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by TheDarkMaster007 | created - 18 Dec 2022 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicThe Dark Master Awards
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1. Ron Fricke
Cinematographer | Samsara
Ron Fricke is known for Samsara (2011), Baraka (1992) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).
3 Wins, 3 Nominations
2011: Best Director (Samsara) - Win
2011: Best Cinematography (Samsara) - Win
2011: Best Film Editing (Samsara) - Win
2. Hans Zimmer
Composer | Gladiator
German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents. He featured in the music video for The Buggles' single "Video Killed the Radio Star", which became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to ...
2 Wins, 7 Nominations
2013: Best Original Score (Man of Steel)
2013: Best Original Score (The Lone Ranger)
2014: Best Original Score (Interstellar) - Win
2014: Best Original Score (The Amazing Spider-Man 2)
2014: Best Original Song (The Amazing Spider-Man 2)
2016: Best Original Score (Batman v Superman)
2021: Best Original Score (Dune) - Win
3. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
2 Wins, 5 Nominations
2014: Best Original Screenplay (Birdman) - Win
2014: Best Director (Birdman)
2015: Best Director (The Revenant)
2022: Best Director (Bardo) - Win
2022: Best Film Editing (Bardo)
4. Catherine Martin
Producer | Moulin Rouge!
Catherine Martin was born on January 26, 1965 in Lindfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is a producer and costume designer, known for Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Great Gatsby (2013) and Australia (2008). She has been married to Baz Luhrmann since January 26, 1997. They have two children.
2 Wins, 4 Nominations
2013: Best Production Design (The Great Gatsby) - Win
2013: Best Costume Design (The Great Gatsby) - Win
2022: Best Production Design (Elvis)
2022: Best Costume Design (Elvis)
5. Justin Hurwitz
Soundtrack | La La Land
Justin Hurwitz was born on January 22, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for La La Land (2016), First Man (2018) and Whiplash (2014).
2 Wins, 4 Nominations
2016: Best Original Score (La La Land) - Win
2016: Best Original Song (La La Land)
2016: Best Original Song (La La Land)
2022: Best Original Score (Babylon) - Win
6. Alicia Vikander
Actress | Ex Machina
Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Through her mother, she is one quarter Finnish, and had a maternal great aunt who moved...
2 Wins, 3 Nominations
2015: Best Supporting Actress (The Danish Girl) - Win
2015: Best Supporting Actress (Ex Machina)
2016: Best Supporting Actress (The Light Between Oceans) - Win
7. Pete Docter
Writer | Up
Pete Docter is the Oscar®-winning director of "Monsters, Inc.," "Up," and "Inside Out," and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios. He is currently directing Pixar's feature film "Soul" with producer Dana Murray, which is set to release June 19, 2020.
Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...
2 Wins, 2 Nominations
2015: Best Animated Feature (Inside Out) - Win
2015: Best Original Screenplay (Inside Out) - Win
8. Ennio Morricone
Composer | The Hateful Eight
A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first ...
2 Wins, 2 Nominations
2012: Best Original Song (Django Unchained) - Win
2015: Best Original Score (The Hateful Eight) - Win
9. Rich Moore
Director | Wreck-It Ralph
Rich Moore was born on May 10, 1963 in Oxnard, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Zootopia (2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
2 Wins, 2 Nominations
2012: Best Animated Feature (Wreck-It Ralph) - Win
2015: Best Animated Feature (Zootopia) - Win
10. Park Chan-wook
Director | Oldeuboi
Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.
1 Win, 4 Nominations
2012: Best Director (Stoker)
2016: Best Adapted Screenplay (The Handmaiden) - Win
2016: Best Director (The Handmaiden)
2022: Best Director (Decision to Leave)
11. Richard Linklater
Director | Waking Life
Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...
1 Win, 4 Nominations
2012: Best Adapted Screenplay (Bernie)
2013: Best Adapted Screenplay (Before Midnight) - Win
2014: Best Original Screenplay (Boyhood)
2022: Best Animated Feature (Apollo 10½)
12. Paolo Sorrentino
Writer | È stata la mano di Dio
Director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino was born in Naples in 1970, and and became an orphan when he lost both of his parents at the age of 16. At the age of 25, after studying for a few years at the Faculty of Economics and Business in University of Naples Federico II, he decided to work in the...
1 Win, 3 Nominations
2013: Best Director (The Great Beauty) - Win
2015: Best Director (Youth)
2015: Best Original Screenplay (Youth)
13. George Miller
Producer | Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max ...
1 Win, 3 Nominations
2015: Best Director (Mad Max) - Win
2015: Best Adapted Screenplay (Mad Max)
2022: Best Adapted Screenplay (Three Thousand Years of Longing)
14. Emmanuel Lubezki
Cinematographer | Children of Men
Lubezki began his career in Mexican film and television productions in the late 1980s. His first international production was the 1993 independent film Twenty Bucks (1993), which followed the journey of a single twenty-dollar bill.
Lubezki is a frequent collaborator with fellow Mexican filmmaker ...
1 Win, 3 Nominations
2014: Best Cinematography (Birdman)
2015: Best Cinematography (The Revenant) - Win
2015: Best Cinematography (Knight of Cups)
15. Eddie Redmayne
Actor | Les Misérables
British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).
Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard ...
1 Win, 2 Nominations
2014: Best Actor in a Leading Role (The Theory of Everything) - Win
2015: Best Actor in a Leading Role (The Danish Girl)
16. Michelle Williams
Actress | Blue Valentine
A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...
1 Win, 2 Nominations
2016: Best Supporting Actress (Manchester By the Sea)
2022: Best Supporting Actress (The Fabelmans) - Win
17. Ludwig Göransson
Composer | The Mandalorian
Ludwig Göransson is a Swedish composer known for composing Black Panther, the Creed films, Venom, Fruitvale Station, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Turning Red, New Girl, Community, Top Five, Central Intelligence, 30 Minutes or Less and Tenet. He had a son from Serena McKinney, who was ...
1 Win, 2 Nominations
2022: Best Original Song (Wakanda Forever) - Win
2022: Best Original Score (Wakanda Forever)
18. Cate Blanchett
Actress | Carol
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...
1 Win, 2 Nominations
2013: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Blue Jasmine) - Win
2015: Best Supporting Actress (Carol)
19. Andrew Garfield
Actor | Hacksaw Ridge
Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...
1 Win, 2 Nominations
2016: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hacksaw Ridge)
2021: Best Actor in a Leading Role (tick, tick... BOOM!) - Win
20. John Powell
Composer | How to Train Your Dragon 2
John Powell was born on September 18, 1963 in London, England, UK. He is a composer, known for How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), Happy Feet (2006) and Shrek (2001). He was previously married to Melinda Lerner.
1 Win, 2 Nominations
2014: Best Original Song (How to Train Your Dragon 2) - Win
2022: Best Original Score (Don't Worry, Darling)
21. Sion Sono
Director | Ai no mukidashi
Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early...
1 Win, 2 Nominations
2012: Best Sound Editing/Mixing (Why Don't You Play in Hell?) - Win
2012: Best Director
22. Sacha Baron Cohen
Actor | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
British actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen was born in Hammersmith, London. He is the son of Daniella (Weiser), a movement instructor, and Gerald Baron Cohen, a clothing store owner. His father, born in England and raised in Wales, was of Eastern European Jewish descent, while his mother was born...
1 Win, 2 Nomination
2012: Best Original Screenplay (The Dictator) - Win
2012: Best Actor (The Dictator)
23. Casey Affleck
Actor | Manchester by the Sea
An accomplished and striking performer, Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a powerful leading man with performances in multiple projects.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), is a school teacher, and ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2016: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Manchester By the Sea)
24. Natalie Portman
Actress | Black Swan
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2016: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jackie) - Win
25. Yonatan Bar-Or
Actor | Mishehu Larutz Ito
Yonatan Bar-Or is known for Someone to Run With (2006), People That Are Not Me (2016) and Goose Bumps (2011).
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2016: Best Supporting Actor (People That Are Not Me)
26. Noam Imber
Actor | Hine anachnu
Noam Imber is known for Here We Are (2020), Dismissed (2021) and Beyond the Mountains and Hills (2016).
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2021: Best Supporting Actor (Here We Are) - Win
27. Martha Plimpton
Actress | The Goonies
She has show biz in her blood. Martha Plimpton was born November 16, 1970, in New York City to two actors: Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. Martha began her career at age 8, when her mom had a friend of hers, composer Elizabeth Swados, enroll her in an actors' workshop. At age 10, she got a ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2021: Best Supporting Actress (Mass) - Win
28. Moran Rosenblatt
Actress | Hit and Run
Moran Rosenblatt was born on September 14, 1985 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is an actress and director, known for Hit & Run (2021), Fauda (2015) and We Were the Lucky Ones (2024).
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2015: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Wedding Doll) - Win
29. Kristen Stewart
Actress | Snow White and the Huntsman
Though most famous for her role as Isabella "Bella" Swan in The Twilight (2008) Saga, Kristen Stewart has been a working actor since her early years in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, John Stewart and Jules Stewart, both work in film and television. The family includes three boys, Kristen's ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2021: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Spencer) - Win
30. Jacob Tremblay
Actor | Room
Jacob Tremblay is a Canadian actor. He made his film debut as Blue in the live action animated film The Smurfs 2 (2013). His breakout performance was in the dark drama Room (2015), for which he received critical acclaim. In 2016, Tremblay played a supporting role in the comedy film Donald Trump's ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2015: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Room) - Win
31. Reese Witherspoon
Producer | Wild
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2014: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Wild) - Win
32. Nelly Tagar
Actress | Hahataim
Nelly Tagar was born on November 30, 1982 in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is an actress, known for Past Life (2016), Sisters (2016) and The Art of Waiting (2019).
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2014: Best Supporting Actress (Zero Motivation) - Win
33. J.K. Simmons
Actor | Whiplash
J.K. Simmons is an American actor.
He was born Jonathan Kimble Simmons in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Patricia (Kimble), an administrator, and Donald William Simmons, a music teacher. He attended the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Montana, Missoula, MT (BA in Music).
He had ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2014: Best Supporting Actor (Whiplash) - Win
34. Jared Leto
Actor | Dallas Buyers Club
Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actor (Dallas Buyers Club) - Win
35. Lupita Nyong'o
Actress | 12 Years a Slave
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science. She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actress (12 Years a Slave) - Win
36. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Actor | 12 Years a Slave
English actor, writer and director Chiwetel Ejiofor is renowned for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He is also known for playing Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2013: Best Actor in a Leading Role (12 Years a Slave) - Win
37. Cooper Raiff
Actor | Cha Cha Real Smooth
Cooper Michael Raiff is an American filmmaker and actor. He has received critical acclaim for his films Shithouse (2020) and Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022). He appeared on the 2022 Variety list of directors to watch. A native of Dallas, Raiff attended the Greenhill School in Addison, Texas. He ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2022: Best Original Screenplay (Cha Cha Real Smooth) - Win
38. Martin McDonagh
Writer | In Bruges
Martin McDonagh was born on March 26, 1970 in Camberwell, London, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
2 Nominations
2012: Best Original Screenplay (Seven Psychopaths)
2022: Best Original Screenplay (The Banshees of Inisherin)
39. Anne Hathaway
Actress | Les Misérables
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2012: Best Supporting Actress (Les Misérables) - Win
40. Walton Goggins
Actor | Justified
Walton Goggins is an actor of considerable versatility and acclaim who has delivered provocative performances in a multitude of feature films and television series. He won a Critics' Choice Award for his performance in the HBO comedy series "Vice Principals" and landed an Emmy nomination for his ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2015: Best Supporting Actor (The Hateful Eight)
41. Joaquin Phoenix
Actor | Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2012: Best Actor (The Master) - Win
42. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Actress | 10 Cloverfield Lane
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an actress known for her versatile work in a variety of film and television projects. Possibly most known for her role as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), she has also starred in critically acclaimed independent films such as Smashed (2012), for which...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2012: Best Actress (Smashed) - Win
43. Christoph Waltz
Actor | Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...
1 Win, 1 Nomination
2012: Best Supporting Actor (Django Unchained) - Win
44. Bo Burnham
Writer | Bo Burnham: Inside
Robert Pickering Burnham is an American actor, director, writer and producer. He is known for writing and directing the middle school comedy film Eighth Grade. He also acted in Funny People, Rough Night, American Virgin, Hall Pass, The Big Sick and Promising Young Woman.
4 Nominations
2021: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Inside)
2021: Best Original Song (Inside)
2021: Best Original Song (Inside)
2022: Best Original Song (Inside Outtakes)
45. Damien Chazelle
Writer | La La Land
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...
3 Nominations
2014: Best Director (Whiplash)
2014: Best Adapted Screenplay (Whiplash)
2016: Best Director (La La Land)
46. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Soundtrack | Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the first incarnation of "In the Heights" his sophomore year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Off-Broadway, "In The Heights" received nine Drama Desk nominations, including best music, best lyrics, and it won the award for outstanding ensemble performance; received ...
3 Nominations
2016: Best Original Song (Moana)
2021: Best Original Song (Encanto)
2021: Best Original Song (Encanto)
47. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
3 Nominations
2012: Best Supporting Actor (Django Unchained)
2013: Best Actor in a Leading Role (The Wolf of Wall Street)
2015: Best Actor in a Leading Role (The Revenant)
48. Greig Fraser
Cinematographer | Dune
Greig Fraser was born on October 3, 1975 in Melbourne, Australia. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Dune (2021), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). He is married to Jodie Fried. They have three children.
3 Nominations
2012: Best Cinematography (Killing Them Softly)
2016: Best Cinematography (Lion)
2021: Best Cinematography (Dune)
49. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
3 Nominations
2012: Best Original Screenplay (Django Unchained)
2012: Best Director (Django Unchained)
2015: Best Original Screenplay (The Hateful Eight)
50. Penélope Cruz
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress," Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...
3 Nominations
2013: Best Supporting Actress (The Counselor)
2021: Best Supporting Actress (Parallel Mothers)
2022: Best Supporting Actress (Official Competition)
51. Tom Holkenborg
Soundtrack | Mad Max: Fury Road
Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL, is a Grammy-nominated multi-platinum producer, musician, composer and educator whose versatility puts him on the cutting edge of contemporary music, and whose thirst for innovation is helping to reimagine the world of composition.
A full-contact composer, Holkenborg is...
2 Nominations
2014: Best Original Score (The Amazing Spider-Man 2)
2016: Best Original Score (Batman v Superman)
52. Tom Hardy
Actor | Inception
With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily working on both stage and screen since his television debut...
2 Nominations
2014: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Locke)
2015: Best Supporting Actor (The Revenant)
53. Dana Ivgy
Actress | Or
Dana Ivgy was born on April 3, 1982 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is an actress and director, known for Or (My Treasure) (2004), Zero Motivation (2014) and Next to Her (2014).
2 Nominations
2014: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Zero Motivation)
2014: Best Supporting Actress (Next to Her)
54. Naomi Watts
Actress | Mulholland Dr.
Naomi Ellen Watts was born on September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, England to Myfanwy Edwards "Miv" (Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume/set designer, and Peter Watts (Peter Anthony Watts), Pink Floyd's road manager. Her maternal grandfather was Welsh. Her father died when she was seven and she ...
2 Nominations
2012: Best Supporting Actress (The Impossible)
2014: Best Supporting Actress (Birdman)
55. Jessica Chastain
Actress | Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...
2 Nominations
2012: Best Actress (Zero Dark Thirty)
2021: Best Actress in a Leading Role (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
56. Andy Serkis
Actor | War for the Planet of the Apes
English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), ...
2 Nominations
2012: Best Supporting Actor (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
2014: Best Supporting Actor (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
57. Colin Farrell
Actor | The Lobster
Colin Farrell is one of Ireland's biggest stars in Hollywood and abroad. His film presence has been filled with memorable roles that range from an inwardly tortured hit man, to an adventurous explorer, a determined-but-failing writer, and the greatest military leader in history.
Farrell was born on ...
2 Nominations
2012: Best Actor (Seven Psychopaths)
2022: Best Actor in a Leading Role (The Banshees of Inisherin)
58. Jennifer Lawrence
Actress | The Hunger Games
As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...
2 Nominations
2012: Best Supporting Actress (Silver Linings Playbook)
2013: Best Actress in a Leading Role (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
59. Moshe Rosenthal
Writer | Karaoke
Graduated from The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University Moshe Rosenthal is an Israeli filmmaker. Writing and directing films, commercials, television and web.
Writer and director of Shabaton (18 min, 2016) won Best Director Award at Jerusalem FF, Best Short at Zlin FF. ...
2 Nominations
2022: Best Director (Karaoke)
2022: Best Original Screenplay (Karaoke)
60. Daniel Kwan
Director | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Kwan with Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, are a duo of film directors and writers. They began their career as directors of music videos, including the popular DJ Snake promotional for the single "Turn Down for What" (2013). They have since ventured into film, having written ...
2 Nominations
2016: Best Director (Swiss Army Man)
2022: Best Director (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
61. Daniel Scheinert
Director | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Scheinert was born on June 7, 1987 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Swiss Army Man (2016) and Foster the People: Houdini (2012).
2 Nominations
2016: Best Director (Swiss Army Man)
2022: Best Director (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
62. Kid Cudi
Soundtrack | The Harder They Fall
Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, known professionally as Kid Cudi, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, and actor. He has widely been recognized as an influence on several contemporary hip hop and alternative acts.His lyrics are often autobiographical and describe his childhood hardships of ...
2 Nominations
2022: Best Original Song (Intergalactic)
2022: Best Original Song (Intergalactic)
63. Mia Goth
Actress | Pearl
Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth, also known by her nickname Brush Cut, was born October 25, 1993 in Southwark, London, England to a Brazilian mother and a Canadian father.
Aged 14, she was discovered at the Underage Festival in London by fashion photographer Gemma Booth, who signed her to Storm Model ...
2 Nominations
2022: Best Adapted Screenplay (Pearl)
2022: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Pearl)
64. Alexandre Desplat
Composer | The King's Speech
Composer and conductor Alexandre Desplat, Oscar winner and seven-time Academy Award nominated, for his prolific filmography and his collaborations with Stephen Frears, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Kathryn Bigelow, Jacques Audiard, Wes Anderson, Roman Polanski, George Clooney or Matteo Garrone is one ...
2 Nominations
2014: Best Original Score (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
2015: Best Original Score (The Danish Girl)
65. Panah Panahi
Director | Jaddeh Khaki
Panah Panahi was born in 1984 in Tehran,Iran. He is a director and writer, known for Hit the Road (2021), 3 Faces (2018) and Días de cine (1991).
2 Nominations
2022: Best Director (Hit the Road)
2022: Best Original Screenplay (Hit the Road)
66. Joe Hisaishi
Composer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Joe Hisaishi was born on December 6, 1950 in Nakano, Japan. He is a composer and director, known for Spirited Away (2001), The Boy and the Heron (2023) and Fireworks (1997). He is married to Ayame Fujisawa . They have one child.
2 Nominations
2013: Best Original Score (The Tale of The Princess Kaguya )
2013: Best Original Score (The Wind Rises)
67. Roger Deakins
Cinematographer | Blade Runner 2049
Roger Deakins is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.
He is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
Deakins' first feature film in America as cinematographer was Mountains of the Moon (...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Cinematography (Skyfall)
68. Samuel L. Jackson
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Supporting Actor (Django Unchained)
69. Dwight Henry
Actor | Beasts of the Southern Wild
Dwight Henry was born on February 19, 1963 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Sexual Healing.
1 Nomination
2012: Best Supporting Actror (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
70. Keira Knightley
Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Keira Christina Knightley was born March 26, 1985 in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born ...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Actress (Anna Karenina)
71. Quvenzhané Wallis
Actress | Beasts of the Southern Wild
Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana, to Qulyndreia (Jackson) Wallis, a teacher, and Venjie Wallis, Sr., a truck driver. She has one sister, Qunyquekya, and two brothers, Vejon and Venjie, Jr. "Quven", the first part of her name, combines the first syllables of her parents' first names. Wallis, at ...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Actress (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
72. Cosmina Stratan
Actress | Dupa dealuri
Cosmina Stratan was born on 20th Oct. 1984 in Iasi, Romania. She studied Acting at the National University of Theatre and Film "I.L.Caragiale" in Bucharest, Romania. After graduating, she played her first lead role in Beyond the Hills (2012) by Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu. Together with ...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Actress (Beyond the Hills)
73. Bradley Cooper
Actor | A Star Is Born
Bradley Charles Cooper was born on January 5, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (Campano), is of Italian descent, and worked for a local NBC station. His father, Charles John Cooper, who was of Irish descent, was a stockbroker. Immediately after Bradley graduated from the ...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Actor (Silver Linings Playbook)
74. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Actor (Lincoln)
75. Julia Roberts
Actress | Pretty Woman
Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her ...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Supporting Actress (Mirror Mirror)
76. Zoe Kazan
Actress | Ruby Sparks
Zoe Swicord Kazan was born in Los Angeles, California, to screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. She is the granddaughter of director Elia Kazan. She is of Greek (from her paternal grandfather), English, and German descent.
Kazan received her BA in Theater from Yale University. In the fall ...
1 Nomination
2012: Best Supporting Actress (Ruby Sparks)
77. Adèle Exarchopoulos
Actress | La vie d'Adèle
Known for her performance in La Vie d'Adèle (Blue Is The Warmest Color) by Abdellatif Kechiche, that landed her both the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and the César for Most Promising Actress that same year, Adèle Exarchopoulos has been on the French and International big screen ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Blue is the Warmest Colour)
78. Greta Gerwig
Writer | Barbie
Greta Gerwig is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director. She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015). Gerwig made her solo directorial debut ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Frances Ha)
79. Sandra Bullock
Producer | The Proposal
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Gravity)
80. Matthew McConaughey
Actor | Interstellar
American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Dallas Buyers Club)
81. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Prisoners)
82. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Captain Phillip)
83. Shailene Woodley
Actress | Divergent
Actress and activist Shailene Woodley was born in Simi Valley, California, to Lori (Victor), a middle school counselor, and Lonnie Woodley, a school principal. She has one brother, Tanner. She was educated at Simi Valley High School in California. When Woodley was four years old she began ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actress (The Spectacular Now)
84. Amy Adams
Actress | Arrival
Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actress (American Hustle)
85. Scarlett Johansson
Actress | Lost in Translation
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actress (Her)
86. Michael Douglas
Actor | Wall Street
A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.
In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actor (Behind the Candelabra)
87. James Franco
Actor | Spring Breakers
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actor (Spring Breakers)
88. Bruce Dern
Actor | Nebraska
Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern's tremendous career is made up of playing both modern day heroes and legendary villains. Through decades of lauded performances, Dern has acquired the reputation of being one of the most talented and prolific actors of his generation.
Dern currently appears opposite...
1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actor (Nebraska)
89. Barkhad Abdi
Actor | Captain Phillips
Barkhad Abdi was born on April 10, 1985 in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is an actor, known for Captain Phillips (2013), Eye in the Sky (2015) and Good Time (2017).
1 Nomination
2013: Best Supporting Actor (Captain Phillip)
90. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
1 Nomination
2014: Best Supporting Actor (Birdman)
91. Ty Burrell
Actor | Modern Family
Tyler Gerald Burrell was born on August 22, 1967 in Grants Pass, Oregon, where his family owned a business. He is the son of Sheri Rose (Hauck), a teacher, and Gary Gerald Burrell, a family therapist, and is primarily of English and German ancestry. He earned a BA from Southern Oregon University ...
1 Nomination
2014: Best Supporting Actor (Muppets Most Wanted)
92. Michael Moshonov
Actor | The Little Drummer Girl
Michael Moshonov was born on March 3, 1986 in Israel. He is an actor and composer, known for The Little Drummer Girl (2018), America (2022) and Mary Magdalene (2018).
1 Nomination
2014: Best Supporting Actor (A Borrowed Identity)
93. Jennifer Connelly
Actress | A Beautiful Mind
Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across ...
1 Nomination
2014: Best Supporting Actress (Noah)
94. Carrie Coon
Actress | Gone Girl
Originally from Copley, OH, Carrie Coon is a Chicago-based theatre, television and film actress. She received a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Mount Union, followed by her MFA in Acting at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Coon was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best ...
1 Nomination
2014: Best Supporting Actress (Gone Girl)
95. Marion Cotillard
Actress | La Môme
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.
Raised in Orléans, France, she ...
1 Nomination
2014: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Two Days, One Night)
96. Liron Ben-Shlush
Actress | Next to Her
Liron Ben-Shlush was born on September 21, 1983 in Bat Yam, Israel. She is an actress and writer, known for Next to Her (2014), Working Woman (2018) and Maya (2010).
1 Nomination
2014: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Next to Her)
97. Sarah Adler
Actress | Meduzot
Sarah Adler was born in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Jellyfish (2007), The Cakemaker (2017) and Marie Antoinette (2006). She is married to Raphaël Nadjari.
1 Nomination
2014: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Self Made)
98. Jesse Eisenberg
Actor | The Social Network
Curly haired and with a fast-talking voice, Jesse Eisenberg is a movie actor, known for his Academy Award nominated role as Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network. He has also starred in the films The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, The Education of Charlie Banks, 30 Minutes or ...
1 Nomination
2014: Best Actor in a Leading Role (The Double)
99. Miles Teller
Actor | Whiplash
Miles Alexander Teller is an American actor and musician. For his performance in the film The Spectacular Now (2013), he won the Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared in the films Rabbit Hole (2010), Footloose (2011), Project X (2012), That ...
1 Nomination
2014: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Whiplash)
100. Chris Pratt
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy
Christopher Michael "Chris" Pratt was born on June 21, 1979 in Virginia, Minnesota and raised in Lake Stevens, Washington, to Kathleen Louise (Indahl), who worked at a supermarket, and Daniel Clifton Pratt, who remodeled houses. He is of mostly Norwegian descent. He graduated from Lake Stevens High...
1 Nomination
2014: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Guardians of the Galaxy)
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