List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees, based on "statistics valid through the 2007 (80th) Awards, presented on February 24, 2008", as documented in "The Official Academy Awards® Database".Cite web|author=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|title="The Official Academy Awards® Database"|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/|publisher="oscars.org" (AMPAS)|date=2008-02-24|accessdate=2008-07-27|quote=The [searchable] Academy Awards Database contains the record of past Academy Award winners and nominees. The data is complete through the 2007 (80th) Academy Awards. ... The ["Academy Award Statistics" in the "Directing" and "Acting" sections of the "Awards Database"] are based on the most reliable birthdate information available to us at the time of publishing. We welcome any information from primary sources that might indicate a different birthdate for an individual. Such sources might be birth or death certificates or databases based on such records, published interviews with the individual or published documents that cite their sources. This would NOT include the Internet Movie Database or other web sites that do not cite primary sources for their information. N.B.: Ages (including for those persons receiving nominations and/or awards posthumously) are computed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS); for nominations, all ages are computed "from date of birth to date of nominations announcement"; for awards won, all ages are computed "from date of birth to date of awards ceremony."]

=Best Director=

:Source: "Academy Award Statistics: Directing: Oldest/Youngest Directing Nominees/Winners: AMPAS "Awards Database"Cite web|author=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|title=Oldest/Youngest Directing Nominees/Winners|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics/indexStats.html|work=Awards Database|publisher="oscars.org" (AMPAS)|date=March 2008|accessdate=2008-07-27|quote=Statistics are valid through the 2007 (80th) Awards, presented on February 24, 2008. [document last updated 3/08] ... (* indicates a win).]

Oldest winners

Youngest nominees

Youngest winners

Oldest nominees

=Best Actor in a Supporting Role=

::Source: "Academy Award Statistics: Acting: Oldest/Youngest Winners and Nominees for Acting, By Category: Actor [in a Supporting Role] ", AMPAS "Awards Database"

Oldest winners

Youngest nominees

Youngest winners

=Honorary Juvenile Award=

Youngest winners

Notes

ee also

* Academy Awards
* Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

External links

* [http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics/indexStats.html "Academy Award Statistics"] – Index ("Statistics Menu") published in "The Official Academy Awards® Database" ("Awards Database"), on the official AMPAS website. ("Statistics are arranged by award category and represent eighty years of Academy Awards history through the 2007 (80th) Awards, presented on February 24, 2008." [Documents for "Directing" and "Acting" both last updated March 2008.] )
* " [http://www.oscars.org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences] " (AMPAS) – Official website.