# Record for Acadamy-Award winners starring in a film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680 "2002-05-31T03:35:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680/41 "2015-01-11T03:41:19Z")
> [@candide](#): > > Liam Neeson won his Oscar for playing Oskar Schindler, which is close. Liam Neeson has never won an Oscar. As noted above, he was nominated for “Schindler’s List” but did not win. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680/42 "2017-02-16T00:00:28Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > A Bridge Too Far has Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Maximilian Schell, and Robert Redford (OP never said it had to be an Acting Oscar). That’s 7. > > _Around the World in 80 Days_ has David Niven, John Gielgud, Ronald Colman, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Coburn, Frank Sinatra, Victor McLaglen, and John Mills. That’s 8. Since it’s Oscar season, I’m bumping this thread to correct this tally, since I excluded Honorary Oscar winners Buster Keaton and Noel Coward, both of whom appear in _AtWi80D_, putting that film’s tally at 10. Also, in the name of being completist, _AB2F_ should add Richard Attenborough to that list (he directed the film and has a cameo in it). > [@astorian](#): > > Example: the 1965 biblical epic “The Greatest Story Ever Told” featued the following performers: > > BEST ACTORS: > > John Wayne (the centurion) > Sidney Poitier (Simon of Cyrene) > Jose Ferrer (King Herod) > Charlton Heston (John the Baptist) > > BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR > > Van Heflin (Bar Amand) > Martin Landau (Caiaphas) > > BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS > > Shelley Winters (leper woman) > That makes 7 Oscar winners in the cast. I don’t know if that’s the most, but that’s certainly the KIND of movie to look at. In addition to adding Joseph Schildkraut to this list (see post #6), Angela Lansbury has since won an Honorary Oscar, putting that film’s total to 9. > [@BobT](#): > > That’s Entertainment I guess could count, but then you could pick a lot of those short films with lots of clips in them. Like the AFI’s 100th anniversary of film short. > > Of the principal narrators of the film, Bing Crosby, Liza Minelli, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, and Elizabeth Taylor won Oscars. Four other narrators of that film–Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney & Debbie Reynolds–all won Honorary Oscars, putting that film’s total also at 9 (excluding archival footage). One other film that wasn’t mentioned earlier that has a sizable, and eclectic, winner tally is the original **Muppet Movie** , which has appearances by Edgar Bergen (Honorary) Mel Brooks (Screenplay) James Coburn Bob Hope (Honorary) Cloris Leachman Steve Martin (Honorary) Orson Welles (Screenplay) Paul Williams (Song) For a total of 8. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680/43 "2017-09-07T19:12:32Z")
> [@jacksen9](#): > > For JFK (made in 1991), there are five previous winners and one future winner. > > What about Donald Sutherland? Sutherland has just been announced as [one of this year’s honorary Oscar winners](http://variety.com/2017/film/awards/2017-governors-awards-recipients-1202548414/) so the following tallies can be updated. **JFK** - 7 winners (w/Costner, TL Jones, Lemmon, Matthau, Pesci, Spacek) **Cold Mountain** - 5 winners (w/PS Hoffman, Kidman, Portman, Zellweger) **The Hunger Games - Mocking Jay, part 1** - 5 winners (w/Ali, PS Hoffman, Lawrence, Moore) **Outbreak** - (w/Freeman, Gooding Jr., D Hoffman, Spacey) **A Time to Kill** - 5 winners (w/Bullock, Cooper, McConaughey, Spacey) He’s also the only member of The Dirty Dozen to win an Oscar (Marvin, Borgnine & Kennedy were in the film but not among the 12). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680/44 "2017-12-04T18:46:34Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > It should be noted that **The Grand Budapest Hotel** has 15 Oscar nominees in its cast (including 4 winners). If Edward Norton wins for _Birdman_ (he’s a likely nominee), that will raise the film’s total to 5. Looks like last year’s nominee slate included Lucas Hedges, who had a small role in **TGBH** , so the total nominee count in its cast is up to 16, although the winner tally remains at 4. And since the names weren’t previously included, here they are: Winners (acting): F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton Winners (other): Fisher Stevens Nominees (acting): Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Lucas Hedges, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Tom Wilkinson Nominees (other): Bob Balaban, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson Given that both Ronan and Dafoe are doing very well with this year’s Oscar precursor awards (for _Lady Bird_ and _The Florida Project_, respectively), they’re very likely to be repeat nominees and both hold very good odds of winning, which will raise _Budapest_’s total. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680/45 "2017-12-04T19:31:42Z")
Here’s one overlooked: _California Suite_ with six: Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Walter Matthau, and James Coburn\* \*Coburn was uncredited, but appeared as Maggie Smith’s co-star in the film she was (fictionally) nominated for. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680/46 "2017-12-04T20:18:00Z")
When I saw this thread bumped, I assumed it would be to mention the new _Murder on the Orient Express_, with its veritable Venn diagram of famous and talented actors. Surely five or six of them must be Oscar winners? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680/47 "2017-12-04T20:24:39Z")
Great cast (and pretty good movie), but only Judi Dench has actually won an Oscar., ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680/48 "2017-12-04T23:52:58Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Great cast (and pretty good movie), but only Judi Dench has actually won an Oscar., Cruz has, as well. But that’s still 5 fewer people than the cast of the 70s version. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/record-for-acadamy-award-winners-starring-in-a-film/111680.md?page=2)