 1 | 9 | 1 | The Color of Money |
| Al Pacino | 5 | 4 | 9 | 1 | Scent of a Woman |
| Marlon Brando | 7 | 1 | 8 | 2 | On the Waterfront, The Godfather |
| Jack Lemmon | 7 | 1 | 8 | 2 | Mister Roberts, Save the Tiger |
| Denzel Washington | 6 | 2 | 8 | 2 | Glory, Training Day |
| Geraldine Page | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | The Trip to Bountiful |
| Peter O'Toole | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | — |
| Ingrid Bergman | 6 | 1 | 7 | 3 | Gaslight, Anastasia, Murder on the Orient Express |
| Cate Blanchett | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | The Aviator, Blue Jasmine |
| Robert De Niro | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | The Godfather Part II, Raging Bull |
| Jane Fonda | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | Klute, Coming Home |
| Dustin Hoffman | 7 | 0 | 7 | 2 | Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man |
| Jeff Bridges | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | Crazy Heart |
| Judi Dench | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | Shakespeare in Love |
| Robert Duvall | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | Tender Mercies |
| Greer Garson | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | Mrs. Miniver |
| Kate Winslet | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | The Reader |
| Richard Burton | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | — |
| Glenn Close | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | — |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | 6 | 0 | 6 | 3 | My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln |
| Michael Caine | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | Hannah and Her Sisters, The Cider House Rules |
| Tom Hanks | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | Philadelphia, Forrest Gump |
| Jessica Lange | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | Tootsie, Blue Sky |
| Maggie Smith | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, California Suite |
| Ellen Burstyn | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | The Revenant |
| Vanessa Redgrave | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | Julia |
| Sissy Spacek | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | Coal Miner's Daughter |
| 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, High Noon |
| Olivia de Havilland | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | To Each His Own, The Heiress |
| Gene Hackman | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | The French Connection, Unforgiven |
| Fredric March | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Frances McDormand | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| Sean Penn | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | Mystic River, Milk |
| Elizabeth Taylor | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | BUtterfield 8, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Anne Bancroft | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | The Miracle Worker |
| Morgan Freeman | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | Million Dollar Baby |
| Susan Hayward | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | I Want to Live! |
| Audrey Hepburn | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | Roman Holiday |
| Anthony Hopkins | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Jennifer Jones | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | The Song of Bernadette |
| Shirley MacLaine | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | Terms of Endearment |
| Julianne Moore | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | Still Alice |
| Paul Muni | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | The Story of Louis Pasteur |
| Gregory Peck | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Susan Sarandon | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | Dead Man Walking |
| Norma Shearer | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | The Divorcee |
| James Stewart | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | The Philadelphia Story |
| 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, Kentucky, The Westerner |
| Jodie Foster | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs |
| Glenda Jackson | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | Women in Love, A Touch of Class |
| Anthony Quinn | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | Viva Zapata!, Lust for Life |
| Shelley Winters | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | The Diary of Anne Frank, A Patch of Blue |
| Renée Zellweger | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | Cold Mountain, Judy |
| Alan Arkin | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Little Miss Sunshine |
| Christian Bale | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | The Fighter |
| Ethel Barrymore | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | None But the Lonely Heart |
| Kathy Bates | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | Misery |
| Julie Christie | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Darling |
| George Clooney | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Syriana |
| Lee Grant | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | Shampoo |
| Alec Guinness | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Holly Hunter | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | The Piano |
| William Hurt | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| Walter Huston | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| Jennifer Lawrence | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Silver Linings Playbook |
| Tommy Lee Jones | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | The Fugitive |
| Diane Keaton | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Annie Hall |
| Nicole Kidman | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | The Hours |
| Ben Kingsley | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Gandhi |
| Burt Lancaster | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Elmer Gantry |
| Helen Mirren | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | The Queen |
| Joaquin Phoenix | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Joker |
| Brad Pitt | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| Julia Roberts | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Erin Brockovich |
| Geoffrey Rush | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Shine |
| George C. Scott | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | Patton |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | Capote |
| Maureen Stapleton | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | Reds |
| Emma Thompson | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Howards End |
| Jon Voight | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Coming Home |
| Robin Williams | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Good Will Hunting |
| Joanne Woodward | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | The Three Faces of Eve |
| Jane Wyman | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Johnny Belinda |
| 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 | — |
| Saoirse Ronan | 3 | 1 | 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, Being There |
| Sally Field | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | Norma Rae, Places in the Heart |
| Jason Robards | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | All the President's Men, Julia |
| Peter Ustinov | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Spartacus, Topkapi |
| Dianne Wiest | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets over Broadway |
| Julie Andrews | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Mary Poppins |
| Fay Bainter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Jezebel |
| Javier Bardem | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | No Country for Old Men |
| Humphrey Bogart | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | The African Queen |
| James Cagney | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Charles Coburn | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | The More the Merrier |
| Claudette Colbert | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | It Happened One Night |
| Ronald Colman | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | A Double Life |
| Joan Crawford | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Mildred Pierce |
| Bing Crosby | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Going My Way |
| Russell Crowe | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Gladiator |
| Penélope Cruz | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
| Viola Davis | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Fences |
| Laura Dern | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Marriage Story |
| Faye Dunaway | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Network |
| José Ferrer | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Joan Fontaine | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Suspicion |
| Clark Gable | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | It Happened One Night |
| Wendy Hiller | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Separate Tables |
| William Holden | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Stalag 17 |
| Celeste Holm | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Gentleman's Agreement |
| Anjelica Huston | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Prizzi's Honor |
| Martin Landau | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Ed Wood |
| Charles Laughton | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | The Private Life of Henry VIII |
| Walter Matthau | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | The Fortune Cookie |
| Jack Palance | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | City Slickers |
| Joe Pesci | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Goodfellas |
| Christopher Plummer | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Beginners |
| Natalie Portman | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Black Swan |
| Anne Revere | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | National Velvet |
| Maximilian Schell | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | Judgment at Nuremberg |
| Octavia Spencer | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | The Help |
| Rod Steiger | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | In the Heat of the Night |
| Emma Stone | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | La La Land |
| Charlize Theron | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Monster |
| Marisa Tomei | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | My Cousin Vinny |
| Claire Trevor | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Key Largo |
| Teresa Wright | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Mrs. Miniver |
| Gig Young | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| 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 | — |
| William Powell | 3 | 0 | 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, Green Book |
| Helen Hayes | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | The Sin of Madelon Claudet, Airport |
| Vivien Leigh | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Luise Rainer | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth |
| Kevin Spacey | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | The Usual Suspects, American Beauty |
| Hilary Swank | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby |
| Christoph Waltz | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained |
Most nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor combined
Most nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress combined
Most nominations by category (actor)
Listed are the actors with three or more nominations plus those with two wins from two nominations.Most nominations by category (actress)
List of actors with two or more acting nominations who have won Academy Awards in non-acting categories
- TN = Total Nominations.
- AN = Acting Nominations.
| Actor/Actress | TN | AN | Wins | Winning categories and films |
| Warren Beatty | 14 | 4 | 1 | Best Director for Reds |
| Laurence Olivier | 13 | 10 | 2 | Best Picture and Best Actor for Hamlet |
| Clint Eastwood | 11 | 2 | 4 | Best Picture for Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby Best Director for Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby |
| George Clooney | 8 | 4 | 2 | Best Supporting Actor for Syriana and Best Picture for Argo |
| Brad Pitt | 7 | 4 | 2 | Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave and Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| Charlie Chaplin | 5 | 1 | 1 | Best Original Dramatic Score for Limelight |
| Barbra Streisand | 5 | 2 | 2 | Best Actress for Funny Girl and Best Original Song for Evergreen" Love Theme from A Star Is Born |
| Emma Thompson | 5 | 4 | 2 | Best Actress for Howards End and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility |
| Matt Damon | 5 | 3 | 1 | Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting |
| Billy Bob Thornton | 3 | 2 | 1 | Best Adapted Screenplay for Sling Blade |