Wikipedia: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. The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to artists working in the motion picture industry. As of 2021, 94 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 163 actors and collectively represents their 363 appearances in 88 Best Picture-winning films. This list, although still incomplete, contains appearances through the 94th Academy Awards ceremony held on March 27, 2022.

Superlatives

 * Most Appearances in Best Picture Nominees - Actors who had credited roles in the most Best Picture nominees are: Robert De Niro (11 films), Jack Nicholson (10 films), Leonardo DiCaprio (10 films), Cate Blanchett (9 films), William Holden (9 films), Spencer Tracy (9 films), Gary Cooper (9 films), Tom Hanks (9 films), Meryl Streep (8 films), Al Pacino (8 films), Lionel Barrymore (8 films), Olivia de Havilland (8 films), Daniel Day-Lewis (8 films), Henry Fonda (8 films), Harrison Ford (8 films), John Gielgud (8 films), Dustin Hoffman (8 films), Burt Lancaster (8 films), Reginald Owen (8 films), Gregory Peck (8 films), Claude Rains (8 films), Tom Wilkinson (8 films), Brad Pitt (8 films), Beulah Bondi (7 films), Elizabeth Taylor (7 films), Marlon Brando (7 films), Robert Duvall (7 films), John Carradine (7 films), Wallis Clark (7 films, 6 uncredited), Gladys Cooper (7 films), Finlay Currie (7 films), Katharine Hepburn (7 films), Harvey Keitel (7 films, 1 uncredited), Deborah Kerr (7 films), Elsa Lanchester (7 films), Fredric March (7 films), Laurence Olivier (7 films, 1 uncredited), James Stewart (7 films), Bette Davis (7 films), Ward Bond (7 films), and Michael Stuhlbarg (7 films).
 * Most Appearances in Best Picture Winners - Actors who appeared in the most Best Picture winners are: Franklyn Farnum (7 films), Wallis Clark (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 Represented Films - Films most represented on this list are: The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (16 times), You Can't Take It With You (14 times), Gandhi (14 times), and Around the World in 80 Days (14 times).
 * Longest Span Between Appearances - Actors with the longest span between appearances in Best Picture winners are: Christopher Lee (55 years), Sue Casey (48 years), Nick Vallelonga (46 years), Christopher Plummer (36 years), David Warner (34 years), Howland Chamberlain (33 years) and Oliver Reed (32 years).

Statistics

 * Actors - The 163 actors listed above have collectively delivered a total of 353 appearances in 86 Best Picture-winning films:
 * 1 actor appeared in 7 Best Pictures;
 * 2 actors appeared in 5 Best Pictures;
 * 3 actors appeared in 4 Best Pictures;
 * 39 actors appeared in 3 Best Pictures; and
 * 112 actors appeared in 2 Best Pictures.
 * Films - To date, 94 films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, only five of which are not represented in the above list:
 * West Side Story (1961)
 * Chicago (2002)
 * Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
 * Parasite (2019)
 * Nomadland (2020)