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[Hairy Lime]

Somewhat relatedly, here is Ward again...

https://collider.com/actors-most-national-film-registry-movies/#:~:text=The%20National%20Film%20Registry%20preserves,has%20the%20most%20starring%20roles.

[Hairy Lime]

Bennett? Glad you asked. Roughly 15.

[Oiled]

Doh!  Forgot Fiennes.


Ralph Fiennes = 35


Schindlers List - 7

English Patient - 9

Prince of Egypt - 1

The Constant Gardener - 1

Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Were Rabbit - 1

The Duchess - 1

The Hurt Locker - 6

The Reader - 1

Skyfall - 2

Grand Budapest Hotel - 4

Spectre - 1

No Time to Die - 1

[Oiled]

Generally movies racking up large numbers of Oscars seems to be a more recent phenomenon.  For one thing, award categories proliferated.  Most of the high numbers (approaching or at double digits) are mid-50s or later, with GWTW the exception, and most of those cluster post-80s AFAICT.  So Bernard Hill's cohort is mainly contemporary actors of high ubiquity.  Wonder if there are other non-household word actors like Hill lurking up in the thirties.

[Hairy Lime]

Yeah, you need to be in at least three juggernauts to be in contention, and a bunch of one offs. I was thinking maybe Malden who had four movies with three or more Oscars (On the Waterfront 8, Patton 7, Streetcar! 4, How the West Was One 3) but no singles so he topped at 22. Brando had a couple solid performers, but Waterfront was his only huge one, leaving him at 23. O'Toole had 19 for his three BP winners (Last.Emperor 9, Larry of the Sands 7, Lion in Winter 3) but only two one offs, so 21.

Of course, we are talking about credited roles, or someone like Franklyn Farnum (non-exhaustive count: 52) or Bess Flowers (not even going to try) clearly wins. But the imdb entry "Sarah Siddon Award Guest (uncredited)" should not count. Though admittedly that knocks Ward Bond down.

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Bond deserves special mention, however, for starting life in Benkelman, Nebraska and getting as far as he did.  That is not too far from my ancestral land, and a sleepier little patch of dust is hard to find.

And then all those towering eminences, like James Stewart, who appear in films slathered with nominations but which reap only one win. Smith --> DC got 11 noms, and one win. (for a category, best original story, which was eliminated in 1956).  Or that cinematic poster child of Academy obtuseness, Rear Window, with four noms and zero wins. (On the Waterfront sucking all the oxygen from the room that year, becoming one of the early juggernauts)  Yeah, I would have thought Malden would rack up more than he did. 

Jack Lemmon is another one - an actor's actor who seems to have been more lauded by Cannes, BAFTA or the Golden Globes than the Academy.  AFAICT only in The Apartment does he get multiple counts on the ticker (5). 

An interesting romp through cinema history, thank you.  (not a valediction, just wanted to get that in)  I didn't look at Henry Fonda, but expect that would have a similar low count.  (another escapee from Nebraska)

[Hairy Lime]

Since except in with movies that rhyme with "mabaret" the list of BP winners includes the movies with the most wins, looked up the actors with three or more BP winners. For credited roles, I am calling it for Fiennes.