Performers recognized by Oscar in other categories

1. Frances McDormand

Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...

Oscar winner: Picture, Nomadland (co-producer)

Oscar nominee: Picture, Women Talking (co-producer)

Three Oscars for Best Actress: Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Nomadland

2. George Clooney

Actor | The Ides of March

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...

Oscar winner: Picture, Argo (co-producer)

Oscar nominee:

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for: The Ides of March (2011). Shared with: Grant Heslov Beau Willimon

Best Achievement in Directing Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005).

Best Writing, Original Screenplay Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005). Shared with: Grant Heslov

Four acting nominations including one win as Best Supporting Actor for Syrianna

3. 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...

Oscar winner: Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (co-producer)

Oscar winner: Best Actor, Wall Street

4. Brad Pitt

Actor | Fight Club

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...

Oscar Winner: Picture, 12 Years a Slave (co-producer)

Oscar nominees:

Best Motion Picture of the Year The Big Short (2015) (co-producer)

Best Motion Picture of the Year Moneyball (2011). (co-producer)

Four acting nominations including one win. Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood (2019) Supporting Actor

5. Barbra Streisand

Actress | Yentl

Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...

Oscar Winner: Best Song "Evergreen" (with co-writer Paul Williams) for A Star is Born.

Oscar nominees: Best Picture, The Prince of Tides (Co-producer) Best Song "I've Finally Found Someone" for The Mirror Has Two Faces.

Two acting nominations which includes a Best Actress win for Funny Girl.

6. Emma Thompson

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...

Oscar winner: Screenplay Adaptation, Sense and Sensibility

Four acting nominations including a Best Actress win for Howards End.

7. Ben Affleck

Producer | Argo

Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...

Oscar Winner: Original Screenplay Good Will Hunting

Picture Argo (co-producer)

8. Riz Ahmed

Actor | Sound of Metal

Riz Ahmed (born 1 December 1982), also known by his stage name Riz MC and birth name Rizwan Ahmed, is a British Pakistani actor, rapper, and activist. As an actor, he has won one Emmy Award, out of two Emmy nominations, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and three...

Best Live Action Short Film The Long Goodbye (2021) (co-producer) (winner) 1 acting nomination - Sound of Metal (2019)

9. Richard Attenborough

Actor | Jurassic Park

Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...

Oscar winner: Gandhi (Director and Producer)

10. Warren Beatty

Actor | Reds

Since starring in his first film, Splendor in the Grass (1961), Warren Beatty has been said to have demonstrated a greater longevity in movies than any actor of his generation. Few people have taken so many responsibilities for all phases of the production of films as producer, director, writer, ...

Oscar Winner: Director "Reds"

Thirteen additional Oscar nominations: Picture (4 nominations) Actor (4 nominations) Director: (1 nomination with Buck Henry) Screenwriting: (4 nominations)

11. Tony Bill

Director | Flyboys

He graduated in 1962 from the University of Notre Dame with majors in English and Art. Tony began his career in the film industry as an actor. His acting years were distinguished by the quality of the directors who chose him for their films, including Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. Tony...

Oscar Winner: The Sting (co-producer)

12. Lisa Blount

Actress | An Officer and a Gentleman

Lisa Blount was an actress who appeared in numerous films and television shows, most notably as Lynette Pomeroy in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Along with her husband, actor Ray McKinnon, she received an Academy Award for the 2002 short ...

Oscar winner: Live Action Short-Subject: The Accountant (Co-producer)

13. Kenneth Branagh

Actor | Henry V

Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). When he was nine, his family ...

Oscar nominees:

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Hamlet (1996). Best Short Film, Live Action Swan Song (1992).

Best Director Henry V (1989).

Best Director Best Original Screenplay (winner) Best Motion Picture of the Year (co-producer) Belfast (2021)

Two acting nominations.

14. Mel Brooks

Actor | Spaceballs

Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...

Oscar Winner: Original Screenplay, The Producers (1968)

EGOT Winner

15. Peter Capaldi

Actor | Doctor Who

Peter Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy (Soutar) and Gerald John Capaldi. His parents owned an ice cream business. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), Scottish, and Irish descent. Capaldi attended drama classes and was accepted into the Glasgow School of Art. After ...

Oscar Winner:

Best Short Film, Live Action Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1995)

Shared with: Ruth Kenley-Letts

16. Irene Cara

Soundtrack | Fame

Actress, singer, songwriter, and producer Irene Cara was destined for a life of accomplishments that millions strive for but very few actually attain. From being able to play the piano by ear at age five to earning an Oscar, multiple Grammys, a Golden Globe, and a People's Choice Award, Irene's ...

Oscar Winner: Best Song "Flashdance: What a Feeling" from the movie Flashdance (Co-writer)

17. Keith Carradine

Actor | Nashville

It seems the second generation of acting Carradines -- David, Keith and Robert -- are proudly continuing the family tradition and begetting a third generation of talent. The dynasty began with veteran Hollywood patriarch John Carradine, the son of a surgeon and a correspondent for the Associated ...

Oscar Winner Best Song ("I'm Easy" from the film Nashville)

18. Kevin Costner

Actor | The Postman

Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...

Oscar winner: Director, Co-Producer Dances with Wolves

One acting Oscar nomination for Dances with Wolves.

19. Matt Damon

Actor | Good Will Hunting

Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...

Oscar Winner: Original Screenplay Good Will Hunting

Oscar Nominee: Best Picture Manchester by the Sea (Co-producer)

20. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clinton Eastwood Jr. was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margaret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took ...

Four-time Oscar Winner: Unforgiven (Directing and Producing) Million Dollar Baby (Directing and Producing [co-producer])

Oscar nominee: Best Picture of the Year American Sniper (co-producer)

Best Achievement in Directing Letters from Iwo Jima (2006).

Best Motion Picture of the Year Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). Shared with: Steven Spielberg Robert Lorenz

Best Director Mystic River (2003).

Best Picture Mystic River (2003). Shared with: Robert Lorenz Judie Hoyt

Two acting nominations (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby).

21. Emerald Fennell

Writer | Saltburn

Emerald Lilly Fennell is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first ...

Promising Young Woman (2020)

Best Picture (co-producer) Best Director Best Original Screenplay [Win]

22. Mel Gibson

Actor | Braveheart

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...

Two-time Oscar Winner Braveheart (Directing and Producing [co-producer])

Oscar nominee: Best Director Hacksaw Ridge

23. Grant Heslov

Producer | Argo

Grant Heslov was born on May 15, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Argo (2012), Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) and The Ides of March (2011). He is married to Lysa Heslov. They have two children.

Oscar Winner: Picture (2012) Argo (co-producer)

Oscar Nominee:

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for: The Ides of March (2011). Shared with: Grant Heslov Beau Willimon

Best Writing, Original Screenplay Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005). Shared with: Grant Heslov

Best Picture Good Night, and Good Luck.

24. Ron Howard

Producer | Arrested Development

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation's most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Apollo 13 (1995) to the hit comedies Parenthood (1989) and Splash (1983), he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable films.

Howard ...

Oscar nominee: Best Achievement in Directing Frost/Nixon (2008).

Best Motion Picture of the Year for: Frost/Nixon (2008). (co-producer)

Oscar Winner: Best Director A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Best Picture A Beautiful Mind (2001). (co-producer)

25. Christine Lahti

Actress | Chicago Hope

Christine Lahti was born April 4, 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan, to Elizabeth Margaret (Tabar), a painter and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon. She is of half Finnish and half Austro-Hungarian descent. She studied fine arts at Florida State University and received a bachelors degree in ...

Oscar Winner: Live Action Short Subject: Lieberman In Love

Supporting Actress nominee for Swing Shift.

26. Tom McCarthy

Writer | The Station Agent

Tom McCarthy is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for direct and write The Station Agent (2003), The Visitor (2007), Win Win (2011), and Spotlight (2015), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Director.

McCarthy...

Oscar Winner

Original Screenplay, "Spotlight" (2015) (co-writer)

Oscar Nominee

Director, "Spotlight" (2015) Original Screenplay, "Up" (2009) (co-writer)

27. Ray McKinnon

Writer | Rectify

Ray McKinnon is a writer, actor, director and producer. He served from 2012 through 2016 as creator, showrunner, writer and director of the Peabody Award winning, Sundance TV series, "Rectify."

As an actor, McKinnon has created a canon of unforgettable, offbeat and richly textured characters. In a ...

Oscar winner: Live Action Short-Subject: The Accountant (Co-producer)

28. Jordan Peele

Writer | Nope

Jordan Peele is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning director, writer, actor, producer, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions. Peele's first feature film, "Get Out," was a critically acclaimed blockbuster, recognized with four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The film would earn Peele the ...

Oscar Winner: Get Out (2017) Original Screenplay

Oscar nominee Get Out (2017) Director, Picture (co-producer)

29. Sarah Polley

Actress | My Life Without Me

Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her ...

Oscar Nominee: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Away from Her (2006).

Winner: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Women Talking (2022)

30. Jim Rash

Actor | The Way Way Back

Jim Rash was born on July 15, 1971 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Way Way Back (2013), Community (2009) and The Descendants (2011).

Oscar Winner: Screenplay Adaptation, The Decendents (Co-writer)

31. Robert Redford

Actor | The Natural

Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of ...

Oscar winner: Best Director, Ordinary People

Oscar nominee: Quiz Show (Co-producer)

Acting nominee for "The Sting".

32. Fisher Stevens

Actor | Short Circuit

Fisher Stevens moved from his native Chicago to New York at the age of 13 to pursue an acting career. He tried, unsuccessfully, to get any kind of job and was, he recalls, even rejected as extra for a Crest commercial.

When his acting teacher, Dan Fauci, lost the lease to his teaching studio, he ...

Oscar Winner: Best Feature Documentary, The Cove (co-producer)

33. Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...

Oscar Winner Original Screenplay, Citizen Kane (co-writer)

Oscar Nominee Director, Citizen Kane

(also Best Actor nomination, Citizen Kane)

34. Steven Wright

Actor | Natural Born Killers

Steven Wright was born on December 6, 1955 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Natural Born Killers (1994), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) and Reservoir Dogs (1992).

Oscar Winner Best Short Film, Live Action The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

35. Robert De Niro

Actor | Cape Fear

One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...

Oscar Nominee Best Picture The Irishman (2019) (co-producer)

36. 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,...

Oscar nominee:

The Wolf of Wall Street Picture (co-producer)

Five acting nominations, one win (The Revenant, 2015)

37. Henry Fonda

Actor | 12 Angry Men

This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...

Oscar Nominee

Best Picture 12 Angry Men (1957) (co-producer)

Oscar Winner Best Actor: On Golden Pond (1981)

38. Ruth Gordon

Actress | Rosemary's Baby

When Ruth Gordon convinced her father, a sea captain, to let her pursue acting she came to New York and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She acted in a few silents made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915. She made her Broadway debut in "Peter Pan" as Nibs the same year. The next 20 ...

Oscar nominations:

Original Screenplay: A Double Life (1947) Adam's Rib (1950) Pat and Mike (1952)

Two acting nominations, 1 win Supporting Actress Inside Daisy Clover (1965) Rosemary's Baby (1968) [Win]

39. Alec Guinness

Actor | Star Wars

Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...

Oscar Nominee: Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium The Horse's Mouth (1958).

Four acting nominations including a win as Best Actor for The Bridge on the River Kwai

40. Shirley MacLaine

Actress | Terms of Endearment

Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...

Oscar nominee: Documentary Feature (1976): The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975)

Five nominations for Best Actress, winning for Terms of Endearment (1983)

41. Paul Newman

Actor | The Hustler

Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...

Oscar Nominee:

Best Picture Rachel, Rachel (1968) (producer)

8 acting nominations/1 win (Best Actor: The Color of Money)

2 honorary awards

42. Tim Robbins

Actor | Mystic River

Born in West Covina, California, but raised in New York City, Tim Robbins is the son of former The Highwaymen singer Gil Robbins and actress Mary Robbins (née Bledsoe). Robbins studied drama at UCLA, where he graduated with honors in 1981. That same year, he formed the Actors' Gang theater group, ...

Oscar Nominee:

Best Director, "Dead Man Walking" (1995)

Supporting Actor Oscar Winner for "Mystic River" (2003)

43. Will Smith

Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...

Best Picture of the Year King Richard (2021) (co-producer) 3 Acting nominations, win for King Richard

44. Peter Ustinov

Actor | Spartacus

Peter Ustinov was a two-time Academy Award-winning film actor, director, writer, journalist and raconteur. He wrote and directed many acclaimed stage plays and led numerous international theatrical productions.

He was born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinow on April 16, 1921 in Swiss Cottage, ...

Oscar Nominee Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen Hot Millions (co-writer).

Three acting nominations which includes two wins for Topkapi and Spartacus.

45. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

Oscar nominee

Best Motion Picture of the Year Fences (co-producer)

46. John Wayne

Actor | True Grit

John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.

Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...

Oscar nominee: Best Picture The Alamo (1960)

2 Acting nominations including Best Actor win for True Grit (1969)

47. John Astin

Actor | The Frighteners

Dark-haired, usually-mustachioed American actor with a cheeky grin, who achieved pop culture status through his portrayal of the kooky patriarch "Gomez Addams" in the hit TV series The Addams Family (1964), John Astin was born on March 30, 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied mathematics at ...

Oscar Nominee: Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects Prelude (1968)

48. Sean Astin

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer, family man, author, marathon runner, political activist and philanthropist who is well known for his film debut portraying Mikey in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies (1985), for playing...

Oscar Nominee: Best Short Film, Live Action Kangaroo Court (1994) (Co-producer)

49. Bob Balaban

Actor | Gosford Park

Bob Balaban was born on August 16, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Gosford Park (2001), A Mighty Wind (2003) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He has been married to Lynn Grossman since April 1, 1977. They have two children.

Oscar Nominee:

Best Picture Gosford Park (Co-Producer)

50. Nellie Bellflower

Producer | Finding Neverland

A successful career as a film and TV actress in Los Angeles was followed by a move to New York where Nellie immersed herself in directing and producing plays. In 1998 she discovered a play called "The Man Who Was Peter Pan" written by fellow 42nd Street WorkShop member, Allan Knee. She saw it ...

Oscar Nominee Best Picture Finding Neverland (2004) (co-producer) Her filmography lists at least 12 titles as an actress between 1974-1983.

51. Beyoncé

Soundtrack | Dreamgirls

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born on September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas. Her mom, Tina Knowles designs their glittering costumes & her dad, Mathew Knowles manages Destiny's Child. Solange, her sister (they're 4 years apart) has released her debut album. She dances with her big sister during DC-3 ...

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) King Richard (2021) "Be Alive" (co-writer: DIXSON)

52. Mary J. Blige

Soundtrack | Mudbound

Mary J. Blige was born on January 11, 1971 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Mudbound (2017), Rock of Ages (2012) and The Help (2011). She was previously married to Kendu Isaacs.

Mudbound (2017)

Best Original Song ("Mighty River") (co-writer) Best Supporting Actress

53. Danielle Brisebois

Actress | Begin Again

Danielle Brisebois was born on June 28, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Begin Again (2013), All in the Family (1971) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979). She has been married to Nick Lashley since August 2, 2008. They have two children.

Oscar Nominee:

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song Begin Again (2013) Shared with: Gregg Alexander For the song "Lost Stars"

54. Dyan Cannon

Actress | Heaven Can Wait

Dyan Cannon is the first woman in the history of the Motion Picture Academy to be nominated for Oscars both in front of and behind the camera. Her diligence and determination have been rewarded by many prestigious honors.

She received her first Academy Award nomination for her memorable role as ...

Nominee: Best Short Film, Live Action Number One (1976) (with Vince Cannon)

Two Supporting Actress Oscar nominations Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) Heaven Can Wait (1978)

55. 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...

Nominations: Borat (Adapted Screenplay) (co-writer) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Adapted Screenplay) (co-writer)

Acting nomination: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Supporting Actor)

56. Steve Coogan

Actor | Philomena

Steve Coogan was born on October 14, 1965 in Middleton, Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Philomena (2013), Alan Partridge (2013) and 24 Hour Party People (2002). He was previously married to Caroline Hickman.

Oscar nominee:

Philomena Picture (co-producer) Adapted Screenplay (co-writer)

57. 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 ...

Oscar Nominee:

Best Motion Picture of the Year Nightmare Alley (2021) (co-producer)

Best Motion Picture of the Year Joker (2019) (co-producer)

Best Motion Picture of the Year A Star is Born (2018) (co-producer)

Best Adapted Screenplay A Star is Born (2018) (co-writer)

Best Motion Picture of the Year American Sniper (2014) Shared with:

Clint Eastwood Robert Lorenz Andrew Lazar Peter Morgan

Acting nominations:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role A Star is Born (2018)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role American Sniper (2014)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role American Hustle (2013)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

58. Tom Cruise

Actor | Top Gun

In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...

Nominee: Best Picture: Top Gun: Maverick (co-producer)

Acting Nominations: Best Actor: Born on the 4th of July, Jerry Maguire Best Supporting Actor: Magnolia

59. Julie Delpy

Actress | Trois couleurs: Blanc

Julie Delpy was born in Paris, France, in 1969 to Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both actors.

She was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard's Detective (1985) at the age of fourteen. She has starred in many American and European productions since then, including Disney's The Three Musketeers (1993), ...

Oscar Nominee: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Before Sunset (2004) (Co-writer)

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Before Midnight (2013) (co-Writer)

60. Danny DeVito

Actor | Matilda

Danny DeVito has amassed a formidable and versatile body of work as an actor, producer and director that spans the stage, television and film.

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey, to Italian-American parents. His mother, Julia (Moccello), was a homemaker. ...

Oscar nominee: Erin Brockovich (co-producer)

61. Griffin Dunne

Actor | After Hours

Griffin Dunne was born on June 8, 1955 in New York City, the oldest child of Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer, and Ellen Beatriz (Griffin) Dunne, an activist. His sister was actress Dominique Dunne. He grew up mainly in Los Angeles, California and attended school in Colorado before ...

Oscar nominee: Best Short Film, Live Action Duke of Groove (1996) (TV). Shared with: Thom Colwell

62. Cynthia Erivo

Actress | Harriet

Cynthia Erivo is an English actress, singer, and songwriter. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild ...

Oscar Nominee Best Song "Stand Up" Harriet (2019) (co-writer)

Also, Best Actress nomination, Harriet (2019)

63. Peter Fonda

Actor | Easy Rider

Peter Henry Fonda was born in New York City, to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario, Canada-born New York socialite Frances Brokaw (born Frances Ford Seymour). He was the younger brother of actress and activist Jane Fonda and the father of actress Bridget Fonda.

Fonda made his professional...

Oscar nominee

Best Writing, Story, and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced Easy Rider (1969) (co-writer)

Also, Best Actor nominee, Ulee's Gold

64. Dan Futterman

Producer | Capote

Dan Futterman was born on June 8, 1967 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Capote (2005), A Mighty Heart (2007) and The Birdcage (1996). He has been married to Anya Epstein since September 23, 2000. They have two children.

Oscar nominee: Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Foxcatcher (2014) Shared with: E. Max Frye

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Capote (2005).

65. 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 ...

Oscar Nominee Little Women (2019) Screenplay Adaptation

Oscar Nominee Lady Bird (2017) Director, Original Screenplay

66. Jeff Goldblum

Actor | Jurassic Park

Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum was born October 22, 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of four children of Shirley (Temeles), a radio broadcaster who also ran an appliances firm, and Harold L. Goldblum, a doctor. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry.

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Oscar nominee: Best Short Film, Live Action Little Surprises (1996) (TV). (co-producer)

67. Larry Hankin

Actor | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Born in New York, Larry Hankin took an industrial design degree from the University of Syracuse; multifaceted artist, in addition to being an actor, he is also a screenwriter, producer, director and singer. He began his career as an illustrator in the entertainment world, and studied acting at ...

Oscar nominee

Best Short Film/Live Action "Solly's Diner" (1979) (co-producer)

68. Ethan Hawke

Actor | Training Day

Ethan Green Hawke was born on November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, to Leslie Carole (Green), a charity worker, and James Steven Hawke, an insurance actuary. His parents were students at the University of Texas at the time but divorced when Ethan was 5 years old. His mother raised him alone for the ...

Oscar nominee: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Before Sunset (2004). (co-writer)

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Before Midnight (2013) (co-Writer)

Supporting Actor nominations for Training Day and Boyhood.

69. Dennis Hopper

Actor | Easy Rider

Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. The young Hopper expressed interest in acting from a ...

Oscar nominee

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced Easy Rider (1969) (co-writer)

Best Supporting Actor nominee, Hoosiers

70. Michael McKean

Actor | This Is Spinal Tap

McKean was born in New York City at Manhattan Women's Hospital, now part of the Mt. Sinai St. Luke's complex on Amsterdam Avenue. He is the son of Ruth Stewart McKean, a librarian, and Gilbert S. McKean, one of the founders of Decca Records, and was raised in Sea Cliff, New York, on Long Island. ...

Oscar Nominee:

Best Song, "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from A Mighty Wind (2003)

Co-written by Annette O'Toole

71. 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 ...

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

Encanto (2021) "Dos Oruguitas"

Moana (2016) "How Far I'll Go"

72. Annette O'Toole

Actress | Superman III

Annette O'Toole grew up in the Houston dance studio run by her mother. She made her television debut at the age of two, as a kid on The Don Mahoney Kiddie Trooper Show. When she was 13, with ten years of singing and dancing lessons behind her, she and her mother went to L.A. for a year to see if ...

Oscar Nominee:

Best Song, "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from A Mighty Wind (2003)

Co-written by Michael McKean

73. Leslie Odom Jr.

Actor | Hamilton

Leslie Odom Jr. was born on August 6, 1981 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Hamilton (2020), One Night in Miami... (2020) and Central Park (2020). He has been married to Nicolette Robinson since December 1, 2012. They have two children.

One Night in Miami... (2020) Best Original Song ("Speak Now") (co-writer) Best Supporting Actor

74. Quinn K. Redeker

Writer | The Minefield

Quinn K. Redeker (frequently credited without his middle initial) is best remembered for his recurring roles on the long-running daytime soaps Days of Our Lives (1965) (as nefarious villain Alex Marshall -- in no less than 848 episodes!) and The Young and the Restless (1973) (as con man Rex ...

Oscar Nominee

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen The Deer Hunter (1978) (co-writer)

75. Rob Reiner

Actor | All in the Family

Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.

As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a ...

Oscar Nominee: A Few Good Men (co-producer)

76. Peter Riegert

Actor | The Mask

Peter Riegert was born on April 11, 1947 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Mask (1994), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and Local Hero (1983).

Oscar Nominee: Best Short Film, Live Action By Courier (2000)

77. Peter Weller

Actor | RoboCop

Peter Frederick Weller was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to Dorothy Jean (Davidson) and Frederick Bradford Weller, a federal judge and career helicopter pilot for the United States Army. He traveled extensively as his father literally flew around the world. Before he was out of his teens, he ...

Oscar Nominee Best Short Film, Live Action Partners (1993)

78. JoBeth Williams

Actress | Poltergeist

The product of a musical family, (Margaret) JoBeth Williams was born on December 6, 1948, in Houston, Texas, to Frances Faye (Adams), a dietitian, and Fredric Roger Williams, a wire/cable company manager and opera singer. Her father encouraged her early interest in theater during high school.

She ...

Oscar nominee: Best Short Film, Live Action On Hope (1994). Shared with: Michele McGuire

79. Owen Wilson

Actor | The Royal Tenenbaums

Self-proclaimed troublemaker Owen Cunningham Wilson was born in Dallas, to Irish-American parents originally from Massachusetts. He grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura (Cunningham), a photographer; his father, Robert Andrew Wilson, an ad exec; and his brothers, Andrew Wilson (the eldest) and ...

Oscar Nominee:

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Shared with: Wes Anderson

80. William Zabka

Actor | The Karate Kid

William Zabka was born on October 20, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Karate Kid (1984), Back to School (1986) and Hot Tub Time Machine (2010). He has been married to Stacie Lynn Doss since 2008. They have two children.

Nominee: Best Short Film, Live Action (2003) "Most" (with co-director Bobby Garabedian)