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Frederic March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931 (WON)
Genre: Pre-Code horror Directed by : Rouben Mamoulian based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
- March plays plays a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people's inner demons.
Category: Best Actor
Laurence Olivier for Rebecca, 1940 (NOMINATED) Joan Fontaine for Rebecca, 1940 (NOMINATED)
Genre: romantic psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier
- Olivier plays a brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Fontaine plays a young woman who becomes his second wife. Maxim De Vinter's first wife Rebecca, who died before the events of the film. Her reputation and recollections of her, however, are a constant presence in the lives of Maxim, his new wife and the creepy housekeeper Mrs. Danvers.
Category: Best Actor and Best Actress respectively
Joan Fontaine for Suspicion, 1941 (WON)
Genre : romantic psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Francis Iles
- Fontaine plays a romantically inexperienced woman marries a charming playboy (Cary Grant) after initially rejecting him. He turns out to be penniless, a gambler, and dishonest in the extreme. She comes to suspect that he is also a murderer, and that he is attempting to kill her
Category: Best Actress
Charles Boyer for Gaslight, 1944 (NOMINATED) Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight, 1944 (WON) Angela Lansburry for Gaslight, 1944 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: George Cukor based on a play by Patrick Hamilton
-It follows a young woman (Bergman) whose husband (Boyer) slowly manipulates her into believing that she is descending into insanity. Film also stars Lansbury as a young maid who Gregory (Boyer) tries to seduce
Category: Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Gene Tierney for Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller noir melodrama Directed by: John M. Stahl based on a novel by Ben Ames Williams
- It follows a socialite(Tierney) who marries a prominent novelist (Cornel Wilde), which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Category: Best Actress
Michael Chekhov for Spellbound, 1945 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer
- It follows a psychoanalyst (Ingrid Bergman) who falls in love with the new head (Gregory Peck) of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. Chekhov plays Dr. Alexander "Alex" Brulov, a teacher of Dr. Petersen's (Bergman)
Category: Best Supporting Actor
FUN FACT: Peck and Bergman nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress but not for this film. Peck was nominated for The Keys of the Kingdom (his first nomination) and Bergman was nomimated for The Bells of St. Mary's
Angela Lansbury for The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945 (NOMINATED)
Genre : horror-drama Directed by: Albert Lewin based on a novel by Oscar Wilde
- Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) talks with Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions. Lansbury plays Sibly Vane, a tavern singer who Dorian Gray brokes up with and who dates with her brother's daughter.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Ethel Barrymore for The Spiral Staircase, 1946 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Robert Siodmak based on a novel by Ethel Lina White
- Set over the course of one evening, the film follows a mute young woman (Dorothy McGuire) in an early-20th century Vermont town who is stalked and terrorized in a rural mansion by a serial killer targeting women with disabilities. Barrymore plays Mrs.Warren a bedridden women who married to Dr. Albert Warren (George Brent) who is also patient of Helen (Dorothy McGuire)
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Barbara Stanwyck for Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948 (NOMINATED)
Genre : noir thriller Directed by: Anatole Litvak based on a radio play by Lucille Fletcher
- It follows a bedridden woman (Stanwyck) , who overhears the plot of murder. While on the telephone, she attempts to help her husband (Burt Lancaster) solve the mystery and prevent the crime
Category: Best Actress
Joan Crawford for Sudden Fear, 1952 (NOMINATED)
Genre : noir thriller Directed by: David Miller based on a novel by Edna Sherry
- Its about a successful woman (Crawford) who marries a murderous man (Jack Palance)
Category: Best Actress
Nancy Kelly for The Bad Seed, 1956 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy based on a play by Maxwell Anderson
- It follows a woman named Christine (Kelly) who had deal with her serial killer daughter (Patty McCormack) while her husband (William Hopper) was in military.
Category: Best Actress
Janet Leigh for Psycho, 1960 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Robert Bloch
- Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Bette Davis for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, 1962 (NOMINATED) Victor Buono for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane,1962 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horrothriller Directed by: Robert Aldrich based on a novel by Henry Farrell
- It follows an aging former child star (Davis) tormenting her paraplegic sister, a former movie star (Joan Crawford) in an old Hollywood mansion. Victor Buono plays a hired pianist Edwin Flagg who Jane was preparing to revive
Category: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively
Kim Stanley Séance on a Wet Afternoon, 1964 (NOMINATED)
Genre : thriller Directed by: Bryan Forbes based on a novel by Mark McShane
- The film follows a mentally unstable medium(Stanley) who convinces her husband (Richard Attenborough) to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and achieve renown for her abilities
Category: Best Actress
Agnes Moorehead for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Robert Aldrich based on a unpublished short story by Henry Farrell
- It follows a middle-aged Southern woman (Bette Davis), suspected in the unsolved murder of her lover (Bruce Dern) from decades before, who is plagued by bizarre occurrences after summoning her cousin (Olivia de Havilland) to help challenge the local government's impending demolition of her home. Moorehead plays Velma, a loyal housekeeper of Charlotte's (Bette Davis) father.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Samantha Eggar for The Collector, 1965 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: William Wyler based on a novel by John Fowles
- It follows a young Englishman (Terence Stamp) who stalks a beautiful art student (Eggar) before abducting and holding her captive in the basement of his rural farmhouse.
Category: Best Actress
Audrey Hepburn for Wait Until Dark, 1967 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Terence Young based on a play by Frederick Knott
- After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat (Alan Arkin) has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy (Hepburn), alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs
Category: Best Actress
Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby, 1968 (WON)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Roman Polanski based on a novel by Ira Levin
- The film stars Mia Farrow as a young (soon pregnant) wife living in Manhattan who comes to suspect that her elderly neighbors (Gordon and Sidney Blamer) are members of a Satanic cult and are grooming her in order to use her baby for their rituals.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Jane Fonda for Klute, 1971 (WON)
Genre : neo-noir psychological thriller Directed by: Alan J. Pakula screenplay by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis
- Its plot follows a high-priced New York City call girl (Fonda) who assists a detective (Donald Sutherland) from Pennsylvania in solving the missing person case of a john who may be stalking her.
Category: Best Actress
Ellen Burstyn for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED) Jason Miller for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED) Linda Blair for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED)
Genre : supernatural horror Directed by: William Friedkin based on a novel by William Peter Blatty
- When young Regan (Blair) starts acting odd -- levitating, speaking in tongues -- her worried mother Chris (Burstyn) seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest Damien Karras (Miller), however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job
Category: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Sissy Spacek for Carrie, 1976 (NOMINATED) Piper Laurie for Carrie, 1976 (NOMINATED)
Genre : supernatural horror Directed by: Brian De Palma based on a novel by Stephen King
- Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.
Category: Best Actress Best Supporting Actress respectively
Jane Fonda for The Morning After, 1986 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Sidney Lumet screenplay by James Hicks and David Rayfield
- Failed actress Alex Sternbergen (Fonda) wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin (Raul Julia), for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall (Jeff Bridges), can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.
Category: Best Actress
Glenn Close for Fatal Attraction, 1987 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Adrian Lyne based on a short film by James Dearden
- For Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex (Close), everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.
Category: Best Actress
Kathy Bates for Misery, 1990 (WON)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Rob Reiner based on a novel by Stephen King
- After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover, where her obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Sheldon is killing off her favorite character from his novels. As Sheldon devises plans for escape, Annie grows increasingly controlling, even violent, as she forces the author to shape his writing to suit her twisted fantasies.
Category: Best Actress
Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 (WON) Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 (WON)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Jonathan Demme based on a novel by Thomas Harris
- Clarice Starling (Foster), a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
Category: Best Actor and Best Actress respectively
Robert De Niro for Cape Fear, 1991 (NOMINATED) Juliette Lewis for Cape Fear, 1991 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Martin Scorsese based on a novel by John D. MacDonald (also remake of 1962 movie same name that starring Gregory Peck and directed by J. Lee Thompson)
- When attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady (De Niro) of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max's release, knowing about Sam's deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter (Lewis and Jessica Lange)
Category: Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Haley Joel Osment for The Sixth Sense, 1999 (NOMINATED) Toni Collette for The Sixth Sense, 1999 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: M.Night.Shamalayn screenplay by M.Night.Shamalayn
- Young Cole Sear (Osment) is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too afraid to tell anyone about his anguish, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis). As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequences for client and therapist are a jolt that awakens them both to something unexplainable. Collete plays Lynn Sear, Cole's mother.
Category: Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Judi Dench for Notes on A Scandal, 2006 (NOMINATED) Cate Blanchett for Notes On A Scandal, 2006 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Richard Eyre based on a novel by Zoë Heller
- Barbara Covett (Dench), a veteran teacher at St. George's, senses a kindred spirit in Sheba Hart (Blanchett), the school's new art teacher. The younger woman's charisma intensely draws in the older, and the two become friends. Then Barbara learns of Sheba's affair with a teenage student and becomes the keeper of the explosive secret.
Category: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Natalie Portman for Black Swan, 2010 (WON) Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Darren Aronofsky screenplay by Mark Heyman & Andrew Heinz & John McLaughin
- Nina (Portman) is a ballerina whose passion for the dance rules every facet of her life. When the company's artistic director decides to replace his prima ballerina for their opening production of "Swan Lake," Nina is his first choice. She has competition in newcomer Lily (Mila Kunis) however. While Nina is perfect for the role of the White Swan, Lily personifies the Black Swan. As rivalry between the two dancers transforms into a twisted friendship, Nina's dark side begins to emerge
Category: Best Actress
Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl, 2014 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: David Fincher based on a novel by Gillian Flynn
- In Carthage, Mo., former New York-based writer Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his glamorous wife Amy (Pike) present a portrait of a blissful marriage to the public. However, when Amy goes missing on the couple's fifth wedding anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Category: Best Actress
Daniel Kaluyaa for Get Out, 2017 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Jordan Peele screenplay by Jordan Peele
- Chris (Kaluyaa) and his girlfriend, Rose (Alison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with her parents, Missy and Dean (Catherine Keener and Bradley Withford). But as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries leads him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Category: Best Actor
42 performances of horropsychological thriller that got nominated
9 won the Academy Award - 2 for Best Actor
- 6 for Best Actress
- 1 Best Supporting Actress
- 0 for Best Supporting Actor
2+ nomination Joan Fontaine (2) Jane Fonda (2) Angela Lansburry (2)
Out Of 42 performances 10 were by Men 32 were by Women
21 were lead actress (average age : 37) 11 were supporting actress (average age : 37.7) 6 were lead actor (average age: 40.3) 4 were supporting actor (average age: 30.7)
2+ acting nominations for per movie
Gaslight & The Exorcist (3) Rebecca & WEHTBJ & Carrie & TSOL & Cape Fear & Sixth Sense & Notes On A Scandal (2)
None of movies above (31) directed by a woman
NOTE: This is only for ACTING categories. The other categories were excluded because For Example the year where Spacek and Laurie was nominated for Carrie, Richard Donner's supernatural horror movie the OG The Omen starring Gregory Peck WON best score. So Below the line categories does not count. And I am never going to do. Because It would be painful. If You notice a mistake, Please be nice... Thanks. Thats It. Frederic March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931 (WON)
Genre: Pre-Code horror Directed by : Rouben Mamoulian based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
- March plays plays a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people's inner demons.
Category: Best Actor
Laurence Olivier for Rebecca, 1940 (NOMINATED) Joan Fontaine for Rebecca, 1940 (NOMINATED)
Genre: romantic psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier
- Olivier plays a brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Fontaine plays a young woman who becomes his second wife. Maxim De Vinter's first wife Rebecca, who died before the events of the film. Her reputation and recollections of her, however, are a constant presence in the lives of Maxim, his new wife and the creepy housekeeper Mrs. Danvers.
Category: Best Actor and Best Actress respectively
Joan Fontaine for Suspicion, 1941 (WON)
Genre : romantic psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Francis Iles
- Fontaine plays a romantically inexperienced woman marries a charming playboy (Cary Grant) after initially rejecting him. He turns out to be penniless, a gambler, and dishonest in the extreme. She comes to suspect that he is also a murderer, and that he is attempting to kill her
Category: Best Actress
Charles Boyer for Gaslight, 1944 (NOMINATED) Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight, 1944 (WON) Angela Lansburry for Gaslight, 1944 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: George Cukor based on a play by Patrick Hamilton
-It follows a young woman (Bergman) whose husband (Boyer) slowly manipulates her into believing that she is descending into insanity. Film also stars Lansbury as a young maid who Gregory (Boyer) tries to seduce
Category: Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Gene Tierney for Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller noir melodrama Directed by: John M. Stahl based on a novel by Ben Ames Williams
- It follows a socialite(Tierney) who marries a prominent novelist (Cornel Wilde), which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Category: Best Actress
Michael Chekhov for Spellbound, 1945 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer
- It follows a psychoanalyst (Ingrid Bergman) who falls in love with the new head (Gregory Peck) of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. Chekhov plays Dr. Alexander "Alex" Brulov, a teacher of Dr. Petersen's (Bergman)
Category: Best Supporting Actor
FUN FACT: Peck and Bergman nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress but not for this film. Peck was nominated for The Keys of the Kingdom (his first nomination) and Bergman was nomimated for The Bells of St. Mary's
Angela Lansbury for The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945 (NOMINATED)
Genre : horror-drama Directed by: Albert Lewin based on a novel by Oscar Wilde
- Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) talks with Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions. Lansbury plays Sibly Vane, a tavern singer who Dorian Gray brokes up with and who dates with her brother's daughter.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Ethel Barrymore for The Spiral Staircase, 1946 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Robert Siodmak based on a novel by Ethel Lina White
- Set over the course of one evening, the film follows a mute young woman (Dorothy McGuire) in an early-20th century Vermont town who is stalked and terrorized in a rural mansion by a serial killer targeting women with disabilities. Barrymore plays Mrs.Warren a bedridden women who married to Dr. Albert Warren (George Brent) who is also patient of Helen (Dorothy McGuire)
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Barbara Stanwyck for Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948 (NOMINATED)
Genre : noir thriller Directed by: Anatole Litvak based on a radio play by Lucille Fletcher
- It follows a bedridden woman (Stanwyck) , who overhears the plot of murder. While on the telephone, she attempts to help her husband (Burt Lancaster) solve the mystery and prevent the crime
Category: Best Actress
Joan Crawford for Sudden Fear, 1952 (NOMINATED)
Genre : noir thriller Directed by: David Miller based on a novel by Edna Sherry
- Its about a successful woman (Crawford) who marries a murderous man (Jack Palance)
Category: Best Actress
Nancy Kelly for The Bad Seed, 1956 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy based on a play by Maxwell Anderson
- It follows a woman named Christine (Kelly) who had deal with her serial killer daughter (Patty McCormack) while her husband (William Hopper) was in military.
Category: Best Actress
Janet Leigh for Psycho, 1960 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Robert Bloch
- Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Bette Davis for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, 1962 (NOMINATED) Victor Buono for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane,1962 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horrothriller Directed by: Robert Aldrich based on a novel by Henry Farrell
- It follows an aging former child star (Davis) tormenting her paraplegic sister, a former movie star (Joan Crawford) in an old Hollywood mansion. Victor Buono plays a hired pianist Edwin Flagg who Jane was preparing to revive
Category: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively
Kim Stanley Séance on a Wet Afternoon, 1964 (NOMINATED)
Genre : thriller Directed by: Bryan Forbes based on a novel by Mark McShane
- The film follows a mentally unstable medium(Stanley) who convinces her husband (Richard Attenborough) to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and achieve renown for her abilities
Category: Best Actress
Agnes Moorehead for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Robert Aldrich based on a unpublished short story by Henry Farrell
- It follows a middle-aged Southern woman (Bette Davis), suspected in the unsolved murder of her lover (Bruce Dern) from decades before, who is plagued by bizarre occurrences after summoning her cousin (Olivia de Havilland) to help challenge the local government's impending demolition of her home. Moorehead plays Velma, a loyal housekeeper of Charlotte's (Bette Davis) father.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Samantha Eggar for The Collector, 1965 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: William Wyler based on a novel by John Fowles
- It follows a young Englishman (Terence Stamp) who stalks a beautiful art student (Eggar) before abducting and holding her captive in the basement of his rural farmhouse.
Category: Best Actress
Audrey Hepburn for Wait Until Dark, 1967 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Terence Young based on a play by Frederick Knott
- After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat (Alan Arkin) has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy (Hepburn), alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs
Category: Best Actress
Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby, 1968 (WON)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Roman Polanski based on a novel by Ira Levin
- The film stars Mia Farrow as a young (soon pregnant) wife living in Manhattan who comes to suspect that her elderly neighbors (Gordon and Sidney Blamer) are members of a Satanic cult and are grooming her in order to use her baby for their rituals.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Jane Fonda for Klute, 1971 (WON)
Genre : neo-noir psychological thriller Directed by: Alan J. Pakula screenplay by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis
- Its plot follows a high-priced New York City call girl (Fonda) who assists a detective (Donald Sutherland) from Pennsylvania in solving the missing person case of a john who may be stalking her.
Category: Best Actress
Ellen Burstyn for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED) Jason Miller for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED) Linda Blair for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED)
Genre : supernatural horror Directed by: William Friedkin based on a novel by William Peter Blatty
- When young Regan (Blair) starts acting odd -- levitating, speaking in tongues -- her worried mother Chris (Burstyn) seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest Damien Karras (Miller), however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job
Category: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Sissy Spacek for Carrie, 1976 (NOMINATED) Piper Laurie for Carrie, 1976 (NOMINATED)
Genre : supernatural horror Directed by: Brian De Palma based on a novel by Stephen King
- Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.
Category: Best Actress Best Supporting Actress respectively
Jane Fonda for The Morning After, 1986 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Sidney Lumet screenplay by James Hicks and David Rayfield
- Failed actress Alex Sternbergen (Fonda) wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin (Raul Julia), for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall (Jeff Bridges), can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.
Category: Best Actress
Glenn Close for Fatal Attraction, 1987 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Adrian Lyne based on a short film by James Dearden
- For Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex (Close), everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.
Category: Best Actress
Kathy Bates for Misery, 1990 (WON)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Rob Reiner based on a novel by Stephen King
- After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover, where her obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Sheldon is killing off her favorite character from his novels. As Sheldon devises plans for escape, Annie grows increasingly controlling, even violent, as she forces the author to shape his writing to suit her twisted fantasies.
Category: Best Actress
Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 (WON) Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 (WON)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Jonathan Demme based on a novel by Thomas Harris
- Clarice Starling (Foster), a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
Category: Best Actor and Best Actress respectively
Robert De Niro for Cape Fear, 1991 (NOMINATED) Juliette Lewis for Cape Fear, 1991 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Martin Scorsese based on a novel by John D. MacDonald (also remake of 1962 movie same name that starring Gregory Peck and directed by J. Lee Thompson)
- When attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady (De Niro) of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max's release, knowing about Sam's deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter (Lewis and Jessica Lange)
Category: Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Haley Joel Osment for The Sixth Sense, 1999 (NOMINATED) Toni Collette for The Sixth Sense, 1999 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: M.Night.Shamalayn screenplay by M.Night.Shamalayn
- Young Cole Sear (Osment) is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too afraid to tell anyone about his anguish, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis). As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequences for client and therapist are a jolt that awakens them both to something unexplainable. Collete plays Lynn Sear, Cole's mother.
Category: Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Judi Dench for Notes on A Scandal, 2006 (NOMINATED) Cate Blanchett for Notes On A Scandal, 2006 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Richard Eyre based on a novel by Zoë Heller
- Barbara Covett (Dench), a veteran teacher at St. George's, senses a kindred spirit in Sheba Hart (Blanchett), the school's new art teacher. The younger woman's charisma intensely draws in the older, and the two become friends. Then Barbara learns of Sheba's affair with a teenage student and becomes the keeper of the explosive secret.
Category: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Natalie Portman for Black Swan, 2010 (WON) Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Darren Aronofsky screenplay by Mark Heyman & Andrew Heinz & John McLaughin
- Nina (Portman) is a ballerina whose passion for the dance rules every facet of her life. When the company's artistic director decides to replace his prima ballerina for their opening production of "Swan Lake," Nina is his first choice. She has competition in newcomer Lily (Mila Kunis) however. While Nina is perfect for the role of the White Swan, Lily personifies the Black Swan. As rivalry between the two dancers transforms into a twisted friendship, Nina's dark side begins to emerge
Category: Best Actress
Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl, 2014 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: David Fincher based on a novel by Gillian Flynn
- In Carthage, Mo., former New York-based writer Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his glamorous wife Amy (Pike) present a portrait of a blissful marriage to the public. However, when Amy goes missing on the couple's fifth wedding anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Category: Best Actress
Daniel Kaluyaa for Get Out, 2017 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Jordan Peele screenplay by Jordan Peele
- Chris (Kaluyaa) and his girlfriend, Rose (Alison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with her parents, Missy and Dean (Catherine Keener and Bradley Withford). But as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries leads him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Category: Best Actor
42 performances of horropsychological thriller that got nominated
9 won the Academy Award - 2 for Best Actor
- 6 for Best Actress
- 1 Best Supporting Actress
- 0 for Best Supporting Actor
2+ nomination Joan Fontaine (2) Jane Fonda (2) Angela Lansburry (2)
Out Of 42 performances 10 were by Men 32 were by Women
21 were lead actress (average age : 37) 11 were supporting actress (average age : 37.7) 6 were lead actor (average age: 40.3) 4 were supporting actor (average age: 30.7)
2+ acting nominations for per movie
Gaslight & The Exorcist (3) Rebecca & WEHTBJ & Carrie & TSOL & Cape Fear & Sixth Sense & Notes On A Scandal (2)
None of movies above (31) directed by a woman
NOTE: This is only for ACTING categories. The other categories were excluded because For Example the year where Spacek and Laurie was nominated for Carrie, Richard Donner's supernatural horror movie the OG The Omen starring Gregory Peck WON best score. So Below the line categories does not count. And I am never going to do. Because It would be painful. If You notice a mistake, Please be nice... Thanks. Thats It.
Get hard or get wet and start licking lips. We're test-driving this field for the US open cup. We can't be staring at our feet: the next best step is the open cup. it's Real Salt Lake. And it starts with smoking their pitch tonight. You had your pitchforks ready? Well, keep your torches lit: WE GAME TONIGHT!
Us: mid 30s, married 6 years, 2 kids (5 and 1). High earners ($200k+) both work FT.
Currently live in my home city. We moved here when our oldest was 1 assuming a certain level of help from my parents and extended family, who all live here. I pushed the move based on this assumption.
My sister watches our youngest every day (paid). My parents pick up our older child from school twice per week, one of those nights keeping for dinner and bringing home before bedtime. There is no taking them out for ice cream/to the park/over to their house spontaneously. They do babysit occasionally but it feels like a burden. We go out several times per month either alone or with friends and pay a sitter. Extended family gets along well and we all get together somewhat frequently.
Spouse has been struggling mentally/emotionally being away from their family and best friend. They become angry/sad around family events when they are here and their family is not present. They are struggling with living far from aging.
Spouse wants to move our family to their hometown (14 hrs away, pop 1500). The town is a summer hotspot and has a few breweries, shops and eateries but few conveniences outside of gas and small supermarket. There is one school in the town (k-12). Any convenience such as a gym or even a Walmart is a 20+ minute drive in the mountains with things like a Target store, mall, etc 1 hour away.
Spouse feels that by moving there we would have more “support” with our kids (frequent visits throughout the week, a 1-2 day monthly getaway for us because their parents “would just do it”). Spouse also argues that their best friend, spouse and child would visit frequently (live an hour from hometown). We are part owners of a lake house 20 minutes outside of town and we would be able to visit there on summer weekends. Spouse feels our kids could spend their days at the lake instead of paying for summer camp here. Spouse would like to be involved in a community they have ties to.
Spouse feels like they have been “eating it” for 5 years, missing loved ones, for family “support” that hasn’t materialized how we had hoped. They feel that it is my turn to “eat it” and we should “try it my way”.
I feel that moving there would not be better for our family. We could afford a 15 year mortgage there but the house would be at least $150k more for one not as nice as ours. Our current home is nice and will be paid off in 11 years. Because of the location I would likely be driving at least 20 mins each way to work (if not much longer) in the mountains. We have no daycare there; spouse states they and MIL would share daycare, though spouse WFH full time and travels frequently during part of the year. The school is small (20 kids/ grade). Any convenience is a drive. Spouse is not close with extended family there and dislikes their sibling.
AITA for not wanting to move based on logical reasons if it would emotionally benefit my spouse to move?
Its it possible to go from Dornbirn, Austria > Bolzano > Lake Garda/Trentino > Milan > Aosta > Zurich in two weeks via car? Will be flying in and out of Zurich. Mostly interested in sight seeing, mountain biking (will rent bikes), hiking and outdoorsy stuff. Any advice appreciated as I've never been outside of Zurich city proper.
My birthday is this Friday. Because of scheduling/travel/etc. I won’t be celebrating with friends until next weekend (reservations at My Loup, can’t wait). I’d still like to have a good meal to celebrate, though, and will probably do takeout because I’m getting up early to travel the next morning and will likely not feel like going out. I’m pretty familiar with the Philly restaurant scene, so looking to generate some ideas from here for smaller, lesser-known places.
I’ve tried most of the well-known, “big name” places in Philly and am looking for something unique. I’ll eat anything, essentially. I particularly enjoy spicy food (to the point of it being painful and nearly inedible, always order the spiciest level possible for Szechuan/Thai/etc. and don’t even flinch) and anything exotic or authentic from other cultures.
So, give me your best suggestions of unique/under-the-radaunknown places for takeout (with the caveat that they deliver to Center City/Rittenhouse area) and suggestions of what to order. Thanks!
Frederic March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931 (WON)
Genre: Pre-Code horror Directed by : Rouben Mamoulian based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
- March plays plays a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people's inner demons.
Category: Best Actor
Laurence Olivier for Rebecca, 1940 (NOMINATED) Joan Fontaine for Rebecca, 1940 (NOMINATED)
Genre: romantic psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier
- Olivier plays a brooding, aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and Fontaine plays a young woman who becomes his second wife. Maxim De Vinter's first wife Rebecca, who died before the events of the film. Her reputation and recollections of her, however, are a constant presence in the lives of Maxim, his new wife and the creepy housekeeper Mrs. Danvers.
Category: Best Actor and Best Actress respectively
Joan Fontaine for Suspicion, 1941 (WON)
Genre : romantic psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Francis Iles
- Fontaine plays a romantically inexperienced woman marries a charming playboy (Cary Grant) after initially rejecting him. He turns out to be penniless, a gambler, and dishonest in the extreme. She comes to suspect that he is also a murderer, and that he is attempting to kill her
Category: Best Actress
Charles Boyer for Gaslight, 1944 (NOMINATED) Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight, 1944 (WON) Angela Lansburry for Gaslight, 1944 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: George Cukor based on a play by Patrick Hamilton
-It follows a young woman (Bergman) whose husband (Boyer) slowly manipulates her into believing that she is descending into insanity. Film also stars Lansbury as a young maid who Gregory (Boyer) tries to seduce
Category: Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Gene Tierney for Leave Her to Heaven, 1945 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller noir melodrama Directed by: John M. Stahl based on a novel by Ben Ames Williams
- It follows a socialite(Tierney) who marries a prominent novelist (Cornel Wilde), which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Category: Best Actress
Michael Chekhov for Spellbound, 1945 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer
- It follows a psychoanalyst (Ingrid Bergman) who falls in love with the new head (Gregory Peck) of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. Chekhov plays Dr. Alexander "Alex" Brulov, a teacher of Dr. Petersen's (Bergman)
Category: Best Supporting Actor
FUN FACT: Peck and Bergman nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress but not for this film. Peck was nominated for The Keys of the Kingdom (his first nomination) and Bergman was nomimated for The Bells of St. Mary's
Angela Lansbury for The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945 (NOMINATED)
Genre : horror-drama Directed by: Albert Lewin based on a novel by Oscar Wilde
- Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) talks with Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions. Lansbury plays Sibly Vane, a tavern singer who Dorian Gray brokes up with and who dates with her brother's daughter.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Ethel Barrymore for The Spiral Staircase, 1946 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Robert Siodmak based on a novel by Ethel Lina White
- Set over the course of one evening, the film follows a mute young woman (Dorothy McGuire) in an early-20th century Vermont town who is stalked and terrorized in a rural mansion by a serial killer targeting women with disabilities. Barrymore plays Mrs.Warren a bedridden women who married to Dr. Albert Warren (George Brent) who is also patient of Helen (Dorothy McGuire)
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Barbara Stanwyck for Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948 (NOMINATED)
Genre : noir thriller Directed by: Anatole Litvak based on a radio play by Lucille Fletcher
- It follows a bedridden woman (Stanwyck) , who overhears the plot of murder. While on the telephone, she attempts to help her husband (Burt Lancaster) solve the mystery and prevent the crime
Category: Best Actress
Joan Crawford for Sudden Fear, 1952 (NOMINATED)
Genre : noir thriller Directed by: David Miller based on a novel by Edna Sherry
- Its about a successful woman (Crawford) who marries a murderous man (Jack Palance)
Category: Best Actress
Nancy Kelly for The Bad Seed, 1956 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy based on a play by Maxwell Anderson
- It follows a woman named Christine (Kelly) who had deal with her serial killer daughter (Patty McCormack) while her husband (William Hopper) was in military.
Category: Best Actress
Janet Leigh for Psycho, 1960 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel by Robert Bloch
- Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Bette Davis for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, 1962 (NOMINATED) Victor Buono for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane,1962 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horrothriller Directed by: Robert Aldrich based on a novel by Henry Farrell
- It follows an aging former child star (Davis) tormenting her paraplegic sister, a former movie star (Joan Crawford) in an old Hollywood mansion. Victor Buono plays a hired pianist Edwin Flagg who Jane was preparing to revive
Category: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively
Kim Stanley Séance on a Wet Afternoon, 1964 (NOMINATED)
Genre : thriller Directed by: Bryan Forbes based on a novel by Mark McShane
- The film follows a mentally unstable medium(Stanley) who convinces her husband (Richard Attenborough) to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and achieve renown for her abilities
Category: Best Actress
Agnes Moorehead for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Robert Aldrich based on a unpublished short story by Henry Farrell
- It follows a middle-aged Southern woman (Bette Davis), suspected in the unsolved murder of her lover (Bruce Dern) from decades before, who is plagued by bizarre occurrences after summoning her cousin (Olivia de Havilland) to help challenge the local government's impending demolition of her home. Moorehead plays Velma, a loyal housekeeper of Charlotte's (Bette Davis) father.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Samantha Eggar for The Collector, 1965 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: William Wyler based on a novel by John Fowles
- It follows a young Englishman (Terence Stamp) who stalks a beautiful art student (Eggar) before abducting and holding her captive in the basement of his rural farmhouse.
Category: Best Actress
Audrey Hepburn for Wait Until Dark, 1967 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Terence Young based on a play by Frederick Knott
- After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat (Alan Arkin) has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy (Hepburn), alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs
Category: Best Actress
Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby, 1968 (WON)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Roman Polanski based on a novel by Ira Levin
- The film stars Mia Farrow as a young (soon pregnant) wife living in Manhattan who comes to suspect that her elderly neighbors (Gordon and Sidney Blamer) are members of a Satanic cult and are grooming her in order to use her baby for their rituals.
Category: Best Supporting Actress
Jane Fonda for Klute, 1971 (WON)
Genre : neo-noir psychological thriller Directed by: Alan J. Pakula screenplay by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis
- Its plot follows a high-priced New York City call girl (Fonda) who assists a detective (Donald Sutherland) from Pennsylvania in solving the missing person case of a john who may be stalking her.
Category: Best Actress
Ellen Burstyn for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED) Jason Miller for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED) Linda Blair for The Exorcist, 1973 (NOMINATED)
Genre : supernatural horror Directed by: William Friedkin based on a novel by William Peter Blatty
- When young Regan (Blair) starts acting odd -- levitating, speaking in tongues -- her worried mother Chris (Burstyn) seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest Damien Karras (Miller), however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert Father Lankester Merrin (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job
Category: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Sissy Spacek for Carrie, 1976 (NOMINATED) Piper Laurie for Carrie, 1976 (NOMINATED)
Genre : supernatural horror Directed by: Brian De Palma based on a novel by Stephen King
- Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.
Category: Best Actress Best Supporting Actress respectively
Jane Fonda for The Morning After, 1986 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Sidney Lumet screenplay by James Hicks and David Rayfield
- Failed actress Alex Sternbergen (Fonda) wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together the events of the night, Alex cannot totally rely on friends or her estranged husband, Joaquin (Raul Julia), for assistance. Only a single ally, loner ex-policeman Turner Kendall (Jeff Bridges), can help her escape her predicament and find the true killer.
Category: Best Actress
Glenn Close for Fatal Attraction, 1987 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Adrian Lyne based on a short film by James Dearden
- For Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex (Close), everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.
Category: Best Actress
Kathy Bates for Misery, 1990 (WON)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Rob Reiner based on a novel by Stephen King
- After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover, where her obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Sheldon is killing off her favorite character from his novels. As Sheldon devises plans for escape, Annie grows increasingly controlling, even violent, as she forces the author to shape his writing to suit her twisted fantasies.
Category: Best Actress
Anthony Hopkins for The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 (WON) Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 (WON)
Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Jonathan Demme based on a novel by Thomas Harris
- Clarice Starling (Foster), a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
Category: Best Actor and Best Actress respectively
Robert De Niro for Cape Fear, 1991 (NOMINATED) Juliette Lewis for Cape Fear, 1991 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Martin Scorsese based on a novel by John D. MacDonald (also remake of 1962 movie same name that starring Gregory Peck and directed by J. Lee Thompson)
- When attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady (De Niro) of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max's release, knowing about Sam's deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter (Lewis and Jessica Lange)
Category: Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Haley Joel Osment for The Sixth Sense, 1999 (NOMINATED) Toni Collette for The Sixth Sense, 1999 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: M.Night.Shamalayn screenplay by M.Night.Shamalayn
- Young Cole Sear (Osment) is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too afraid to tell anyone about his anguish, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis). As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequences for client and therapist are a jolt that awakens them both to something unexplainable. Collete plays Lynn Sear, Cole's mother.
Category: Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Judi Dench for Notes on A Scandal, 2006 (NOMINATED) Cate Blanchett for Notes On A Scandal, 2006 (NOMINATED)
Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: Richard Eyre based on a novel by Zoë Heller
- Barbara Covett (Dench), a veteran teacher at St. George's, senses a kindred spirit in Sheba Hart (Blanchett), the school's new art teacher. The younger woman's charisma intensely draws in the older, and the two become friends. Then Barbara learns of Sheba's affair with a teenage student and becomes the keeper of the explosive secret.
Category: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively
Natalie Portman for Black Swan, 2010 (WON) Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Darren Aronofsky screenplay by Mark Heyman & Andrew Heinz & John McLaughin
- Nina (Portman) is a ballerina whose passion for the dance rules every facet of her life. When the company's artistic director decides to replace his prima ballerina for their opening production of "Swan Lake," Nina is his first choice. She has competition in newcomer Lily (Mila Kunis) however. While Nina is perfect for the role of the White Swan, Lily personifies the Black Swan. As rivalry between the two dancers transforms into a twisted friendship, Nina's dark side begins to emerge
Category: Best Actress
Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl, 2014 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological thriller Directed by: David Fincher based on a novel by Gillian Flynn
- In Carthage, Mo., former New York-based writer Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his glamorous wife Amy (Pike) present a portrait of a blissful marriage to the public. However, when Amy goes missing on the couple's fifth wedding anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Category: Best Actress
Daniel Kaluyaa for Get Out, 2017 (NOMINATED) Genre : psychological horror Directed by: Jordan Peele screenplay by Jordan Peele
- Chris (Kaluyaa) and his girlfriend, Rose (Alison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with her parents, Missy and Dean (Catherine Keener and Bradley Withford). But as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries leads him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Category: Best Actor
42 performances of horropsychological thriller that got nominated
9 won the Academy Award - 2 for Best Actor
- 6 for Best Actress
- 1 Best Supporting Actress
- 0 for Best Supporting Actor
2+ nomination Joan Fontaine (2) Jane Fonda (2) Angela Lansburry (2)
Out Of 42 performances 10 were by Men 32 were by Women
21 were lead actress (average age : 37) 11 were supporting actress (average age : 37.7) 6 were lead actor (average age: 40.3) 4 were supporting actor (average age: 30.7)
2+ acting nominations for per movie
Gaslight & The Exorcist (3) Rebecca & WEHTBJ & Carrie & TSOL & Cape Fear & Sixth Sense & Notes On A Scandal (2)
None of movies above (31) directed by a woman
NOTE: This is only for ACTING categories. The other categories were excluded because For Example the year where Spacek and Laurie was nominated for Carrie, Richard Donner's supernatural horror movie the OG The Omen starring Gregory Peck WON best score. So Below the line categories does not count. And I am never going to do. Because It would be painful. If You notice a mistake, Please be nice... Thanks. Thats It.