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49th/50th supporting actor oscar winner: 60 Photos

John Mills winning Best Supporting Actor

Maggie Smith presenting John Mills with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Ryans Daughter at the...

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Walter Brennan. 1. Walter Brennan. In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(8bXFZoi9JM-G0PEP3oiJ6Qo__19,
Walter Brennan. Walter Brennan was the inaugural winner, thrice over, for: Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), & The Westerner (1940). Joseph Schildkraut won for The Life of Émile Zola (1937). Thomas Mitchell won for Stagecoach (1939); first male to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
No performer has yet managed to win both awards in the same year and out of the 12 artists to have been nominated in both categories, only seven of them went home with an award under their arm - Jamie Foxx for his portrayal of Ray Charles in Ray was the last to do so in 2004.
Denzel Washington (2001) Denzel Washington became the 11th actor to win in both the lead and supporting categories.
Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson, who have three Oscars apiece, are tied as the actors with the most Academy Award wins, while three actresses — Ingrid Bergman, Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep — have also won three Oscars. Day-Lewis is the only man with three Oscars for best actor.