by Nathaniel R
Saoirse Ronan preparing to burn up the record books
With Saoirse Ronan's fourth Oscar nomination at 25 years young, the Irish child prodigy turned even more excellent movie goddess' steady rise to top of her generation is more than complete. She appears to be the first real rival to Meryl Streep's eternal Oscar dominance since people thought Kate Winslet would be some 12-15 years back.
So it's time to reshare/update one of our favourite charts that we haven't updated since 2015 (!). Herewith...
THE YOUNGEST TO EARN MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS
All Acting Categories Included
The Picture of Dorian Gray - nomination #2 for Angela Lansbury who was 20 years old!
QUICKEST TO 2: Angela Lansbury at 20 (runner up: Saoirse Ronan at 21, Sal Mineo, Jennifer Lawrence, and Kate Winslet all at 22, Mickey Rooney at 23)
QUICKEST TO 3: Jennifer Lawrence at 23 (runner up: NEW Saoirse Ronan at 23, Teresa Wright at 24, Natalie Wood at 25)
QUICKEST TO 4: Jennifer Lawrence at 25 (runner up: NEW Saoirse Ronan at 25, then Jennifer Jones at 27, Liz Taylor at 28)
Little Children - nomination #5 for Kate Winslet. She wouldn't have to wait much longer
QUICKEST TO 5: Kate Winslet at 32 (ru: Marlon Brando and Bette Davis at 33, Streep & Taylor at 34)
Both Jennifer Lawrence, if she is nominated next year, and Saoirse Ronan if she's nominated again anytime in the next 6 years will take this record from Kate Winslet.
QUICKEST TO 6: [tie] Bette Davis* & Kate Winslet at 34 (ru: Meryl Streep at 36, Norma Shearer* at 36, Deborah Kerr at 39)
Mr Skeffington - nomination #7 (or is it #8*) for Bette Davis
QUICKEST TO 7: Bette Davis at 36 (ru: Meryl Streep at 38, Jack Nicholson at 46)
QUICKEST TO 8: Meryl Streep at 39 (ru: Bette Davis* at 42, Jack Nicholson at 48)
QUICKEST TO 9: Meryl Streep at 41
(the only others: Bette Davis* at 44, Jack Nicholson at 50, Spencer Tracy at 67 posthumously, Laurence Olivier at 69, Paul Newman at 78, and Al Pacino at 79 NEW)
The Bridges of Madison County - Nomination #10 for Streep
QUICKEST TO 10: Meryl Streep at 46
(The only others: Bette Davis at 54*, Jack Nicholson at 56, Katharine Hepburn at 60, Laurence Olivier at 71)
QUICKEST TO 11: Meryl Streep at 49
(The only others: Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson both at 61)
QUICKEST TO 12: Meryl Streep at 50
(The only others: Jack Nicholson at 66, Katharine Hepburn at 74)
From here on out Meryl Streep has all the records to herself...
QUICKEST TO 13: Meryl Streep at 53 (ru: not applicable)
QUICKEST TO 14: Meryl Streep at 57 (ru: not applicable)
QUICKEST TO 15: Meryl Streep at 59 (ru: not applicable)
QUICKEST TO 16: Meryl Streep at 60 (ru: not applicable)
QUICKEST TO 17: Meryl Streep at 62 (ru: not applicable)
QUICKEST TO 18: Meryl Streep at 64 (ru: not applicable)
QUICKEST TO 19: Meryl Streep at 65 (ru: not applicable)
QUICKEST TO 20: Meryl Streep at 67 (ru: not applicable)
QUICKEST TO 21: Meryl Streep at 68 (ru: not applicable)
Norma Shearer riding to Oscar on her first... or is it second nomination for The Divorcée (1930). LOVE HER in this movie. * The Norma & Bette Anomalies
Oscar's first handful of years are filled with inconsistent stats and rulings so things get a lot messier if you count things in different ways. For example, The First Lady of MGM Norma Shearer was nominated twice in Best Actress at the 3rd Oscars (Their Own Desire, and winning for The Divorcée) and if you count that as two instead of a conjoined nomination than she ties Streep a couple of times for "fastest to" records, earning her last nomination at the age of 36 (Marie Antoinette) but was that her fifth or six nomination? Depends on how you count it. The rules were different in the first few years of Oscar in regards to multiple nominations by the same actor but they were also inconsistent / confusing. Shortly before Shearer, Janet Gaynor was cited for three roles but they were not considered separate nominations.
Similarly, if you count 26 year-old Bette Davis's write-in nomination for Of Human Bondage (1934) as her first nod -- it's not an "official nomination" but is still all over Oscar books / articles about Oscar history -- than she takes a miniature wrecking ball to the middle portions of the chart, taking a couple of these records listed above away from both Kate Winslet and Meryl Streep.