Katharine Hepburn has the most wins for acting with four,
for Morning Glory (1932/33), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967),
The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).

John Ford has the most wins for Best Director with four,
for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940),
How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952).

Three producers have won three Best Picture Oscars: Darryl F. Zanuck for
How Green Was My Valley (1941), Gentleman's Agreement (1947),
and All About Eve (1950); Sam Spiegel for On The Waterfront (1954),
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and Lawrence of Arabia (1962);
and Saul Zaentz for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975),
Amadeus (1984), and The English Patient (1996)

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Paddy Chayefsky
and Francis Coppola won the most writing Oscars, with three.
Wilder and Brackett won as a team for The Lost Weekend (1945)
and Sunset Boulevard (1950). Brackett won a third with Walter Reisch
and Richard Breen for the 1953 version of Titanic, and Wilder won the
1960 award with I.A.L. Diamond for The Apartment. Chayefsky won
for Marty (1955), The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976).
Coppola won for Patton (1970), The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather II (1974).

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