Acting Records
- Most wins for leading actress
- Katharine Hepburn with 4 awards (1934, 1968, 1969, 1982)
- Most wins for leading actor
- Daniel Day-Lewis with 3 awards (1989, 2007, 2012)
- Most consecutive leading actress nominations
- Two actresses have been nominated 5 years in a row. They are:
- Bette Davis (1938–1942)
- Greer Garson (1941–1945)
- Two actresses have been nominated 5 years in a row. They are:
- Most consecutive leading actor nominations
- Marlon Brando with four nominations (1951 to 1954)
- Most total nominations for acting
- Meryl Streep with 17 nominations.
- Most acting nominations without a win
- Peter O'Toole with 8 nominations. (He received an Honorary Award in 2002.)
- Longest gap between first and second win
- Helen Hayes won in 1932 for The Sin of Madelon Claudet and in 1971 for Airport, a 39-year gap.
- Longest time span between first and last nomination
- Katharine Hepburn (48 years from 1932/33 to 1981)
- Most posthumous nominations
- James Dean with 2 (1956 for East of Eden and 1957 for Giant).
- Shortest performance to win an acting Oscar
- Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) - 5 minutes and 40 seconds.
- Shortest performance to win a lead acting Oscar
- David Niven in Separate Tables (1958) - 15 minutes and 38 seconds.
- Shortest performance to be nominated for an acting Oscar
- Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) - 2 minutes and 32 seconds.
- Most wins by a black actor
- Denzel Washington with 2, winning Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989) and Best Actor for Training Day (2001).
- Most wins for a white actress
- Katharine Hepburn with 4 awards (1934, 1968, 1969, 1982)
- Most awards for one acting performance
- Harold Russell played Homer Parish in The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946. For this role he received 2 Oscars, one for Best Supporting and an honorary award for being an inspiration to all returning veterans.
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