Who Has Won the Most Oscars? Plus Answers to More Burning Questions About the Academy Awards
Grab your ballots, ladies and gents. In honor of the 92nd annual Academy Awards, we’ve compiled a list of FAQ about the Oscars: When are the Academy Awards? How do I watch them? And who has won the most Oscars?
Keep reading for all the details.
1. Who Has Won the Most Oscars?
Walt Disney currently holds the record for the most wins by a single person, with a total of 22 Oscars. Winning categories include Best Short Subject (Cartoon), Best Short Subject (Two-reel), Best Documentary (Feature) and Best Documentary (Short Subject).
2. Who has won the most acting Oscars?
Disney may have the most Academy Awards, but Katharine Hepburn holds the record for the most acting Oscars. She won Best Actress on four different occasions, for Morning Glory in 1933, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 1967, The Lion in Winter in 1968 and On Golden Pond in 1981. That number doesn’t even include the eight times she was nominated but didn’t win.
3. Which film has won the most Oscars?
A trio of films have each won 11 Academy Awards, making it a three-way tie between: Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). Titanic we might have expected, but LOTR? Surprising…
4. When are the 2020 Oscars?
The 92nd annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 9, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. For the second year in a row, the ceremony will have no host. (Sorry, Kevin Hart.)
5. How do I watch the 2020 Oscars?
The ceremony will be exclusively broadcast on ABC and abc.com. (Subscribers can also watch using the ABC app.) The actual Oscars ceremony will begin at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and end at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT, so set your DVRs.
6. Who's nominated?
All the usual suspects, including The Irishman, Joker, Little Women and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Joker currently leads the nominations with a total of 11 nods. While some noteworthy films were snubbed—like Hustlers, The Farewell and Frozen 2—the list is practically a replica of the 2020 Golden Globe nominations…with a few exceptions.
