Three Time Acting Oscar Winners
by urbanemovies | created - 06 Feb 2017 | updated - 22 Feb 2017 | PublicIn 2017 at the 89th Academy Awards, if Denzel Washington won the Best Actor for Fences (2016), he would become only the seventh person to win an acting Oscar three times or more. He has a prior Best Supporting Actor win for Glory (1989) and a Best Lead Actor win for Training Day (2001). The following are, as of mid-February, 2017, the only actors to have won three or more Oscars in acting categories.
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1. Walter Brennan
Actor | Red River
In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. While in school he became interested in acting and ...
Acting Oscar Wins
Best Supporting Actor: Come and Get It (1936),
Best Supporting Actor: Kentucky (1938),
Best Supporting Actor: The Westerner (1940)
Oscar Nomination History
2. Katharine Hepburn
Actress | The Lion in Winter
Born May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, she was the daughter of a doctor and a suffragette, both of whom always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a child, she was also very close to her brother, Tom, and was ...
Acting Oscar Wins
Best Lead Actress: Morning Glory (1933),
Best Lead Actress: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967),
Best Lead Actress: The Lion in Winter (1968),
Best Lead Actress: On Golden Pond (1981)
* pick any three, only four time acting Oscar winner
Oscar Nomination History
3. Ingrid Bergman
Actress | Casablanca
Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...
Acting Oscar Wins
Best Lead Actress: Gaslight (1944),
Best Lead Actress: Anastasia (1956),
Best Supporting Actress Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Oscar Nomination History
4. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the 1960s through ...
Acting Oscar Wins
Best Lead Actor: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975),
Best Supporting Actor: Terms of Endearment (1983),
Best Lead Actor: As Good as It Gets (1997)
Oscar Nomination History
5. Meryl Streep
Actress | The Devil Wears Prada
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
Acting Oscar Wins
Best Supporting Actress: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979),
Best Lead Actress: Sophie's Choice (1982),
Best Lead Actress: The Iron Lady (2011)
Oscar Nomination History
6. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis (pseudonym Cecil Day-Lewis), Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and ...
Acting Oscar Wins
Best Lead Actor: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989),
Best Lead Actor: There Will Be Blood (2007),
Best Lead Actor: Lincoln (2012)
Oscar Nomination History
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