Per reader request!
ALL 140 OF OSCAR NOMINATED PERFORMANCES THIS DECADE RANKED (THUS FAR)
by Nathaniel R
Asterisks indicate Oscar winners
- Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine *
- Cate Blanchett, Carol
- Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
- Marion Cotillard, Two Days One Night
- Christopher Plummer, Beginners *
- Isabelle Huppert, Elle
- Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
- Viola Davis, The Help
🔺 for the ages... - Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln *
- Edward Norton, Birdman
- Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
- Michael Keaton, Birdman
- Christian Bale, The Fighter *
- Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
- Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
- Rooney Mara, Carol
- Viola Davis, Fences
- Melissa Leo, The Fighter *
- Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables *
- Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
- Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
- Denzel Washington, Fences
- Brad Pitt, Moneyball
- Jean DuJardin, The Artist *
- Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
- Natalie Portman, Jackie
- Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave *
🔺the awesomeness...
...just love em 🔻 - Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
- Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
- Patricia Arquette, Boyhood *
- Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
- Amy Adams, The Fighter
- Nicole Kidman, Lion
- Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
- Brie Larson, Room *
- Emma Stone, La La Land
- Sally Field, Lincoln
- Reese Witherspoon, Wild
- Bruce Dern, Nebraska
- Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
- Jessica Chastain, The Help
...with deep appreciation 🔻 - Naomie Harris, Moonlight
- Helen Hunt, The Sessions
- Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
- Natalie Portman, Black Swan
- Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
- Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
- Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
- John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
- Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
- Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
- Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
- Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
worthy fine choices. They brought it - Matt Damon, The Martian
- Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
- Julianne Moore, Still Alice *
- Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
- Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
- Ryan Gosling, La La Land
- Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
- James Franco, 127 Hours
- Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
- Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyer's Club *
- Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
- Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
- Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
- Sylvester Stallone, Creed
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
- Denzel Washington, Flight
- Demian Bichir, A Better Life
- Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
- Ruth Negga, Loving
- Amy Adams, American Hustle
- Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything *
- Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies *
- Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl *
- Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
- Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
- Judi Dench, Philomena
- Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
- Jeremy Renner, The Town
i get it even if I wouldn't necessarily have gone there... - Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
- Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
- Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
- Naomi Watts, The Impossible
- Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
- Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
- Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
- Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant *
- Colin Firth, The King's Speech *
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
- Octavia Spencer, The Help *
- Dev Patel, Lion
- Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady *
- Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
- Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
- Jeff Bridges, True Grit
- Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
- JK Simmons, Whiplash *
- Javier Bardem, Biutiful
- Sandra Bullock, Gravity
- June Squibb, Nebraska
- Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
- Jared Leto, Dallas Buyer's Club *
things that make you go "hmmmm..." - Julia Roberts, August Osage County
- Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
- Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
- Tom Hardy, The Revenant
- Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
- Christian Bale, The Big Short
- Laura Dern, Wild
- Emma Stone, Birdman
- Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
- Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook *
- Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
- Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
- Nick Nolte, Warrior
Was this really necessary??? - Jonah Hall, Moneyball
- Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
- Amy Adams, The Master
- Berenice Bejo, The Artist
- Alan Arkin, Argo
- Christian Bale, American Hustle
- Jonah Hill, Wolf of Wall Street
- George Clooney, The Descendants
- Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
- Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
- Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained *
- Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
- Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
- Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
- Robert Duvall, The Judge
- Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
- Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Most Nominated This Decade (7 Years in...)
Four nominations: Jennifer Lawrence & Meryl Streep (nominated for 57% of this decade's Oscar nights)
Three nominations: Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Mark Ruffalo and Michelle Williams (nominated for 43% of this decade's Oscar nights)
Two nominations: Cate Blanchett, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Chastain, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Eddie Redmayne, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Denzel Washington, and Jacki Weaver (nominated for 28% of this decade's Oscar nights)