Here's a ranking of the 9 actresses who have won the most Academy Awards for Best Actress. If they win the same number of awards, they are ranked according to the total number of Oscar nominations they have received in their acting careers.
9. Elizabeth Taylor: 2 awards (5 nominations)
In 1961, she won the 33rd Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Butterfield 8. In 1967, she wrote her book "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (Who's Afraid). his outstanding performance won the Best Actress Award at the 39th Academy Awards. Three other films were nominated for Raintree County (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1959), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1960).
Taylor died in 2011 at the age of 79. Since the 1940s, Taylor has also been a passionate activist, fighting for causes such as AIDS treatment, as well as a successful entrepreneur with products ranging from perfumes to jewelry. She is considered a legend in the industry.
8 Frances McDormand: 2 awards (5 nominations)
In 1996, he starred in the thriller suspense film "Fargo", which won the Best Actress Award at the 69th Academy Awards.
In 2018, she won the Best Actress Award at the 90th Academy Awards for her crime comedy film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Three other nominated films include Mississippi Burning (1989), Almost Famous (2001) and North Country (2006).
She is considered one of the most talented actors in the world, winning triple crowns, including Emmys and Tony Awards.
7 Olivia De Havilland: 2 awards (5 nominations)
In 1946, she won the Best Actress Award at the 19th Academy Awards for her performance in the feature film "The Seeds of the Wind".
In 1950, two years after winning the Oscar, Olivier De Havland starred with Montgomery Clift in William Wheeler's love film Heiress, in which she played the role of Miss Catherine. For her outstanding performance in the film, she won the Best Actress Award at the 22nd Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
In 1939, she starred with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in the war film "Gone with the Wind" directed by George Cook, and was nominated for the 12th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Melanie.
In 1941, she was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the 14th Academy Awards for her role in the love film "Good Night".
In 1948, she was nominated for the 21st Academy Award for Best Actress for her outstanding performance in the feature film "Poison Dragon Pond".
Olivier de Havran, by far the longest-lived Academy Award for Best Actress, died peacefully at her home in Paris, France, on July 25, 2020, at the age of 104.
6. Maggie Smith: 2 awards (6 nominations)
As one of several women on the list who won the two Academy Awards for Best Actress, in 1970, at the 42nd Academy Awards, Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Spring Wind And Rain".
In 1973, at the 45th Academy Awards, Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Traveling with My Aunt.
In addition to the above two nominations and awards, she has also received 4 nominations.
She gained prominence for her portrayal of Mrs. Violet Crowley, Countess of Grantham, in Downton Abbey and won three Emmy Awards. At the age of 85, she is still acting. It can be said that it is a labor model in the show business.
5. Jane Fonda: 2 awards (7 nominations)
Jane Fonda is now leading the way in the Netflix comedy Grace & Frankie, which for decades has been in film and television. Although she had a short break, it came after she consolidated her position in Hollywood with two Academy Awards for Best Actress, one won the 44th Academy Award for Best Actress in 1972 for starring in the thriller "Willow Lane Fangcao", and the other won the 51st Academy Award for Best Actress in 1979 for her role in the war film "Homecoming".
She has also been nominated 5 times. She is not only a talented actress but also a passionate activist.
4. Ingrid Bergman: 2 awards (7 nominations)
In 1945, she won the Best Actress Award at the 17th Academy Awards for the film "Under the Gaslight"
In 1957, she won the 29th Academy Award for Best Actress for the film "True and False Princess"
She has also been nominated 5 times. Bergman, who died of breast cancer in 1982 at the age of 67, was hailed by the Motion Picture Association of America as one of the greatest female screen legends in Hollywood's classic films.
3. Bette Davis: 2 awards (10 nominations)
The film icon won only two Academy Awards for Best Actress--- one for Dangerous (1936) and the other for Jezebel (1939) — but the envy is that she received a total of 10 nominations, becoming the first actress to receive the award. Betty Davis died in 1989 at the age of 81.
2. Meryl Streep: 3 wins (21 nominations)
As queen of Hollywood, Streep's nominations are simply too numerous! In total, there were as many as 21 times. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress three times. They are Kramer vs. Kramer (1980), Sophie's Choice (1983) and The Iron Lady (2012).
Katharine Hepburn: 4 wins (12 nominations)
Few actresses have won more Academy Awards for Best Actress than Hepburn over the years. 4 wins, for a total of 12 nominations.
In 1934, she won the Best Actress Award at the 6th Academy Awards for Morning Glory.
In 1967, she won the Best Actress Award at the 40th Academy Awards for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
In 1968, she won the Best Actress Award at the 41st Academy Awards for The Lion in the Winter.
In 1982, she won the Best Actress Award at the 54th Academy Awards for "On Golden Pond".
The other eight nominated films are "Alice Adams," "The Philadelphia Story," "Woman of the Year," "The African Queen," "Summertime," "The Rainmaker," "Suddenly, Last Summer), "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
Hepburn lived to be 96 and died in 2003. She is a talented actress, confident and the embodiment of the modern woman.