April 5, 2019, marks the 111th anniversary of the birth of one of the screen’s greatest actresses, Bette Davis. For these birthday tributes Gold Derby usually chooses the Top 15 performances of a particular actor. With Davis that task is next to impossible. Davis appeared in close to 90 feature films over her career with probably at least two thirds of them being memorable for some reason. Choosing just 15 will likely result in endless complaints in the comments section over a fan’s particular favorite being left out. In order not to cause too much heartache among readers the following list ranks all of Davis’ Oscar nominated performances and throws in a few personal non-nominated favorites along the way. Her career achievements were such that we could probably run this column every year and only after about half a decade would we run out of films to list.

Davis received 10 Oscar nominations over her career,...