11 Actors With the Most Oscar Wins
An Oscar-winning performance can define a career, but these actors returned to the winners’ circle again and again. Our countdown brings together leading and supporting performances, tracing the films behind their Academy records and ending with the only performer to win four acting Oscars.
How the countdown works: Acting Oscars only: producing, music and honorary awards are excluded. Wins determine the order, followed by acting nominations, then alphabetical order. The top-ten boundary expands to eleven names to include both performers tied on two wins and nine acting nominations. Equal win totals remain ties.
11. Denzel Washington
2 acting Oscars · 9 acting nominations
Washington’s two acting Oscars recognize contrasting uses of authority and charisma: a Civil War soldier in Glory and a corrupt police officer in Training Day. The nomination count here is acting-only, excluding his separate producing nomination for Fences.
Acting Oscar wins
- Glory (1989) — Supporting Actor
- Training Day (2001) — Actor in a Leading Role
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