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List of Academy Award records

List of Academy Award records

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This list of Academy Award records is current as of the 96th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place on March 10, 2024.

Walt Disney, the record-holder for most Academy Awards won (22 Oscars)

Most awards or nominations

  • Most awards won by a single film: 11
  • Most nominations received by a single film: 14
    • Three films have received 14 nominations:
      • All About Eve (1950): won 6 awards out of 16 possible categories
      • Titanic (1997): won 11 awards out of 17 possible categories
      • La La Land (2016): won 6 awards out of 17 possible categories
  • Largest sweep (winning awards in every nominated category): 11
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won in every category for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects
  • Most total awards won by a person: 22
  • Most total awards won by a woman: 8
  • Most total nominations for a person: 59
  • Most nominations and awards for a person in a single year: 6 & 4
  • Most competitive awards won by a person who is still living: 8
    • Composer Alan Menken has won 8 competitive awards
    • Of note: Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren has won 9 Academy Awards: six competitive awards, two "Special Achievement" awards, and one "Technical Achievement" award
  • Acting: 4
  • Directing: 4
  • Writing: 3
  • Film Editing: 3
  • Cinematography: 4
  • Film Music Composition and Songwriting: 9
    • Alfred Newman, all for Best Original Score
    • Of note:
      • Alan Menken has won eight awards in musical categories
      • John Williams has won five awards and holds the record for the most nominations by a living person at 54.
      • Sammy Cahn won four awards, all for Best Original Song
      • Johnny Mercer won four awards, all for Best Original Song
      • Jimmy Van Heusen won four awards, all for Best Original Song
  • Art Direction: 11
    • Cedric Gibbons, who designed the Oscar statuette, received 38 nominations
  • Costume Design: 8
  • Makeup: 7
    • Rick Baker, who has received 11 nominations in total
  • Visual Effects: 8
  • Special Effects (discontinued in 1962): 3
  • Most awards won for an animated feature film: 3
  • Most nominations received for an animated feature film: 4
  • Most awards won by a country for Best International Feature Film: 14
    • Italy, which has received 33 nominations in total
  • Most nominations received by a country for Best International Feature Film: 41
    • France, which has won the award 12 times
  • Most nominations received by a country for Best International Feature Film without an award: 10
  • Most awards won by a non-English language film: 4
    • Four non English-language films have won four Academy Awards:
      • Fanny and Alexander (1982) won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design
      • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score
      • Parasite (2019) won Best International Feature Film, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay
      • All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) won Best International Feature Film, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score
  • Most nominations received by a non English-language film: 10
    • Two non-English language films have been nominated for ten Academy Awards (* = winner):
      • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000): Best Foreign Language Film (*), Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction (*), Best Cinematography (*), Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score (*), and Best Original Song
      • Roma (2018): Best Foreign Language Film (*), Best Picture, Best Director (*), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography (*), Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing

Awards for Acting and Directing Debuts

These people won Academy Awards for their debut performances in film:

These people won Academy Awards for their directing debuts:

Big Five Winners

Main article: List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees

Three films have received the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay (Original or Adapted; all won for Best Adapted Screenplay).[6][7][8]

Most Consecutive Awards in Each Category

Academy Award firsts

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  • Youngest multiple nominees for an acting award (Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress)
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Film records

Acting records

Shortest and Longest Academy Award Winning and Nominated Performances

Actor Actress
Time in h:mm:ss Shortest Longest Shortest Longest
Lead Won David Niven in Separate Tables (1958)
23:39[29]		 Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur (1959)
2:01:23		 Patricia Neal in Hud (1963)
21:51[30]		 Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)
2:23:32
Nominated Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936)
14:58		 Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (1992)
2:21:58		 Eleanor Parker in Detective Story (1951)
20:10
Supporting Won Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971)
9:54[31]		 Mahershala Ali in Green Book (2018)
1:06:38		 Beatrice Straight in Network (1976)
5:02		 Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973)
1:06:58
Nominated Ned Beatty in Network (1976)
6:00[32]		 Frank Finlay in Othello (1965)
1:30:43		 Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959)
2:19		 Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away (1944)
1:15:38
For a more comprehensive list, see List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees § Performances of the same character.

Miscellaneous records

Oscar speeches

Main article: Oscar speech
  • Longest speech
    • The longest Oscar speech was given by Greer Garson at the 15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. The exact length of her speech is unknown but it is believed that it ran for nearly six minutes.[39] It was shortly after this incident that the academy set forty-five seconds as the allotted time for an acceptance speech and began to cut the winners off after this time limit. When presenting the Best Actor award at the 24th Academy Awards, Garson quipped, "I think I have ten minutes left over from a highly emotional speech I made a few years ago. I'd be glad to give it to them."
  • Shortest speech
    • The shortest Oscar speech was that given by Patty Duke at the 35th Academy Awards after she was named Best Supporting Actress for 1962 for The Miracle Worker. Duke, age 16, was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category. Her acceptance speech was, simply, two words – "Thank you" – after which she walked off the stage[40] (Note: When Fred Zinnemann accepted the Best Picture Oscar for A Man For All Seasons, he simply nodded and smiled. However, minutes earlier he had won Best Director and made his thank-yous then, and thus felt he had nothing to add.)

Tied winners

There have been six two-way ties

Clean sweep

The following films with at least two nominations won all of their categories.

See also

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