Actors with at least Five Oscar Nominations

Name the actors who have received at least five Oscar nominations either as Best Actor and/or as Best Supporting Actor
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Won 2 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor
Jack Nicholson
10
Won 1 Best Actor, received 2 special Oscars
Lawrence Olivier
9
Won 1 Best Actor, recieved 1 honorary, and 1 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Food products
Paul Newman
9
All nominations as Best Actor, won 2, one after his death
Spencer Tracy
8
(in)Famously refused 1 of 2 Best Actor Awards
Marlon Brando
8
Won 1 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor. "I'm a man!" "Well, nobody's perfect."
Jack Lemmon
8
All nominations as Best Actor, Never won, received honorary award
Peter O'Toole
8
Won 1 Best Actor
Al Pacino
7
Never won, much to his wife's displeasure even though she won 2
Richard Burton
7
Won 1 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor. "You talkin' to me?"
Robert De Niro
7
1 Best Actor, roomate of next guy on the list, current wife more than 40 years his junior
Robert Duvall
7
2 Best Actor, and also appeared in one of the biggest bombs of all time
Dustin Hoffman
6
Won 1 Best Actor, his brother has actually won more Golden Globes and Emmys
Jeff Bridges
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6
Nominated and Won Supporting Actor twice, Nominated and Lost Best Actor 4 times
Michael Caine
6
Won 1 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor, nominated in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s
Denzel Washington
5
Won 2 Best Actor, and received honorary award. Started in Silents, became a star for roughly two minute performance in his first talkie "Wings."
Gary Cooper
5
Won 3 Best Actor, highest winning percentage of any actor
Daniel Day-Lewis
5
Has never won, and never appeared at Oscar Ceremony
Albert Finney
5
Won 1 Supporting Actor, great voice for frequent narrator work as well
Morgan Freeman
5
Won 1 Best Actor, 1 Supporting Actor, roomate of two of the guys above. "I was going to make expresso!"
Gene Hackman
5
Won 2 Best Actor back to back
Tom Hanks
5
Never won, all nominations came in 1950s, primarily a supporting actor
Arthur Kennedy
5
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
Fredric March
5
Won 1 Best Actor, also received Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. "Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing".
Gregory Peck
5
Won 2 Best Actor, formerlly married to a well known singer
Sean Penn
5
Won 1 Best Actor, received honorary award as well, friend of Harvey
James Stewart
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