The 42 actors who have won multiple Oscars, ranked by who has won the most

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Mahershala Ali won his second Oscar last year for his role in "Green Book."
Here are 42 actors who have won more than one Oscar.
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Oscar wins are hard to come by, and those actors who have won multiple Academy Awards are an exclusive club.

Mahershala Ali won his second supporting actor Oscar last year for his role in "Green Book." Frances McDormand entered the club two years ago when she took home her second Oscar for her performance as a grieving mother in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."

But Ali and McDormand still trail a list of actors and actresses with illustrious careers, including Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, and Katharine Hepburn.

This year, Tom Hanks is nominated for his sixth Oscar for his performance as Fred Rogers in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" and he's already won two.

John Lynch contributed to an earlier version of this post.

Here are the 42 actors who have won multiple Academy Awards in acting categories:

Mahershala Ali — 2 wins, 2 nominations

Best supporting actor: "Moonlight" (2016), "Green Book" (2018)

Christoph Waltz — 2 wins, 2 nominations

Best supporting actor: "Inglorious Basterds" (2009), "Django Unchained" (2012)

Hilary Swank — 2 wins, 2 nominations

Best actress: "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), "Million Dollar Baby" (2004)

Kevin Spacey — 2 wins, 2 nominations

Best actor: "American Beauty" (1999)

Best supporting actor: "The Usual Suspects" (1995)

Luise Rainer — 2 wins, 2 nominations

Best actress: "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936), "The Good Earth" (1937)

Vivien Leigh — 2 wins, 2 nominations

Best actress: "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)

Helen Hayes — 2 wins, 2 nominations

Best actress: "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" (1931)

Best supporting actress: "Airport" (1970)

Dianne Wiest — 2 wins, 3 nominations

Best supporting actress: "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), "Bullets over Broadway" (1994)

Peter Ustinov — 2 wins, 3 nominations

Best supporting actor: "Spartacus" (1960), "Topkapi" (1964)

Jason Robards — 2 wins, 3 nominations

Best supporting actor: "All the President's Men" (1976), "Julia" (1977)

Sally Field — 2 wins, 3 nominations

Best actress: "Norma Rae" (1979), "Places in the Heart" (1984)

Melvyn Douglas — 2 wins, 3 nominations

Best supporting actor: "Hud" (1963), "Being There" (1979)

Shelley Winters — 2 wins, 4 nominations

Best supporting actress: "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959), "A Patch of Blue" (1965)

Anthony Quinn — 2 wins, 4 nominations

Best supporting actor: "Viva Zapata!" (1952), "Lust for Life" (1956)

Glenda Jackson — 2 wins, 4 nominations

Best actress: "Women in Love" (1970), "A Touch of Class" (1973)

Jodie Foster — 2 wins, 4 nominations

Best actress: "The Accused" (1988), "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

Elizabeth Taylor — 2 wins, 5 nominations

Best actress: "Butterfield 8" (1960), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966)

Sean Penn — 2 wins, 5 nominations

Best actor: "Mystic River" (2003), "Milk" (2008)

Frances McDormand — 2 wins, 5 nominations

Best actress: "Fargo" (1996), "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017)

Fredric March — 2 wins, 5 nominations

Best actor: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1931), "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)

Tom Hanks — 2 wins, 6 nominations

Best actor: "Philadelphia" (1993), "Forrest Gump" (1994)

Gene Hackman — 2 wins, 5 nominations

Best actor: "The French Connection" (1971)

Best supporting actor: "Unforgiven" (1992)

Olivia de Havilland — 2 wins, 5 nominations

Best actress: "To Each His Own" (1946), "The Heiress" (1949)

Gary Cooper — 2 wins, 5 nominations

Best actor: "Sergeant York" (1941), "High Noon" (1952)

Maggie Smith — 2 wins, 6 nominations

Best actress: "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969)

Best supporting actress: "California Suite" (1978)

Jessica Lange — 2 wins, 6 nominations

Best actress: "Blue Sky" (1994)

Best supporting actress: "Tootsie" (1982)

Michael Caine — 2 wins, 6 nominations

Best supporting actor: "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), "The Cider House Rules" (1999)

Dustin Hoffman — 2 wins, 7 nominations

Best actor: "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), "Rain Man" (1988)

Jane Fonda — 2 wins, 7 nominations

Best actress: "Klute" (1971), "Coming Home" (1978)

Robert De Niro — 2 wins, 7 nominations

Best actor: "Raging Bull" (1980)

Best supporting actor: "The Godfather Part II" (1974)

Cate Blanchett — 2 wins, 7 nominations

Best actress: "Blue Jasmine" (2013)

Best supporting actress: "The Aviator" (2004)

Denzel Washington — 2 wins, 8 nominations

Best actor: "Training Day" (2001)

Best supporting actor: "Glory" (1989)

Jack Lemmon — 2 wins, 8 nominations

Best actor: "Save the Tiger" (1973)

Best supporting actor: "Mister Roberts" (1955)

Marlon Brando — 2 wins, 8 nominations

Best actor: "On the Waterfront" (1954), "The Godfather" (1972)

Spencer Tracy — 2 wins, 9 nominations

Best actor: "Captains Courageous" (1937), "Boys Town" (1938)

Bette Davis — 2 wins, 10 nominations

Best actress: "Dangerous" (1935), "Jezebel" (1938)

Walter Brennan — 3 wins, 4 nominations

Best supporting actor: "Come and Get It" (1936), "Kentucky" (1938), "The Westerner" (1940)

Ingrid Bergman — 3 wins, 7 nominations

Best actress: "Gaslight" (1944), "Anastasia" (1956)

Best supporting actress: "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974)

Jack Nicholson — 3 wins, 12 nominations

Best actor: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "As Good as It Gets" (1997)

Best supporting actor: "Terms of Endearment" (1983)

Meryl Streep — 3 wins, 21 nominations

Best actress: "Sophie's Choice" (1982), "The Iron Lady" (2011)

Best supporting actress: "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979)

Daniel Day-Lewis — 3 wins, 6 nominations

Best actor: "My Left Foot" (1989), "There Will Be Blood" (2007), "Lincoln" (2012)

Katharine Hepburn — 4 wins, 12 nominations

Best actress: "Morning Glory" (1933), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967), "The Lion in Winter" (1968), "On Golden Pond" (1981)