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As Sally Area gushed in her second Oscar acceptance speech, "I can't deny the truth that you want me. Proper now, you like me!" Any artist is lucky to win an Academy Award of their lifetime, however a choose few have been blessed with profitable a number of occasions, a sign of continued excellence of their chosen vocation.

Artists like Daniel Day-Lewis, Katharine Hepburn, Edith Head, and Alan Menken confirmed such greatness that the Academy couldn't assist however maintain awarding them Oscars. Such people are the standard-bearers of their respective classes, setting profitable data that stay unbeatable because the Oscars method their centennial in 2028.

Forward, we're highlighting the record-holders in practically each Oscar class, from untouchable main stars to masterful artisans.

Most ever: Walt Disney

Because the creator of Mickey Mouse and the Walt Disney Firm, few folks have had as a lot affect on popular culture as Walt Disney. That's mirrored in his file 22 Oscar wins. Most of them are for Greatest Animated Brief Movie, beforehand referred to as Greatest Brief Topic (cartoon), for early work like Flowers and Timber (1932), Ferdinand the Bull (1938), and The Ugly Duckling (1939). Disney was additionally awarded 4 honorary Oscars — particular awards for the creation of Mickey Mouse, the characteristic movie milestone of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the groundbreaking use of sound in Fantasia (1940), and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his contributions as a artistic producer.

Most awarded movie: Three-way tie

Three movies stand above the remainder on the subject of the file for many wins: 1959's Ben-Hur, 1997's Titanic, and 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King share the title with 11 every. All three additionally received Greatest Image of their respective years.

Ben-Hur held the title of most wins for greater than 35 years earlier than Titanic joined it. The Return of the King loved probably the most profitable sweep, profitable each class it was nominated in.

Greatest Director: John Ford

Few administrators loom as massive in Hollywood historical past as John Ford, who outlined (and redefined) the Western style, making greater than 130 movies in his lifetime. He was one of many first Hollywood administrators to be considered an auteur and holds the file for many Greatest Director Oscars. Regardless of his affiliation with Westerns, none of his Oscars got here for his work within the style. As a substitute, he received for 3 movies highlighting social points — The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940),and How Inexperienced Was My Valley (1941) — and the romantic love letter to his Irish roots, The Quiet Man (1952).

Greatest Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis

With three Greatest Actor wins, Daniel Day-Lewis holds the file in his class. Jack Nicholson and Sean Penn even have three Oscars every, however their résumés embrace a supporting win alongside two lead actor trophies. Day-Lewis received his Oscars for My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007),and Lincoln (2012).

Greatest Actress: Katharine Hepburn

Whereas Meryl Streep holds the title of most nominated actress, legendary main woman Katharine Hepburn boasts the win file, having received 4 Oscars throughout her six-decade profession. Hepburn took residence gold for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) — which she received in a tie alongside Barbra Streisand for Humorous Woman — and On Golden Pond (1981). Regardless of her hallowed place in Academy historical past, Hepburn by no means attended the Oscars to simply accept her awards.

Greatest Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan

Prolific character actor Walter Brennan rapidly set a file for many Greatest Supporting Actor victories, profitable the class's inaugural award for Come and Get It (1936), one other two years later for Kentucky (1938), and one other two years later for The Westerner (1940). At three wins, Brennan has nonetheless not been matched, although seven different actors have received the class twice, together with Mahershala Ali and Christoph Waltz.

Greatest Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters

Solely two actresses have received the Greatest Supporting Actress Oscar twice, far fewer than another performing class. Shelley Winters was the primary to perform this feat, profitable for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and once more six years later for A Patch of Blue (1965). Dianne Wiest matched Winters' file by way of her collaborations with writer-director Woody Allen, profitable for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994).

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Greatest Tailored/Authentic Screenplay: 5-way tie

Greatest Screenplay, each Authentic and Tailored, is the one high class with an intensive tie. Woody Allen is the outright file holder for Greatest Authentic Screenplay, having received 3 times for Annie Corridor (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986),and Midnight in Paris (2011).

The opposite 4 record-holders, additionally with three wins apiece, share their trophies throughout the Authentic and Tailored classes. They’re: Charles Brackett (1945's The Misplaced Weekend, 1950's Sundown Boulevard, and 1953's Titanic); Paddy Chayefsky (1955's Marty, 1971's The Hospital, and 1976's Community); Francis Ford Coppola (1970's Patton, 1972's The Godfather, 1974's The Godfather Half II); and Billy Wilder (The Misplaced Weekend, Sundown Boulevard, and 1960's The Condominium).

Greatest Animated Characteristic Movie: Pete Docter

Launched in 2002, the Oscar for Greatest Animated Characteristic Movie was the Academy's latest class till the introduction of Greatest Casting in 2026. Pixar's chief artistic officer since 2018, Pete Docter, holds the file on this class with three wins for Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Soul (2020).

Greatest Artwork Route: Cedric Gibbons

Famend studio artwork director Cedric Gibbons was a extremely influential power in set design and the Artwork Deco motion on display. He additionally holds the second-most Oscar wins after Disney, 11 whole for Greatest Artwork Route, starting with 1929's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and ending with 1956's Someone Up There Likes Me. Gibbons can be credited because the designer of the distinctive gold Oscar statuette, doubly enshrining his place in Academy Awards historical past.

Greatest Costume Design: Edith Head

Edith Head holds the distinct honor of being probably the most adorned lady in Oscar historical past with eight wins (and the file for many nominated lady with 35 whole nods). Head is one in all Hollywood's most influential costume designers, defining the job within the studio period and shaping American style for many years. Her victories embrace Oscars for The Heiress (1949), All About Eve (1950), A Place within the Solar (1951), Roman Vacation (1953), Sabrina (1954), and The Sting (1973). Head's distinctive extreme black haircut and glasses turned iconic in themselves, inspiring the look of The Incrediblesdesigner Edna Mode.

Greatest Make-up: Rick Baker

A lot of contemporary Hollywood make-up derives from methods created by Rick Baker, who innovated the sector of particular results make-up. For his prosthetics and results in 1981's An American Werewolf in London, Baker received the inaugural Oscar for Greatest Make-up. He finally received seven awards within the class along with his work on titles reminiscent of Ed Wooden (1994), The Nutty Professor (1997), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000),and The Wolfman (2010). Baker retired from the enterprise in 2015, citing the proliferation of CG results changing a lot of his work.

Greatest Rating: Alfred Newman

Composer John Williams might maintain the file for the dwelling particular person with probably the most nominations (and most nominations for a composer ever) at 54. Nonetheless, legendary composer Alfred Newman holds the file for probably the most wins, with 9. Newman scored greater than 200 movies and received Oscars for initiatives like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), Love is a Many-Splendored Factor (1955), The King and I (1956),profitable at a time when the award was nonetheless given to those that tailored a musical rating from one other supply. He was additionally the patriarch of a musical Hollywood dynasty that features composers David and Thomas Newman and Greatest Authentic Track Oscar winner Randy Newman.

Greatest Authentic Track (and Rating): Alan Menken

Disney legend Alan Menken holds the file for many Oscars for Greatest Authentic Track, having received the class 4 occasions, all for Disney animated classics — "Beneath the Sea," "Magnificence and the Beast," "A Entire New World," and "Colours of the Wind." Nonetheless, he has a complete of eight Oscars, additionally having received Greatest Authentic Rating for The Little Mermaid (1989), Magnificence and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995). He’s the one Oscar wins record-holder to put declare to the EGOT title, having additionally received Emmy, Grammy, and Tony awards.

Greatest Visible Results: Dennis Muren

Dennis Muren basically invented the trendy period of visible results, starting along with his work on 1977's Star Wars. He developed groundbreaking new applied sciences and modes of filming that led to memorable visible results in movies like the unique Star Wars trilogy, Shut Encounters of the Third Form (1977), E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), and extra. Muren has eight Oscars for Greatest Visible Results, in addition to an honorary Technical Achievement Academy Award.

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Manufacturing on season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wiveshas abruptly halted after police opened an investigation into an alleged home assault incident involving star Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen.

The Draper Metropolis Police Division confirmed in a press release to PEOPLE on Monday {that a} "home assault investigation" has been opened into the allegations, which "have been made in each instructions." Officers had been involved with the previous couple, who share son Ever, on Feb. 24 and 25. TMZ was first to report the information.

A supply near the matter tells Leisure Weekly that cameras weren’t rolling when the incident came about, and that Paul's youngsters weren’t current.

A spokesperson for the Draper Metropolis P.D. stated in a press release to EW that the division doesn’t "launch particulars associated to lively investigations" with out "an instantaneous impression to public security."

"They don’t seem to be filming," sources near the sequence instructed PEOPLE, including that Paul "has some fairly severe stuff occurring relating to her previous, and they’re going to see what occurs. Till that resolves, they’re off."

Season 4 of the wildly common actuality sequence dropped on Hulu final week. Paul shares a son and a daughter together with her ex, Tate Paul, who has by no means appeared on Mormon Wives. She started relationship Mortensen, an actual property agent and the proprietor of a tiling firm, years earlier than the sequence premiere in September 2024. They had been on-and-off all through the sequence, leaving issues on unsure phrases on the finish of season 4.

EW has reached out to representatives for Paul, Mortensen, and Hulu for remark.

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Paul was chosen because the star of The Bacheloretteseason 22 in September. The premiere set for Sunday is extremely anticipated, in no small half due to Paul's admission on the latest season of Mormon Wives that she spent the evening earlier than day one among filming The Bachelorette with Mortensen.

A consultant for ABC didn’t instantly reply to EW's request for remark.

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Paul has been the topic of near-constant controversy since she based MomTok, the group of Mormon influencers whose lives Mormon Wives chronicles. She was arrested for alleged home violence in 2023 after an altercation with Mortensen, finally being charged with misdemeanor assault, prison mischief, and fee of home violence within the presence of a kid, after she allegedly threw a chair at Mortensen that as an alternative hit their daughter. Paul ultimately pleaded responsible in abeyance to aggravated assault, which implies that if she complies with the phrases of the plea, the cost will likely be dismissed. All different fees had been additionally dismissed.

In a September interview, she claimed she "by no means deliberately did something with my youngsters."

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Kristin Cabot, the HR government caught in a clandestine kiss along with her boss at a Coldplay live performance final summer time, is opening up a few surprising angle to the story that also has netizens captivated.

"I used to be strolling into the live performance and my daughter messaged me and stated, 'Oh it’s so nice that you simply and Andrew are each at Coldplay,'" Cabot informed Oprah Winfrey in a clip that premiered on PEOPLE forward of tomorrow's new episode of The Oprah Podcast.

Andrew is Cabot's estranged husband, Andrew Cabot, the CEO of a rum distillery. Cabot didn't attend the July 16 Coldplay present at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., with Andrew, however Andy — that’s, Andy Byron, her married boss whom she was seen snuggling on the kiss cam.

"So she let me know that my estranged husband was additionally on the live performance," Cabot continued. "In my thoughts I believed, 'Is that this going to be bizarre if he sees me with Andy?' Like that crossed my thoughts."

However then she reasoned, "I'm in Gillette Stadium, there's 55,000 individuals right here, I'm most likely not going to run into him." Cabot has positively sat with the irony of that thought, contemplating what adopted. "That will have been higher on the finish of the day if I'd simply run into him," she surmised.

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Cabot stated that her estranged husband "is aware of how intently Andy and I labored collectively, he is aware of we socialized — like obtained lunches and obtained drinks. It was high quality." Past that, Andrew understands "the character of my work and the way in which, the relationships — I’ve shared desks with the CEOs I’ve labored with," in addition to the character of their "very shut relationship. And so it didn’t matter."

A supply near Cabot beforehand informed PEOPLE that Andrew was on his personal date on the live performance.

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The fallout from Cabot and Byron being caught on the kiss cam in an affectionate embrace, inflicting them each to quickly duck out of body, very a lot did matter.

Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin instantly known as out the second because it occurred dwell. "Oh, have a look at these two," he introduced to the packed enviornment. "Both they're having an affair or they're simply very shy." The video initially shared by a live performance attendee to TikTok shortly racked up thousands and thousands of views.

Each Cabot and Byron finally left their posts as CEO and chief individuals officer at Astronomer, a knowledge engineering firm. Cabot later claimed that Byron was in the midst of his personal separation from spouse Megan, however the couple has since been photographed collectively carrying their marriage ceremony rings.

"I made a nasty determination and had a few Excessive Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss," Cabot stated when she lastly broke her silence in regards to the incident in December. Relating to the "500 to 600 calls a day," doxxing, and loss of life threats that adopted, Cabot mirrored, "I would like my children to know that you may make errors, and you’ll actually screw up. However you don't need to be threatened to be killed for them."

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• Teyana Taylor is responding to those that criticized her enthusiastic response to Amy Madigan successful the Finest Supporting Actress Oscar over her.
• "The world holds a lot distress that depressing hearts neglect the face of happiness," the One Battle After One other actress wrote on social media.
• In an interview after receiving her Academy Award, Madigan had nothing however love for Taylor.

Teyana Taylor is responding to criticism over celebrating a fellow actress' Oscar win.

After a clip of Taylor reacting to Amy Madigan's win on the Academy Awards on Sunday night time went viral, the One Battle After Anotherstar is talking out about her pleasure. Within the video, after Madigan's title is known as, Taylor instantly stands as much as applaud the actress who gained her first Oscar at age 75, 40 years after her first nomination.

"The world holds a lot distress that depressing hearts neglect the face of happiness," Taylor started.

"They develop comfy being sore losers, so after they see actual sportsmanship it unsettles them! like holy water touching a demon. As a result of clapping for another person’s victory requires one thing many individuals by no means discovered…how one can win with grace & pure pleasure, and how one can lose with grace, chin up & dignity."

Madigan, who gained for Weapons, and Taylor had been each up for the Finest Actress in a Supporting Function Oscar, alongside Elle Fanning for Sentimental Value, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Worth, and Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners.

"That is nice!" Madigan taking the stage on the Dolby Theatre, all smiles holding her golden statuette. "At first, I simply need to thank Zach Cregger, our author and director. He simply wrote a dream half and let me seize it by the throat, and we had a ball!"

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Madigan additionally gave a shout-out to her fellow nominees earlier than thanking her husband Ed Harris. "Most of all, I need to thank my lovely daughter Lily and her husband," she mentioned. "Most necessary is my beloved Ed, who's been with me without end, and that's a protracted ass time. None of this could imply something if he wasn't by my aspect. Thanks very a lot, I'm very overwhelmed."

Madigan was nominated in 1985 for Twice in a Lifetime, making her two nods, 40 years aside, the longest hole between particular person nominations for any actress in historical past.

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In an interview with Entertainment Tonightfollowing her win, Madigan had nothing however love for Taylor, gushing about their newfound friendship. "She is one of the best supporter, one of the best pal. I didn’t know her until this awards season and she or he has simply taken me into her group of all of the folks from One Battle After One other and I I actually respect it," mentioned Madigan.

"These are the issues that don't at all times occur and she or he's the best."

Months earlier, on the 2026 Golden Globes, when Taylor gained the award for Finest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Supporting Function in any Movement Image, Madigan excitedly applauded Taylor.

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• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Oscar winner Sean Penn for his current go to to Ukraine.
• The actor gained the Finest Actor in a Supporting Function Academy Award for his efficiency in One Battle After One other.
• Penn was absent from the Oscars, together with the BAFTAs and the Actor Awards this 12 months.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is recognizing his "good friend" and Oscar winner Sean Penn.

The day after the 98th Academy Awards, Zelenskyy took to social media to reward Penn, who gained the Finest Actor in a Supporting Function award for his position in One Battle After Another, whereas additionally thanking the actor for his current go to to Ukraine.

Penn was noticeably absent from the awards present on the Dolby Theatre.

"Sean, due to you, we all know what a real good friend of Ukraine is," Zelenskyy started, sharing {a photograph} of him and the Useless Man Strolling star.

"You might have stood with Ukraine because the first day of the full-scale battle. That is nonetheless true at this time. And we all know that you’ll proceed to face with our nation and our folks."

Penn and Zelenskyy have been mates for years. In 2023, Penn and co-director Aaron Kaufman launched Superpower, a documentary that adopted Zelenskyy's rise to energy and finally main Ukraine amid the battle with Russia.

He spoke about his activism on the Lumiere Movie Competition in Lyon, France, in 2025.

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“I don’t know that I differentiate between getting up within the morning and going to my workshop and constructing a bit of furnishings from going to a film set and appearing or directing a film, or something I’ve performed working within the NGO area or with the documentary Superpower,” he mentioned on the time, per Variety.

"All of it feels such as you’re all the time seeking to be worth added. Generally you’re not; typically you’ll be able to catch your self inflaming a scenario. You need to weigh risk-benefit on all the pieces – to the scenario, to not oneself.”

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Final 12 months's winner, A Actual Ache star Kieran Culkin, offered the Finest Actor in a Supporting Function Oscar on Sunday. Upon studying Penn's identify, Culkin mentioned, "Sean Penn couldn't be right here this night, or didn't wish to, so I'll be accepting the award on his behalf."

Per an article printed by The New York Instances in the course of the awards present, Penn "was to go to Ukraine, in line with two individuals who spoke on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to debate the matter."

The opposite nominees in Penn's class had been Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein, Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value, Delroy Lindo for Sinners, and costar Benicio del Toro for One Battle After Another.

Throughout this awards season, Penn additionally didn’t attend the Actors Awards and the BAFTAs. He was current on the Golden Globes in January. That night, nonetheless, he misplaced to Skarsgård. Penn beforehand gained two Finest Actor Oscars: for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk, 5 years later.

In 2022, Penn gifted his Mystic River statuette to Zelenskyy as a mortgage, per The Hollywood Reporter.

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