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, Michel Simon, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Maggie Smith, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington, Steve Buscemi, Carey Mulligan, Judy Davis, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman

* 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), Chris Marker (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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