Youngest Oscar winners of all time span from a six-year-old honorary honoree to a ten-year-old competitive champion. This six-slide guide ranks every category age record the Academy still recognizes today.
Tatum O'Neal won Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon at age 10 in 1974 — the youngest competitive Oscar winner ever. No performer has matched that benchmark in five decades of Academy history.
Anna Paquin won Best Supporting Actress for The Piano at age 11 in 1994. She remains the only other competitive winner to claim an Oscar before turning twelve years old.
Adrien Brody won Best Actor for The Pianist at age 29 in 2003 — the youngest lead-actor winner in Academy history. He broke Richard Dreyfuss's previous age-thirty benchmark from 1978.
Marlee Matlin won Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God at age 21 in 1987. She was also the first deaf performer to win an acting Oscar — a milestone beyond the age record alone.