Viola Davis

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1965 age 0

   Born

2. 1998 age 33

   CreditOut of Sight

3. 2000 age 35

   CreditTraffic

4. 2001 age 36

   CreditKate & Leopold

5. 2002 age 37

   CreditFar from Heaven

   CreditSolaris

6. 2005 age 40

   CreditSyriana

7. 2006 age 41

   CreditWorld Trade Center

8. 2007 age 42

   CreditDisturbia

9. 2008 age 43

   CreditDoubt

10. 2009 age 44

    CreditLaw Abiding Citizen

11. 2010 age 45

    CreditEat Pray Love

    CreditKnight and Day

12. 2011 age 46

    CreditExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

    CreditThe Help

13. 2013 age 48

    CreditBeautiful Creatures

    CreditEnder's Game

    CreditPrisoners

14. 2015 age 50

    CreditBlackhat

15. 2016 age 51

    CreditFences

    CreditSuicide Squad

16. 2018 age 53

    CreditWidows

17. 2020 age 55

    CreditMa Rainey's Black Bottom

18. 2021 age 56

    CreditThe Suicide Squad

19. 2022 age 57

    CreditBlack Adam

20. 2023 age 58

    CreditAir

    CreditThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

• SSSteven Soderbergh5 titles
• GCGeorge Clooney4 titles
• SSStacey Sher2 titles
• DDDavid Dastmalchian2 titles
• CRCharles Roven2 titles
• TNThomas Newman2 titles
• RDRoger Deakins2 titles
• DADavid Andrews2 titles
• HMHolt McCallany2 titles
• AMArnon Milchan2 titles

• It’s only been recently that I can admit that I would jump in trash bins looking for food and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry. I would fall asleep in school on a daily basis because we had nothing.

  Viola Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Artists and actors of color have to alter and water ourselves down for Hollywood, but I refuse to be pacified.

  Viola Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I always say that one thing missing in cinema is that regular black woman…Not anyone didactic, or whose sole purpose in the narrative is to illustrate some social abnormality. There’s no meaning behind it, other than she is just there…I would love to have a black female Klute, or Kramer, or Unmarried Woman, or Annie Hall. But who’s gonna write it, who’s gonna produce it, who’s gonna see it, again and again and again?

  Viola Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I was trying to fit in, stifling my voice, stifling who I was, in order to be seen as pretty, in order for people to like me. And then going home, not being able to sleep and having anxiety. I have found that the labelling of me, and having to fit into that box, has cost me a great deal. I’ve had a lot of lost years.

  Viola Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• …I know Jim Crow, I understand that time period. It’s a 100-year time period that was rife with lots of violence and anger, and people with lost dreams and hopes. I wanted the frustration and that anger to be more palpable.

  Viola Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0

• …My definition of success is legacy, is significance. And also, might I add, my authenticity is my rebellion. It's my F.U., per se. It helps when I think of it like that. That's why I give these speeches; that's why I say what I say. And it's also my narcissism, because I feel that that's probably what sets me apart from most people. But all those things are in my idea of success. If I can go to my grave feeling like — you know, it's like Lorraine Toussaint said. She said the reason why she adopted her child is because she didn't want "series regular" to be on her tombstone. And yeah, I want something quite beautiful, like Shirley Chisholm — you know, on her tombstone is "Unbought and Unbossed."

  Viola Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0