How Many Times Has Gary Oldman Been Nominated For An Oscar?

English actor and film maker, Gary Oldman, has been nominated three times for an Oscar, out of which he won one.

In 2012, he was nominated for the movie ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’, in 2018, he was nominated for the movie ‘Darkest Hour’ which he won.

In 2021, he was nominated for the movie ‘Mank’.

He rose to prominence in British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), while also attracting attention as the leader of a gang of football hooligans in the television film The Firm (1989).

Regarded as a member of the “Brit Pack”, he achieved greater recognition as a New York gangster in State of Grace (1990), Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991) and Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).

Oldman was executive producer of films like The Contender, Plunkett & Macleane (1999) and Nil by Mouth (1997), the latter of which he also wrote and directed.

He featured in television shows such as Fallen Angels, Tracey Takes On… and Friends, voiced Ignitius and Viktor Reznov respectively in The Legend of Spyro and Call of Duty video games and appeared in music videos for David Bowie, Guns N’ Roses and Annie Lennox.