nominated 5 years in a row: Bette Davis (1938–1942) Greer Garson (1941–1945) Most consecutive leading actor nominations Marlon Brando with four nominations (1951 to 1954) Actor with most total nominations for acting Jack Nicholson with 12 nominations Actress with most total nominations for acting Meryl Streep with 21 nominations Most nominations for an actor without a win Peter O'Toole with 8 nominations (He received an Honorary Award in 2002) Most nominations for an actress without a win Glenn Close with 8 nominations Most nominations for an actor performing in a foreign language Marcello Mastroianni with 3 nominations. He was nominated for Best Actor for Divorce, Italian Style (1962); A Special Day (1977) and Dark Eyes (1987), performing in Italian Longest gap between first and second award Helen Hayes won in 1932 for The Sin of Madelon Claudet and in 1971 for Airport, a 39-year gap Longest gap between first and second nomination Judd Hirsch was nominated in 1981 for Ordinary People and in 2023 for The Fabelmans, a 42-year gap Longest time span between first and last nomination and between first and last award Katharine Hepburn: 48 years from Morning Glory (1933, in the 1932/33 awards) until On Golden Pond (1981) Most acting nominations before first award Both Geraldine Page and Al Pacino won on their 8th nomination Most posthumous nominations James Dean with 2 (1955 for East of Eden and 1956 for Giant) Shortest performance to win an acting Oscar Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) – 5 minutes and 2 seconds Shortest performance to win a lead acting Oscar Patricia Neal in Hud (1963) – 21 minutes and 51 seconds Shortest performance to be nominated for an acting Oscar Hermione Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) – 2 minutes and 19 seconds Shortest female performance to be nominated for a lead acting Oscar Eleanor Parker in Detective Story (1951) – 20 minutes and 10 seconds Shortest male performance to be nominated for a lead acting Oscar Spencer Tracy in San Francisco (1936) – 14 minutes and 58 seconds Shortest male performance to win a lead acting Oscar David Niven in Separate Tables (1958) – 23 minutes and 39 seconds Shortest male performance to be nominated for a supporting acting Oscar Ned Beatty in Network (1976) – 6 minutes Shortest male performance to win a supporting acting Oscar Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show (1971) – 9 minutes