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Triple Crown of Acting Qualifying Oscars

The Triple Crown of Acting is a distinction in American media (though there is a British equivalent), recognizing performers who have achieved the top award in acting in the three major award shows. Oscars for cinema, Emmys for Television, and Tonys for theater.

The following is a list of the films that were nominated for Oscars which then contributed to a creator's path to the Triple Crown of Acting. The notes will include what the qualifying Oscar was and who it qualified.

Only 24 people have achieved this recognition. They are as follows, with the dates of their first qualifier for each of the three.
- Helen Hayes: O-1931, T-1947, E-1953; 22 years
- Thomas Mitchell: O-1939, E-1953, T-1953: 13…

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  • The Sin of Madelon Claudet
  • Stagecoach
  • Gaslight
  • Come Back, Little Sheba
  • Anastasia
  • West Side Story
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Hud
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • The Subject Was Roses
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Airport
  • Women in Love
  • A Touch of Class
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • All the President's Men
  • Julia
  • California Suite
  • Being There
  • Reds
  • Tootsie
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • Reversal of Fortune
  • Scent of a Woman
  • Blue Sky
  • Shine
  • Fargo
  • The Queen
  • Beginners
  • Fences
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Nomadland