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Walt Disney has won more Oscars than anyone else

He took home 22 competitive awards and four honorary ones

Walt Disney received 59 Academy Award nominations and won 22 competitive Oscars, plus four honorary awards, for a total of 26. No other person has won more. Many of the wins came for animated short films.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: He took home 22 competitive awards and four honorary ones. 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.