10 Actors Just Scored Their First Oscar Nomination, And Here's How Many The Other Nominees Have

Bradley Cooper is one of several performers to have garnered five or more Oscar nominations for acting.

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The Oscar nominations are in! On Jan. 23, the noms for the 2024 ceremony were announced, and the likes of Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Killers of the Flower Moon had a strong showing.

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The telecast is set for March 10, and you can check out the full list here. One thing, though, that stood out among this year's acting nominees is just how many actors received their first nomination...10 did! So here's a breakdown of this year's acting nominations from first-timers to the most nominated over the years.

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Note: The order below is determined solely by the number of acting nominees, not the total number of nominations across all categories.

First-time nominees:

1. Lily Gladstone

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Lily is nominated for Best Lead Actress for Killers of the Flower Moon.

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2. Sandra Hüller

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Sandra is nominated for Best Lead Actress for Anatomy of a Fall.

3. Colman Domingo

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Colman is nominated for Best Lead Actor for Rustin.

4. Cillian Murphy

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Cillian is nominated for Best Lead Actor for Oppenheimer.

5. Jeffrey Wright

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Jeffrey is nominated for Best Lead Actor for American Fiction.

6. Emily Blunt

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Emily is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Oppenheimer.

7. Danielle Brooks

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Danielle is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Color Purple.

8. America Ferrera

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America is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Barbie.

9. Da'Vine Joy Randolph

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Da'Vine is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Holdovers.

10. Sterling K. Brown

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Sterling is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for American Fiction.

Two-time nominees:

11. Paul Giamatti

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Paul was previously nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Cinderella Man (in 2005).

This year, Paul is nominated for Best Lead Actor for The Holdovers.

Three-time nominees:

12. Robert Downey Jr.

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Robert was nominated for Best Lead Actor for Chaplin (in 1992) and Best Supporting Actor for Tropic Thunder (in 2008).

This year, Robert is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer.

13. Ryan Gosling

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Ryan was previously nominated for Best Lead Actor for Half Nelson (in 2006) and La La Land (in 2016).

This year, Ryan is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Barbie.

14. Carey Mulligan

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Carey was nominated for Best Lead Actress for An Education (in 2009) and Promising Young Woman (in 2020).

This year, Carey is nominated for Best Lead Actress for Maestro.

Four-time nominees:

15. Mark Ruffalo

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Mark was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Kids Are All Right (in 2010), Foxcatcher (in 2014), and Spotlight (in 2015).

This year, Mark is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Poor Things.

16. Emma Stone

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Emma Stone won Best Lead Actress in 2016 for La La Land. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Birdman (in 2014) and The Favourite (in 2018).

This year, Emma is nominated for Best Lead Actress for Poor Things. Emma is also nominated as a producer for Best Picture for the film.

Five-time nominees:

17. Annette Bening

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Annette was nominated for Best Lead Actress for American Beauty (in 1999), Being Julia (in 2004), and The Kids Are All Right (in 2010). She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Grifters (in 1990).

This year, Annette is nominated for Best Lead Actress for Nyad.

18. Bradley Cooper

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Bradley was previously nominated for Best Lead Actor for Silver Linings Playbook (in 2012), American Sniper (in 2014), and A Star Is Born (in 2018), as well as Best Supporting Actor for American Hustle (in 2013). 

Beyond acting, Bradley has an adapted screenplay nomination for A Star Is Born and has been nominated four times for Best Picture for his work as a producer on American Sniper, A Star Is Born, Joker, and Nightmare Alley. 

This year, Bradley is nominated for Best Lead Actor for Maestro. He's also among the producers part of Maestro's Best Picture nomination and shares an Original Screenplay nom for the film alongside Josh Singer.

19. Jodie Foster

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Jodie Foster has won Best Lead Actress for The Accused (in 1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (in 1991). She was also nominated for Best Lead Actor for Taxi Driver (in 1976) and Nell (in 1994). 

This year, Jodie is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Nyad.

And, finally, eight-time nominees:

20. Robert De Niro

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Robert won Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather Part II (in 1974) and Best Lead Actor for Raging Bull (in 1980). He was nominated for Best Lead Actor for Taxi Driver (in 1976), The Deer Hunter (in 1978), Awakenings (in 1990), and Cape Fear (in 1991), and Best Supporting actor for Silver Linings Playbook (in 2012).

As a producer, he was nominated in 2019 for The Irishman.

This year, Robert is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Killers of the Flower Moon.

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