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. Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, there have been actors and actresses who have received multiple Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, or Best Supporting Actress. The only restriction is that actors cannot receive multiple nominations for the same performance. This rule was implemented after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way.
, 43 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn leads the way with four Best Actress awards. Five have won three Academy Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman, and Walter Brennan, Brennan was the first to receive three or more Academy Awards in 1940, followed by Hepburn in 1968, Bergman in 1974, Nicholson in 1997, Streep in 2011, and most recently Day-Lewis in 2012. Of the six, only Nicholson, Streep, and Day-Lewis are still living.
While there is no restriction on a performer winning the Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress awards in the same year for two different roles in two different movies, this has yet to happen.
- † = deceased
| Actor/Actress | Best Actor/Actress Awards | Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards | Total awards | Total nominations |
| † | Morning Glory Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Lion in Winter On Golden Pond | 4 | 12 | |
| Sophie's Choice The Iron Lady | Kramer vs. Kramer | 3 | 21 | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest As Good as It Gets | Terms of Endearment | 3 | 12 | |
| † | Gaslight Anastasia | Murder on the Orient Express | 3 | 7 |
| My Left Foot There Will Be Blood Lincoln | 3 | 6 | ||
| † | Come and Get It Kentucky The Westerner | 3 | 4 | |
| † | Dangerous Jezebel | 2 | 10 | |
| † | Captains Courageous Boys Town | 2 | 9 | |
| † | On the Waterfront The Godfather | 2 | 8 | |
| † | Save the Tiger | Mister Roberts | 2 | 8 |
| Training Day | Glory | 2 | 8 | |
| Blue Jasmine | The Aviator | 2 | 7 | |
| Raging Bull | The Godfather Part II | 2 | 7 | |
| Klute Coming Home | 2 | 7 | ||
| Kramer vs. Kramer Rain Man | 2 | 7 | ||
| Hannah and Her Sisters The Cider House Rules | 2 | 6 | ||
| Philadelphia Forrest Gump | 2 | 6 | ||
| Blue Sky | Tootsie | 2 | 6 | |
| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | California Suite | 2 | 6 | |
| † | Sergeant York High Noon | 2 | 5 | |
| † | To Each His Own The Heiress | 2 | 5 | |
| The French Connection | Unforgiven | 2 | 5 | |
| † | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Best Years of Our Lives | 2 | 5 | |
| Fargo Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2 | 5 | ||
| Mystic River Milk | 2 | 5 | ||
| † | Butterfield 8 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 2 | 5 | |
| The Accused The Silence of the Lambs | 2 | 4 | ||
| Women in Love A Touch of Class | 2 | 4 | ||
| † | Viva Zapata! Lust for Life | 2 | 4 | |
| † | The Diary of Anne Frank A Patch of Blue | 2 | 4 | |
| 'Judy' | Cold Mountain | 2 | 4 | |
| † | Hud Being There | 2 | 3 | |
| Norma Rae Places in the Heart | 2 | 3 | ||
| † | All the President's Men Julia | 2 | 3 | |
| † | Spartacus Topkapi | 2 | 3 | |
| Hannah and Her Sisters Bullets over Broadway | 2 | 3 | ||
| Moonlight Green Book | 2 | 2 | ||
| † | The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Airport | 2 | 2 |
| † | Gone with the Wind A Streetcar Named Desire | 2 | 2 | |
| † | The Great Ziegfeld The Good Earth | 2 | 2 | |
| American Beauty | The Usual Suspects | 2 | 2 | |
| Boys Don't Cry Million Dollar Baby | 2 | 2 | ||
| Inglourious Basterds Django Unchained | 2 | 2 |