Success story: 7 cases when several actors won Oscars for their roles in one film (7 photos)

There are only 4 acting nominations at the Oscars: Best Actor/Best Actress in a Leading and Supporting Role. And there has not yet been a film where the actors won each of these nominations. However, there are films in which they managed to take 3 out of 4 statuettes. This, by the way, is also an extremely rare event in cinema. Let's take a look and find out what films we are talking about.

Mystic River (2003)





Sean Penn won the Oscar for Best Actor and Tim Robbins won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Million Dollar Baby (2004)



Hilary Swank won the Oscar for Best Actress and Morgan Freeman won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

By the way, both films “Mystic River” and “Million Dollar Baby” were directed by Clint Eastwood. The man knows how to squeeze strong performances out of actors!

The Fighter (2010)





Melissa Leo and Christian Bale received Oscars for supporting actress and actor. According to the plot of the film, they are mother and son.

Dallas Buyers Club (2014)



Matthew McConaughey won the Oscar for Best Actor, and Jared Leto won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)



Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Best Actress and Sam Rockwell won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Oppenheimer (2023)



Cillian Murphy won the Oscar for Best Actor and Robert Downey Jr. won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Everything everywhere and at once (2022)



The only film of this century in which three actors received Oscars for their roles!

Michelle Yeoh won for Best Actress, while Jonathan Ke Kwan and Jamie Lee Curtis won for Best Supporting Actor and Actress.