Which female actress will have the most Oscar nominations???

Winslet, I suspect. Blanchett hasn't peeled off, and is 7 years older. Saoirse will suffer from a declining industry and overdoing the period piece thing.

I still think Meryl Streep might have the edge.

My take...


1. Streep - I don't think her record will be broken.  Part of the reason she holds it is because she takes every single project known to man.  Blanchett certainly doesn't have that need.  Kidman doesn't have it.  Lawrence doesn't appear to have it, though it's too early to tell.

2. Blanchett - Blue Jasmine is the ultimate turning point of her career.  A mid-career Oscar win, and it proved that she was here to stay.  She is definitely going to keep going and eyes are always gonna be on her in anticipation of her career unfolding.  The only thing working against her is age.  She is already 51 and has 7 nods.  When Streep was 51, she had 12 already.

3. Lawrence - The thing in her favor is youth.  She's only 30 and has 4 nods already.  While she cooled off in the late '10s, she is considered one of the 5 most marketable faces, and her fans will come out of the woodworks as soon as she starts headlining projects again.  The thing working in her favor is her mass marketability.   Lots of fans, and her being able to do pretty much every project there is, with no concern that she won't be able to sell them or at least make something bad into something watchable that people are gonna go see.

Nobody can predict how her career is gonna turn out.  But if she can capture 3 nods in the 2020s, she is probably the most likely to be on pace with Streep.  The others are just too old.   I know Julia Roberts only has 4, but I'm sure we can conclude that their situations are a bit different.


4. Adams - Age is against her (45).  She got into the biz rather late (31 was her first nod), but the thing working in her favor is that she is the only person who has Streep's inclination to work in every single project with any awards intentions.  You have to have that inclination first and foremost to break the record.

It's probably Blanchett and it's not even close. Winslet works too sporadically and she's nowhere near as requested by great filmmakers as Blanchett.

Her upcoming projects are:

Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro)
Don't Look Up (Adam McKay)
Armageddon Time (James Gray)

All these films can easily ensure to her 2 or 3 nominations, thus arriving at 9 or 10 already at 51-52 years.

At the end of her career she may very well match and even SURPASS Hepburn, who has 12 nominations, and become the second most nominated actress of all time.

No one is going to beat Meryl’s streak in the 80s.

I don't think anyone at least on this poll will beat her record. Maybe someone who hasn't been born yet, but it's going to stand a long time possibly forever whenever they do something like join the Oscars and Emmys together because of the lines between theatrical releases and television becoming more and more blurred. 

Anyhow of those on the poll I think Ronan has the best chance because of her age, and she's already to 4 Oscar nominations. I'm sure she'll have a few slow down periods, but she's not only ambitious but she's already went through one stretch where she wasn't nominated for almost a decade, so for me I think it shows that she'll most likely be back again if they cool down on her for a period. 

I know she's similar to Winslet in that they've both racked up a lot of nominations at a young age, but with Winslet after she finally won, I was worried that she'd become a Sarandon or Hayward type because it was all about finally awarding her, and after those kind of wins voters can really cool down on someone. Plus, it took her seven years to get something to stick again. I think she'll continue to be nominated and possibly even win again because she's only 44, but I don't think she'll be able to break Streep's record even though she could break or tie Hepburn/Nicholson's record of nominations. Even with her likely entering a stage where a lot of the plum Dame Mirren/Dench etc. type of roles go to her in the future, I think that she'll go through some long or at least somewhat long stretches of them cooling down on her again. 

That could possibly happen to Ronan, but as I said before since she already went through a period between her first and second nominations, I'm not as concerned that she won't  be back again. 

Blanchett will also continue to rack up nominations and at least one more win, but she is 51 so I don't think that she can break Streep's record. She could definitely break Hepburn/Nicholson's though, but 21 just seems unattainable imo especially since I think she'll do take breaks again and do other things like work on stage or do fun projects or experimental projects. Even Streep went through a short time in the '90s where they didn't nominate her, but then at some point in the late '90s and early '00s, at least for me it seemed like she had reached a level where they would pretty much nominate her for anything because of who she was. She was considered an even bigger acting goddess even than she was before, and while Blanchett, Winslet, and Ronan in the future will be thought of as some of the best actresses ever, I just don't think see them quite reaching that rarified air that Streep is in. 

Plus, as much as Blanchett and Winslet will be in demand when they enter their sixties and seventies and so on, Streep really had no American competition at least for roles whereas I think things will be a little different for Blanchett and Winslet as they get older because I do feel that there will be a little bit more competition than Streep had. They both will still get the top roles, but it won't be like they're the only ones that are in consideration the way that Streep basically was. 

Streep, of course.


From this list, I think it's going to be Blanchett. She keeps choosing prestige projects.


Another one is definitely Winslet.