Before they were famous! 2015 Oscar nominees' first on-screen roles

They may be Oscar nominees in 2015, but all great film actors had to start somewhere.

So to celebrate the 87th Academy Awards nominations for Best Actor and Actress, TheFIX dug into the archives to bring you all the footage of the nominees' first on-screen roles.

Check out the videos below to find out which candidate for Best Actress was a Bond Girl, which one played a bossy young witch and which Best Actor nominee once kissed Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and The City…

Reese Witherspoon in The Man in the Moon (1991)

Reese Witherspoon's first role was in coming-of-age drama The Man in the Moon at the age of 14.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actress for Wild.

Steve Carrell in Curly Sue (1991)

Before he was famous, Steve Carrell had a small part as a waiter in family comedy Curly Sue.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actor for Foxcatcher.

Julianne Moore in I'll Take Manhattan (1986)

Julianne Moore's first role was in TV miniseries I'll Take Manhattan in the '80s….alongside Chris Noth, aka 'Mr Big' from Sex and the City.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actress for Still Alice.

Benedict Cumberbatch in Fields of Gold (2002)

Benedict Cumberbatch's first on-screen role was for BBC miniseries Fields of Gold in 2002.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actor for The Imitation Game.

Bradley Cooper in Sex and the City (1999)

Bradley Cooper's first role was making out with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) in Sex and the City.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actor for American Sniper.

Rosamund Pike in Die Another Day (2002)

Rosamund Pike's first feature film role was as a Bond Girl alongside Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry in Die Another Day.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actress for Gone Girl.

Eddie Redmayne in Like Minds (2006)

Starring alongside Tom Sturridge and Toni Collette, Eddie Redmayne's first film role was in thriller flick, Like Minds.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actor for The Theory of Everything.

Marion Cotillard in My Sex Life…or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)

Marion had her first leading role in her early twenties alongside famous French actress Anna Karina in controversial telemovie Chloé. But her first small film role was as a student in Ma Vie Sexuelle (aka My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into An Argument).

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actress for Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night).

Michael Keaton in Nightshift (1982)

After starring on a bunch of TV shows (Mary Tyler Moore Hour, Working Stiffs, Report to Murphy), Michael Keaton had his theatrical film debut as a morgue attendant in Night Shift alongside Henry Winkler.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actor for Birdman.

Felicity Jones in The Worst Witch (1998)

Felicity Jones played the school bully in kids' TV series, The Worst Witch.

2015 Oscar Nomination: Best Actress for The Theory of Everything.

Written by .Yasmin Vought. Approved by Amy Nelmes.