<Ul> <Li> Lawrence of Arabia (1962) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Lawrence of Arabia (1962) </Li> <Ul> <Li> Most awards for leading actress <Ul> <Li> Katharine Hepburn with 4 awards (1933, 1967, 1968 *, 1981) (* Hepburn tied with Barbra Streisand in 1968 .) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most awards for leading actor <Ul> <Li> Daniel Day - Lewis with 3 awards (1989, 2007, 2012) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most awards for supporting actor <Ul> <Li> Walter Brennan with 3 awards (1936, 1938, 1940) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most consecutive leading actress nominations <Ul> <Li> Two actresses have been nominated 5 years in a row: <Ul> <Li> Bette Davis (1938--1942) </Li> <Li> Greer Garson (1941--1945) </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most consecutive leading actor nominations <Ul> <Li> Marlon Brando with four nominations (1951 to 1954) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Actress with most total nominations for acting <Ul> <Li> Meryl Streep with 21 nominations </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Actor with most total nominations for acting <Ul> <Li> Jack Nicholson with 12 nominations </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most acting nominations without an award <Ul> <Li> Peter O'Toole with 8 nominations (He received an Honorary Award in 2002) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most nominations for an actor performing in a foreign language <Ul> <Li> Marcello Mastroianni with 3 nominations . He was nominated for Best Actor for Divorce, Italian Style (1962); A Special Day (1977) and Dark Eyes (1987), performing in Italian </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Longest gap between first and second award <Ul> <Li> Helen Hayes won in 1932 for The Sin of Madelon Claudet and in 1971 for Airport, a 39 - year gap </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Longest time span between first and last nomination and between first and last award <Ul> <Li> Katharine Hepburn: 48 years from Morning Glory (1933, in the 1932 / 33 awards) until On Golden Pond (1981) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most acting nominations before first award <Ul> <Li> Both Geraldine Page and Al Pacino won on their 8th nomination </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most posthumous nominations <Ul> <Li> James Dean with 2 (1955 for East of Eden and 1956 for Giant) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Shortest performance to win an acting Oscar <Ul> <Li> Beatrice Straight in Network (1976)--5 minutes and 2 seconds </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Shortest performance to win a lead acting Oscar <Ul> <Li> Patricia Neal in Hud (1963)--21 minutes and 51 seconds </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Shortest performance to be nominated for an acting Oscar <Ul> <Li> Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959)--2 minutes and 19 seconds </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Shortest performance to be nominated for a lead acting Oscar <Ul> <Li> Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936)--14 minutes and 58 seconds </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Longest performance to win an acting Oscar <Ul> <Li> Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)--2 hours, 23 minutes and 32 seconds </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Longest performance to win a supporting acting Oscar <Ul> <Li> Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973)--1 hour, 6 minutes and 58 seconds </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Longest performance to be nominated for an acting Oscar <Ul> <Li> Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)--2 hours, 23 minutes and 32 seconds </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Longest performance to be nominated for a supporting acting Oscar <Ul> <Li> Frank Finlay in Othello (1965)--1 hour, 30 minutes and 43 seconds </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most awards by an African American actor <Ul> <Li> Denzel Washington with 2, winning Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989) and Best Actor for Training Day (2001) </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most awards for one acting performance <Ul> <Li> 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 . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Most nominations for one acting performance <Ul> <Li> Barry Fitzgerald was nominated as Best Actor and won for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Father Fitzgibbon in 1944's Going My Way </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Years where all four Acting winners were born outside the United States <Ul> <Li> 1964 <Ul> <Li> Best Actor - Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady, United Kingdom </Li> <Li> Best Actress - Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins, United Kingdom </Li> <Li> Best Supporting Actor - Peter Ustinov for Topkapi, United Kingdom </Li> <Li> Best Supporting Actress - Lila Kedrova for Zorba the Greek, Russia </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> 2007 <Ul> <Li> Best Actor - Daniel Day - Lewis for There Will Be Blood, United Kingdom </Li> <Li> Best Actress - Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose, France </Li> <Li> Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men, Spain </Li> <Li> Best Supporting Actress - Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton, United Kingdom </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> <Li> Most awards for leading actress <Ul> <Li> Katharine Hepburn with 4 awards (1933, 1967, 1968 *, 1981) (* Hepburn tied with Barbra Streisand in 1968 .) </Li> </Ul> </Li>

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