Actress with most Academy Awards

Seeing Stars: Hollywood Award Ceremonies

The youngest person to ever receive an Oscar was 5-year-old Shirley Temple - in 1934.
(However, Shirley's Oscar was an honorary one.)

The youngest actress to win a standard Oscar was Tatum O'Neal, who was 10 years old when she won the Best Supporting Actress award for "Paper Moon" in 1974.

Christopher Plummer became the oldest person to win an Oscar, when he won for Best Supporting Actor in 2012 for his performance in "Beginners", at age 82.

The oldest actor to win the Oscar for Best Actor was
Henry Fonda

The three movies that won the most Oscars were "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003),
"Titanic" (1997) and "Ben-Hur" (1959). Each of those movies won 11 statuettes.

(Second place is held by "West Side Story, " which won ten Oscars.)

Two movies have tied for the most Oscar nominations: "Titanic" and 1951's "All About Eve".
Both films received 14 nominations ("All About Eve" won six Oscars).

The actress with the most Academy Awards for "Best Actress" is Katharine Hepburn, who won four of the golden statuettes (in 1932, 1967, 1968 & 1981.)

The title for the most "Best Actor" awards is held by
Daniel Day-Lewis, who won three Oscars for "Best Actor", for "Lincoln", "There Will Be Blood" and "My Left Foot".

Meryl Streep holds the record for the most total Oscar nominations for acting, with 18 nominations (and three wins: two for Best Actress, and one for Best Supporting Actress).

The male actor with the most Oscar nominations is Jack Nicholson, who was nominated 12 times (winning three times: twice for Best Actor and once for Best Supporting Actor.)

The individual who was awarded the most total Oscars was none other than Walt Disney, who walked away with 26 Academy Awards over his lifetime (22 regular Oscars and four honorary ones.)

He had 64 total Oscar nominations.

The director with the most Oscar wins was John Ford, who won for
"The Grapes of Wrath", "How Green Was My Valley", "The Quiet Man" and "The Informer".

And speaking of John Ford, the tallest actor ever to win an Oscar was Ford's favorite,
John Wayne. The Duke stood 6' 4". (He won his Oscar for 1969's "True Grit".)