We’re exactly one week away from the 91st Academy Awards! Today I’m wrapping up my series of posts highlighting the actors and actresses that earned four or more Oscar nominations throughout their careers, concluding with the actresses that received six or more nods. And this last entry boasts a couple of the all-time Oscar records: a performer with the most acting nominations and a performer with the most acting wins. Even without those two iconic stars, this is an all-around impressive list filled with the greatest actresses to grace the screen.
Note: This list is in descending order, ending with the actress who’s received the most nominations. Titles that are italicized designate the movies they won an Oscar for and titles marked with an asterisk are for supporting role nominations.
DEBORAH KERR (6 nominations):
Edward, My Son*
From Here to Eternity
The King and I
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Separate Tables
The Sundowners
ELLEN BURSTYN (6 nominations, 1 win):
The Last Picture Show*
The Exorcist
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Same Time, Next Year
Resurrection
Requiem for a Dream
VANESSA REDGRAVE (6 nominations, 1 win):
Morgan!
Isadora
Mary, Queen of Scots
Julia*
The Bostonians
Howards End*
NORMA SHEARER (6 nominations, 1 win):
Their Own Desire
The Divorcee
A Free Soul
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Romeo and Juliet
Marie Antoinette
SISSY SPACEK (6 nominations, 1 win):
Carrie
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Missing
The River
Crimes of the Heart
In the Bedroom
JESSICA LANGE (6 nominations, 2 wins):
Tootsie*
Frances
Country
Sweet Dreams
Music Box
Blue Sky
GLENN CLOSE (7 nominations):
The World According to Garp*
The Big Chill*
The Natural*
Fatal Attraction
Dangerous Liaisons
Albert Nobbs
The Wife
JUDI DENCH (7 nominations, 1 win):
Mrs Brown
Shakespeare in Love*
Chocolat*
Iris
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Notes on a Scandal
Philomena
GREER GARSON (7 nominations, 1 win):
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Blossoms in the Dust
Mrs. Miniver
Madame Curie
Mrs. Parkington
The Valley of Decision
Sunrise at Campobello
KATE WINSLET (7 nominations, 1 win):
Sense and Sensibility*
Titanic
Iris*
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Little Children
The Reader
Steve Jobs*
CATE BLANCHETT (7 nominations, 2 wins):
Elizabeth
The Aviator*
Notes on a Scandal*
I’m Not There*
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Blue Jasmine
Carol
JANE FONDA (7 nominations, 2 wins):
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Klute
Julia
Coming Home
The China Syndrome
On Golden Pond*
The Morning After
INGRID BERGMAN (7 nominations, 3 wins):
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Gaslight
The Bells of St. Mary’s
Joan of Arc
Anastasia
Murder on the Orient Express*
Autumn Sonata
GERALDINE PAGE (8 nominations, 1 win):
Hondo*
Summer and Smoke
Sweet Bird of Youth
You’re a Big Boy Now*
Pete ‘n’ Tillie*
Interiors
The Pope of Greenwich Village*
The Trip to Bountiful
BETTE DAVIS (11 nominations, 2 wins):
Of Human Bondage
Dangerous
Jezebel
Dark Victory
The Letter
The Little Foxes
Now, Voyager
Mr. Skeffington
All About Eve
The Star
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
KATHARINE HEPBURN (12 nominations, 4 wins):
Morning Glory
Alice Adams
The Philadelphia Story
Woman of the Year
The African Queen
Summertime
The Rainmaker
Suddenly, Last Summer
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Lion in Winter
On Golden Pond
MERYL STREEP (21 nominations, 3 wins):
The Deer Hunter*
Kramer vs. Kramer*
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Sophie’s Choice
Silkwood
Out of Africa
Ironweed
A Cry in the Dark
Postcards from the Edge
The Bridges of Madison County
One True Thing
Music of the Heart
Adaptation.*
The Devil Wears Prada
Doubt
Julie & Julia
The Iron Lady
August: Osage County
Into the Woods*
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Post