Ας ρίξουμε μια ματιά στους ηθοποιούς που έχουν κερδίσει τα περισσότερα βραβεία Oscar ερμηνείας στην ιστορία του θεσμού και τις ταινίες για τις οποίες τα κέρδισαν. Στην παραπάνω φωτό τα 4 Oscar της Katharine Hepburn, όπως εκτίθενται στο Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery της Ουάσινγκτον:

Katharine Hepburn (12 υποψηφιότητες)
1933 - Actress «Morning Glory»
1967 - Actress «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner»
1968 - Actress «A Lion In the Winter»
1981 - Actress «On Golden Pond»

Daniel Day Lewis (6 υποψηφιότητες)
1989 - Actor «My Left Foot»
2007 - Actor «There Will Be Blood»
2012 - Actor «Lincoln»

Meryl Streep (21 υποψηφιότητες)
1979 - Supporting Actress «Kramer Vs Kramer»
1982 - Actress «Sophie's Choice»
2011 - Actress «The Iron Lady»

Jack Nicholson (12 υποψηφιότητες)
1975 - Actor «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest»
1983 - Supporting Actor «Terms of Enderament»
1997 - Actor «As Good As It Gets»

Ingrid Bergman (7 υποψηφιότητες)
1944 - Actress «Gaslight»
1956 - Actress «Anastasia»
1974 - Supporting Actress «Murder on the Orient Express»

Walter Brenan (4 υποψηφιότητες)
1936 - Supporting Actor «Come and Get It»
1938 - Supporting Actor «Kentucky»
1941 - Supporting Actor «The Westerner»

Bette Davis (10 υποψηφιότητες)
1935 - Actress «Dangerous»
1938 - Actress «Jezebel»

Spencer Tracy (9 υποψηφιότητες)
1937 - Actor «Captain Courageous»
1938 - Actor «Boys Town»

Marlon Brando (8 υποψηφιότητες)
1954 - Actor «On the Waterfront»
1972 - Actor «The Godfather»

Jane Fonda (7 υποψηφιότητες)
1971 - Actress «Klute»
1978 - Actress «Coming Home»

Dustin Hoffman (7 υποψηφιότητες)
1979 - Actor «Kramer Vs Kramer»
1988 - Actor «Rain Man»

Fredric March (5 υποψηφιότητες)
1931 - Actor «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde»
1946 - Actor «The Best Years of Our Lives»

Gary Cooper (5 υποψηφιότητες)
1941 - Actor «Sergeant York»
1952 - Actor «High Noon»

Olivia De Havilland (5 υποψηφιότητες)
1946 - Actress «To Each His Own»
1949 - Actress «The Heiress»

Elizabeth Taylor (5 υποψηφιότητες)
1960 - Actress «Butterfield 8»
1966 - Actress «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf»

Tom Hanks (5 υποψηφιότητες)
1993 - Actor «Philadelphia»
1994 - Actor «Forrest Gump»

Sean Penn (5 υποψηφιότητες)
2003 - Actor «Mystic River»
2008 - Actor «Milk»

Glenda Jackson (4 υποψηφιότητες)
1970 - Actress «Women In Love»
1973 - Actress «A Touch of Class»

Jodie Foster (4 υποψηφιότητες)
1988 - Actress «The Accused»
1991 - Actress «The Silence of the Lambs»

Sally Field (3 υποψηφιότητες)
1979 - Actress «Norma Rae»
1984 - Actress «Places In the Heart»

Luise Rainer (2 υποψηφιότητες)
1936 - Actress «The Great Ziegfeld»
1937 - Actress «The Good Earth»

Vivien Leigh (2 υποψηφιότητες)
1939 - Actress «Gone with the Wind»
1951 - Actress «A Streetcar Named Desire»

Hilary Swank (2 υποψηφιότητες)
1999 - Actress «Boys Don't Cry»
2004 - Actress «Million Dollar Baby»

Jack Lemmon (8 υποψηφιότητες)
1955 - Supporting Actor «Mister Roberts»
1973 - Actor «Save the Tiger»

Denzel Washington (8 υποψηφιότητες)
1989 - Supporting Actor «Glory»
2001 - Actor «Training Day»

Robert DeNiro (7 υποψηφιότητες)
1974 - Supporting Actor «Godfather II»
1980 - Actor «Raging Bull»

Cate Blanchett (7 υποψηφιότητες)
2004 - Supporting Actress «The Aviator»
2013 - Actress «Blue Jasmin»

Maggie Smith (6 υποψηφιότητες)
1969 - Actress «The Prime of Mrs. Jean Brodie»
1978 - Supporting Actress «California Suite»

Jessica Lange (6 υποψηφιότητες)
1982 - Supporting Actress «Tootsie»
1994 - Actress «Blue Sky»

Gene Hackman (5 υποψηφιότητες)
1971 - Actor «The French Connection»
1993 - Supporting Actor «Unforgiven»

Helen Hayes (2 υποψηφιότητες)
1931 - Actress «The Sin of Madelon Claudet»
1970 - Supporting Actress «Airport»

Kevin Spacey (2 υποψηφιότητες)
1995 - Supporting Actor «The Usual Suspects»
1999 - Actor «American Beauty»

Michael Caine (6 υποψηφιότητες)
1986 - Supporting Actor «Hannah and Her Sisters»
1999 - Supporting Actor «Cider House Rules»

Anthony Quinn (4 υποψηφιότητες)
1952 - Supporting Actor «Viva Zapata!»
1956 - Supporting Actor «Lust for Life»

Shelley Winters (4 υποψηφιότητες)
1959 - Supporting Actress «The Diary of Anne Frank»
1965 - Supporting Actress «A Patch of Blue»

Peter Ustinov (3 υποψηφιότητες)
1960 - Supporting Actor «Spartacus»
1964 - Supporting Actor «Topkapi»

Melvyn Douglas (3 υποψηφιότητες)
1963 - Supporting Actor «Hud»
1979 - Supporting Actor «Being There»

Jason Robards (3 υποψηφιότητες)
1976 - Supporting Actor «All the President's Men»
1977 - Supporting Actor «Julia»

Diane Wiest (3 υποψηφιότητες)
1986 - Supporting Actress «Hannah and Her Sisters»
1994 - Supporting Actress «Bullets Over Broadway»

Christoph Waltz (2 υποψηφιότητες)
2009 - Supporting Actor «Inglourious Basterds»
2012 - Supporting Actor «Django Unchained»

Mahershala Ali (2 υποψηφιότητες)
2017 - Supporting Actor «Moonlight»
2019 - Supporting Actor «Green Book»