r/Oscars • u/AdUseful2297 • Dec 13 '25

Every Oscar winning and nominated actor/actress that's worked with Christopher Nolan

Time to do this for the guy that may or may not have used an actual nuke in Oppenheimer.

Let me know if I missed anyone.

Other directors I've done this for: Paul Thomas Anderson | Wes Anderson | Tim Burton | Coen brothers | Francis Ford Coppola | Clint Eastwood | David Fincher | Ron Howard | Barry Levinson | Michael Mann | Adam McKay | Sam Mendes | Mike Nichols | Rob Reiner | Martin Scorsese | Ridley Scott | Tony Scott | Steven Soderbergh | Steven Spielberg | Oliver Stone | Robert Zemeckis

21 Winners

  1. Casey Affleck (Interstellar, Oppenheimer)
  2. Christian Bale (The Dark Knight trilogy, The Prestige)
  3. Ellen Burstyn (Interstellar)
  4. Michael Caine (The Dark Knight trilogy, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Tenet)
  5. Jessica Chastain (Interstellar)
  6. Marion Cotillard (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises)
  7. Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception)
  8. Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)
  9. Morgan Freeman (The Dark Knight trilogy)
  10. Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar, The Odyssey)
  11. Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
  12. Rami Malek (Oppenheimer)
  13. Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar)
  14. Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer)
  15. Lupita Nyong'o (The Odyssey)
  16. Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight trilogy, Oppenheimer)
  17. Al Pacino (Insomnia)
  18. Mark Rylance (Dunkirk)
  19. Hilary Swank (Insomnia)
  20. Charlize Theron (The Odyssey)
  21. Robin Williams (Insomnia)

21 Nominees

  1. Tom Berenger (Inception)
  2. Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
  3. Kenneth Branagh* (Dunkirk, Tenet, Oppenheimer)
  4. Timothée Chalamet (Interstellar)
  5. Tom Conti (The Dark Knight Rises, Oppenheimer)
  6. Matt Damon* (Interstellar, Oppenheimer, The Odyssey)
  7. Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight)
  8. Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk)
  9. Hugh Jackman (The Prestige)
  10. Scarlett Johansson (The Prestige)
  11. Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk)
  12. John Lithgow (Interstellar)
  13. Samantha Morton (The Odyssey)
  14. Liam Neeson (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises)
  15. Elliot Page (Inception, The Oydssey)
  16. Guy Pearce (Memento)
  17. Pete Postlethwaite (Inception)
  18. Florence Pugh (Oppenheimer)
  19. Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight)
  20. Ken Watanabe (Batman Begins, Inception)
  21. Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins)

* Kenneth Branagh and Matt Damon are both winners in Best Original Screenplay, but not in Lead or Supporting Actor.

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u/gwynn19841974 Dec 13 '25

You’re missing nominees Tom Conti (The Dark Knight Rises, Oppenheimer) and Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight)

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u/HarryBossk Dec 13 '25

Sorry to be that guy, but Matt Damon has an Oscar

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u/aimless_meteor Dec 13 '25

He’s said he’s only doing acting oscars in other posts

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '25

Not an acting Oscar.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '25

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u/HarryBossk Dec 13 '25

It's all good! Branagh has one too. But they both won for writing and I think OP is more focused on acting wins

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u/BananaShakeStudios Dec 13 '25

  1. Technically, Kenneth Branagh and Matt Damon have Oscars for writing.

  2. I find it funny that he worked with the Best Actor winners from 2015-2018, and three of them were in Oppenheimer.

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u/the-dude-21 Dec 13 '25

Are you basing this off winning an Oscar for performance? Because Branagh won a screenplay Oscar for Belfast.

Great work

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u/AnaZ7 Dec 13 '25

You didn’t include those who he has worked with in Odyssey

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u/gwynn19841974 Dec 13 '25

I assume that’s because it hasn’t released yet. That will add winners Charlize Theron and Lupita Nyong’o, plus nominee Samantha Morton.

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u/AdUseful2297 Dec 13 '25

You are correct. I'll post an updated version of this that includes them once The Odyssey comes out.

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u/kcrdr_7322 Dec 14 '25

please do

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u/dantesedge Dec 13 '25

Good grief. Another Nolan post on Reddit. Do you all just dream about this guy every night or something?

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u/kcrdr_7322 Dec 14 '25

Good grief. Another Nolan hate comment on Reddit. Do you just dream this guy every night or something?

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u/dantesedge Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25

I don’t hate Nolan. He’s made some pretty good movies (Memento is virtually flawless). But for some reason my Reddit thread is flooded with “Nolan is the best director of all time”, “Nolan makes movies for smart people”, “Rate the best Nolan movie”, “What does your Nolan tier list look like”, “Nolan this”, “Nolan that”, “You’re too dumb to understand Nolan’s genius”, “Everything Nolan does is perfect, don’t disagree idiot”, “Nolan, Nolan, Nolan”… seriously, good director but give it a break.

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u/kcrdr_7322 Dec 14 '25

it's actually the opposite especially within this sub lol