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List of Academy Award-winning families


This is a list of Academy Award winners related to other winners. Honorary awards are included. In many instances, family members shared awards. These awards are counted only once for each family.

Results reflect awards through the 89th Academy Awards for 2016.

This list includes winners who are direct relatives of other winners, including in-laws, aunts/uncles and first cousins.

The Coppolas have the most wins, with 16. The Newmans were nominated the most often, all 92 being for Film Scoring, Arrangement, or Original Song.

The Coppolas have the most nominated (9) and winning (7) members.

The Hustons were the first three generation family of winners. The others are the Coppolas and, technically, the Farrow/Previn/Allens.

There are only two instances of a parent and child receiving acting nominations in the same film:

There are only two instances of three family members being nominated for a single award:

Relationships noted show relation to first family member listed.


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The Sherman Brothers shared all their nominations and awards. The Coen brothers have shared all of their awards and 12 of their nominations (including two nominations under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes); each received an individual nomination for Fargo.

Sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were both nominated for Best Actress in 1942, with Fontaine winning for Suspicion. They are the only siblings to have both won lead acting awards, and the only pair of sisters to have awards.

Sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave were both nominated for Best Actress in 1966 (for Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment and Georgy Girl, respectively), both losing to Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).


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