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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:06 PM UTCPublished: Feb 14, 2018 4:28 PM UTC  Oscar statues stand near the Dolby Theater during preparations ahead of the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 19, 2015. Oscar statues stand near the Dolby Theater during preparations ahead of the 87th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Feb. 19, 2015.Lucy Nicholson—Reuters by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:06 PM UTCPublished: Feb 14, 2018 4:28 PM UTC The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences — which has shown some progress in recent years in its [attempts to diversify its membership](https://mic.com/articles/133296/the-oscars-decision-to-diversify-membership-is-groundbreaking-shocking-and-necessary) — honored a number of fresh faces alongside some familiar Hollywood staples at the [91st Academy Awards](http://time.com/5534976/oscars-2019-winners/). While 2019 saw several major [Oscar firsts](http://time.com/5535474/oscars-2019-records/), the number of actors, directors, movies and filmmakers who have won the most Academy Awards in the history of the ceremony didn’t really change. Meryl Streep, who was not nominated this year, continues to hold the record for the greatest number of nominations ever received by an actor. She’s one of several stars who have earned so many Oscar nominations throughout the years that many people assume they hold all the Academy Award records. But this isn’t quite true — although people like Streep, Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett have received many nominations, the number of people who have actually taken home the gold statue multiple times is surprisingly small. Below, see which actors, directors, movies and filmmakers have won the most Oscars in the history of the Academy Awards. ## Who has the most Oscars overall? Out of all nominees in Academy Awards history, Walt Disney holds the most Oscars. Disney won 26 Oscars over the course of his career and was nominated a grand total of 59 times. Most of his Oscars, won between 1932 and 1969, came in the category of Best Animated Short, including _The Three Little Pigs_, _The Ugly Duckling_ and a posthumous win for _Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day_. ## Who has the most Oscars for acting? Katharine Hepburn holds the distinction of winning the most Oscars for acting, with four Academy Awards and a total of 12 nominations. Hepburn won for her roles in the films _Morning Glory_ (1933), _Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner_ (1967), _The Lion in Winter_ (1968) and _On Golden Pond_ (1981). ## Who has the most Oscars for directing? The director John Ford, best known for his Westerns, holds the record of the most Oscars for directing. Nominated a total of five times, Ford holds four Oscars, for the films _The Informer_ (1935), _The Grapes of Wrath_ (1940), _How Green Was My Valley_ (1941) and _The Quiet Man_ (1952). Alfonso Cuarón, who won Best Director for _Roma_ at the 2019 Oscars, is close to Ford’s record. It’s his second Best Director win, with the first for Gravity in 2014. ## Which movie has the most Oscars? Three movies share the record for the most Oscars. _Titanic_ (1997), _Ben-Hur_ (1959) and _The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King_ (2003) each nabbed 11 Academy Awards in the years in which they were nominated, the highest number of Oscars for one movie. The films _All About Eve_ (1950) and _La La Land_ (2016), with 14 Oscar nominations each, join _Titanic_ as the most Oscar-nominated movies in the Academy’s history. ## Who has the most Oscar nominations ever? Meryl Streep has the most Oscar nominations ever, a [record](http://time.com/5114267/meryl-streep-oscars-most-nominated/) she set and then broke last year when she scooped her 21st nod for her role as Katharine Graham in Steven Spielberg’s _The Post_. She previously set the record in 2017, with her 20th Oscar nomination, for _Florence Foster Jenkins_. By now a fixture of the Academy Awards, Streep has won the Oscar three times, for her roles in _Kramer vs. Kramer_ (1979), _Sophie’s Choice_ (1982) and _The Iron Lady_ (2011). The male actor with the most nominations is Jack Nicholson, who has been nominated 12 times. 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