Oscar Ranking: Winners All Time
by pierre-diego-243-58142 | created - 06 Feb 2012 | updated - 09 Dec 2015 | PublicInformation obtained ONLY from IMDB Has at least 2 Oscars
1. Walt Disney
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Flora Disney (née Call) and Elias Disney, a Canadian-born farmer and businessperson. He had Irish, German, and English ancestry. Walt moved with his parents to Kansas City at age seven, where he spent the majority of ...
22 Oscars + 37 nominations
2. Cedric Gibbons
Art_director | Gaslight
After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, ...
11 Oscars + 28 nominations
3. Alfred Newman
Music_department | The King and I
Alfred Newman is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music.
From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated ...
9 Oscars + 36 nominations
4. Edith Head
Costume_department | Sabrina
Edith Head was born on October 28, 1897 in San Bernardino, California, USA. She was a costume designer and actress, known for Sabrina (1954), All About Eve (1950) and Roman Holiday (1953). She was married to Wiard Ihnen and Charles Head. She died on October 24, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
8 Oscars + 27 nominations
5. Edwin B. Willis
Set_decorator | Gaslight
Edwin B. Willis was born on January 28, 1893 in Decatur, Illinois, USA. He was a set decorator and art director, known for Gaslight (1944), An American in Paris (1951) and The Thin Man (1934). He was married to Naomi Agnes. He died on November 26, 1963 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
8 Oscars + 24 nominations
6. Alan Menken
Soundtrack | Beauty and the Beast
Alan Menken is an American composer, songwriter, music conductor, director and record producer.
Menken is best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and ...
Best Musician Alive [OSCAR] 8 Oscars + 8 nominations
7. Fred Quimby
Producer | The Little Orphan
Fred Quimby was an American animation producer. He served as the executive in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio from 1937 to 1955. He worked with prominent directors, such as Tex Avery, Joseph Barbera, and William Hanna. His studio won 8 Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film. ...
8 Oscars + 6 nominations 79 years
8. Douglas Shearer
Sound_department | The Wizard of Oz
Douglas Shearer came to MGM to visit his sister, Norma Shearer, and was hired as an assistant in the camera department. When MGM decided to make sound pictures, Douglas was appointed head of the sound department. In 1928, Douglas took the silent 'White Shadows in the South Seas' to a New Jersey ...
7 Oscars + 14 Nominations 71 years
9. Richard Day
Art_director | On the Waterfront
Richard Day's film career began in 1918 when director Erich von Stroheim hired him as a set decorator. His work so impressed von Stroheim that the director kept Day as a set decorator, then an art director, and costume designer on many of his productions. Day left von Stroheim and struck out on his...
7 Oscars + 13 Nominations 76 Years
10. Gary Rydstrom
Sound_department | Jurassic Park
Gary Rydstrom, Director of Creative Operations/Sound Designer and Mixer, joined Skywalker Sound in 1983 as an operator in the machine room. Since then, he has contributed his talents to many projects as a sound designer, re-recording mixer, effects mixer and foley mixer. In 1998, Rydstrom was ...
7 Oscars + 10 nominations June 29, 1959
11. Rick Baker
Make_up_department | Planet of the Apes
Rick Baker was born on December 8, 1950 in Binghamton, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Planet of the Apes (2001), Men in Black (1997) and The Wolfman (2010). He has been married to Silvia Abascal since November 8, 1987. They have two children. He was previously married to Elaine Alexander.
Best Maker Up Alive [OSCAR] 7 Oscars + 5 nominations
12. Gordon Hollingshead
Producer | I Won't Play
Gordon Hollingshead was born on January 8, 1892 in Garfield, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and assistant director, known for I Won't Play (1944), A Boy and His Dog (1946) and Star in the Night (1945). He was married to Axeliane Kristine Stoltenberg Bull Larsen. He died on July 8, 1952 in ...
6 Oscars + 16 nominations 60 years
13. Walter M. Scott
Set_decorator | The King and I
Walter M. Scott was born on November 7, 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a set decorator, known for The King and I (1956), Cleopatra (1963) and The Sound of Music (1965). He died on February 2, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
6 Oscars + 15 Nominations 82 years
14. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
6 Oscars + 15 nominations 95 years
15. Thomas Little
Set_decorator | How Green Was My Valley
Thomas Little was born on August 27, 1886 in Ogden, Utah, USA. He was a set decorator, known for How Green Was My Valley (1941), Laura (1944) and All About Eve (1950). He was married to Eliza. He died on March 5, 1985 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
6 Oscars + 15 nominations 98 years
16. Dennis Muren
Visual_effects | Jurassic Park
Dennis Muren is the Senior Visual Effects Supervisor and Creative Director of Industrial Light & Magic. A recipient of nine Oscars for Best Achievement in Visual Effects and a Technical Achievement Academy Award®, Muren is actively involved in the evolution of the company, as well as the design and...
Best Visual Effect Alive [OSCAR] 6 Oscars + 7 nominations
17. John Williams
Composer | Jurassic Park
As one of the best known, awarded, and financially successful composers in US history, John Williams is as easy to recall as John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland or Leonard Bernstein, illustrating why he is "America's composer" time and again. With a massive list of awards that includes over 52 Oscar ...
5 Oscars + 44 nominations
18. Lyle R. Wheeler
Art_director | Gone with the Wind
He was known as the 'dean of Hollywood art directors'. Lyle Wheeler worked on more than 350 films, winning five Academy Awards ("Gone with the Wind", "Anna and the King of Siam"', The Robe (1953), The King and I (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)) and was nominated for twenty-four others. ...
5 Oscars + 24 nominations 84 years
19. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
5 Oscars + 9 nominations Best Producer Alive [OSCAR]
20. Irene Sharaff
Costume_designer | West Side Story
Nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, charismatic costumer Irene Sharaff once declared "you can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a a rare thing" (NY Times, August 17, 1993). During her long and distinguished career, Sharaff became known as much for her meticulous attention to detail ...
5 Oscars + 11 nominations 83 years
21. Johnny Green
Music_department | West Side Story
Composer-pianist-arranger Johnny Green was born in Far Rockaway, New York. The son of musical parents, Green was accepted by Harvard at the age of 15, and entered the University in 1924. Between semesters, bandleader Guy Lombardo heard his Harvard Gold Coast Orchestra and hired him to create dance ...
5 Oscars + 9 Nominations 80 years
22. Edward Selzer
Producer | The Bugs Bunny Show
There's some cosmic irony that a man like Edward Selzer would reign over Warner Brothers animation division during its heyday. When Warner Brothers bought the studio in 1944, Selzer was assigned as studio head, essentially replacing former owner Leon Schlesinger. Whereas Schlesinger was undeniably ...
5 Oscars + 7 Nominations 77 years
23. John Barry
Soundtrack | Out of Africa
John Barry was born in York, England in 1933, and was the youngest of three children. His father, Jack, owned several local cinemas and by the age of fourteen, Barry was capable of running the projection box on his own - in particular, The Rialto in York. As he was brought up in a cinematic ...
5 Oscars + 2 nominations 77 years
24. Fred Hynes
Sound_department | The Sound of Music
Fred Hynes was born on May 8, 1908 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He is known for The Sound of Music (1965), Cleopatra (1963) and Oklahoma! (1955). He was married to Donna Murphy. He died on February 10, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
5 Oscars + 2 Nominations 83 years
25. Richard Taylor
Special_effects | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Richard Taylor is known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), King Kong (2005) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
5 Oscars + 1 nomination
26. Sammy Cahn
Soundtrack | Die Hard
Award-winning songwriter ("All the Way" [Academy Award, 1957], "Three Coins in the Fountain" [Academy Award, 1954], "Love and Marriage" [Emmy Award, 1955], "High Hopes" [Academy Award, 1959], "Call Me Irresponsible" [Academy Award, 1963]), composer, author and publisher, educated at Seward Park ...
4 Oscars + 22 Nominations 79 years
27. Sam Comer
Set_decorator | Vertigo
Sam Comer was born on July 13, 1893 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. Sam was a set decorator, known for Vertigo (1958), Sunset Blvd. (1950) and To Catch a Thief (1955). Sam died on December 27, 1974 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA.
4 Oscars + 22 Nominations 81 years
28. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
Best Writer Alive [OSCAR] 4 Oscars + 20 nominations
29. Dimitri Tiomkin
Soundtrack | High Noon
Dimitri Tiomkin was a Russian Jewish composer who emigrated to America and became one of the most distinguished and best-loved music writers of Hollywood. He won a hallowed place in the pantheon of the most successful and productive composers in American film history, earning himself four Oscars ...
4 Oscars + 18 nominations 85 years
30. Johnny Mercer
Soundtrack | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Johnny Mercer started his career as singer and songwriter for Paul Whiteman. He started writing songs for Hollywood in 1935, where he also had a few small parts in musicals. Among his famous songs is the inoffical anthem of Hollywood, "Hooray For Hollywood" that he wrote for the movie "Hollywood ...
4 Oscars + 15 Nominations 66 years
31. Henry Mancini
Soundtrack | Breakfast at Tiffany's
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, but brought up in Pennsylvania, where he played the flute in a local band, as a youth, before sending some arrangements to Benny Goodman. Goodman offered him a job and, after serving in WWII, he joined the rearranged Glenn Miller band. In 1952, he was given a two-week ...
4 Oscars + 14 nominations 70 years
32. Leon Shamroy
Cinematographer | Cleopatra
Leon Shamroy, born Leon Shamroyevsky, was an American film cinematographer. He is best known for The Black Swan (1942),Wilson (1944), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), David and Bathsheba (1951), The Robe (1953), Cleopatra (1963), The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) and Planet of the Apes (1968).
He and ...
4 Oscars + 14 nominations 72 years
33. Jimmy Van Heusen
Soundtrack | Going My Way
Jimmy Van Heusen was inarguably one of the most accomplished songwriters in history. Claiming four "Oscars" and one Emmy award among his credits he also wrote more songs (85) recorded by Frank Sinatra, his long time friend, than any other composer. He also composed the songs for another good friend...
4 Oscars + 10 Nominations 77 years
34. Christopher Boyes
Sound_department | Avatar
Christopher Boyes is known for Avatar (2009), King Kong (2005) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
4 Oscars + 10 Nominations No information about his age conferir
35. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
4 Oscars + 9 nominations November 29, 1954
36. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
4 Oscars + 9 nominations September 21, 1957
37. André Previn
Music_department | My Fair Lady
German-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor André George Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin, in Berlin) was for eight decades a hugely influential and prolific figure in jazz, as well as classical and film music. Being Jewish, Previn's family was forced to leave Hitler's Germany in ...
4 Oscars + 9 Nominations 04 June 1929
38. George James Hopkins
Set_decorator | A Streetcar Named Desire
George James Hopkins was born on March 23, 1896 in Pasadena, California, USA. He was a set decorator and costume designer, known for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), My Fair Lady (1964) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). He died on February 11, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
4 Oscars + 9 nominations 88 years
39. Katharine Hepburn
Actress | The Lion in Winter
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...
4 Oscars + 8 nominations 96 years
40. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
4 Oscars + 7 nominations May 31, 1930
41. Stan Winston
Make_up_department | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Stan Winston was born on April 7, 1946 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Jurassic Park (1993) and Aliens (1986). He was married to Karen Winston. He died on June 15, 2008 in Malibu, California, USA.
4 Oscars + 6 nominations 62 years
42. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer | All About Eve
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount ...
4 Oscars + 6 nominations
43. Fred Zinnemann
Director | A Man for All Seasons
Initially grew up wanting to be a violinist, but while at the University of Vienna decided to study law. While doing so, he became increasingly interested in American film and decided that was what he wanted to do. He became involved in European filmaking for a short time before going to America to...
4 Oscars + 6 nominations 89 years
44. Joseph Ruttenberg
Cinematographer | Gaslight
Four-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1893, at the age of four, his family moved to the United States, eventually settling in Boston. After schooling, he got his first job in 1907 working as a newsboy and personal runner for William ...
4 Oscars + 6 nominations 93 years
45. Gary Summers
Sound_department | Jurassic Park
Gary Summers has worked as a Motion Picture Re-recording Mixer for the past forty years. His career in sound began in 1979 when he was employed by Lucas Film Ltd. as a sound recordist to work on "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back". His abilities as a Re-recording Mixer were first used in 1983 on "...
4 Oscars + 6 Nominations conferir No information about his age
46. Joe Letteri
Visual_effects | Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Joe Letteri's pioneering work in visual effects has earned him four Academy® Awards for Best Visual Effects - for Avatar, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and King Kong. He has a long-standing interest in creating compelling, realistic creatures ...
4 Oscars + 5 nomination 1957
47. Milena Canonero
Costume_designer | The Grand Budapest Hotel
Milena Canonero grew up in Genoa. She studied design and costume in Genoa before moving to England to finish her studies. Milena's film career started with Stanley Kubrick, designing the costumes for three of his films: Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), winning her first of her four ...
4 Oscars + 5 nominations January 1, 1946 Best Costume Designer Alive[OSCAR]
48. Scott Millan
Sound_department | 1917
Scott Millan Scott is a four-time Oscar® winning Re-recording mixer and has served as the Sound Director for Technicolor at Paramount. In this capacity he has overseen creative development of the company's recent venture into theatrical sound services and earned his ninth Academy Award nomination ...
4 Oscars + 5 Nominations conferir No information about his age
49. F. Keogh Gleason
Art_department | An American in Paris
F. Keogh Gleason was born on April 14, 1906 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. F. Keogh was a set decorator, known for An American in Paris (1951), Gigi (1958) and The Time Machine (1960). F. Keogh died on December 18, 1982 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
4 Oscars + 3 Nominations 76 years
50. Bob Beemer
Sound_department | Dreamgirls
Bob Beemer was born on February 8, 1955 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for Dreamgirls (2006), Speed (1994) and Gladiator (2000).
4 Oscars + 3 Nominations February 08, 1955
51. Ken Ralston
Visual_effects | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Ken Ralston was born in 1954 in the USA. He is an assistant director, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Contact (1997) and Forrest Gump (1994).
4 Oscars + 3 nominations January 1, 1954
52. Robert Wise
Director | West Side Story
Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...
4 Oscars + 3 nominations 91 years
53. Catherine Martin
Producer | Moulin Rouge!
Catherine Martin was born on January 26, 1965 in Lindfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is a producer and costume designer, known for Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Great Gatsby (2013) and Australia (2008). She has been married to Baz Luhrmann since January 26, 1997. They have two children.
4 Oscars + 2 nominations January 26, 1965
54. Nick Park
Writer | The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Nick Park was born on December 6, 1958 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993).
4 Oscars + 2 nominations February 06, 1958
55. John Ford
Director | The Quiet Man
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...
4 Oscars + 2 nominations 79 years
56. John Box
Production_designer | Rollerball
John Box was born on January 27, 1920 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was a production designer and art director, known for Rollerball (1975), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965). He was married to Doris Lee and Barbara Courtenay. He died on March 7, 2005 in Leatherhead, ...
4 Oscars + 2 Nominations 85 years
57. Mark Berger
Sound_department | The English Patient
Mark Berger was born on May 14, 1943 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is known for The English Patient (1996), Amadeus (1984) and Apocalypse Now (1979).
4 Oscars May 14, 1943
58. Max Steiner
Composer | Casablanca
Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. He was born Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria, the son of Marie Mizzi (Hasiba) and Gabor Steiner, an impresario, and the grandson of actor and theater director and ...
3 Oscars + 21 nominations 83 years
59. Hans Dreier
Art_director | Sunset Blvd.
The extraordinarily prolific and eclectic art director Hans Dreier studied at Munich University where he majored in engineering and architecture. Following military service during the First World War, he spent time working as a supervising architect in the Cameroons and South Africa. Between 1919 ...
3 Oscars + 20 Nominations 81 years
60. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
Best Actress Alive [OSCAR] 3 Oscars + 16 nominations June 22, 1949
61. Ray Heindorf
Music_department | The Music Man
Raymond John Heindorf was born August 25, 1908. in Haverstraw, New York. He grew up in Mechanicville, New York, where he moved to when he was about 10 years old. In 1926 he graduated from Mechanicville High School. He was interested in cars and machinery; he loved to play pool with his father, the ...
3 Oscars + 15 nominations 71 years
62. Morris Stoloff
Music_department | From Here to Eternity
Morris Stoloff was born on August 1, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for From Here to Eternity (1953), In a Lonely Place (1950) and Gilda (1946). He died on April 16, 1980 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
3 Oscars + 15 nominations 81 years
63. Thomas T. Moulton
Thomas T. Moulton was born on January 1, 1896 in Wausau, Wisconsin, USA. Thomas T. died on March 29, 1967 in Fresno, California, USA.
3 Oscars + 14 nominations 71 years
64. Miklós Rózsa
Composer | Ben-Hur
A child prodigy, Miklos Rózsa learned to play the violin at the age of five and read music before he was able to read words. In 1926, he began studying at the Leipzig Conservatory where he was considered a brilliant student. He obtained his doctorate in music in 1930. Moving to Paris the following ...
3 Oscars + 14 nominations 88 years
65. John P. Livadary
Sound_department | Pal Joey
John P. Livadary was born on May 20, 1896 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]. He is known for Pal Joey (1957), The Men in Her Life (1941) and The Eddy Duchin Story (1956). He died on April 7, 1987 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
3 Oscars + 14 Nominations 90 Years
66. Alan Bergman
Soundtrack | Tootsie
Prolific songwriter ("Nice 'n' Easy", "Yellow Bird"), composer and author, educated at UCLA and the University of Northern Carolina (BA). During WW II, he wrote and directed Special Services shows, then directed TV shows for CBS in Philadelphia, PA from 1945-1953. He joined ASCAP in 1955 and wrote ...
3 Oscars + 13 Nominations September 11, 1925
67. Marilyn Bergman
Soundtrack | Tootsie
Prolific songwriter ("Nice 'n' Easy", "Yellow Bird"), composer and author Marilyn Bergman wrote several theme songs for television and songs for revues, night clubs, and films. Joining ASCAP in 1953, her chief musical collaborators included her husband Alan Bergman, Lew Spence, Norman Luboff, Paul ...
3 Oscars + 13 Nominations November 10, 1929
68. Gordon Sawyer
Sound_department | The Alamo
For over 50 years, Gordon E. Sawyer served as the Sound Director for Samuel Goldwyn Studios, and later for M.G.M. He was honored with three Oscars for his work on The Bishop's Wife (1947), The Alamo (1960), and West Side Story (1961), and received twelve additional Oscar nominations over the course...
3 Oscars + 13 Nominations 74 years
69. Paul Francis Webster
Soundtrack | Calamity Jane
Paul Francis Webster was born on December 20, 1907 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Calamity Jane (1953), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) and Spider-Man (2002). He died on March 22, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
3 Oscars + 13 Nominations 76 years
70. Robert Surtees
Cinematographer | Ben-Hur
Robert L. Surtees began his working life as a portrait photographer and retoucher, before becoming camera assistant at Universal in 1927. He spent a lengthy apprenticeship (15 years) working under such experienced cinematographers as Hal Mohr, Joseph Ruttenberg and Gregg Toland. Between 1929 and ...
3 Oscars + 13 Nominations 78 years
71. Charles Le Maire
Costume_department | All About Eve
Charles Le Maire was born on April 22, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a costume designer, known for All About Eve (1950), An Affair to Remember (1957) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). He was married to Beatrice Goetz and Sandra Hahle. He died on June 8, 1985 in Palm Springs, California,...
3 Oscars + 13 nominations 88 years
72. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
3 Oscars + 12 nominations
73. Robert Surtees
Cinematographer | Ben-Hur
Robert L. Surtees began his working life as a portrait photographer and retoucher, before becoming camera assistant at Universal in 1927. He spent a lengthy apprenticeship (15 years) working under such experienced cinematographers as Hal Mohr, Joseph Ruttenberg and Gregg Toland. Between 1929 and ...
3 Oscars + 12 nominations 78 years
74. Stephen Bosustow
Producer | Gerald McBoing-Boing
Stephen Bosustow was born on November 6, 1911 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He was a producer and writer, known for Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950), When Magoo Flew (1954) and Rooty Toot Toot (1951). He died on July 4, 1981.
3 Oscars + 11 nominations 69 years
75. William Wyler
Director | The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...
3 Oscars + 11 nominations 79 years
76. Alexander Golitzen
Production_designer | Spartacus
Alexander Golitzen was a legendary art director, a field in which most worker's names remain relatively unknown. His prolific work in hundreds of films, predominantly at Universal, made his name familiar to many film-goers, at least among those who read credits. Possibly only Cedric Gibbons, at MGM...
3 Oscars + 11 Nominations 97 years
77. Michel Legrand
Composer | The Thomas Crown Affair
Michel Legrand is a three-time Academy Award-winning French composer, conductor and pianist who composed over 200 film and television scores as well as recorded over a hundred albums of jazz, popular and classical music.
He was born on February 24, 1932, in Becon-les-Bruyeres, in the Paris suburbs, ...
3 Oscars + 10 Nominations February 24, 1932
78. Paul S. Fox
Set_decorator | The King and I
Paul S. Fox was born on September 30, 1898 in Corunna, Michigan, USA. He was a set decorator, known for The King and I (1956), Cleopatra (1963) and The Robe (1953). He died in May 1972 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
3 Oscars + 10 nomination 73 years
79. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
Best Actor Alive [OSCAR] 3 Oscars + 9 nomination April 22, 1937
80. Marvin Hamlisch
Composer | The Spy Who Loved Me
Musical talent ran in Marvin Hamlisch's family - his father was an accordionist, and at seven Hamlisch was the youngest student ever accepted by Manhattan's Julliard School of Music. Hamlich furthered his education by taking night classes at Queens College and working during the day as a rehearsal ...
3 Oscars + 9 Nominations 68 years
81. Ned Washington
Music_department | Pinocchio
Prolific American lyricist and songwriter, one of the giants of Tin Pan Alley. He contributed numerous popular standards to jazz and to the big band scene. His catalogue includes such titles as "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (theme song for bandleader Tommy Dorsey), the ballad "I Don't Stand a ...
3 Oscars + 9 nominations 75 years
82. A. Arnold Gillespie
Visual_effects | Ben-Hur
A. Arnold Gillespie was born on October 14, 1899 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He is known for Ben-Hur (1959), The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Forbidden Planet (1956). He was married to Nell Hill and Dora Ingram. He died on May 3, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
3 Oscars + 9 Nominations 78 years
83. Dorothy Jeakins
Costume_designer | The Sound of Music
Distinguished American costume designer, who worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including John Huston, William Wyler, Cecil B. DeMille and Robert Wise. Abandoned by her parents at an early age, Dorothy Jeakins was educated at schools in San Diego and Los Angeles. Early in her ...
3 Oscars + 9 nominations 81 years
84. Ray Moyer
Set_decorator | Sunset Blvd.
Paul Raymond Moyer was born in Santa Barbara, California, son of John Linnington Moyer and Eva Bither. He married Catherine Foote in 1917 and had two daughters, Paula Barbara Moyer and Nancy Carol Moyer. He worked for many years at Paramount Studios, but in his later years worked with John Wayne at...
3 Oscars + 9 Nominations 87 years
85. Michael Minkler
Sound_department | Dreamgirls
Michael Minkler was born on May 14, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Dreamgirls (2006), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Greyhound (2020).
3 Oscars + 8 nominations May 15, 1952
86. Colleen Atwood
Costume_designer | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Colleen Atwood was born on September 25, 1948 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA. She is a costume designer, known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Chicago (2002).
3 Oscars + 8 nominations September 25, 1948
87. Oliver Stone
Director | JFK
Oliver Stone has become known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary film maker. His films are filled with a variety of film angles and styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success.
William Oliver Stone was ...
3 Oscars + 8 nominations September 15, 1946
88. John DeCuir
Art_director | The King and I
John DeCuir was born on June 4, 1918 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for The King and I (1956), Cleopatra (1963) and Hello, Dolly! (1969). He died on October 29, 1991 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
3 Oscars + 8 Nominations 73 years
89. Paul Groesse
Art_director | In the Heat of the Night
Paul Groesse was born on February 28, 1906 in Hungary. He was an art director and production designer, known for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Lili (1953). He died on May 4, 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
3 Oscars + 8 Nominations 81 years
90. Harry Warren
Soundtrack | The Shape of Water
Harry Warren was born on December 24, 1893 in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for The Shape of Water (2017), An Affair to Remember (1957) and Sphere (1998). He was married to Josephine Wensler. He died on September 22, 1981 in Los Angeles, ...
3 Oscars + 8 Nominations 87 years
91. Ray Moyer
Set_decorator | Sunset Blvd.
Paul Raymond Moyer was born in Santa Barbara, California, son of John Linnington Moyer and Eva Bither. He married Catherine Foote in 1917 and had two daughters, Paula Barbara Moyer and Nancy Carol Moyer. He worked for many years at Paramount Studios, but in his later years worked with John Wayne at...
3 Oscars + 8 nominations 87 years
92. Sandy Powell
Costume_designer | Cinderella
Londoner, Sandy, studied at St Martins School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design where she specialised in theatre design, She started her professional career in fringe with the National Theatre working on numerous productions including Orders of Obedience and Rococo, She went on to ...
3 Oscars + 7 nominations April 07, 1960
93. Dante Ferretti
Production_designer | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Dante Ferretti was born on February 26, 1943 in Macerata, Marche, Italy. He is a production designer and set decorator, known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Shutter Island (2010) and The Age of Innocence (1993).
3 Oscars + 7 Nominations February 26, 1943
94. Stuart Craig
Production_designer | The English Patient
Stuart Craig was born on April 14, 1942 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. He is a production designer and art director, known for The English Patient (1996), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). He has been married to Patricia ...
3 Oscars + 7 Nominations April 14, 1942
95. Conrad L. Hall
Cinematographer | Road to Perdition
Born in Tahiti, the son of writer James Norman Hall, author of "Mutiny on the Bounty," Conrad Hall studied filmmaking at USC. He and two classmates formed a production company and sold a project to a local television station. Hall's company branched out into making industrial films and TV ...
3 Oscars + 7 nominations 76 years
96. Robert Knudson
Sound_department | Cabaret
Robert Knudson was born on September 29, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for Cabaret (1972), E.T. (1982) and The Exorcist (1973). He was married to Jean Knudson. He died on January 21, 2006 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
3 Oscars + 7 Nominations 80 years
97. Edward C. Carfagno
Art_director | Ben-Hur
The distinguished art director and production designer Edward Carfagno had a long career under contract to MGM (1943-1970). During that time, he worked on some of the studio's most prestigious films and established a reputation for creating an authentic and accurate period feel. He frequently ...
3 Oscars + 7 Nominations 89 years
98. Peter Jackson
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The ...
3 Oscars + 6 nominations October 31, 1961
99. Greg Cannom
Make_up_department | Vice
Greg Cannom was born in 1951 in the USA. He is known for Vice (2018), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
3 Oscars + 6 Nominations 1951
100. Richard Hymns
Sound_department | Jurassic Park
Richard Hymns has journeyed from film studio tea-boy to Academy Award-winning Supervising Sound Editor. He got his start as a 16-year-old at Elstree Studios in London running tea service to film editing crew members on their breaks, becoming an apprentice editor soon after.
He rose through the ranks...
3 Oscars + 6 Nominations July 18, 1947
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