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Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. [1] He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only six actors to win three Academy Awards, and the only male or female actor to win three awards in the supporting actor category.
Finally, Walter Brennan won his three supporting actor Oscars every other year between 1937 and 1941. Thelma Ritter has a record six best supporting actress nominations, albeit without a win. The only women to have won two Oscars in the supporting actress category are Shelley Winters and Dianne Wiest.
Walter Brennan: 3 awards 1936, 1938, 1940: ... Note: Walt Disney is the highest-earning individual with wins and nominations in any category in the Academy Awards, ...
Denzel Washington is the only black actor to win multiple competitive Academy Awards, for Glory in 1990 – a Best Supporting Actor award - and then Training Day in 2002. Walter Brennan.
Ingrid Bergman and Walter Brennan also won three awards each, with Bergman winning twice for lead roles and once for a supporting role, out of seven total nominations, [8] and Brennan winning three times from four nominations, all in the supporting actor category. [9]
Here is the actor's complete Oscars history and all 8 nominations. ... Ingrid Bergman, Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Frances McDormand, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.
Brennan became the first to receive three or more Academy Awards (winning the third in 1940), followed by Hepburn , Bergman , Nicholson , Streep , Day-Lewis , and, most recently, McDormand . Of the seven, only Nicholson, Streep, Day-Lewis, and McDormand are still living.