This article lists superlative Academy Award winners and nominees in major and acting categories. The lists are current as of the 98th Academy Awards ceremony.
Note: Walt Disney is the highest-honored individual with wins and nominations in any category in the Academy Awards, with fifty-nine nominations and twenty-two Oscar wins (as well as four Honorary Awards), including a record four in one year, which was tied by Sean Baker for Anora in 2025.
Nominated performances of the same character by different actors or in different films.
Performers nominated for playing multiple characters in one film. This does not include performers playing characters with alter-egos, such as Joanne Woodward's Oscar-winning depiction of dissociative identity disorder in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).