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List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees

This article lists the oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees in the directing and acting award categories.

Superlatives
Among the oldest and youngest winners and nominees of Academy Awards in standard competitive categories, the following superlatives emerge: Craft and Technical At the 90th Academy Awards, James Ivory became the oldest Oscar winner in any category, at age 89, after receiving the award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Call Me by Your Name. At the 93rd Academy Awards, Ann Roth became the oldest woman to win an Oscar in any category, at age 89, after receiving the award for Best Costume Design for her work on ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom''. At the 95th Academy Awards, John Williams became the oldest Oscar nominee in any category, at age 90, after receiving his 53rd Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for his work on The Fabelmans. At the 96th Academy Awards, he broke the record again, at age 91, after receiving his 54th Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for his work on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. == Multiple winners ==
Multiple winners
Youngest recipients There are only six people in Oscar history who have won two Oscars by the age of 30 or younger: • Bette Davis for Dangerous and JezebelLuise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good EarthJodie Foster for The Accused and The Silence of the LambsHilary Swank for ''Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby'' • Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell for the songs "No Time to Die" from No Time to Die and "What Was I Made For?" from Barbie Davis, Rainer, Foster, and Swank won their awards in the Best Actress category, while Eilish and O'Connell won theirs in the Best Original Song category. Eilish is the youngest person to have won two Oscars in any category, aged 22 at the time of her second win. Oldest recipients There are only fourteen people in Oscar history who have won two or more Oscars at age of 60 or older: • Joseph Ruttenberg for Somebody Up There Likes Me and GigiCedric Gibbons and Edwin B. Willis for Julius Caesar and Somebody Up There Likes MeFred Quimby for The Cat Concerto, The Little Orphan, The Two Mouseketeers, and Johann MouseKatharine Hepburn for ''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond'' • Edith Head for The Facts of Life and The StingMelvyn Douglas for Hud and Being ThereGlen Robinson for Earthquake, The Hindenburg, King Kong, and ''Logan's Run'' • Clint Eastwood for Unforgiven and Million Dollar BabyMichael Kahn for ''Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan'' • Thelma Schoonmaker for The Aviator and The DepartedRoger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049 and 1917Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and NomadlandHayao Miyazaki for Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron Ruttenberg, Gibbons and Willis, Quimby, Hepburn, Head, Kahn, Schoonmaker, and McDormand are the only people who have won awards when younger than 60, and also when aged 60 or older. Hepburn is the only actress who won her awards more than twice after her 60s in the Best Actress category. == Best Director ==
Best Director
Oldest winners :Source: "Academy Award Statistics: Directing: Oldest/Youngest Directing Nominees/Winners", AMPAS Awards Database Oldest nominees Youngest winners Youngest nominees == Best Actor in a Leading Role ==
Best Actor in a Leading Role
:Source: "Academy Award Statistics: Acting: Oldest/Youngest Winners and Nominees for Acting, By Category: Actor [in a Leading Role]", AMPAS Awards Database Oldest winners Oldest nominees Youngest winners Youngest nominees == Best Actress in a Leading Role ==
Best Actress in a Leading Role
:Source: "Academy Award Statistics: Acting: Oldest/Youngest Winners and Nominees for Acting, By Category: Actress [in a Leading Role]", AMPAS Awards Database Oldest winners Oldest nominees Youngest winners Youngest nominees == Best Actor in a Supporting Role ==
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
::Source: "Academy Award Statistics: Acting: Oldest/Youngest Winners and Nominees for Acting, By Category: Actor [in a Supporting Role]", AMPAS Awards Database Oldest winners Oldest nominees Youngest winners Youngest nominees == Best Actress in a Supporting Role ==
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
:Source: "Academy Award Statistics: Acting: Oldest/Youngest Winners and Nominees for Acting, By Category: Actress [in a Supporting Role]", AMPAS Awards Database Oldest winners Oldest nominees Youngest winners Youngest nominees == Honorary Awards ==
Honorary Awards
:Source: "Academy Award Statistics: Acting: Oldest/Youngest Winners and Nominees for Acting, By Category: Acting Honorary Award Winners", AMPAS Awards Database Academy Honorary Award Oldest honorees Oldest acting honorees Honorary Juvenile Award Youngest honorees == See also ==
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