Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography (*), Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing Awards for debut acting or directing performances on film These people won Academy Awards for their debut performances in film: Best Actor None Best Actress Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba, 1952) Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964) Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, 1968) Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God, 1986) Best Supporting Actor Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946) Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People, 1980) Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields, 1984) Best Supporting Actress Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse, 1936) Katina Paxinou (For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943) Mercedes McCambridge (All the King's Men, 1949) Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, 1954) Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, 1955) Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973) Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993) Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006) Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, 2013) Honorary Award Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946) Academy Juvenile Award Claude Jarman Jr. (The Yearling, 1946) Vincent Winter (The Little Kidnappers, 1954) These people won Academy Awards for their film debut direction: Best Director Delbert Mann (Marty, 1955) Jerome Robbins (West Side Story, 1961) Robert Redford (Ordinary People, 1980) James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, 1983) Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves, 1990) Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) Big Five winners Three films have received the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay (Original or Adapted; all won for Best Adapted Screenplay). It Happened One Night (1934) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Most consecutive awards Any awards Walt Disney received record 10 awards in the eight consecutive years from 1931/32 through 1939. Eight (listed below) are for Short Subject (Cartoon), and two were Special Awards: one for the creation of Mickey Mouse, and one recognizing the innovation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Best Picture David O. Selznick produced two consecutive Best Picture winners Gone with the Wind in 1939 and Rebecca in 1940 (He himself was not awarded the Oscars as at the time the statuette went to the studio instead of the producer) Best Director Three directors have won two consecutive awards (of which, one of each of their movies won the Academy Award for Best Picture and one did not): John Ford – The Grapes of Wrath (1940)