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12
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Won 2 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor
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Jack Nicholson
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10
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Won 1 Best Actor, received 2 special Oscars
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Lawrence Olivier
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9
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Won 1 Best Actor, recieved 1 honorary, and 1 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Food products
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Paul Newman
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9
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All nominations as Best Actor, won 2, one after his death
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Spencer Tracy
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8
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(in)Famously refused 1 of 2 Best Actor Awards
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Marlon Brando
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8
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Won 1 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor. "I'm a man!" "Well, nobody's perfect."
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Jack Lemmon
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8
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All nominations as Best Actor, Never won, received honorary award
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Peter O'Toole
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8
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Won 1 Best Actor
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Al Pacino
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7
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Never won, much to his wife's displeasure even though she won 2
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Richard Burton
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7
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Won 1 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor. "You talkin' to me?"
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Robert De Niro
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7
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1 Best Actor, roomate of next guy on the list, current wife more than 40 years his junior
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Robert Duvall
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7
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2 Best Actor, and also appeared in one of the biggest bombs of all time
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Dustin Hoffman
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6
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Won 1 Best Actor, his brother has actually won more Golden Globes and Emmys
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Jeff Bridges
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6
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Nominated and Won Supporting Actor twice, Nominated and Lost Best Actor 4 times
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Michael Caine
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6
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Won 1 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor, nominated in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s
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Denzel Washington
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5
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Won 2 Best Actor, and received honorary award. Started in Silents, became a star for roughly two minute performance in his first talkie "Wings."
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Gary Cooper
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5
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Won 3 Best Actor, highest winning percentage of any actor
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Daniel Day-Lewis
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5
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Has never won, and never appeared at Oscar Ceremony
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Albert Finney
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5
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Won 1 Supporting Actor, great voice for frequent narrator work as well
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Morgan Freeman
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5
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Won 1 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor, roomate of two of the guys above. "I was going to make expresso!"
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Gene Hackman
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5
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Won 2 Best Actor back to back
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Tom Hanks
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5
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Never won, all nominations came in 1950s, primarily a supporting actor
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Arthur Kennedy
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5
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Won 2 Best Actor, 1st for a Horror Movie, also won 2 Tonys, and no "k" on the first name please as 12 is lucky and 13 is not
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Fredric March
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5
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Won 1 Best Actor, also received Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. "Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing".
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Gregory Peck
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5
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Won 2 Best Actor, formerlly married to a well known singer
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Sean Penn
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5
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Won 1 Best Actor, received honorary award as well, friend of Harvey
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James Stewart
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