Most Wins - 3 or More

Buster Keaton, Actor/Director - 6 total

1919-20: Best Short: One Week
1920-21: Best Short: The Playhouse
1921-22: Best Short: Cops
1923-24: Best Picture: Sherlock Jr.
1926-27: Best Actor: The General
1936: Best Short: Grand Slam Opera

Luis Buñuel, Director - 4 total

1928-29: Best Short: Un chien andalou

1930-31: Best Picture: L’Age d’Or

1932-33: Best Short: Land Without Bread

1967: Best Picture: Belle de Jour

Cate Blanchett, Actor - 4 total

1998: Best Actress: Elizabeth
2007: Supporting Actress: I’m Not There
2013: Best Actress: Blue Jasmine

2022: Best Actress: TAR

Alain Resnais, Director - 4 total

1955: Best Short: Night and Fog
1956: Best Short: All the World’s Memory
1959: Best Picture: Hiroshima Mon Amour
1961: Best Picture: Last Year at Marienbad

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Director - 4 total

1972: Best Miniseries/TV Film: Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

1973: Best Miniseries/TV Film: World on a Wire

1975: Best Miniseries/TV Film: Fear of Fear

1979: Best Picture: The Marriage of Maria Braun

Charlie Chapin, Director - 4 total

1914-15: Best Short: The Champion 

1915-16: Best Short: One A.M. 

1916-17: Best Short: The Immigrant

1920-21: Best Picture: The Kid

Lon Chaney, Actor/Makeup - 3 total

1920-21: Best Actor: The Penalty

1925-26: Special Award - Best Makeup: The Phantom of the Opera

1926-27: Supporting Actor: Tell It to the Marines

James Stewart, Actor - 3 total

1939: Best Actor: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 

1946: Best Actor: It's a Wonderful Life 

1958: Best Actor: Vertigo

Carl Theodor Dreyer, Director - 3 total

1927-28: Best Picture: The Passion of Joan of Arc 

1948: Best Short: They Caught the Ferry 

1955: Best Picture: Ordet (tie)

Orson Welles, Actor/Director - 3 total

1941: Best Picture: Citizen Kane

1941: Best Actor: Citizen Kane

1949: Supporting Actor: The Third Man

Don Hertzfeldt, Animator/Director - 3 total

2015: Best Short: World of Tomorrow

2017: Best Short: World of Tomorrow 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts

2024: Best Short: ME

Ray Evans & Jay Livingston, Songwriter/Composer - 3 total

1948: Best Original Song: "Buttons and Bows" (The Paleface)

1950: Best Original Song: "Mona Lisa" (Captain Carey, U.S.A.)

1956: Best Original Song: "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" (The Man Who Knew Too Much)

Others with 3 song wins, different partners - Johnny Mercer (lyrics), Paul McCartney (2 w John 1 w/Linda), Giorgio Moroder (music)

Most Nominations Without a Win

I love 'em but I just couldn't find a way to get them an award, so here's a favorite actor and director with a list of their nominations.

Michèle Morgan, Actress - 7 total 

1938: Port of Shadows

1941: Stormy Waters

1942: Joan of Paris

1946: Pastoral Symphony

1951: The Strange Madame X

1954: Obsession

1957: Retour de manivel

Films I've Seen, Ranked

Mikio Naruse, Director - 7 total

1935: Wife! Be Like a Rose

1952: Lightning

1952: Mother

1954: The Sound of the Mountain

1960: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1964: Yearning

1967: Scattered Clouds (aka, Two in the Shadow)

Films I've Seen, Ranked

* 2 wins acting: Lillian Gish, Ana May Wong, Emil Jannings, Michael Simon, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Maggie Smith, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Steve Buscemi

* 2 wins directing: Howard Hawks, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Satyajit Ray (feature & short), Terry Gilliam (feature & short), Krzysztof Kieslowski (feature & miniseries), Aleksandr Petrov (short), Hayao Miyazaki (feature & short)

* 2 as actor and director: Lawrence Olivier, Victor Sjöström (same picture)

* 2 wins TV movie/Miniseries: Gareth Davies, Fielder Cook, Rudolph Cartier, Ken Burns 

* 2 wins song: Harry Warren and Al Dubin, Harold Arlen (music), Irving Berlin, Henry Mancini (music), Lennon and McCartney, Alan Menken (music), Bruce Springsteen

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