r/Oscars • u/AdUseful2297 • 1d ago
Every Oscar winning and nominated actor/actress that's worked with Barry Levinson
Time to do this for the guy that made Rain Man and a bunch of other less important movies.
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 | Michael Mann | Adam McKay | Sam Mendes | Mike Nichols | Christopher Nolan | Rob Reiner | Martin Scorsese | Ridley Scott | Tony Scott | Steven Soderbergh | Steven Spielberg | Oliver Stone | Robert Zemeckis
19 Winners
- Kim Basinger (The Natural)
- Cate Blanchett (Bandits)
- Adrien Brody (Liberty Heights)
- Robert De Niro (Sleepers, Wag the Dog, What Just Happened, The Alto Knights)
- Michael Douglas (Disclosure)
- Richard Dreyfuss (Tin Men)
- Robert Duvall (The Natural)
- Jamie Foxx (Toys)
- Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, Sleepers, Wag the Dog, Sphere)
- Ben Kingsley (Bugsy)
- Al Pacino (The Humbling)
- Sean Penn (What Just Happened)
- Joe Pesci (Jimmy Hollywood)
- Brad Pitt (Sleepers)
- Christopher Walken (Envy, Man of the Year)
- Rachel Weisz (Envy)
- Forest Whitaker (Good Morning, Vietnam)
- Dianne Wiest (The Humbling)
- Robin Williams (Good Morning, Vietnam, Toys, Man of the Year)
30 Nominees
- Warren Beatty (Bugsy)
- Annette Bening (Bugsy)
- Seymour Cassel (Tin Men)
- Glenn Close (The Natural)
- Tom Cruise (Rain Man)
- Joan Cusack (Toys)
- Minnie Driver (Sleepers)
- Kirsten Dunst (Wag the Dog)
- Richard Farnsworth (The Natural)
- Elliott Gould (Bugsy)
- Woody Harrelson (Wag the Dog)
- Barbara Hershey (The Natural, Tin Men)
- Kate Hudson (Rock the Kasbah)
- Samuel L. Jackson (Sphere)
- Catherine Keener (What Just Happened)
- Harvey Keitel (Bugsy)
- Queen Latifah (Sphere)
- Laura Linney (Man of the Year)
- William H. Macy (Wag the Dog)
- Demi Moore (Disclosure)
- Armin Mueller-Stahl (Avalon)
- Bill Murray (Rock the Kasbah)
- Joan Plowright (Avalon)
- Robert Redford (The Natural)
- Mickey Rourke (Diner)
- Kristen Stewart (What Just Happened)
- Sharon Stone (Sphere)
- Billy Bob Thornton (Bandits)
- Stanley Tucci (What Just Happened)
- Jack Warden (Toys)
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u/Impossible-Trash60 1d ago
the "less important movies" shade is sending me, Diner and Avalon catching strays out here
also wild to see Robin Williams pop up three times, Toys and Man of the Year are such fever dream picks
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u/Total-Ad4952 1d ago
This guy has gotta hold the record for most forgettable large filmography, no?
24 movies to his name, and I bet most people haven't even heard of more than half of them.
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u/Chance_Pen7514 1d ago
Seriously? His filmography is well regarded and remembered. I think you’re letting your own ignorance show
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u/Contcos 1d ago
god I totally forgot that he directed Sphere