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1928

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Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise)
Emil Jannings (The Last Commander, The Way of All Flesh)

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1929

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Mary Pickford (Coquette)
Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)

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1930

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Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)
George Arliss (Disraeli)

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1931

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Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)

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1932

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Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
TIE Wallace Beery (The Champ)
TIE Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

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1933

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Katherine Hepburn (Morning Glory)
Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)

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1934

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Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)

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1935

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Bette Davis (Dangerous)
Victor McLaglen (The Informer)

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1936

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Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)
Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)

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1937

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Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)
Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)

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1938

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Bette Davis (Jezebel)
Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)

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1939

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Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

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1940

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Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)
James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)

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1941

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Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)
Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)

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1942

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Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)
James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

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1943

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Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)
Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)

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1944

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Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
Bing Crosby (Going My Way)

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1945

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Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)

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1946

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Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)
Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)

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1947

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Loretta Young (The Farmer’s Daughter)
Ronald Colman (A Double Life)

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1948

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Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)
Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)

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1949

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Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)
Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)

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1950

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Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)

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1951

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Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)

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1952
Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba) Gary Cooper (High Noon)
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1953
Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday) William Holden (Stalag 17)
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1954
Grace Kelly (The Country Girl) Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
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1955
Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo) Ernest Borgnine (Marty)
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1956
Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia) Yul Brynner (The King and I)
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1957
Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
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1958
Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!) David Niven (Separate Tables)
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1959
Simone Signoret (Room at the Top) Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
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1960
Elizabeth Taylor (BUtterfield 8) Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
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1961
Sophia Loren (Two Women) Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
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1962
Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker) Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
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1963
Patricia Neal (Hud) Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
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1964
Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
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1965
Julie Christie (Darling) Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)
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1966
Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)
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1967
Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night)
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1968
TIE Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) TIE Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) Cliff Robertson (Charly)
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1969
Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) John Wayne (True Grit)
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1970
Glenda Jackson (Women in Love) George C. Scott (Patton)
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1971
Jane Fonda (Klute) Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
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1972
Liza Minnelli (Cabaret) Marlon Brando (The Godfather)
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1973
Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class) Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger)
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1974
Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore) Art Carney (Harry and Tonto)
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1975
Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
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1976
Faye Dunaway (Network) Peter Finch (Network) *Posthumous*
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1978
Jane Fonda (Coming Home) Jon Voigt (Coming Home)
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1977
Diane Keaton (Annie Hall) Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl)
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1979
Sally Field (Norma Rae) Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
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1980
Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter) Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
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1981
Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond) Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
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1982
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice) Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
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1983
Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment) Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
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1984
Sally Field (Places in the Heart) F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
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1985
Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful) William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
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1986
Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God) Paul Newman (The Color of Money)
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1987
Cher (Moonstruck) Michael Douglas (Wall Street)
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1988
Jodie Foster (The Accused) Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
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1989
Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy) **Oldest winner Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)
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1990
Kathy Bates (Misery) Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune)
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1991
Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs) Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
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1992
Emma Thompson (Howards End) Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman)
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1993
Holly Hunter (The Piano) Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
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1994
Jessica Lange (Blue Sky) Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
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1995
Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)
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1996
Frances McDormand (Fargo) Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
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1997
Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets) Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets)
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1998
Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful)
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1999
Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
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2000
Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
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2001
Halle Berry (Monster's Ball) Denzel Washington (Training Day)
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2002
Nicole Kidman (The Hours) Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
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2003
Charlize Theron (Monster) Sean Penn (Mystic River)
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2004
Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) Jamie Foxx (Ray)
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2005
Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
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2006
Helen Mirren (The Queen) Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
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2007
Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) **First non-English performance to win Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
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2008
Kate Winslet (The Reader) Sean Penn (Milk)
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2009
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
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2010
Natalie Portman (Black Swan) Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
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2011
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
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2012
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
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2013
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
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2014
Julianne Moore (Still Alice) Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
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2016
Emma Stone (La La Land) Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
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2015
Brie Larson (Room) Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
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2017
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
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2018
Olivia Colman (The Favourite) Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
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2019
Renée Zellweger (Judy) Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
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2020
Frances McDormand (Nomadland) Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
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2021
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) Will Smith (King Richard)
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2022
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
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2023
Emma Stone (Poor Things) Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
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Katharine Hepburn
4 Wins, 12 Nominations: **Morning Glory (1933) Alice Adams (1935) The Philadelphia Story (1940) Woman of the Year (1942) The African Queen (1951) Summertime (1955) The Rainmaker (1956) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) **Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) **The Lion in Winter (1968) **On Golden Pond (1981)
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Frances McDormand
3 Wins, 3 Nominations: **Fargo (1996) **Three Billboards... (2017) **Nomadland (2020)
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Meryl Streep
2 Wins, 17 Nominations: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) **Sophie's Choice (1982) Silkwood (1983) Out of Africa (1985) Ironweed (1987) A Cry in the Dark (1988) Postcards from the Edge (1990) The Bridges of Madison County (1995) One True Thing (1998) Music of the Heart (1999) The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Doubt (2008) Julie & Julia (2009) **The Iron Lady (2011) August: Osage County (2013) Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) The Post (2017)
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Bette Davis
2 Wins, 11 Nominations: Of Human Bondage (1934) **Dangerous (1935) **Jezebel (1938) Dark Victory (1939) The Letter (1940) The Little Foxes (1941) Now, Voyager (1942) Mr. Skeffington (1944) All About Eve (1950) The Star (1952) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
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Ingrid Bergman
2 Wins, 6 Nominations: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) **Gaslight (1944) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Joan of Arc (1948) **Anastasia (1956) Autumn Sonata (1978)
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Jane Fonda
2 Wins, 6 Nominations: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) **Klute (1971) Julia (1977) **Coming Home (1978) The China Syndrome (1979) The Morning After (1986)
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Elizabeth Taylor
2 Wins, 5 Nominations: Raintree County (1957) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) **BUtterfield 8 (1960) **Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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Olivia de Havilland
2 Wins, 4 Nominations: Hold Back the Dawn (1941) **To Each His Won (1946) The Snake Pit (1948) The Heiress (1949)
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Glenda Jackson
2 Wins, 4 Nominations: **Women in Love (1970) Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) **A Touch of Class (1973) Hedda (1975)
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Jodie Foster
2 Wins, 3 Nominations: **The Accused (1988) **The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Nell (1994)
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Sally Field
2 Wins, 2 Nominations: **Norma Rae (1979) **Places in the Heart (1984)
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Vivien Leigh
2 Wins, 2 Nominations: **Gone with the Wind (1939) **A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
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Luise Rainer
2 Wins, 2 Nominations: **The Great Ziegfeld (1936) **The Good Earth (1937)
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Emma Stone
2 Wins, 2 Nominations: **La La Land (2016) **Poor Things (2023)
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Hilary Swank
2 Wins, 2 Nominations: **Boys Don't Cry (1999) **Million Dollar Baby (2004)
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Most Nominated Actress Without a Win
Deborah Kerr (6)
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Daniel Day-Lewis
3 Wins, 6 Nominations: **My Left Foot (1989) In the Name of the Father (1993) Gangs of New York (2002) **There Will Be Blood (2007) **Lincoln (2012) Phantom Thread (2017)
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Spencer Tracy
2 Wins, 9 Nominations: San Francisco (1936) **Captain Courageous (1937) **Boys Town (1938) Father of the Bride (1950) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) The Old Man and the Sea (1958) Inherit the Wind (1960) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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Jack Nicholson
2 Wins, 8 Nominations: Five Easy Pieces (1970) The Last Detail (1973) Chinatown (1974) **One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Prizzi's Honor (1985) Ironweed (1987) **As Good at It Gets (1997) About Schmidt (2002)
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Marlon Brando
2 Wins, 7 Nominations: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Viva Zapata (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) **On the Waterfront (1954) Sayonara (1957) **The Godfather (1972) Last Tango in Paris (1973)
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Dustin Hoffman
2 Wins, 7 Nominations: The Graduate (1967) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Lenny (1974) **Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Tootsie (1982) **Rain Man (1988) Wag the Dog (1997)
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Gary Cooper
2 Wins, 5 Nominations: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town **Sergeant York (1941) The Pride of the Yankees (1942) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) **High Noon (1952)
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Tom Hanks
2 Wins, 5 Nominations: Big (1988) **Philadelphia (1993) **Forrest Gump (1994) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Cast Away (2000)
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Fredric March
2 Wins, 5 Nominations: The Royal Family of Broadway (1931) **Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) A Star is Born (1937) **The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Death of a Salesman (1951)
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Sean Penn
2 Wins, 5 Nominations: Dead Man Walking (1995) Sweet and Lowdown (1999) I Am Sam (2001) **Mystic River (2003) **Milk (2008)
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Anthony Hopkins
2 Wins, 4 Nominations: **The Silence of the Lambs (1991) The Remains of the Day (1993) Nixon (1995) **The Father (2020)
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Most Nominated Actor Without a Win
Peter O'Toole (8)

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