Cinema in the 2010s

Death of Dennis Lee Hopper

Death of Patricia Neal

Death of Irvin Kershner

Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker.

Wins the BAFTA Award for Leading Actress for her performance in An Education.

Stars as ballerina Nina Sayers in Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama Black Swan.

Directs Hereafter, a supernatural drama starring Matt Damon.

Winner of the AFI Life Achievement Award

Directs, Shutter Island

Writes and directs Somewhere, a quiet drama about an actor reconnecting with his daughter.

Plays boxer Dicky Eklund in The Fighter, earning major supporting-actor recognition.

Portrays King George VI in The King's Speech, depicting the monarch's struggle with a speech impediment.

Narrates the Doors documentary When You're Strange.

Death of John Barry Prendergast

Death of Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor

Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter.

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for The King's Speech.

Receives the Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan.

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in The Iron Lady

Awarded a BAFTA Fellowship

Awarded a BAFTA Fellowship

Plays Irene in the crime drama Drive opposite Ryan Gosling.

Directs J Edgar, a biographical drama about FBI director J Edgar Hoover.

Plays film-production assistant Colin Clark in My Week with Marilyn.

Appears as hotel manager Sonny Kapoor in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Her performance as Celia Foote in The Help earns Chastain her first Academy Award nomination.

Directs Thor, bringing the Marvel superhero to a major feature-film franchise.

Stars in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Plays Major Jamie Stewart in Steven Spielbergs War Horse

Plays intelligence officer George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and receives his first Academy Award nomination.

Stars as Hannah in Paddy Considine's feature directing debut Tyrannosaur.

Stars as Eva Khatchadourian in the psychological drama We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Directs Barbara.

Death of Simon Ward

Directs Oh Boy, later released internationally as A Coffee in Berlin.

Stars in Anna Karenina

Co-writes and stars in Frances Ha as a young dancer navigating friendship and work in New York.

Portrays Marius Pontmercy in the screen musical Les Miserables.

Stars in Lincoln. Stars in Hope Springs

Returns as Nick Fury in The Avengers, bringing together several Marvel film characters.

Stars in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Acts in Trouble with the Curve, one of his rare starring roles for another director in later career.

Directs Zero Dark Thirty, dramatizing the long intelligence search for Osama bin Laden.

Stars as CIA analyst Maya in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty.

Wins a second Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Django Unchained.

Stars in Men in Black 3

Stars in Penthouse North

Stars in The 5th Estate. Stars in August: Osage County. Stars in 12 Years a Slave

Portrays Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Stars as stockbroker Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Directs Phoenix.

The historical drama The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing and Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke, is released in the UK

The historical drama The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing and Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke, is released in the UK

The historical drama The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing and Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke, is released in the UK

Death of Mike Nichols

Directs American Sniper, a war drama based on the memoir of Chris Kyle.

Stars as combat soldier Rita Vrataski in the science-fiction action film Edge of Tomorrow.

Wins Golden Globe for Best Actor

Plays the adult Murph Cooper in Christopher Nolan's science-fiction drama Interstellar.

Stars in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Directs Jersey Boys, adapted from the stage musical about the Four Seasons.

Directs Mr Turner, with Timothy Spall portraying painter J. M. W. Turner in later life.

Stars in Robocop. Stars in Need for Speed. Stars in Birdman

Stars as concierge Monsieur Gustave H. in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Stars in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Portrays physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

Writes and directs Whiplash, focusing on an ambitious jazz drummer and a demanding instructor.

Receives a Best Picture nomination as producer of American Sniper.

Directs Victoria, noted for its single-take structure.

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Theory of Everything.

Stars in Everest

Co-writes and stars in Mistress America, a comedy about friendship, ambition and reinvention.

Appears as FBI agent Reggie Wayne in Denis Villeneuve's crime thriller Sicario.

Stars as artist Lili Elbe in the biographical drama The Danish Girl.

Plays Major Marquis Warren in Quentin Tarantino's western The Hateful Eight.

Appears as the hotel manager in Yorgos Lanthimos's dark comedy The Lobster.

Directs The Martian, adapting Andy Weir's story of an astronaut stranded on Mars.

Plays frontiersman Hugh Glass in The Revenant, enduring a physically demanding wilderness role.

Directs Toni Erdmann.

The Revenant brings DiCaprio his first Academy Award for Best Actor.

Directs and stars in Fences, adapting August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Co-writes and stars in Keanu, a comedy about two cousins searching for a stolen kitten.

Writes and directs La La Land, a musical romance about two artists pursuing careers in Los Angeles.

Stars as Saroo Brierley in Lion and receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Directs Moonlight, tracing one man's childhood, adolescence and adulthood in three connected chapters.

Directs Sully, starring Tom Hanks as airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger.

Directs In the Fade.

Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for La La Land.

Shares the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight with Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Shares the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer of Moonlight.

Wins the BAFTA Award for Supporting Actor for his performance in Lion.

Directs Detroit, a historical drama set during the 1967 Detroit uprising.

Stars as Chris Washington in Get Out, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Makes his feature directing debut with Get Out, blending horror with social satire.

Makes her solo feature directing debut with Lady Bird, a coming-of-age story set in Sacramento.

Stars as poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom in Aaron Sorkin's directing debut Molly's Game.

Stars as Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Directs Never Look Away.

Stars as Evelyn Abbott in A Quiet Place, acting opposite director John Krasinski.

Wins a second Academy Award for Best Actress for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.

Wins the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Get Out.

Plays W'Kabi in the Marvel film Black Panther.

Directs BlacKkKlansman, dramatizing Ron Stallworth's infiltration of a Ku Klux Klan chapter.

Directs First Man, a biographical drama about astronaut Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission.

Writes and directs If Beale Street Could Talk, adapting James Baldwin's novel.

Directs The 15:17 to Paris, casting the real-life men involved in the train incident.

Portrays Queen Anne in The Favourite, receiving international acclaim for the performance.

Directs and stars in The Mule, a crime drama about an elderly drug courier.

Portrays former United States Vice President Dick Cheney in the political satire Vice.

Parasite wins the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Joker wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Directs System Crasher.

The Irishman premieres at the New York Film Festival.

Wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Favourite.

Wins his first competitive Academy Award for the adapted screenplay of BlacKkKlansman.

Receives an Academy Honorary Award recognizing his distinctive contribution to cinema.

Writes and directs Little Women, restructuring Louisa May Alcott's novel across multiple timelines.

Directs Richard Jewell, a drama about the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing investigation.

Writes and directs Us, a horror film about a family confronted by violent doubles.