a fictional Oscar nominee Maggie Smith won Best Supporting Actress for California Suite Only actor to appear in two movies with 11 Oscar wins Bernard Hill in Titanic and Lord of The Rings: Return of The King Most total nominations without a win Greg P. Russell has earned 16 nominations in the Best Sound Mixing category (This does not include his nomination at the 89th Academy Awards for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which was revoked the day before the ceremony.) Most total nominations before receiving an award Film composer Victor Young was nominated 21 times without winning. He was often nominated multiple times in one year; twice, four times at the same Oscars. He won posthumously for Around the World in 80 Days, alongside yet another nomination (also posthumous) Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell comes in at a close second, with 20 unsuccessful nominations from 1983 until 2016, when he finally won for Hacksaw Ridge. Most nominations for a living person Film composer John Williams with 53 Only write-in nominee to win a competitive award Cinematographer Hal Mohr for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) Only person to receive every nomination in a single category Animation producer Stephen Bosustow in 1957 for Best Short Subject – CartoonsMost distinct categories to have been nominated inAlfonso Cuarón: eleven nominations in seven categories, winning four Best Picture Best Director Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay Best Editing Best Cinematography Best Live Action Short Film Kenneth Branagh: eight nominations in seven categories, winning one Best Picture Best Director Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Best Live Action Short FilmMost nominated woman Costume designer Edith Head with 35 Highest "perfect score" Sound editor Mark Berger has four nominations and four wins Most nominations for directing William Wyler with 12 nominations Most nominations for directing without an award All received 5 nominations Robert Altman Clarence Brown Alfred Hitchcock King Vidor Most wins for producing Two producers received 3 awards: Sam Spiegel Saul Zaentz Most nominations for producing Steven Spielberg with 12 nominations Most nominations for directing in a single year Two people have received 2 nominations for Best Director in the same year: Michael Curtiz for Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters in 1938 Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000 Most Best Picture awards for a film series The Godfather series with 2 (for The