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Black Swan is a famous example of a film that got double digit nominations at most precursors, but then it just underperformed at the Oscars for…..reasons.

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• 1927: Richard Arlen (Wings)
·       1928: Al Ernest Garcia (The Circus)
·       1929: Donald Calthrop (Blackmail)
·       1930: Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front)
·       1931: Peter Lorre (M)
·       1932: Harry Earles (Freaks)
·       1933: Chico Marx (Duck Soup)
·       1934: Peter Lorre (The Man who Knew too Much)
·       1935: Ernest Thesiger (Bride of Frankenstein)
·       1936: Paul Robeson (Show Boat)
·       1937: Erich von Stroheim (Grand Illusion)
·       1938: Pat O’Brian (Angels with Dirty Faces)
·       1939: Ray Bolger (The Wizard of Oz)
·       1940: Walter Brennan (The Westerner)
·       1941: Sydney Greenstreet (The Maltese Falcon)
·       1942: Joseph Cotten (The Magnificent Ambersons)
·       1943: Claude Rains (Casablanca)
·       1944: Edward G. Robinson (Double Indemnity)
·       1945: James Dunn (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
·       1946: Harold Russell (The Best Years of Our Lives)
·       1947: Ed Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street)
·       1948: Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
·       1949: Orson Welles (The Third Man)
·       1950: George Sanders (All About Eve)
·       1951: Robert Walker (Strangers on a Train)
·       1952: Donald O’Connor (Singin’ in the Rain)
·       1953: Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity)
·       1954: Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai)
·       1955: Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)
·       1956: Yul Brynner (The Ten Commandments)
·       1957: Lee J. Cobb (12 Angry Men)
·       1958: Burl Ives (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
·       1959: Stephen Boyd (Ben – Hur)
·       1960; Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)
·       1961: Montgomery Clift (Judgement at Nuremberg)
·       1962: Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia)
·       1963: Walter Matthau (Charade)
·       1964: Stanley Holloway (My Fair Lady)
·       1965: Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)
·       1966: George Segal (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
·       1967: Gene Hackman (Bonnie and Clyde)
·       1968: Henry Fonda (Once Upon a Time in the West)
·       1969: Jack Nicholson (Easy Rider)
·       1970: Chief Dan George (Little Big Man)
·       1971: Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
·       1972: Joel Grey (Cabaret)
·       1973: Max von Sydow (The Exorcist)
·       1974: Robert de Niro (The Godfather Part II) 
·       1975: Robert Shaw (Jaws)   
·       1976: Jason Robards (All the President’s Men)   
·       1977: James Earl Jones (Star Wars)
·       1978: Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter)
·       1979: Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now)
·       1980: Leslie Nielsen (Airplane!)
·       1981: John Gielgud (Arthur)
·       1982: Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner)
·       1983: Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)
·       1984: Pat Morita (The Karate Kid)
·       1985: Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)
·       1986: Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet)
·       1987: R. Lee Emery (Full Metal Jacket)
·       1988; Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)
·       1989: Denzel Washington (Glory)
·       1990: Joe Pesci (Goodfellas)
·       1991: John Goodman (Barton Fink)
·       1992: Gene Hackman (Unforgiven)
·       1993: Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List)
·       1994: Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction)
·       1995: Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects)
·       1996: Edward Norton (Primal Fear)
·       1997: Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting)
·       1998: John Goodman (The Big Lebowski) 
·       1999: Tom Cruise (Magnolia)
·       2000:Benicio del Toro (Traffic)
·       2001: Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
·       2002: Daniel Day – Lewis (Gangs of New York)
·       2003: Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
·       2004: Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)
·       2005: Val Kilmer (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang)
·       2006: Jack Nicholson (The Departed)
·       2007: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
·       2008: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
·       2009: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
·       2010: Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)
·       2011: Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
·       2012: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
·       2013: Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
·       2014: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
·       2015: Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)
·       2016: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
·       2017: Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
·       2018: Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy)
·       2019: Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
·       2020: Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
·       2021: Troy Kotsur (CODA)
·       2022: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
·       2023: Charles Melton (May December) 
·       2024: Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)
·       2025: Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)  

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• 1927: Lon Chaney (The Unknown)
·       1928: Conrad Veidt (The Man who Laughs)
·       1929: Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade)
·       1930: Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front)
·       1931: Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
·       1932: Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)      
·       1933: Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)
·       1934: Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
·       1935: Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)
·       1936: Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)
·       1937: Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)
·       1938: Cary Grant (Bringing up Baby)
·       1939: James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
·       1940: Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath)
·       1941: Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
·       1942: Gary Cooper (The Pride of the Yankees)
·       1943: Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
·       1944: Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity)
·       1945: Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
·       1946: James Stewart (It’s a Wonderful Life)
·       1947: Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past)
·       1948: Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
·       1949: Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)  
·       1950: William Holden (Sunset Boulevard)
·       1951: Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun)
·       1952: Takashi Shimura (Ikiru)
·       1953: Burt Lancaster (From Here to Eternity)
·       1954: Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)   
·       1955: Robert Mitchum (The Night of the Hunter)
·       1956: James Dean (Giant)
·       1957: Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
·       1958; James Stewart (Vertigo)
·       1959: Jack Lemmon (Some Like it Hot)
·       1960: Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
·       1961: Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo)
·       1962: Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
·       1963: Paul Newman (Hud)
·       1964: Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove)
·       1965: Omar Sharif (Doctor Zhivago)
• 1966: Richard Burton (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
·       1967: Sidney Poitier (In the Heat of the Night)
·       1968: Peter O’Toole (The Lion in Winter)
·       1969: Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy)
·       1970: George C. Scott (Patton)
·       1971: Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
·       1972: Marlon Brando (The Godfather)
·       1973: Robert Redford (The Sting)
·       1974: Al Pacino (The Godfather Part II)
·       1975: Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
·       1976: Peter Finch (Network)
·       1977: Richard Dreyfuss (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
·       1978: Christopher Reeves (Superman)
·       1979: Roy Scheider (All that Jazz)
·       1980: Robert de Niro (Raging Bull)
·       1981: Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot)
·       1982: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)   
·       1983: Robert de Niro (The King of Comedy)
·       1984: F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
·       1985: Aleksei Kravchenko (Come and See)
·       1986: Kyle McLachlan (Blue Velvet)   
·       1987: Michael Douglas (Wall Street)
·       1988: Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers)
·       1989: Daniel Day – Lewis (My Left Foot)
·       1990: Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone)
·       1991: Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
·       1992: Denzel Washington (Malcolm X)
·       1993: David Thewlis (Naked)
·       1994: Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
·       1995: Morgan Freeman (Se7en)
·       1996: Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire)
·       1997: Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful)
·       1998: Jim Carrey (The Truman Show)
·       1999: Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
·       2000: Jamie Bell (Billy Elliott)
·       2001: Denzel Washington (Training Day)
·       2002: Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
·       2003: Sean Penn (Mystic River)
·       2004: Paul Giamatti (Sideways)
·       2005: Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
·       2006: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
·       2007: Daniel Day – Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
·       2008: Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire)
·       2009: Colin Firth (A Single Man)
·       2010: Jeff Bridges (True Grit)
·       2011: Michael Fassebender (Shame)
·       2012: Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
·       2013: Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
·       2014: Michael Keaton (Birdman)
·       2015: Jacob Tremblay (Room)
·       2016: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
·       2017; Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
·       2018: Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
·       2019: Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
·       2020: Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
·       2021: Andrew Garfield (Tick....Tick.....BOOM!)
·       2022: Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
·       2023: Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
·       2024: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
·       2025: Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)

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·       1927: Brigitte Helm (Metropolis)
·       1928: Dorothy Cumming (The Wind)
·       1929: Anna May Wong (Piccadilly)
·       1930: Margaret Dumont (Animal Crackers)
·       1931: Virginia Cherrill (City Lights)
·       1932: Anna May Wong (Shanghai Express)
·       1933: Merle Oberon (The Private Life of Henry VIII)  
·       1934: Bette Davis (Of Human Bondage)
·       1935: Elsa Lanchester (Bride of Frankenstein)
·       1936: Mary Astor (Dodsworth)
·       1937: Lucille la Verne (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)   
·       1938: May Whitty (The Lady Vanishes)
·       1939: Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)
·       1940: Judith Anderson (Rebecca)
·       1941: Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon)
·       1942: Agnes Moorehead (The Magnificent Ambersons)
·       1943: Gladys Cooper (The Song of Bernadette)
·       1944: Margaret O’Brien (Meet Me in St. Louis)
·       1945: Anna Magnani (Rome, Open City)
·       1946: Donna Reed (It’s a Wonderful Life)
·       1947: Kathleen Byron (Black Narcissus)
·       1948: Jean Simmons (Hamlet)
·       1949: Virginia Mayo (White Heat)
·       1950: Celeste Holm (All About Eve)
·       1951: Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire)   
·       1952: Jean Hagen (Singin’ in the Rain)
·       1953: Setsuko Hara (Tokyo Story)
·       1954: Grace Kelly (Rear Window)
·       1955: Lillian Gish (The Night of the Hunter)
·       1956: Anne Baxter (The Ten Commandments)
·       1957: Marlene Dietrich (Witness for the Prosecution)
·       1958: Kim Novak (Vertigo)
·       1959: Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest)
·       1960: Janet Leigh (Psycho)
·       1961: Rita Moreno (West Side Story)   
·       1962: Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate)
·       1963: Patricia Neal (Hud)
·       1964: Anne Vernon (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)  
·       1965: Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street)
·       1966: Sandy Dennis (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
·       1967: Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)
·       1968: Ruth Gordon (Rosemary’s Baby)
·       1969: Susannah York (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
·       1970: Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces)   
·       1971: Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show)
·       1972: Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak Kid)
·       1973: Candy Clark (American Graffiti)
·       1974: Diane Keaton (The Godfather Part II)   
·       1975: Lily Tomlin (Nashville)
·       1976: Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver)
·       1977: Vanessa Redgrave (Julia)
·       1978: Geraldine Page (Interiors)
·       1979: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
·       1980: Carrie Fisher (The Empire Strikes Back)
·       1981: Jane Fonda (On Golden Pond)
·       1982: Teri Garr (Tootsie)
·       1983: Michelle Pfeiffer (Scarface)
·       1984: Nastassja Kinski (Paris, Texas)
·       1985: Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple)
·       1986: Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters)
·       1987: Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck)   
·       1988: Frances McDormand (Mississippi Burning)
·       1989: Ruby Dee (Do the Right Thing)
·       1990: Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas)
·       1991: Sissy Spacek (JFK)
·       1992: Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny)
·       1993: Anna Paquin (The Piano)
·       1994; Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction)
·       1995: Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility)
·       1996: Marianne Jean – Baptiste (Secrets and Lies)
·       1997: Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights)
·       1998: Laura Linney (The Truman Show)
·       1999: Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted)
·       2000: Kate Hudson (Almost Famous)
·       2001: Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)
·       2002: Catherine Zeta – Jones (Chicago)
·       2003: Lucy Liu (Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ) 
·       2004: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)
·       2005: Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)
·       2006: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
·       2007: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
·       2008: Viola Davis (Doubt)
·       2009: Mo’Nique (Precious)
·       2010: Lesley Manville (Another Year)
·       2011: Octavia Spencer (The Help)
·       2012: Anne Hathaway (Lés Miserables)
·       2013: Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
·       2014: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
·       2015: Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)     
·       2016: Viola Davis (Fences)
·       2017: Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
·       2018: Marina de Tavira (Roma)
·       2019: Cho Yeo – jeong (Parasite)
·       2020: Youn Yuh – Jung (Minari)
·       2021: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
·       2022: Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
·       2023: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
·       2024: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)
·       2025: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value) 

• 1927: Janet Gaynor (Sunrise)
·       1928: Maria Falconetti (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
·       1929: Louise Brooks (Pandora’s Box)
·       1930: Greta Garbo (Anna Christie)
·       1931: Hertha Thiele (Mädchen in Uniform)
·       1932: Marlene Dietrich (Shanghai Express)
·       1933: Katharine Hepburn (Little Women)
·       1934: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
·       1935: Ginger Rogers (Top Hat)
·       1936: Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey)   
·       1937: Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth)
·       1938: Katharine Hepburn (Bringing up Baby)
·       1939: Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
·       1940: Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)
·       1941: Bette Davis (The Little Foxes)
·       1942: Bette Davis (Now, Voyager)
·       1943: Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca)
·       1944: Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity)
·       1945: Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
·       1946: Ingrid Bergman (Notorious)
·       1947: Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus)
·       1948: Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)
·       1949: Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)
·       1950: Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard)
·       1951: Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
·       1952: Maureen O’Hara (The Quiet Man)
·       1953: Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
·       1954: Judy Garland (A Star is Born)
·       1955: Jane Wyman (All that Heaven Allows)
·       1956: Elizabeth Taylor (Giant)
·       1957: Giulietta Masina (Nights of Cabiria)
·       1958: Jeanne Moreau (Elevator to the Gallows)
·       1959: Marilyn Monroe (Some Like it Hot)
·       1960: Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)
·       1961: Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
·       1962: Bette Davis (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
·       1963: Ingrid Thulin (Winter Light)
·       1964: Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)
·       1965: Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music)
·       1966: Elizabeth Taylor (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) 
·       1967: Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner)
·       1968: Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl)
·       1969: Liv Ullmann (The Passion of Anna) 
·       1970: Barbara Loden (Wanda)   
·       1971: Jane Fonda (Klute)
·       1972: Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)
·       1973: Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon)
·       1974: Liv Ullmann (Scenes from a Marriage)   
·       1975: Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
·       1976: Faye Dunaway (Network)
·       1977: Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
·       1978: Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata)
·       1979: Sigourney Weaver (Alien)
·       1980: Nastassja Kinski (Tess)
·       1981: Isabelle Adjani (Possession)
·       1982: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
·       1983: Shirley Maclaine (Terms of Endearment)   
·       1984: Sally Field (Places in the Heart)
·       1985: Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple)
·       1986: Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet) 
·       1987: Cher (Moonstruck)   
·       1988: Jodie Foster (The Accused)
·       1989: Meg Ryan (When Harry Met Sally.....)
·       1990: Kathy Bates (Misery)
·       1991: Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
·       1992: Sheryl Lee (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me)
·       1993: Holly Hunter (The Piano)
·       1994: Iréne Jacob (Three Colors: Red)
·       1995: Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility)
·       1996: Frances McDormand (Fargo)
·       1997: Pam Grier (Jackie Brown)
·       1998: Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)
·       1999: Reese Witherspoon (Election)
·       2000: Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream)
·       2001: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)
·       2002: Renée Zellweger (Chicago)
·       2003: Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation)  
·       2004: Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
·       2005: Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
·       2006: Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
·       2007: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
·       2008: Sally Hawkins (Happy – Go – Lucky)
·       2009: Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
·       2010: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
·       2011: Viola Davis (The Help)
·       2012: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
·       2013: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
·       2014: Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
·       2015: Brie Larson (Room)
·       2016: Emma Stone (La La Land)
·       2017: Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
·       2018: Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
·       2019: Lupita Nyong’o (Us)
·       2020: Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)
·       2021: Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World)
·       2022: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
·       2023: Emma Stone (Poor Things)
·       2024: Mikey Madison (Anora)
·       2025: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)   

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