12 Actors And Actresses With the Most Oscar Nominations

Just in time for the upcoming Oscar Gala.

Published 8 years ago in Wow

Just in time for the upcoming Oscar Gala.

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Peter O’Toole. Nominations: 8. Wins: 1 honorary award. Though he never won during any of the competitive nods, O’Toole was awarded an honorary award in 2003 for the remarkable talents he’s shown throughout his collective body of work.

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Geraldine Page. Nominations: 8. Wins: 1. Page earned her first Oscar nomination in 1954 for her work in Hondo. From 1962 to 1986, she earned seven more nods, bringing her total up to eight. She took home the Oscar for her last nomination in 1986, for her leading role in The Trip to Bountiful.

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Al Pacino. Nominations: 8. Wins: 1. Pacino earned his first Oscar nod in 1973 for The Godfather. In the years following, he earned seven more nods for a total of eight nominations. His most recent nomination, in 1993, also marked his first ever win, in which he took home the Best Actor award for his role in Scent of a Woman.
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Jack Lemmon. Nominations: 8. Wins: 2. Lemmon was nominated for, and also won, his first Oscar in 1956 for Best Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts. He was nominated seven more times from 1960 to 1983 and won again, for Best Actor, in 1974 for Save the Tiger.

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Marlon Brando. Nominations: 8. Wins: 2. Brando earned a total of eight Oscar nominations, the first in 1952 and the last in 1990. He took home two Best Actor awards, once in 1955 for On the Waterfront and then again in 1973 for The Godfather.
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Spencer Tracy. Nominations: 9. Wins: 2. Tracy has been nominated for an Oscar nine times from 1937 to 1968. He took home the coveted prize twice in consecutive years: for his lead role in Captains Courageous in 1938 and for Boys Town in 1939. The second time he won, Tracy was not present at the awards ceremony and his wife accepted the award on his behalf.
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Paul Newman. Nominations: 9. Wins: 1, plus 2 honorary awards. Newman earned a total of nine Oscar nominations throughout his career, the first of which occurred in 1959. He won the Best Actor award in 1987 for his performance in The Color of Money. He also received two honorary awards: the first for his entire collection of work in 1986 and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1994.

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Laurence Olivier. Nominations: 10. Wins: 1, plus 2 honorary awards. Of his 10 total Oscar nominations, Olivier has won once, in 1949 for his leading turn in Hamlet. The actor has also been awarded two honorary prizes, once in 1947 and a second time in 1979.
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Bette Davis. Nominations: 10. Wins: 2. Davis was nominated for her first official Oscar in 1936 for her leading turn in Dangerous, she won; and she won her second Oscar just three years later.
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Jack Nicholson. Nominations: 12. Wins: 3. Jack has taken home an Oscar three times, for his performances in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest", "Terms of Endearment" and "As Good as It Gets".

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Katherine Hepburn. Nominations: 12. Wins: 4. Of 12 total nominations, Hepburn won four awards (two of which happened in consecutive years) for her roles in "Morning Glory", "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner", "The Lion in Winter" and "On Golden Pond".
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Meryl Streep. Nominations: 19. Wins: 3. Streep is the reigning queen of Oscar nominations in the acting categories. The star has garnered a whopping 19 nominations total, the first of which occurred in 1978 and the most recent of which occurred in 2015. She has won three times: in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer, in 1983 for Sophie’s Choice, and in 2012 for the Iron Lady. Despite recent controversy Streep is said to get the number of nominations to 20 for "Florence Foster Jenkins". Will there be a forth Oscar? Only time will tell...