Bradley Cooper (8 Oscar Nominations*)

To preface this, though Bradley Cooper has eight Oscar nominations, only four are for acting with three others coming as a producer for the Best Picture award and a nomination in the adapted screenplay category. That aside, Cooper still has four acting nods on his resumé, including three in a row from 2013 to 2015. Being directed by the likes of David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, and Clint Eastwood for American Sniper, surely helped him for his own turn as director since he was able to pull double duty for his Oscar-nominated turn in his directorial debut, A Star is Born. However, he would lose out on all four of those acting nominations to Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club, Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything, and Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody. Additionally, Cooper also lost out on his four non-acting Oscar nominations.