Hierarchies

Actors:

Ryan Gosling--(The Place Beyond the Pines, Drive, Blue Valentine, Half Nelson)
Philip Seymour Hoffman--(Magnolia, The Master, Boogie Nights, Synecdoche NY, A Late Quartet, Punch-Drunk Love, The Savages, The Talented Mr. Ripley)
Steve Carrell--(The Office, Little Miss Sunshine, Crazy Stupid Love)

Bradley Cooper--(American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook, Place Beyond the Pines, American Sniper)
Leonardo DiCaprio--(The Departed, Shutter Island, Revolutionary Road)
Matt Damon--(The Departed, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Good Will Hunting)
Christian Bale--(American Hustle, The Dark Knight Trilogy)

Actresses:

Michelle Williams--(Blue Valentine, Take This Waltz, Wendy and Lucy)
Amy Adams--(American Hustle, Man of Steel [seriously])


Writers/Directors:

Paul Thomas Anderson--(Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love)
Charlie Kaufman--(Synecdoche, NY, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Stanley Kubrick--(2001, FMJ, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Eyes Wide Shut)
Derek Cianfrance--(The Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine)
Francis Ford Coppolla--(The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation)

David O. Russell--(Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle)