Whether you’ve seen this year’s Oscar-nominated actors in their currently-Oscar-nominated performances or not but would like to see them in other projects, here’s a rundown of some of the films in which they also gave outstanding performances.

Someone the other day remarked that Adrien Brody is the male Vivien Leigh. British acting legend Leigh played Southern belles in two classic films, 1939’s Gone with the Wind and 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire twelve years apart, winning Oscars for both the only two times she was nominated. Brody won an Oscar twenty-two years ago for playing a Holocaust survivor in Schindler’s List and is nominated again this year for the first time since then for playing another Holocaust survivor in The Brutalist. The difference between the two is that Leigh was never out of the public eye between her two Oscars or for that matter until her death fifteen years later. Brody has continued to make films, but most of them have been under the radar.

Brody had his first major lead in a film in Terrence Malick’s 1998 remake of James Jones’ The Thin Red Line, previously filmed in 1964 by Andrew Marton starring Keir Dullea and Jack Warden. Brody’s character was supposed to have been the film’s lead, so he proudly invited his parents to join him at the film’s world premiere. To his embarrassment and shock, his role had been cut to ribbons and neither he nor any of the film’s other cast members were actual leads in the film. He had to wait four more years for Roman Polanski’s The Pianist to become a bona fide Hollywood star. His Oscar-winning portrayal of an acclaimed Polish musician hiding in the Warsaw ruins from the Nazis is the film to visit or revisit to see Brody at his best outside of his current nominated performance.

Another nominee who first caught our attention in a film about the Holocaust is Ralph Fiennes who played Nazi commandant Amon Göth in Steven Spielberg’s masterful 1993 Oscar winner, Schindler’s List for which he received the first of only two previous Oscar nominations. He was subsequently nominated for playing the title role in Anthony Minghella’s 1996 Oscar winner, The English Patient, but his best performance may have been his starring role in Neil Jordan’s 1999 remake of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair in a role previously played by Van Johnson opposite Deborah Kerr in 1955.

Fiennes didn’t have Deborah Kerr, but he had an equally gifted redheaded co-star in Julianne Moore who was nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of his love lost in the mists of World War II. Both Moore and Fiennes were nominated for BAFTAs in which he tries to find out why she had left him. His brooding, self-doubting protagonist is like the Cardinal he plays in Conclave for which he has finally received a long overdue third Oscar nomination.

Receiving her first Oscar nomination for her performance in Conclave is Isabella Rossellini whose small but noteworthy performance as a nun in the film is reminiscent of that of her mother, screen legend Ingrid Bergman who won her third Oscar exactly fifty years ago for giving a similar small but noteworthy performance as a missionary in Sidney Lumet’s 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express. It comes eighty years after Bergman won her first Oscar for Gaslight and seventy-nine years after Bergman won her first New York Film Critics award for playing both a nun in Leo McCarey’s The Bells of St. Mary’s and a psychiatrist in Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound.

Rossellini is not, however, just another nepo baby. The one-time Mrs. Martin Scorsese made her screen debut in Vincente Minnelli’s 1976 film, A Matter of Time playing another nun in support of Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, and Charles Boyer. Her most indelible previous screen role was in a much different role in David Lynch’s 1976 film, Blue Velvet. That’s the Rossellini film you should visit or revisit.

Another first-time nominee with a long resume is Guy Pearce who had major roles in back-to-back Oscar winners, 2009’s The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and 2010’s The King’s Speech directed by Tom Hooper. His best film, and his best on-screen work to date, however, was in Curtis Hanson’s 1997 film of James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential in which he and Russell Cowe play Los Angeles vice cops in the 1950s as though they were born and raised on the mean streets of that city.

Pearce was born in England and Crowe in New Zealand, but both made their marks in Australia although neither betrays their background in this gritty and wholly satisfying murder mystery which won a slew of critics’ awards but lost the Oscar to Titanic.

Another of this year’s nominees who gave his best previous performance in a murder mystery is Edward Norton. Norton is a chameleon, an actor who never seems to do the same thing twice. This year he’s nominated for playing legendary folk singer Pete Seeger in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown in which he mentors Bob Dylan.

In 1996, Norton won numerus acting awards for his supporting performances in three very different films. He was a staid suitor in Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You, a smart young lawyer in Milos Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt, and a murder suspect in Gregory Hoblit’s Primal Fear in which he is accused of murdering the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago. It is for the latter that he was nominated for the Oscar. It’s the Edward Norton film you should visit or revisit.

Norton’s A Complete Unknown co-star, Timothée Chalamet is nominated for Best Actor for the second time, a rare achievement for an actor under 30. If he wins, he will replace fellow nominee Adrien Brody as the youngest winner in the category at 29.

Chalamet’s first nomination was for playing an introspective 17-year-old bibliophile and musical prodigy falling in love with a grad student in his early 30s in Luca Guadagnino’s film of André Aciman’s novel with an Oscar winning screenplay by James Ivory. Although he has since made several popular films including The Greatest Showman and Dune, Call Me by Your Name remains the Chalamet film to visit or revisit to appreciate the young actor’s range.

This year’s most compelling back story for most people is the re-emergence of Demi Moore who, as she says, was told earlier in her career, that she was a popcorn actress who would never become an acclaimed actress. At 62 she is finally being acclaimed for her performance in the body horror movie, The Substance, for which she has already won numerous awards. Demi’s previous film that you should visit or revisit, is, of course, Jerry Zucker’s 1990 film, Ghost in which she and Patrick Swayze starred, but for which Whoopi Goldberg won the Oscar as the medium who reunited Moore and the Swayze as the ghost of her murdered fiancé.

Happy Viewing.