List of actors with Academy Award nominations



This list of actors with Academy Award nominations includes all male and female actors with Academy Award nominations for lead and supporting roles in motion pictures, and the total nominations and wins for each actor. Nominations in non-acting categories, such as for producing, directing or writing, are not included.

The most recent winners of all four acting categories, as of the 96th Academy Awards, are Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer, Emma Stone for Poor Things, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers.

The award information is available on the Academy Awards website via dynamically generated lists for specific actors, and for each year's nominees and winners via a scrolling timeline of all ceremonies.

Statistics
A total of 980 actors appear in the list—494 males and 486 females. Non-winning nominees include 335 males and 328 females—a total of 663. Actors that have won at least once include 159 males and 158 females—a total of 317. Only 45 actors—23 males and 22 females—are multiple Academy Award winners.

Katharine Hepburn won four times from twelve nominations—all for lead roles—making her the actor with the most wins in Academy Awards history. Daniel Day-Lewis has won three times from six lead actor nominations—the most wins for any male in the lead actor category. Frances McDormand has won three times for her lead roles, out of six nominations—three lead and three supporting.

Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actor of all, with twenty-one nominations. Jack Nicholson has received the most Academy Award nominations for any male actor with twelve nominations. Both actors have had three wins which included two for lead roles and one for a supporting role. Ingrid Bergman and Walter Brennan also won three awards each, with Bergman winning twice for lead roles and once for a supporting role, out of seven total nominations, and Brennan winning three times from four nominations, all in the supporting actor category.

Table key
§ – a winning actor who refused an award

An italicized First or Last year indicates the listed film's year of release when it is the first or most recent nomination of an actor with multiple nominations.

List of actors
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