List of actors with two or more Academy Award nominations in acting categories

A^{1 2} Bette Davis' performance in Of Human Bondage and Paul Muni's performance in Black Fury (1935) were not nominated for Oscars. As a result of Davis's failure to get a nomination, several influential people campaigned to have her name included on the list, so for that year, and the following year also, the Academy allowed a write-in vote. Technically this meant that any performance was eligible. However, the Academy does not recognise Davis or Muni as nominees in those years.
B¹ Laurence Olivier received a total of 13 Oscar nominations, winning two. In addition to his 10 acting nominations (one win), he received two Best Picture nominations; for producing 1944 film Henry V (released in the US in 1946) and 1948 film Hamlet (for which he won), and received a Best Director nomination for Hamlet. Olivier also received two Honorary Oscars; one for bringing Henry V to the screen, and a second in 1979 for Lifetime Achievement.
C^{1 2 3} Shirley MacLaine, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper have all received an additional nomination in a non-acting category. MacLaine received an additional nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category as co-director of the 1975 documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir. DiCaprio and Cooper have received an additional nomination in the Best Picture category. DiCaprio for co-producing The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Cooper for co-producing American Sniper (2014)
D^{1 2 3} Rules at the time of the first three Academy Award ceremonies allowed for a performer to receive a single nomination for their work in more than one film. At the 1st ceremony, Emil Jannings won Best Actor for his work in two films and Janet Gaynor won Best Actress for her work in three films. At the 3rd ceremony, George Arliss, Maurice Chevalier, Ronald Colman, Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer all received a single nomination for their work in two films. This is why the Academy lists Colman and Garbo as three-time nominees and Shearer as a five-time nominee. Arliss and Chevalier are one-time nominees, so do not feature in the above lists. No official reason was ever given as to why Arliss and Shearer were named Best Actor and Best Actress for only one of the two films for which they were listed.
E^{1 2} At the 2nd Academy Awards only the Best Actor and Best Actress winners were announced. There was no announcement of nominations. The official Academy site states that "although not official nominations, the additional names in each category, according to in-house records, were under consideration by various boards of judges". Although unofficial, Ruth Chatterton's nomination at the 2nd ceremony (the first of her two) counts towards her total in the above lists, and Paul Muni's nomination at the 2nd ceremony, counts as one of his five nominations in the above lists. (his write-in vote from 1935 is not counted).^[6]
F^{1 2 3} George Clooney, Emma Thompson and Brad Pitt have all won Oscars in non-acting categories. Clooney has eight Oscar nominations (four for acting, two for writing, one for directing and one for producing) with two wins. In addition to his win for Best Supporting Actor, he won Best Picture for co-producing Argo (2012). Thompson is a five-time nominee with two wins. In addition to her Best Actress win, she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995). Pitt is a six-time Oscar nominee (three for acting, three for producing). He won an Oscar for co-producing Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave (2013).

References

External links

• www.oscars.org — official site