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Katharine Hepburn won four Best Actress Oscars

No other performer has won as many in a lead acting category

Katharine Hepburn won the Academy Award for Best Actress four times, in 1934, 1968, 1969 and 1982 ceremonies, for Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond. No other actor has won four times in a lead category.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: No other performer has won as many in a lead acting category. The figure is taken from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.