Superlatives
In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight. However, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award – World Film Favorite Actor/Actress or Cecil B. DeMille Award – Barbra Streisand leads with 9 awards. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury and Alan Alda have six awards each. Behind them are Rosalind Russell, Sophia Loren and Jessica Lange with five wins. Streep also holds the record for most nominations with twenty-six (as of the 2012 nominations) and Jack Lemmon is second with twenty-two.
Only four people have won two acting awards in the same year:
- Sigourney Weaver (1989)
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
- Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Working Girl
- Joan Plowright (1993)
- Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Enchanted April
- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV Film, Stalin
- Helen Mirren (2007)
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, The Queen
- Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, Elizabeth I
- Kate Winslet (2009)
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Revolutionary Road
- Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, The Reader
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