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Oscar Trivia: Two-Time Best Actor Winners

April 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Maggie Van Ostrand
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It’s tough enough to win an Oscar, especially with stiff competition, but here are Best Actors who defied the odds, not once, but twice:

Marlon Brando for On The Waterfront (1954) and The Godfather (1972)
Gary Cooper for Sergeant York (1941) and High Noon (1952)
Dustin Hoffman for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man (1988)
Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and As Good As It Gets (1997)
Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Daniel Day-Lewis for My Left Foot (1989) and There Will Be Blood (2007)
Sean Penn for Mystic River (2003) and Milk (2008)

Even more unusual: only two actors have ever won two Best Actor Oscars in consecutive years:

Spencer Tracy for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938)
Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (1994) and Forrest Gump (1995)

No actor has ever won three Best Actor Academy Awards, although Jack Nicholson has two for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor and Walter Brennan won three times in the Best Supporting Actor category.

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About the Author
Maggie Van Ostrand is ashamed to not be a geek, but she’s proud to have once attended a Star Trek convention where Bill Shatner spoke to her. He said “Hi. Are you anybody?” Maggie graduated from college so long ago, she can’t remember the name of it but thinks it was somewhere in New York. She majored in stuff that has nothing to do with anything she does today, except the classes she audited at the AFI. She knows little or nothing about comic book characters unless they’re drawn by Robert Crumb. She knows nothing of gaming outside of Vegas, and still thinks Moonlight was way better than True Blood. She is here because she reminds the publisher of his grandmother and he felt sorry for her. Her favorites are anything by Billy Wilder, Godfather I and II, Lawrence of Arabia, & Young Frankenstein. She writes political satire for Huffington Post, was head writer for movie trivia TV show; writes a column about Old West characters; was TV comedy ghostwriter; humor columnist for newspapers and online publications, and other boring stuff. Twitter: @magpie99 Website: www.maggievanostrand.com
2 Comments
  1. Jenni Lou April 13, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    For best supporting actor, Jason Robards won two consecutive years as well. In 76 and 77 for All the King’s Men and Julia, respectively. I loved that guy!

  2. maggie van ostrand April 13, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    I love Jason Robards, too. Very sexy. I think my favorite role of his (for me) was All the President’s Men.

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