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Academy Award:
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MOST NOMINATIONS

62
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

59
Walt Disney

43
Alfred Newman

42
Warner Bros.

42
John Williams

38
Cedric Gibbons

35
Edith Head

32
France

32
Edwin B. Willis

29
Lyle Wheeler

26
Sammy Cahn

26
Sam Comer

26
Italy

25
Paramount

MOST AWARDS
[includes statuettes, plaques, medals and certificates]

26
Walt Disney

19
Eastman Kodak Company

17
Panavision, Inc.

13
Italy

13
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

12
France

11
Cedric Gibbons

11
Iain Neil (all Sci/Tech)

10
Farciot Edouart

9
Dennis Muren

9
Alfred Newman

9
Douglas Shearer

9
Technicolor

8
Edith Head

8
Alan Menken

8
Edward H. Reichard

8
Loren L. Ryder

8
Warner Bros.

8
Edwin B. Willis

7
Richard Day

7
Richard Edlund

7
Gordon Hollingshead

7
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Dept.

7
Paramount Studio Engineering Dept.

7
Fred Quimby

7
Gary Rydstrom

7
Billy Wilder

MOST AWARDS (PEOPLE ONLY)
[includes statuettes, plaques, medals and certificates]
[Does not include those who accepted on behalf of companies or countries, or the companies or countries themselves. Names in bold indicate persons still living.]

26
Walt Disney

11
Cedric Gibbons

11
Iain Neil

10
Farciot Edouart

9
Dennis Muren

9
Alfred Newman

9
Douglas Shearer

8
Edith Head

8
Alan Menken

8
Edward H. Reichard

8
Loren L. Ryder

8
Edwin B. Willis

7
Richard Day

7
Richard Edlund

7
Gordon Hollingshead

7
Fred Quimby

7
Gary Rydstrom

7
Billy Wilder

6
Rick Baker

6
Carl Hauge

6
Thomas Little

6
Manfred G. Michelson

6
Glen Robinson

6
Walter M. Scott

5
John Barry

5
Glenn M. Berggren

5
Daniel J. Bloomberg

5
Francis Ford Coppola

5
Charles R. Daily

5
David J. Degenkolb

5
Edmund M. Di Giulio

5
Ray Feeney

5
Johnny Green

5
Bob Hope

5
Gordon Jennings

5
Colin F. Mossman

5
Wadsworth E. Pohl

5
Ken Ralston

5
Edward Selzer

5
Irene Sharaff

5
Petro Vlahos

5
Lyle Wheeler

5
John Williams

5
Geoffrey H. Williamson

5
Robert Wise

4
L. B. Abbott

4
Ioan Allen

4
Mark Berger

4
John Box

4
Charles Brackett

4
Ben Burtt

4
Sammy Cahn

4
Sam Comer

4
Linwood G. Dunn

4
Jonathan Erland

4
John Ford

4
Arthur Freed

4
A. Arnold Gillespie

4
Keogh Gleason

4
Charles Guggenheim

4
Katharine Hepburn

4
Winton Hoch

4
George James Hopkins

4
Stefan Kudelski

4
John Livadary

4
Henry Mancini

4
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

4
Johnny Mercer

4
Alvah J. Miller

4
Takuo Miyagishima

4
André Previn

4
Joseph Ruttenberg

4
Albert Saiki

4
Leon Shamroy

4
Douglas Smythe

4
Sam Spiegel

4
Steven Spielberg

4
Gary Summers

4
Richard Taylor

4
Dimitri Tiomkin

4
James Van Heusen

4
Stan Winston

4
William Wyler

4
Saul Zaentz

4
Fred Zinnemann

BATTING "1000" -- Nominees
[Nominees with 2 or more competitive nominations, winning all]

4
Mark Berger

4
Glen Robinson [plus 2 Sci/Tech Awards]

3
James Acheson

3
Cecil Beaton

3
James Cameron

3
Randall William Cook

3
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

3
Vernon Dixon

3
Alex Funke

3
Winton Hoch [plus 1 Sci/Tech Award]

3
David MacMillan

3
John Meehan (Art Director)

3
Giorgio Moroder

3
Carlo Rambaldi

3
Jim Rygiel

3
Howard Shore

3
United States Navy

3
Saul Zaentz [plus 1 Thalberg Award]

2
Robert Amram

2
David LeRoy Anderson

2
Manuel Arango

2
Richard Attenborough

2
Frank Borzage

2
Pierre Collings

2
Michael Douglas

2
Robert Epstein

2
Sally Field

2
Freddie Francis

2
Roger K. Furse

2
Harry Gerstad

2
Sheridan Gibney

2
Mel Gibson

2
Benjamin Glazer

2
William Goldman

2
Elizabeth Haffenden

2
Mark Jonathan Harris

2
Helen Hayes

2
Rabbi Marvin Hier

2
David Hildyard

2
Ron Howard

2
Thomas Howard

2
Sarah Kernochan

2
Barbara Kopple

2
Ring Lardner, Jr.

2
Vivien Leigh

2
Joe Letteri [plus 1 Sci/Tech Award]

2
Branko Lustig

2
John Mollo

2
Marc Norman

2
Paramount Publix Studio Sound Dept.

2
Paramount Studio [plus 1 Sci/Tech Award]

2
Mario Puzo

2
Luise Rainer

2
Tony Richardson

2
Denis Sanders

2
Tom Scott

2
Robert Skotak

2
Kenneth Smith

2
Kevin Spacey

2
John Stears

2
John Truscott

2
Marcel Vertes

2
Paul Weatherwax

2
Richard Williams [plus 1 Special Achievement Award]

2
Russell Williams II

2
Peter Young

BATTING "0" -- Nominees
[Nominees with 8 or more competitive nominations, winning none]

16
Kevin O'Connell

15
Roland Anderson

15
Alex North [1 Honorary Award]

13
George Folsey

12
Federico Fellini [1 Honorary Award]

12
Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director

11
Japan [3 Honorary Awards]

10
Rick Kline

10
Walter Lantz [1 Honorary Award]

10
Walter Scharf

9
Ingmar Bergman [1 Thalberg Award]

9
Howard Bristol

9
Stanley Kramer [1 Thalberg Award]

9
RKO Studio Sound Dept., John O. Aalberg, Sound Director

8
Mack David

8
Robert Emmett Dolan

8
Jack Otterson

8
Greg P. Russell

BATTING "1000" -- Films
[Films with 4 or more competitive nominations, winning all]

11
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

9
Gigi (1958)

9
The Last Emperor (1987)

5
It Happened One Night (1934)

4
The Matrix (1999)

BATTING "0" -- Films
[Films with 7 or more competitive nominations, winning none]

11
The Turning Point (1977)

11
The Color Purple (1985)

10
Gangs of New York (2002)

9
The Little Foxes (1941)

9
Peyton Place (1957)

8
Quo Vadis (1951)

8
The Nun's Story (1959)

8
The Sand Pebbles (1966)

8
The Elephant Man (1980)

8
Ragtime (1981)

8
The Remains of the Day (1993)

7
The Letter (1940)

7
Random Harvest (1942)

7
The Talk of the Town (1942)

7
Madame Curie (1943)

7
Double Indemnity (1944)

7
Come to the Stable (1949)

7
The Caine Mutiny (1954)

7
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

7
Pepe (1960)

7
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

7
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

7
Hawaii (1966)

7
Star! (1968)

7
Broadcast News (1987)

7
The Godfather, Part III (1990)

7
The Prince of Tides (1991)

7
In the Name of the Father (1993)

7
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

7
The Thin Red Line (1998)

7
The Insider (1999)

7
Seabiscuit (2003)

 

CONSECUTIVE COMPETITIVE NOMINATIONS
[7 or more years in a row]

22
Walt Disney [1941-1962]

19
Edith Head

19
Alfred Newman

17
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

13
Columbia Studio Sound Dept., John Livadary, Sound Director

13
Max Steiner

13
Warner Bros.

12
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Dept., Douglas Shearer, Sound Director

12
Hal Pereira

11
Cedric Gibbons [1936-1946]

10
Sam Comer

10
Hans Dreier

10
Gordon Hollingshead

10
Charles LeMaire

10
Fred Quimby

10
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., E. H. Hansen, Sound Director

10
Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., Nathan Levinson, Sound Director

9
Ray Heindorf

9
Paramount Studio Sound Dept., Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director

9
Edwin B. Willis

8
Sammy Cahn

8
Walt Disney [1931/32-1939]

8
Cedric Gibbons [1949-1956]

8
Walter M. Scott [1963-1970]

8
Herbert Stothart

8
Universal Studio Sound Dept., Bernard B. Brown, Sound Director

8
Lyle Wheeler

8
John Williams

7
Robert Emmett Dolan

7
A. Arnold Gillespie

7
Thomas Little

7
Jean Louis

7
Jack Otterson

7
George Pal

7
Paramount

7
RKO Radio [twice: 1930/31-1937; 1939-1945]

7
Walter M. Scott [1950-1956]

7
Fred Sersen

 

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