All but one of these is a special award given by the Academy
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
The Gordon E. Sawyer Award
The Cecil B. DeMille Award*
Although an honorary award has never been named after DeMille, the reading room at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library has been named after him.
Each of these performers won consecutive Academy Awards for leading roles except for
Luise Rainer
Spencer Tracy
Jason Robards*
Katharine Hepburn
Robards' back-to-back wins were in the Supporting Actor category.
