Movies With Most Acting Nominations (Part 1)
These movies got at least four Oscar nominations in acting categories. Which movie has your favorite set of performances?
*movies are listed in chronological order
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*movies are listed in chronological order
Related poll: Oscar Winning Roles in the Same Movie
Discuss here
See part 2 here.
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- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsWilliam PowellCarole LombardAlice BradyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.4 Nominations, 0 Wins
Lead Actor: William Powell
Lead Actress: Carole Lombard
Supporting Actor: Mischa Auer
Supporting Actress: Alice Brady - DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.4 Nominations, 2 Wins
Lead Actress: Vivien Leigh*
Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel*
Lead Actor: Clark Gable
Supporting Actress: Olivia de Havilland - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonTeresa WrightA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.5 Nominations, 2 Wins
Lead Actress: Greer Garson*
Supporting Actress: Teresa Wright*
Lead Actor: Walter Pidgeon
Supporting Actor: Henry Travers
Supporting Actress: May Whitty - DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperIngrid BergmanAkim TamiroffDuring the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.4 Nominations, 1 Win
Supporting Actress: Katina Paxinou*
Lead Actor: Gary Cooper
Lead Actress: Ingrid Bergman
Supporting Actor: Akim Tamiroff - DirectorHenry KingStarsJennifer JonesCharles BickfordWilliam Eythe14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.4 Nominations, 1 Win
Lead Actress: Jennifer Jones*
Supporting Actor: Charles Bickford
Supporting Actress: Gladys Cooper
Supporting Actress: Anne Revere - DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn GarfieldA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.4 Nominations, 1 Win
Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm*
Lead Actor: Gregory Peck
Lead Actress: Dorothy McGuire
Supporting Actress: Anne Revere - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsIrene DunneBarbara Bel GeddesOscar HomolkaA young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco.4 Nominations, 0 Wins
Lead Actress: Irene Dunne
Supporting Actor: Oscar Homolka
Supporting Actress: Barbara Bel Geddes
Supporting Actress: Ellen Corby - DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJane WymanLew AyresCharles BickfordA kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.4 Nominations, 1 Win
Lead Actress: Jane Wyman*
Lead Actor: Lew Ayres
Supporting Actor: Charles Bickford
Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead - DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.4 Nominations, 0 Wins
Lead Actor: William Holden
Lead Actress: Gloria Swanson
Supporting Actor: Erich von Stroheim
Supporting Actress: Nancy Olson - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge SandersSeemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingenue Eve Harrington insinuates herself into the lives of aging Broadway star Margo Channing and her circle of theater friends in this Oscar-winning story.5 Nominations, 1 Win
Supporting Actor: George Sanders*
Lead Actress: Anne Baxter
Lead Actress: Bette Davis
Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm
Supporting Actress: Thelma Ritter - DirectorElia KazanStarsVivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim HunterDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.4 Nominations, 3 Wins
Lead Actress: Vivien Leigh*
Supporting Actor: Karl Malden*
Supporting Actress: Kim Hunter*
Lead Actor: Marlon Brando - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsBurt LancasterMontgomery CliftDeborah KerrAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.5 Nominations, 2 Wins
Supporting Actor: Frank Sinatra*
Supporting Actress: Donna Reed*
Lead Actor: Montgomery Clift
Lead Actor: Burt Lancaster
Lead Actress: Deborah Kerr - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.5 Nominations, 2 Wins
Lead Actor: Marlon Brando*
Supporting Actress: Eva Marie Saint*
Supporting Actor: Lee J. Cobb
Supporting Actor: Karl Malden
Supporting Actor: Rod Steiger - DirectorMark RobsonStarsLana TurnerLee PhilipsLloyd NolanA peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.5 Nominations, 0 Wins
Lead Actress: Lana Turner
Supporting Actor: Arthur Kennedy
Supporting Actor: Russ Tamblyn
Supporting Actress: Hope Lange
Supporting Actress: Diane Varsi - DirectorStanley KramerStarsTony CurtisSidney PoitierCara WilliamsTwo chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.4 Nominations, 0 Wins
Lead Actor: Tony Curtis
Lead Actor: Sidney Poitier
Supporting Actor: Theodore Bikel
Supporting Actress: Cara Williams - DirectorRobert RossenStarsPaul NewmanJackie GleasonPiper LaurieAn up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.4 Nominations, 0 Wins
Lead Actor: Paul Newman
Lead Actress: Piper Laurie
Supporting Actor: Jackie Gleason
Supporting Actor: George C. Scott - DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyBurt LancasterRichard WidmarkFictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of twelve trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.4 Nominations, 1 Win
Lead Actor: Maximilian Schell*
Lead Actor: Spencer Tracy
Supporting Actor: Montgomery Clift
Supporting Actress: Judy Garland - DirectorTony RichardsonStarsAlbert FinneySusannah YorkGeorge DevineThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.5 Nominations, 0 Wins
Lead Actor: Albert Finney
Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith
Supporting Actress: Diane Cilento
Supporting Actress: Edith Evans
Supporting Actress: Joyce Redman - DirectorStuart BurgeStarsLaurence OlivierFrank FinlayRobert LangGeneral Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.4 Nominations, 0 Wins
Lead Actor: Laurence Olivier
Supporting Actor: Frank Finlay
Supporting Actress: Joyce Redman
Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith - DirectorMike NicholsStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonGeorge SegalA middle-aged New England associate professor and his wife, with the help of alcohol, use their young guests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.4 Nominations, 2 Wins
Lead Actress: Elizabeth Taylor*
Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis*
Lead Actor: Richard Burton
Supporting Actor: George Segal - DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.5 Nominations, 1 Win
Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons*
Lead Actor: Warren Beatty
Lead Actress: Faye Dunaway
Supporting Actor: Gene Hackman
Supporting Actor: Michael J. Pollard - DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracySidney PoitierKatharine HepburnA couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.4 Nominations, 1 Win
Lead Actress: Katharine Hepburn*
Lead Actor: Spencer Tracy
Supporting Actor: Cecil Kellaway
Supporting Actress: Beah Richards