List of Academy Award–winning families

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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 94th Academy Awards for 2021.

Extended family

This list includes winners who are direct relatives of other winners, including in-laws, aunts/uncles and first cousins. The Shearers have the most wins, with 16. The Newmans have been nominated the most often, all 95 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.

Siblings

The Sherman Brothers and Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell are the only pairs of siblings to share all their awards and nominations. 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?. There are three sets of twins on the list: The Marx Brothers were cited in an honorary award given to Groucho Marx in 1973. The Lucas Brothers are the first black siblings nominated for any award. In addition to siblings mentioned directly above, these six sets of siblings have both earned acting nominations: Jane and Peter Fonda's father Henry Fonda also was nominated and won for acting. Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave's father Michael Redgrave was also nominated for acting. Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal's mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal was also nominated for writing, as was Maggie at the 94th Academy Awards. One winning family has two generations of nominated siblings: Sofia Coppola has won for writing and been nominated for best picture and best director, and her brother Roman Coppola has been nominated for writing. Their father Francis Ford Coppola, who has multiple wins, and his sister (their aunt) Talia Shire have also both been nominated.

Couples

These are the spouses who have won Academy Awards, though not necessarily while they were married. Only two couples have won awards for Best Actor/Actress: Laurence Olivier / Vivien Leigh and Joanne Woodward / Paul Newman. Michael Douglas/Catherine Zeta-Jones and Nicolas Cage/Patricia Arquette have Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress wins. Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz each have Best Supporting Actor/Actress awards. Four couples have been nominated for performances in the same film: Only one couple has ever competed head-to-head for the same award. In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow won for directing/producing The Hurt Locker, beating ex-spouse James Cameron, nominated for his film Avatar. Julie Andrews, Lauren Bacall, and Angelina Jolie have each been married to two other winners (Tony Walton/Blake Edwards, Humphrey Bogart/Jason Robards, and Billy Bob Thornton/Brad Pitt, respectively). Judy Garland / Vincente Minnelli and Liza Minnelli / Peter Allen constitute the only instance in which a member of a winning couple (Liza Minnelli) has a parent (in this case, both parents) who is also a member of a winning couple. Producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall were jointly awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2018.

Shared awards

All the awards and nominations for these couples were for films they worked on together:

Separate awards

Couples with at least one unshared award or nomination:

Other

Carl Laemmle Jr. (1/1/0), who produced Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front but was not nominated for the award because at the time the production company (in this case Universal) and not individual producers were nominated, and director William Wyler (3/14/1) (Mrs. Miniver), were cousins. Susan Sarandon (1/5/0) (Dead Man Walking) has two children with former partner Tim Robbins (1/2/0) (Mystic River). Robbins directed Sarandon in her winning performance in Dead Man Walking. Sarandon's first husband, Chris Sarandon, has one nomination of his own (Supporting Actor, Dog Day Afternoon). Ingmar Bergman (0/9/1) and Liv Ullmann (0/2/1) have a daughter together. Justine Triet (1/2/0) and Arthur Harari (1/1/0) have two children together and both won Best Original Screenplay for their work on Anatomy of a Fall.

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