Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore are hoping to join this exclusive Oscars club

Jacob Sarkisian
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A lucky 13 performers have won both Oscars for acting. That is one hell of an exclusive club that even the likes of four-time Best Actress champion Katharine Hepburn and triple Best Actor victor Daniel Day-Lewis didn’t manage to join. Here’s the breakdown of thespians who taken home both lead and supporting Academy Awards in order of their achievement:

Helen Hayes won Best Actress in 1932 for “The Sin of Madelon Claudet.” She won Best Supporting Actress in 1971 for “Airport.” Hayes, who was the first performer to pull off this double feature,  had the longest time between wins.

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Jack Lemmon won for his supporting turn in “Mister Roberts” in 1956 before he took home Best Actor in 1974 for “Save the Tiger.”

Ingrid Bergman won Best Actress in 1945 for “Gaslight” and again in 1957 for “Anastasia” before she took home a supporting award in 1975 for “Murder on the Orient Express.”

Maggie Smith won Best Actress first — in 1970 for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” She then triumphed in 1979 for Best Supporting Actress for “California Suite.”

Robert De Niro won his supporting Oscar in 1975 for “The Godfather Part II.” He then won Best Actor in 1981 for “Raging Bull.”

Meryl Streep won Best Supporting Actress in 1980 for “Kramer vs. Kramer” before winning Best Actress twice — in 1983 for “Sophie’s Choice” and “The Iron Lady” in 2012. Streep won supporting and lead Oscars in the shortest time of anyone — just three years.

Jack Nicholson triumphed twice in Best Actor with the first victory coming in 1976 for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and the second in 1998 for “As Good as It Gets.” He won Best Supporting Actor in-between those in 1984 for “Terms of Endearment.”

Gene Hackman won for his lead role in “The French Connection” in 1972 before he emerged victor for “Unforgiven” in the 1993 Best Supporting Actor race.

Jessica Lange won Best Supporting Actress in 1983 for “Tootsie” before claiming Best Actress in 1995 for “Blue Sky.”

Kevin Spacey won Best Supporting Actor first. That was for “The Usual Suspects” in 1996. He then added Best Actor to his trophy cabinet in 2000 for “American Beauty.”

Denzel Washington first took home a supporting trophy in 1990 for “Glory.” He then won Best Actor for “Training Day” in 2002.

Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for “The Aviator,” in which she played another Oscar winner — Katharine Hepburn. Blanchett then won for her lead role in “Blue Jasmine” in 2014.

Renée Zellweger won Supporting Actress first — that was for “Cold Mountain” in 2004. She then won Best Actress in 2020 for “Judy.” Zellweger is the most recent person to have ticked both boxes.

Eight of these performers won their supporting trophies first: Lemmon, De Niro, Streep, Lange, Spacey, Washington, Blanchett, and Zellweger. The other five won their lead gongs first. Could anyone join this exclusive club this year?

Well, there aren’t many scenarios where this could happen, but it is possible. Firstly, De Niro has already achieved this feat but he could add to it by winning a second Supporting Actor bid for Apple Original Films’ “Killers of the Flower Moon.” That would be something, at least.

There are two real possibilities are in the open-ended Best Supporting Actress race. Jodie Foster has a meaty role in the Netflix Diana Nyad biopic “Nyad,” in which plays the titular swimmer’s coach Bonnie Stoll. Foster previously won Best Actress twice — in 1989 for “The Accused” and in 1992 for “The Silence of the Lambs.” Foster is currently in fifth spot in our Oscars odds chart for Best Supporting Actress, behind Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”), Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”), Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”), and Taraji P. Henson (also “The Color Purple”). Foster, who is beloved by the academy, could well leapfrog the lot and win.

The other option in this category is Julianne Moore, who won Best Actress in 2015 for “Still Alice.” She is up for this award this year for Netflix’s “May December.” She’s currently just outside of our predicted nominees in sixth place but, again, this race is so up for grabs that she could also do it.

And then there is Sandra Hüller. She could — theoretically — win both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in one fell swoop. She has never been nominated for an Oscar before but we are predicting her to pick up a Best Actress bid for Le Pacte’s “Anatomy of a Fall” along with Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), and Margot Robbie (“Barbie”). We aren’t predicting her to win, however. Hüller also has a supporting role in the highly-anticipated A24 movie “The Zone of Interest.” Hüller is on the precipice of landing a nomination there but, again, we don’t predict that will happen. So, Hüller, in theory, could win both and become the latest supporting/lead acting champ but we doubt that will play out in reality. If it did, that would be an Oscars first. No one has ever won a lead and supporting trophy in one year.

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