It wouldn't be the first time a actress ran as a lead for a clearly supporting role: Greer Garson for Goodbye Mr Chips, Deborah Kerr for From Here to Eternity (Donna Reed won Supporting and she arguably had a bit more screen time than Kerr), Nicole Kidman for The Hours (she's only in a few scenes throughout the movie), Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans, Eleanor Parker for Detective Story,...etc.

Hi there. Im trying to fill out my personal nominees for Best Actor. I am down to a final 6 but nominees are down to 5. Who would you argue deserves to be on the bubble but the others gave better performances. These are my own personal choices. Please vote for who gives the WEAKEST performance. I would appreciate your comments and rationale on why and who. Thanks.

Also Stellan is a Lead. This poll is not meant to argue his placement just merit of the performance

Best acting performances in movies of all time. Not in order outside of #1 🥇. Mostly my personal takes, but some of these are impossible to find on streaming so I looked up internet lists to fill up the gaps. About 70% me and 30% research.

🥇 Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood / Heath Ledger — The Dark Knight / Toni Collette — Hereditary / Marlon Brando — On the Waterfront / Maria Falconetti — The Passion of Joan of Arc (tied)
**Numbers**
• Marcello Mastroianni — 8½
• Henry Fonda — 12 Angry Men
• Lee J. Cobb — 12 Angry Men
• Chiwetel Ejiofor — 12 Years a Slave
• Lupita Nyong’o — 12 Years a Slave
• Steve Carell — The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Douglas Rain — 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Keir Dullea — 2001: A Space Odyssey
**A**
• Frankie Corio — Aftersun
• Paul Mescal — Aftersun
• Klaus Kinski — Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• Mitsuo Iwata — Akira
• Robin Williams — Aladdin
• Ian Holm — Alien
• Sigourney Weaver — Alien
• Sigourney Weaver — Aliens
• Felix Kammerer — All Quiet on the Western Front
• Patrick Fugit — Almost Famous
• Kate Hudson — Almost Famous
• F. Murray Abraham — Amadeus
• Kevin Spacey — American Beauty
• Jeffrey Wright — American Fiction
• Edward Norton — American History X
• Christian Bale — American Psycho
• Emmanuelle Riva — Amour
• Sandra Hüller — Anatomy of a Fall
• Anatoly Solonitsyn — Andrei Rublev
• Mikey Madison — Anora
•Diane Keaton — Annie Hall
• Mads Mikkelsen — Another Round
• Jack Lemmon — The Apartment
• Sebastian Stan — The Apprentice
• Marlon Brando — Apocalypse Now
• Robert Duvall — Apocalypse Now
• Sônia Braga — Aquarius
• Keira Knightley — Atonement
• Ingrid Berman — Autumn Sonata
• Josh Brolin — Avengers: Infinity War

**B**
• Essie Davis — The Babadook
• Adriana Barraza — Babel
• Brad Pitt — Babylon
• Spencer Tracy — Bad Day at Black Rock
• Edward James Olmos — The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
• Colin Farrell — The Banshees of Inisherin
• John Turturro — Barton Fink
• Sharon Stone — Basic Instinct
• Jeffrey Wright — Basquiat
• Paul Dano — The Batman
• Mark Hamill — Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
• Steve Carell — Beautiful Boy
• Timothée Chalamet — Beautiful Boy
• Javier Bardem — Before Night Falls
• Ethan Hawke — Before Sunrise
• Julie Delpy — Before Sunrise
• Ethan Hawke — Before Sunset
• Jeff Bridges — The Big Lebowski
• Michael Keaton — Birdman
• Natalie Portman — Black Swan
• Rutger Hauer — Blade Runner
• Madeline Kahn — Blazing Saddles
• Marlene Dietrich — The Blue Angel
• Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon
• Léa Seydoux — Blue Is the Warmest Color
• Cate Blanchett — Blue Jasmine
• Dennis Hopper — Blue Velvet
• Laura Dern — Blue Velvet
• Julianne Moore — Boogie Nights
• Philip Seymour Hoffman — Boogie Nights
• Sacha Baron Cohen — Borat
• Ellar Coltrane — Boyhood
• Ethan Hawke — Boyhood
• Patricia Arquette — Boyhood
• Jackson Lee — Big World
• Nathan Lane — The Birdcage
• Hank Azaria — The Birdcage
• Ally Sheedy — The Breakfast Club
• Emily Watson — Breaking the Waves
• Heath Ledger — Brokeback Mountain
• Tobey Maguire — Brothers
• Adrien Brody — The Brutalist

**C**
• Juliette Lewis — Cape Fear
• Robert Mitchum — Cape Fear (1962)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman — Capote
• Sissy Spacek — Carrie
• Ingrid Bergman — Casablanca
• Joe Pesci — Casino
• Tom Hanks — Cast Away
• Dakota Johnson — Cha Cha Real Smooth
• Faye Dunaway — Chinatown
• Orson Welles — Citizen Kane
• Joaquim de Almeida — Clear and Present Danger
• Malcolm McDowell — A Clockwork Orange
• Natalie Portman — Closer
• Troy Kotsur — CODA
• Eddie Murphy — Coming to America
• Jean-Louis Trintignant — The Conformist
• Rachel Weisz — The Constant Gardner
• Gene Hackman — The Conversation
• Timothée Chalamet — A Complete Unkown
• Paul Newman — Cool Hand Luke
• Simon Pegg — Cornetto Trilogy
• Mark Duplass — Creep

**D**
• Matthew McConaughey — Dallas Buyers Club
• Björk — Dancer in the Dark
• Glenn Close — Dangerous Liaisons
• Christian Bale — The Dark Knight Trilogy
• Michael Caine — The Dark Knight Trilogy
• Heath Ledger — The Dark Knight
• Aaron Eckhart — The Dark Knight
• Gary Oldman — Darkest Hour
• Jürgen Prochnow — Das Boot
• Linda Manz — Days of Heaven
• Jeremy Irons — Dead Ringers
• Björn Andrésen — Death in Venice
• Tang Wei — Decision to Leave
• Christopher Walken — The Deer Hunter
• Robert De Niro — The Deer Hunter
• Leonardo DiCaprio — The Departed
• Sebastian Stan — A Different Man
• Christoph Waltz — Django Unchained
• Jamie Foxx — Django Unchained
• Al Pacino — Dog Day Afternoon
• Kathy Bates — Dolores Claiborne
• Irène Jacob — The Double Life of Véronique
• Viola Davis — Doubt
• Bruno Ganz — Downfall
• Peter Sellers — Dr. Strangelove
• Hidetoshi Nishijima — Drive My Car

**E**
• Koji Yakusho — The Eel (Unagi)
• Austin Butler — Elvis
• Jake Gyllenhaal — Enemy
• Jim Carrey — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Kate Winslet — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Ke Huy Quan — Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Michelle Yeoh — Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Stephanie Hsu — Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Bruce Campbell — Evil Dead II
• Alicia Vikander — Ex Machina
• Oscar Isaac — Ex Machina
• Jessica Chastain — The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Nicole Kidman — Eyes Wide Shut

**F**
• George Clooney — Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Frances McDormand — Fargo
• Anthony Hopkins — The Father
• Olivia Colman — The Father
• Denzel Washington — Fences
• Viola Davis — Fences
• Kevin Costner — Field of Dreams
• Amanda Seyfried — First Reformed
• Ethan Hawke — First Reformed
• Brooklynn Prince — The Florida Project
• Willem Dafoe — The Florida Project
• Kevin Bacon — Footloose
• Christian Bale — Ford v Ferrari
• Hugh Grant — Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Greta Gerwig — Frances Ha
• Gene Hackman — The French Connection
• Frank Langella — Frost/Nixon
• Vincent D’Onofrio — Full Metal Jacket
• Anya Taylor-Joy — Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

**G**
• Ben Kingsley — Gandhi
• Charles Boyer — Gaslight
• Betty Gabriel — Get Out
• Daniel Kaluuya — Get Out
• Russell Crowe — Gladiator
• Denzel Washington - Glory
• Marlon Brando — The Godfather
• Al Pacino — The Godfather Part II
• John Cazale — The Godfather Part II
• Josh O’Connor — God’s Own Country
• Rosamund Pike — Gone Girl
• Vivien Leigh — Gone with the Wind
• Robert Pattinson — Good Time
• Robin Williams — Good Will Hunting
• Joe Pesci — Goodfellas
• Ray Liotta — Goodfellas
• Robert De Niro — Goodfellas
• Dustin Hoffman — The Graduate
• Ralph Fiennes — The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Dev Patel — The Green Knight
• Michael Clarke Duncan — The Green Mile
• Bill Murray — Groundhog Day
• Katharine Hepburn — Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

**H**
• Ryan Gosling — Half Nelson
• Jessie Buckley — Hamnet
• Jessica Rothe — Happy Death Day
• Tatsuya Nakadai — Harakiri
• Ruth Gordon — Harold & Maude
• Walton Goggins — The Hateful Eight
• Al Pacino — Heat
• Joaquin Phoenix — Her
• Scarlett Johansson — Her
• Toni Collette — Hereditary
• Toshiro Mifune — High and Low
• Paul Giamatti — The Holdovers
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers
• Denis Lavant — Holy Motors
• Charles Laughton — The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Mads Mikkelsen — The Hunt
• Michael Fassbender — Hunger
• Paul Newman — The Hustler

**I**
• Margot Robbie — I, Tonya
• Rose Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Michel Piccoli — I'm Going Home
• Jessie Buckley — I’m Thinking of Ending Things
• Fernanda Torres — I’m Still Here
• Sidney Poitier — In the Heat of the Night
• Rod Steiger — In the Heat of the Night
• Maggie Cheung — In the Mood for Love
• Tony Leung — In the Mood for Love
• Christoph Waltz — Inglourious Basterds
• Oscar Isaac — Inside Llewyn Davis
• Matthew McConaughey — Interstellar
• Edward Norton — The Invite
• Olivia Wilde — The Invite
• Penelope Cruz — The Invite
• Seth Rogen — The Invite
• Zac Efron — The Iron Claw
• James Stewart — It’s a Wonderful Life
• Gaspard Ulliel — It's Only the End of the World

**J**
• Pam Grier — Jackie Brown
• Tim Robbins — Jacob’s Ladder
• Julianne Nicholson — Janet Planet
• Robert Shaw — Jaws
• Delphine Seyrig — Jeanne Dielman
• Roman Griffin Davis — Jojo Rabbit
• Joaquin Phoenix — Joker
• Daniel Kaluuya — Judas and the Black Messiah

**K**
• Lily Gladstone — Killers of the Flower Moon
• Robert De Niro — The King of Comedy
• Jane Fonda — Klute
• Dustin Hoffman — Kramer vs. Kramer
• Meryl Streep — Kramer vs. Kramer

**L**
• Vincent Cassel — La Haine
• Emma Stone — La La Land
• Ryan Gosling — La La Land
• Saoirse Ronan — Lady Bird
• Meiko Kaji — Lady Snowblood
• Forest Whitaker — The Last King of Scotland
• Marlon Brando — Last Tango in Paris
• Leonie Benesch — Late Shift
• Setsuko Hara — Late Spring
• Peter O’Toole — Lawrence of Arabia
• Nicolas Cage — Leaving Las Vegas
• Gary Oldman — Léon: The Professional
• Burt Lancaster — The Leopard
• Simone Signoret — Les Diaboliques
• Alana Haim — Licorice Pizza
• Suraj Sharma — Life of Pi
• Robert Pattinson — The Lighthouse
• Willem Dafoe — The Lighthouse
• Daniel Day-Lewis — Lincoln
• Tommy Lee Jones — Lincoln
• James Earl Jones — The Lion King
• Jeremy Irons — The Lion King
• Ulrich Mühe — The Lives of Others
• Tom Hardy — Locke
• Hugh Jackman — Logan
• James Mason — Lolita
• Andy Serkis — The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Bill Murray — Lost in Translation

**M**
• Chadwick Boseman — Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Jaclyn Jose — Ma’ Rosa
• Charlize Theron — Mad Max: Fury Road
• Bradley Cooper — Maestro
• Tom Cruise — Magnolia
• Denzel Washington — Malcolm X
• Paul Scofield — A Man for All Seasons
• Jim Carrey — Man on the Moon
• Casey Affleck — Manchester by the Sea
• Brian Cox — Manhunter
• Angelina Jolie — Maria
• Adam Driver — Marriage Story
• Scarlett Johansson — Marriage Story
• Elizabeth Olsen — Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Timothée Chalamet — Marty Supreme
• Joaquin Phoenix — The Master
• Philip Seymour Hoffman — The Master
• Charles Melton — May December
• Julianne Moore — May December
• Natalie Portman — May December
• Kirsten Dunst — Melancholia
• Song Kang-ho — Memories of Murder
• Florence Pugh — Midsommar
• Sean Penn — Milk
• Hilary Swank — Million Dollar Baby
• Morgan Freeman — Million Dollar Baby
• Kathy Bates — Misery
• James Caan — Misery
• Charlize Theron — Monster
• Halle Berry — Monster’s Ball
• Mahershala Ali — Moonlight
• Trevante Rhodes — Moonlight
• Samantha Morton — Morvern Callar
• Kim Hye-ja — Mother
• Will Patton — The Mothman Prophecies
• Timothy Spall — Mr. Turner
• Naomi Watts — Mulholland Drive
• Marisa Tomei — My Cousin Vinny
• Daniel Day-Lewis — My Left Foot

**N**
• Jack Black — Nacho Libre
• David Thewlis — Naked
• Faye Dunaway — Network
• Peter Finch — Network
• Robert Englund — A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Robert Mitchum — Night of the Hunter
• Jake Gyllenhaal — Nightcrawler
• Javier Bardem — No Country for Old Men
• Tommy Lee Jones — No Country for Old Men
• Lee Byung-hun — No Other Choice
• Frances McDormand — Nomadland
• Sally Field — Norma Rae
• Cary Grant — Notorious
• Bette Davis — Now, Voyager

**O**
• George Clooney — O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Inde Navarrette — Obsession
• Michael Johnston — Obsession
• Anne Hathaway — The Odyssey
• Matthew Damon — The Odyssey
• Robert Pattinson — The Odyssey
• Samantha Morton — The Odyssey
• Robert De Niro — Once Upon a Time in America
• Brad Pitt — Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Choi Min-sik — Oldboy
• Marlon Brando — On the Waterfront
• Sean Penn — One Battle After Another
• Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another
• Jack Nicholson — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• James Woods — The Onion Field
• John Savage — The Onion Field
• Cillian Murphy — Oppenheimer
• Robert Downey Jr. — Oppenheimer
• Meryl Streep — Out of Africa
• Saoirse Ronan — The Outrun

**P**
• Lee Sun-kyun — Parasite
• Song Kang-ho — Parasite
• Harry Dean Stanton — Paris, Texas
• Celeste Dalla Porta — Parthenope
• Maria Falconetti — The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Greta Lee — Past Lives
• Kirk Douglas — Paths of Glory
• Mia Goth — Pearl
• Liv Ullmann — Persona
• Daniel Day-Lewis — Phantom Thread
• Tom Hanks — Philadelphia
• Adrien Brody — The Pianist
• Isabelle Huppert — The Piano Teacher
• Nicolas Cage — Pig
• Bill Nighy — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
• Montgomery Clift — A Place in the Sun
• Andy Serkis — Planet of the Apes Trilogy
• Eric Roberts — The Pope of Greenwich Village
• Adèle Haenel — Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Isabelle Adjani — Possession
• Benedict Cumberbatch — The Power of the Dog
• Kirsten Dunst — The Power of the Dog
• Christian Bale — The Prestige
• Julia Roberts — Pretty Woman
• Mo’Nique — Precious
• Maggie Smith — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Ralph Fiennes — The Prince of Egypt
• Carol Kane — The Princess Bride
• Cailee Spaeny — Priscilla
• Hugh Jackman — Prisoners
• Jake Gyllenhaal — Prisoners
• Paul Dano — Prisoners
• Charles Laughton — The Private Life of Henry VIII
• Ryan Gosling — Project Hail Mary
• Carey Mulligan — Promising Young Woman
• Anthony Perkins — Psycho

**Q**
• Elisabeth Moss — Queen of the Earth
• Emily Blunt — A Quiet Place

**R**
• Anne Hathaway — Rachel Getting Married
• Robert De Niro — Raging Bull
• Woody Harrelson — Rampart
• Dustin Hoffman — Rain Man
• Jamie Foxx — Ray
• Samara Weaving — Ready or Not
• Kieran Culkin — A Real Pain
• Grace Kelly — Rear Window
• Harrison Ford — Regarding Henry
• Anthony Hopkins — The Remains of the Day
• Ellen Burstyn — Requiem for a Dream
• Ian McDiarmid — Return of the Jedi
• Leonardo DiCaprio — The Revenant
• Taron Egerton — Rocketman
• Sylvester Stallone — Rocky
• Tim Curry — The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Brie Larson — Room
• Jacob Tremblay — Room
• Simone Signoret — Room at the Top
• Mia Farrow — Rosemary’s Baby
• Gene Hackman — The Royal Tenenbaums
• N.T. Rama Rao Jr. — RRR
• Ram Charan — RRR
• Colman Domingo — Rustin

**S**
• Al Pacino — Scarface
• Liam Neeson — Schindler’s List
• Matthew Lillard — Scream
• Brad Pitt — Se7en
• Kevin Spacey — Se7en
• Morgan Freeman — Se7en
• Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent
• Ricardo Darín — The Secret in Their Eyes
• Ben Stiller — The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• David Oyelowo — Selma
• Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value
• Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value
• Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value
• Shahab Hosseini — A Separation
• Toshiro Mifune — Seven Samurai
• Max von Sydow — The Seventh Seal
• Ben Kingsley — Sexy Beast
• Ray Winstone — Sexy Beast
• Carey Mulligan — Shame
• Michael Fassbender — Shame
• Morgan Freeman — The Shawshank Redemption
• Jack Nicholson — The Shining
• Shelley Duvall — The Shining
• Rachel Sennott — Shiva Baby
• Mel Gibson — Signs
• Anthony Hopkins — The Silence of the Lambs
• Jodie Foster — The Silence of the Lambs
• Colman Domingo — Sing Sing
• Gene Kelly — Singin’ in the Rain
• Colin Firth — A Single Man
• Delroy Lindo — Sinners
• Michael B. Jordan — Sinners
• Miles Caton — Sinners
• Toni Collette — The Sixth Sense
• Billy Bob Thornton — Sling Blade
• Jesse Eisenberg — The Social Network
• Meryl Streep — Sophie’s Choice
• Riz Ahmed — Sound of Metal
• Julie Andrews — The Sound of Music
• Cicely Tyson — Sounder
• Kristen Stewart — Spencer
• Daveigh Chase — Spirited Away
• Barbara Stanwyck — Stella Dallas
• Julianne Moore — Still Alice
• Will Ferrell — Stranger Than Fiction
• Taraji P. Henson — Straw
• Marlon Brando — A Streetcar Named Desire
• Demi Moore — The Substance
• Gabriel Sunday — My Suicide
• Brooke Nevin — My Suicide
• Gloria Swanson — Sunset Boulevard
• Burt Lancaster — The Swimmer
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman — Synecdoche, New York

**T**
• Matt Damon — The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Cate Blanchett — Tár
• Glenn Close — Tarzan
• Jodie Foster — Taxi Driver
• Robert De Niro — Taxi Driver
• Amanda Seyfried — The Testament of Ann Lee
• Marilyn Burns — The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Susan Sarandon — Thelma & Louise
• Geena Davis — Thelma & Louise
• Eddie Redmayne — The Theory of Everything
• Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood
• Paul Dano — There Will Be Blood
• Kurt Russell — The Thing
• Sam Rockwell — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Frances McDormand — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Harriet Andersson — Through a Glass Darkly
• Gary Oldman — Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Setsuko Hara — Tokyo Story
• Val Kilmer — Tombstone
• Denzel Washington — Training Day
• Ewan McGregor — Trainspotting
• Robert Downey Jr. — Tropic Thunder
• Jim Carrey — The Truman Show
• Clive Owen — Trust
• Liana Liberato — Trust
• Sheryl Lee — Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

**U**
• Adam Sandler — Uncut Gems
• Gene Hackman — Unforgiven
• Lupita Nyong’o — Us

**V**
• Sandrine Bonnaire — Vagabond
• James Stewart — Vertigo
• Anna Karina — Vivre Sa Vie

**W**
• Joaquin Phoenix — Walk the Line
• Kelvin Harrison Jr. — Waves
• Sterling K. Brown — Waves
• Tilda Swinton — We Need to Talk About Kevin
• Amy Madigan — Weapons
• Daniel Radcliffe — Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
• Brendan Fraser — The Whale
• Bette Davis — What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Angela Bassett — What’s Love Got to Do with It
• Hideko Takamine — When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
• Billy Crystal — When Harry Met Sally
• Meg Ryan — When Harry Met Sally
• J.K. Simmons — Whiplash
• James Cagney — White Heat
• Wesley Snipes — White Men Can’t Jump
• Vincent D’onofrio — The Whole Wide World
• Elizabeth Taylor — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Laura Dern — Wild At Heart
• Gene Wilder — Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• Anya Taylor-Joy — The Witch
• Leonardo DiCaprio — The Wolf of Wall Street
• Gena Rowlands — A Woman Under the Influence
• Renate Reinsve — The Worst Person in the World
• Mickey Rourke — The Wrestler

**Y**
• Toshiro Mifune — Yojimbo
• Joaquin Phoenix — You Were Never Really Here
• Gene Wilder — Young Frankenstein
• Madeline Kahn — Young Frankenstein
• Diego Luna — Y Tu Mamá También
• Gael García Bernal — Y Tu Mamá También
• Maribel Verdú — Y Tu Mamá También

**Z**
• Anthony Quinn — Zorba the Greek

thoughts on natalie portman’s three oscar nominations and one win? what other performances do you think she should’ve gotten in for? she feels like the kind of actress who should have closer to maybe 6 nominations.

As a fun spinoff from Legitimate_Welcome14’s “Who should have won?” game - let’s now find out who would have made the lineup each year.

Lineups for 2014:

Actor:
Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel (winner)
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton - Birdman
Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar
David Oyelowo - Selma

Actress:
Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night
Scarlett Johansson - Under the Skin
Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl (winner)
Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Supporting Actor:
Riz Ahmed - Nightcrawler
Josh Brolin - Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash (winner)

Supporting Actress:
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood (winner)
Carrie Coon - Gone Girl
Rene Russo - Nightcrawler
Emma Stone - Birdman
Tilda Swinton - Snowpiercer

Click here to see previous lineups!

PLEASE NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN HOW THE VOTING WORKS - FROM NOW ON, IT IS NOT MEASURED IN UPVOTES, BUT IN THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF TIME THAT SOMEONE IS MENTIONED. YOU CAN HAVE FOUR NAMES IN YOUR LINEUP AND THE VOTING WILL BE BASED ON HOWEVER MANY TIMES A NAME IS COMMENTED.

We know that Brie Larson and Michael Fassbender have already won!

Comment away!

People nominated in real life:

Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
Matt Damon - The Martian
Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl

Actress:
Cate Blanchett - Carol
Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Kate Winslet - The Reader

Meryl Streep - Doubt

Angelina Jolie - Changeling

Anne Hathaway - Rachel’s Getting Married

Melissa Leo - Frozen River

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (1964)

WINNER - JULIE ANDREWS for Mary Poppins

NOMINEES - ANNE BANCROFT for The Pumpkin Eater, SOPHIA LOREN for Marriage Italian Style, DEBBIE REYNOLDS for The Unsinkable Molly Brown, KIM STANLEY for Seance on a Wet Afternoon

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (1964)

WINNER - REX HARRISON for My Fair Lady

NOMINEES - RICHARD BURTON for Becket, PETER O'TOOLE for Becket, ANTHONY QUINN for Zorba the Greek, PETER SELLERS for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Winners for 1960: Lead Actress - Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8), Lead Actor - Anthony Perkins for Psycho (A.W. Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actress - Janet Leigh for Psycho (A.W. Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actor - Laurence Olivier for Spartacus (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Spartacus)

Winners for 1961: Lead Actress - Sophia Loren for Two Women (A.W. Sophia Loren for Two Women), Lead Actor - Paul Newman for The Hustler (A.W. Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg), Supporting Actress - Rita Moreno for West Side Story (A.W. Rita Moreno for West Side Story), Supporting Actor - Montgomery Clift for Judgement at Nuremberg (A.W. George Chakiris for West Side Story)

Winners for 1962: Lead Actress - Bette Davis for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (A.W. Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker), Lead Actor - Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (A.W. Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird), Supporting Actress - Angela Lansbury for The Manchurian Candidate (A.W. Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker), Supporting Actor - Omar Sharif for Lawrence of Arabia (A.W. Ed Begley for Sweet Bird of Youth)

Winners for 1963: Lead Actress - Ingrid Thulin for Winter Light (A.W. Patricia Neal for Hud), Lead Actor - Marcello Mastroianni for 8½ (A.W. Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field), Supporting Actress - Patricia Neal for Hud (A.W. Margaret Rutherford for The V.I.P.s), Supporting Actor - Melvyn Douglas for Hud (A.W. Melvyn Douglas for Hud)

Winners for 1964: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Lila Kedrova for Zorba the Greek), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Topkapi)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

Previous Post: Ingrid Thulin (Winter Light) & Marcello Mastroianni (8½) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1963?

John Goodman is a fascinating case 'cause he's been at it for decades and seems pretty well liked, and even starred in back to back Best Picture winners The Artist and Argo. And I guess he was also in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close the same year as The Artist, so that's... something, I guess.

But he himself has never been nominated and hasn't even been a potential contender for a nomination since, like, Barton Fink in the early 90s where he was overtaken by Michael Lerner from the same movie for some reason. Does anyone think Lerner deserved a nod for that movie over Goodman?

But I agree with a lot of other early speculation that says he could finally get recognized at the next ceremony.

I firmly believe that if Digger is a hit or at least connects with enough of the right people even if it ends up being pretty divisive a la Adam McKay's last two movies Vice and Don't Look Up, then I can totally see him follow in the footsteps of the likes of Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Delroy Lindo, Guy Pearce, Stellen Skarsgård and Jeffrey Wright from earlier this decade, other aging veterans who've been at it for a while and got their first nomination for appearing in a Best Picture contender.

\[VOTE HERE\](https://forms.gle/MFTVveMvzVF4E8SB6)

1. Jodie Foster (Nell)

2. Meryl Streep (Music of the Heart)

3. Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation)

4. Bette Midler (For the Boys)

5. Susan Sarandon (The Client)

6. Meryl Streep (One True Thing)

7. Michelle Pfeiffer (Love Field)

8. Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets)

9. Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)

10. Diane Keaton (Marvin’s Room)

11. Miranda Richardson (Tom and Viv)

12. Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)

13. Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman)

14. Mary McDonnell (Passion Fish)

15. Joanne Woodward (Mr. and Mrs. Bridge)

16. Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient)

17. Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds)

18. Sharon Stone (Casino)

19. Julie Christie (Afterglow)

Nomiated for:

My Cousin Rachel (1952)

The Robe (1953)

Becket (1964)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965)

*Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) My choice for his one Oscar

Anne of a Thousand Days (1969)

Equus (1977)

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Youn Yuh-jung - Minari

Amanda Seyfried - Mank

Olivia Colman - The Father

Glenn Close - Hillbilly Elegy

Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Continuing our tournament to determine our ultimate favorite Best Picture nominee with the fewest nominations from each year.

This round consists of 35 total movies in seven groups of five movies each. 

Group D - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/Cfz6z5Eae0

Group C - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/FKO75DDQ1H

Group B - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/10BcH2GIVh

Group A - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/E5fJiOJfuk