List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners

This is a list of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners. To date, 80 films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Each of the actors in this list has appeared in two or more such films. This list contains a total of 104 actors and collectively represents their 245 appearances in 74 Best Picture-winning films. This list, although still incomplete, contains appearances through the 80th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 24, 2008.

List of actors

Notes:

# Ward Bond appeared in 11 films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In addition to appearing in the three Best Picture winners listed above, Bond also appeared in the following eight Best Picture nominees: "Arrowsmith" (1931/1932), "Lady for a Day" (1932/1933), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "Sergeant York" (1941), "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), "The Quiet Man" (1952), and "Mister Roberts" (1955). [cite web |url=http://sophomorecritic.blogspot.com/2007/02/actors-and-how-many-best-picture.html |title=Actors and how many best picture nominees they've been in |accessdate=2007-06-12 |date=2007-02-18 |work=The Sophomore Critic]
# John Cazale appeared in only five feature films, all of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In addition to the three films listed above, Cazale also appeared in "The Conversation" (1974) and "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975). Twelve years after his death, Cazale appeared in archive footage in a sixth feature film, "The Godfather Part III" (1990), which was also nominated for Best Picture.
# Brad Dourif did not appear in the theatrical release of "" (2003). However, deleted scenes in which Dourif appeared were subsequently re-inserted into the Extended Edition DVD version of the film.
# In addition to appearing in the two films listed above, Robert Redford also directed "Ordinary People" (1980), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Superlatives

* Most Appearances in Best Picture Nominees - Actors who appeared in the most Best Picture nominees are: Ward Bond (11 films), Jack Nicholson (10 films), and Elizabeth Taylor (9 films). [cite web |url=http://sophomorecritic.blogspot.com/2007/02/actors-and-how-many-best-picture.html |title=Actors and how many best picture nominees they've been in |accessdate=2007-06-12 |date=2007-02-18 |work=The Sophomore Critic]

* Most Appearances in Best Picture Winners - Actors who appeared in the most Best Picture winners are: Wallis Clark (5 films), Franklyn Farnum (5 films), and Bess Flowers (5 films).

* Most Consecutive Appearances - Actors who appeared in three consecutive Best Picture winners are: Wallis Clark (1934 through 1936) and Harry Davenport (1937 through 1939).

* Most Longevity - Actors with the most longevity between appearances are: Christopher Plummer (36 years), David Warner (34 years), Oliver Reed (32 years), and Jack Nicholson (31 years).

* Most Represented Films - Films most represented on this list are: "The Godfather Part II" (15 times), "The Godfather" (14 times), and "You Can't Take It with You" (11 times).

Statistics

* Actors - The 104 actors listed above have collectively delivered a total of 245 appearances in 74 Best Picture-winning films:
** 3 actors appeared in 5 Best Pictures;
** 1 actor appeared in 4 Best Pictures;
** 26 actors appeared in 3 Best Pictures; and
** 74 actors appeared in 2 Best Pictures.

* Films - To date, 80 films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, only six of which are not represented in the above list:
** "The Broadway Melody" (1928/1929);
** "All the King's Men" (1949);
** "West Side Story" (1961);
** "Dances with Wolves" (1990);
** "American Beauty" (1999); and
** "Chicago" (2002).

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