2010s Oscar Best Actor Nominees

Fortunately Chiwetel Ejiofor makes up for that.

I remember it because it's "Mc-Co-Naughty" and then you just change the "t" to an "e."

He got one for the Revenant, shortly after you left this comment.

Am I the only one who got the reference?

He was awesome in Flight and worthy of that nomination. I haven't seen Roman J. Israel, but he got rave reviews for it, which is all the more impressive because the movie itself was not well-received by critics or audience -- but everyone seems to agree that Denzel was great. I haven't seen Fences either, but it's an artsy film adaptation of a Pulitzer-prize winning play by a great playwright, and Washington had already played the role on stage, so he was comfortable with it. In other words, the nomination for Fences was no surprise. Viola Davis, who played the female lead both on stage and in the film, was nominated for and won an Oscar for her role. It's one of those movies.

Daniel Day-Lewis gets nominated for pretty much every role he plays (well-deserved, in my opinion), but he is much less prolific than Denzel. Washington takes an interesting role pretty much every year.

That's what happens when your a good actor I guess...