Academy award male actors: 59 Photos
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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.
| Academy Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1929 |
| Most recent winner | Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (2024) |
| Most awards | Daniel Day-Lewis (3) |
No male actor has yet won four Academy Awards but three have achieved a hat-trick, with Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis and the little-remembered Water Brennan, all in the 'three Oscars' club.
Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actor of all, with twenty-one nominations. Jack Nicholson has received the most Academy Award nominations for any male actor with twelve nominations. Both actors have had three wins which included two for lead roles and one for a supporting role.
Daniel Day-Lewis. Daniel Day-Lewis became the first and currently only man to win three best actor Oscars, while Frances McDormand became only the second woman and third of her counterparts overall to achieve the same. Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937 and 1941.
Academy Award for best actor | Years, Winners, photo images
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