Every Oscar-Nominated Actor

Name as many actors as you can who have been nominated for an acting Oscar at least once in their lifetime.

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#	Actor
12	Jack Nicholson
10	Laurence Olivier
9	Paul Newman
9	Al Pacino
9	Spencer Tracy
9	Denzel Washington
8	Marlon Brando
8	Robert De Niro
8	Jack Lemmon
8	Peter O'Toole
7	Jeff Bridges
7	Richard Burton
7	Robert Duvall
7	Dustin Hoffman
6	Michael Caine
6	Daniel Day-Lewis
6	Leonardo DiCaprio
6	Tom Hanks
6	Anthony Hopkins
6	Paul Muni
5	Bradley Cooper
5	Gary Cooper
5	Albert Finney
5	Morgan Freeman
5	Gene Hackman
5	Arthur Kennedy
5	Fredric March
5	Gregory Peck
5	Sean Penn
5	James Stewart
4	Alan Arkin
4	Christian Bale
4	Javier Bardem
4	Warren Beatty
4	Charles Boyer
4	Walter Brennan
4	Montgomery Clift
4	George Clooney
4	Willem Dafoe
4	Alec Guinness
4	Ed Harris
4	Philip Seymour Hoffman
4	William Hurt
4	Walter Huston
4	Tommy Lee Jones
4	Ben Kingsley
4	Burt Lancaster
4	Edward Norton
4	Joaquin Phoenix
4	Brad Pitt
4	Anthony Quinn
4	Claude Rains
4	Mickey Rooney
4	Mark Ruffalo
4	Geoffrey Rush
4	George C. Scott
4	Jon Voight
4	Robin Williams
3	Charles Bickford
3	Humphrey Bogart
3	James Cagney
3	Charles Coburn
3	Ronald Colman
3	Bing Crosby
3	Russell Crowe
3	Tom Cruise
3	Matt Damon
3	Johnny Depp
3	Kirk Douglas
3	Melvyn Douglas
3	Robert Downey Jr.
3	José Ferrer
3	Ralph Fiennes
3	Clark Gable
3	Ryan Gosling
3	Woody Harrelson
3	William Holden
3	Martin Landau
3	Charles Laughton
3	James Mason
3	Marcello Mastroianni
3	Walter Matthau
3	Viggo Mortensen
3	Nick Nolte
3	Gary Oldman
3	Jack Palance
3	Joe Pesci
3	Christopher Plummer
3	William Powell
3	Jason Robards
3	Maximilian Schell
3	Will Smith
3	Rod Steiger
3	Peter Ustinov
3	Clifton Webb
3	Gig Young
2	Casey Affleck
2	Eddie Albert
2	Mahershala Ali
2	Kenneth Branagh
2	Adrien Brody
2	Nicolas Cage
2	Timothée Chalamet
2	Lee J. Cobb
2	Tom Courtenay
2	Benedict Cumberbatch
2	James Dean
2	Benicio del Toro
2	Bruce Dern
2	Colman Domingo
2	Robert Donat
2	Richard Dreyfuss
2	Adam Driver
2	Charles Durning
2	Clint Eastwood
2	Peter Falk
2	Richard Farnsworth
2	Michael Fassbender
2	Peter Finch
2	Colin Firth
2	Barry Fitzgerald
2	Henry Fonda
2	Jamie Foxx
2	Vincent Gardenia

#	Actor
2	Andrew Garfield
2	John Garfield
2	Paul Giamatti
2	John Gielgud
2	Cary Grant
2	Hugh Griffith
2	Edmund Gwenn
2	Richard Harris
2	Rex Harrison
2	Ethan Hawke
2	Jonah Hill
2	Judd Hirsch
2	Djimon Hounsou
2	Leslie Howard
2	John Hurt
2	Richard Jenkins
2	Daniel Kaluuya
2	Cecil Kellaway
2	Jude Law
2	Heath Ledger
2	John Lithgow
2	Karl Malden
2	John Malkovich
2	Ian McKellen
2	Victor McLaglen
2	Burgess Meredith
2	Sal Mineo
2	Thomas Mitchell
2	Robert Montgomery
2	Frank Morgan
2	J. Carrol Naish
2	Edmond O'Brien
2	Arthur O'Connell
2	Walter Pidgeon
2	Sidney Poitier
2	Basil Rathbone
2	Eddie Redmayne
2	Jeremy Renner
2	Ralph Richardson
2	Sam Rockwell
2	Roy Scheider
2	Paul Scofield
2	Peter Sellers
2	Michael Shannon
2	J. K. Simmons
2	Frank Sinatra
2	Kevin Spacey
2	Sylvester Stallone
2	Akim Tamiroff
2	Billy Bob Thornton
2	John Travolta
2	Max von Sydow
2	Christopher Walken
2	Christoph Waltz
2	Jack Warden
2	John Wayne
2	James Whitmore
2	Tom Wilkinson
2	James Woods
2	Monty Woolley
1	Barkhad Abdi
1	F. Murray Abraham
1	Nick Adams
1	Brian Aherne
1	Riz Ahmed
1	Danny Aiello
1	Jack Albertson
1	Alan Alda
1	Woody Allen
1	Don Ameche
1	George Arliss
1	Fred Astaire
1	Mischa Auer
1	Dan Aykroyd
1	Lew Ayres
1	Alec Baldwin
1	Martin Balsam
1	George Bancroft
1	Antonio Banderas
1	Ian Bannen
1	Sacha Baron Cohen
1	Lionel Barrymore
1	Richard Barthelmess
1	Mikhail Baryshnikov
1	Albert Bassermann
1	Alan Bates
1	Warner Baxter
1	Ned Beatty
1	Wallace Beery
1	Ed Begley
1	Ralph Bellamy
1	William Bendix
1	Roberto Benigni
1	Tom Berenger
1	Demián Bichir
1	Theodore Bikel
1	Ernest Borgnine
1	Yura Borisov
1	Chadwick Boseman
1	Klaus Maria Brandauer
1	Jim Broadbent
1	Josh Brolin
1	Albert Brooks
1	Sterling K. Brown
1	Yul Brynner
1	Victor Buono
1	George Burns
1	Gary Busey
1	Austin Butler
1	Red Buttons
1	James Caan
1	Adolph Caesar
1	Louis Calhern
1	Steve Carell
1	Harry Carey
1	Art Carney
1	John Cassavetes
1	Seymour Cassel
1	Richard S. Castellano
1	George Chakiris
1	Jeff Chandler
1	Charlie Chaplin
1	Don Cheadle
1	Michael Chekhov
1	Maurice Chevalier
1	Thomas Haden Church

#	Actor
1	James Coburn
1	James Coco
1	Sean Connery
1	Tom Conti
1	Chris Cooper
1	Jackie Cooper
1	Kevin Costner
1	Bryan Cranston
1	Broderick Crawford
1	Donald Crisp
1	James Cromwell
1	Hume Cronyn
1	Rupert Crosse
1	Kieran Culkin
1	Tony Curtis
1	Dan Dailey
1	John Dall
1	Bobby Darin
1	Jaye Davidson
1	Bruce Davison
1	Vittorio De Sica
1	William Demarest
1	Gérard Depardieu
1	Brandon deWilde
1	Matt Dillon
1	Richard Dix
1	Brian Donlevy
1	Michael Douglas
1	Brad Dourif
1	Jean Dujardin
1	Michael Clarke Duncan
1	James Dunn
1	Michael Dunn
1	Jesse Eisenberg
1	Chiwetel Ejiofor
1	Denholm Elliott
1	Sam Elliott
1	Stuart Erwin
1	Colin Farrell
1	Frank Finlay
1	Peter Firth
1	Laurence Fishburne
1	Peter Fonda
1	Harrison Ford
1	Frederic Forrest
1	Robert Forster
1	Anthony Franciosa
1	James Franco
1	Brendan Fraser
1	Leonard Frey
1	Andy García
1	William Gargan
1	James Garner
1	Michael V. Gazzo
1	Leo Genn
1	Chief Dan George
1	Giancarlo Giannini
1	Jack Gilford
1	Jackie Gleason
1	James Gleason
1	Brendan Gleeson
1	Thomas Gomez
1	Cuba Gooding Jr.
1	Dexter Gordon
1	Louis Gossett Jr.
1	Elliott Gould
1	Richard E. Grant
1	Graham Greene
1	Sydney Greenstreet
1	Joel Grey
1	Jake Gyllenhaal
1	Jackie Earle Haley
1	Tom Hardy
1	Laurence Harvey
1	John Hawkes
1	Nigel Hawthorne
1	Sessue Hayakawa
1	Lucas Hedges
1	Van Heflin
1	Brian Tyree Henry
1	Justin Henry
1	Charlton Heston
1	William Hickey
1	Ciarán Hinds
1	Hal Holbrook
1	Stanley Holloway
1	Ian Holm
1	Oskar Homolka
1	Dennis Hopper
1	Bob Hoskins
1	John Houseman
1	Terrence Howard
1	Trevor Howard
1	Rock Hudson
1	Tom Hulce
1	Arthur Hunnicutt
1	John Huston
1	Timothy Hutton
1	John Ireland
1	Jeremy Irons
1	Burl Ives
1	Hugh Jackman
1	Samuel L. Jackson
1	Richard Jaeckel
1	Sam Jaffe
1	Dean Jagger
1	Emil Jannings
1	Ben Johnson
1	James Earl Jones
1	Michael Keaton
1	Harvey Keitel
1	Gene Kelly
1	George Kennedy
1	Barry Keoghan
1	Greg Kinnear
1	Kevin Kline
1	Alexander Knox
1	Troy Kotsur
1	Jack Kruschen
1	Frank Langella
1	Michael Lerner
1	Jared Leto
1	Gene Lockhart
1	Robert Loggia
1	Paul Lukas

#	Actor
1	Alfred Lunt
1	William H. Macy
1	Mako
1	Rami Malek
1	Joe Mantell
1	John Marley
1	Lee Marvin
1	Daniel Massey
1	Raymond Massey
1	Kevin McCarthy
1	Matthew McConaughey
1	Steve McQueen
1	Adolphe Menjou
1	Paul Mescal
1	Ray Milland
1	Jason Miller
1	John Mills
1	Robert Mitchum
1	Ron Moody
1	Dudley Moore
1	Pat Morita
1	Robert Morley
1	Chester Morris
1	Armin Mueller-Stahl
1	Cillian Murphy
1	Eddie Murphy
1	Bill Murray
1	Don Murray
1	Liam Neeson
1	Bill Nighy
1	Haing S. Ngor
1	David Niven
1	Dan O'Herlihy
1	Michael O'Keefe
1	Ryan O'Neal
1	Jack Oakie
1	Leslie Odom Jr.
1	Edward James Olmos
1	Haley Joel Osment
1	Clive Owen
1	Elliot Page
1	Chazz Palminteri
1	Larry Parks
1	Dev Patel
1	David Paymer
1	Guy Pearce
1	Anthony Perkins
1	River Phoenix
1	Jesse Plemons
1	Michael J. Pollard
1	Pete Postlethwaite
1	Robert Preston
1	Jonathan Pryce
1	Randy Quaid
1	Ke Huy Quan
1	Anthony Quayle
1	Paul Raci
1	Stephen Rea
1	Robert Redford
1	Michael Redgrave
1	John C. Reilly
1	Burt Reynolds
1	Tim Robbins
1	Eric Roberts
1	Cliff Robertson
1	Howard Rollins
1	Tim Roth
1	Mickey Rourke
1	Harold Russell
1	Robert Ryan
1	Mark Rylance
1	George Sanders
1	Chris Sarandon
1	Telly Savalas
1	Joseph Schildkraut
1	George Segal
1	Omar Sharif
1	Robert Shaw
1	Sam Shepard
1	Gary Sinise
1	Kodi Smit-McPhee
1	Robert Stack
1	Terence Stamp
1	Sebastian Stan
1	LaKeith Stanfield
1	James Stephenson
1	Dean Stockwell
1	Lewis Stone
1	Lee Strasberg
1	David Strathairn
1	Robert Strauss
1	Jeremy Strong
1	Russ Tamblyn
1	Lawrence Tibbett
1	Richard Todd
1	Franchot Tone
1	Topol
1	Rip Torn
1	Lee Tracy
1	Henry Travers
1	Massimo Troisi
1	Stanley Tucci
1	Tom Tully
1	Robert Vaughn
1	Erich von Stroheim
1	Mark Wahlberg
1	H. B. Warner
1	Ken Watanabe
1	Sam Waterston
1	Orson Welles
1	Oskar Werner
1	Forest Whitaker
1	Stuart Whitman
1	Richard Widmark
1	Jack Wild
1	Cornel Wilde
1	Gene Wilder
1	Chill Wills
1	Paul Winfield
1	Jeffrey Wright
1	Ed Wynn
1	Steven Yeun
1	Burt Young
1	Roland Young

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60 Comments

+16

Level 91

Mar 23, 2021

Holy sweet mother of Batman, I finally got a quiz featured!! Thank you guys so much!!

Level 91

Nov 27, 2023

After some consideration, and the fact that my views on the whole transgender discussion has changed somewhat over the years, Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page who was previously nominated for Best Actress for "Juno," will be moved over to this quiz and will no longer be on the other version of this quiz when I update both quizzes in 2025. This is to keep things consistent with the whole male and female separation theme.

I created both of these quizzes before Page came out as transgender at the end of 2020, and have gone back and forth on deciding how to handle it before finally deciding to move him to this quiz. I apologize for not making this decision sooner, but better late than never I suppose.

Again, Elliot Page will be added to this quiz for the next update in 2025. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed the quiz!

Level 54

Mar 23, 2021

First Feature!

Level 79

Mar 23, 2021

151/476. Kicking myself for a bunch of names I forgot.

Level 97

Mar 23, 2021

Just a quick note: You misspelled Sessue Hayakawa.

Level 91

Mar 23, 2021

Fixed it.

Level 53

Mar 23, 2021

Congratulations on the first two features! ~~Knew it~~

Level 63

Mar 26, 2021

I could help but start counting the number of Avengers on this list. :)

Nice quiz, great fun!

Level 90

Mar 26, 2021

Great quiz! It turned into a game of "name every actor that comes to mind" for me, and even so I only got 131. For some reason I have a feeling I'll do better on the actress quiz; gonna try that one next.

+11

Level 67

Apr 9, 2021

I got Sam Waterston solely because I love him on Law & Order, and I was guessing any name I could think of. I didn't even know he was in movies. Some surprising omissions too. The fact that Jim Carrey wasn't even nominated for Man on the Moon or the Truman Show is dispiriting. Also can't believe that Christopher Lee didn't get nominated even once in a prolific career spanning seven decades.

Level 91

Apr 9, 2021

Definitely agree about Jim Carrey. I would also add Eternal Sunshine to his list of performances that deserved a nomination. I know people like to use his "over-the-top" style of acting to discredit him but Eddie Murphy's done plenty of wacky things in his career and he still earned a nomination.

I'm also surprised that Donald Sutherland wasn't nominated for Ordinary People, even though pretty much everyone else in that movie was.

Level 79

Apr 9, 2021

Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Cotten and Ray Liotta always get me. I know they weren't nominated but enter them anyway because it feels right.

Level 72

Jan 24, 2025

yeah I've tried Lee several times just to make sure because it seemed unimaginable that he wouldn't be there

Level 61

Apr 9, 2021

Shouldn't Elliot Page be added?

Level 79

Apr 9, 2021

Nominated as "Best Actress" back then.

Level 91

Nov 27, 2023

He will be in the next update.

Level 91

Jan 23, 2025

Added now!

Level 67

Jan 28, 2025

Literally one person wanted that change.

Level 91

Jan 28, 2025

Nope. It was definitely more than one.

Level 58

Apr 9, 2021

can the quiz-maker specify that by 'actors' they exclusively mean male actors. thanks.

Level 91

Apr 9, 2021

It’s already specified in the caveats.

Level 62

Jan 27, 2025

i dont feel why having two seperate quizzes is needed

Level 69

Apr 10, 2021

I love how 96% guessed DiCaprio, and then the percentage drops 20% on the second most-guessed name! Looks like putting a picture on top helps a lot.

Level 91

Apr 10, 2021

Funny enough, DiCaprio was the most guessed even before I put a picture up. It's actually the reason why I picked him when I decided to use pictures, although the one you see now was picked by the Quizmaster.

+11

Level 83

Feb 8, 2022

Congrats to 15.5% of takers who got all 480 answers right. They should be proud of their immense knowledge and the fact they absolutely, positively, undoubtedly didn't cheat...

Level 84

Feb 21, 2022

Correction - it should read Telly Savalas, not Terry.

Level 91

Feb 21, 2022

Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.

Level 58

Apr 10, 2022

Not me not being able to think of the name of a single actor while attempting this quiz

Level 76

Jan 30, 2023

What a workout! I scored 168, but I guessed so many incorrect names too! Thanks for the quiz!

Level 95

Feb 10, 2023

I could not for the life of me remember how to spell Djimon's last name. Got 161 but it should have been 162...

Level 79

Feb 17, 2023

1% know Chill Wills. 50% don't know that you only need to enter the last name and tried to enter Will Smith.

Level 67

Feb 17, 2023

I tried for Wilson and Willis and got it right that way lol

Level 89

Feb 17, 2023

I didn't miss a single one and I don't watch very many movies! ...Ok, so I haven't attempted to take it yet. I predict abject failure when I do

Level 91

Feb 17, 2023

Thank you to everyone who’s taken this quiz so far. I’ve been thinking about updating this every two years from now on since it’s such a massive quiz. There were a lot of first-time nominees this year which is why I decided to update it for this season instead of the next. If that’s okay with the Quizmaster and everyone else, I’ll return to this quiz and its female version in 2025.

Level 71

Feb 17, 2023

Why is Meryl Streep not on here?

Level 91

Feb 17, 2023

Try taking this quiz.

Level 73

Feb 20, 2023

With these quizzes it comes down to how many can you get before getting bored and moving on

Level 90

Feb 21, 2023

The fact that Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, and John Turturro aren't on this list is damn near criminal.

Level 90

Feb 21, 2023

Alan Rickman too.

Level 93

Jun 28, 2023

Goodman I think is the most deserving one of the three, and I can't really think of a role Turturro would have deserved a nomination for.

Level 91

Jun 29, 2023

He probably could have been nominated for Quiz Show but the Academy decided to nominate Paul Scofield that year instead. The only other possible contenders I can think of are Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink.

Level 51

Mar 11, 2023

Got them all on my 43rd try. Fabulous quiz. on to the actresses, Will get back in about a month.

Level 96

May 28, 2024

That was a marathon of a quiz!

Couple of minor spelling issues, luckily none got in the way:

Albert Bassermann

Lawrence Tibbett

Terence (one r) Stamp

I would have gone the other way on Elliot Page as the awarded Oscar was for "Best Actress," but I can see where you're coming from with the title of the quiz. Thanks for the challenge!

Level 91

Jan 23, 2025

Fixed the misspellings. And thank you for taking the quiz!

Level 45

Oct 26, 2024

walter matthau ???

Level 66

Jan 23, 2025

What are you going to do next year now that you're about to hit 500 answers?

Level 91

Jan 23, 2025

1. Nothing, because I don’t plan to update this next year.

2. Wait until I get the option to add more than 500 answers, otherwise Quizmaster will have to do that.

Level 70

Jan 23, 2025

If you export it into a spreadsheet, then on the spreadsheet add the answers, then import it back onto JetPunk, you can bypass the 500 answer limit.

Level 91

Jan 23, 2025

Huh. You'd think being on JetPunk for over 10 years and being above level 90 would mean that I knew about that, but nope. I guess I should get started on that.

Level 97

Jan 25, 2025

You are in a cult. You are lying to yourself, but it won't change reality. You think that love is compassion, but love is actually the desire for flourishing. And flourishing can never ever grow from a lie. As in the case of Ms. Page. She got everything she wanted, yet she seems very very unhappy. She's in a terrible place, and I really wish her well. But it starts with telling the truth.

Level 91

Jan 25, 2025

Sir this is a Wendy’s

Level 56

Jan 27, 2025

I typed in Tracy and got Lee Tracy but not Spencer Tracy..

Level 91

Jan 27, 2025

I typed in Tracy just now and I got both of them

Level 56

Feb 22, 2025

Strange... still not working for me, I had to type in 'Spencer Tracy' after trying just Tracy and only getting Lee.

Level 91

Feb 23, 2025

You might be spelling something wrong. Don't know what else to tell you.

Level 37

Jan 27, 2025

Suprised Harrison Ford only got 1 nomination for how many great movies he's been in.

Level 39

Jan 27, 2025

Robert de Niro has been nominated 9 times, you've missed the last one for best supporting actor for Killers of the Flower Moon

Level 91

Jan 27, 2025

As an actor, he’s only been nominated 8 times. The 9th one was as a producer for The Irishman.

Level 21

Jan 27, 2025

got Theodore Bikel but not Robert De Niro or Tom Hanks..

Level 46

Apr 17, 2025

Not into movies and series, also not American or British so got only 42

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