John C. Reilly
Hard Eight
(1996)
Paul Thomas Anderson
1 win & 7 nominations.
John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney's fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.
The Dictator
(2012)
Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer
1 win & 1 nomination.
The Republic of Wadiya is ruled by an eccentric and oppressive leader named Hafez Aladeen. Aladeen is summoned to New York to a UN assembly to address concerns about his country's nuclear weapons program, but the trip goes awry.
The Lobster
(2015)
Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 31 wins & 71 nominations.
A love story set in a dystopian near future where single people are arrested and transferred to a creepy hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal and released into the woods.