Award-winning performers who have appeared in most Best Picture winners:
Each of these Award-winners has appeared in 3 Best Picture Winners
** Won Best Actor/Actress for that film; * Won Best Supporting Actor/Actress for that film
· Donald Crisp Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and How Green Was My Valley * (1941)
· Clark Gable It Happened One Night ** (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Gone With the Wind (1939)
· John Gielgud Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Chariots of Fire (1981) and Gandhi (1982) 1
· Hugh Griffith Ben-Hur * (1959), Tom Jones (1963) and Oliver! (1968)
· Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy (1969), Kramer vs. Kramer ** (1979) and Rain Man ** (1988)
· Diane Keaton The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974) and Annie Hall ** (1977)
· Shirley MacLaine Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Apartment (1960) and Terms of Endearment ** (1983)
· Meryl Streep The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer * (1979) and Out of Africa (1985)
· Morgan Freeman Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Unforgiven (1992), Million Dollar Baby (2004) *
· Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) **, Terms of Endearment (1983) *, The Departed (2006)

1 Gielgud is sometimes credited as the voice of the Ghost in Olivier's Hamlet (1948). However, further research has shown that Olivier performed the voice himself and altered it to supply the required "spooky" effect. This is reinforced by Olivier's reported aversion to working with Gielgud.