Lionel and Ethel Barrymore (pictured in Raspytin and the Empress) won Oscars as performers; he as Best Actor of 1931/32 as an alcoholic lawyer in the melodrama A Free Soul, she as Best Supporting Actress of 1944 for None But the Lonely Heart.

Other brothers and sisters to receive acting nominations were Jane and Peter Fonda, Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty, Eric and Julia Roberts, and Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal. With the exception of the Gyllenhaals (who have yet to take home a statuette), the sister won an acting award (Jane Fonda for Klute and Coming Home, Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment and Julia Roberts for Erin Brocovich).

All but the Roberts siblings had one representative who also received nonacting nominations, Lionel Barrymore for Best Director of 1928/29 for Madame X, Peter Fonda for Best Story and Screenplay - Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced in 1969 for Easy Rider, and Maggie Gyllenhaal for Best Adapted Screenplay for 2021 for The Lost Daughter. MacLaine was nominated for Best Documentary, Features for The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975) while her brother received nominations as a producer, writer, and director on several occasions; winning the Best Director Oscar for Reds (1982) and the Irving Thalberg Award (2000).

1929/30 Best Actress Norma Shearer had an Academy Award-winning sibling in sound director Douglas Shearer, who won Oscars in six competitive categories as well as six awards for technical achievement.

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