Lengkepan kalimah di handap ieu: Dina 2011, peran Davis dina drama ensemble salaku palayan di "The Pitulung" earned nominasi Best Aktris Oscar nya, diantara accolades lianna. Penampilanna dina drama sakola "Won't Back Down" (2012), thriller "Prisoners" (2013), sareng biopik "Get on Up" (2014), nambihan langkung seueur pujian pikeun karirna. Davis jadi awéwé hideung munggaran anu meunang Emmy Award pikeun Aktris Pangalusna, pikeun peranna salaku pangacara pertahanan kriminal Annalise Keating dina séri televisi "How to Get Away with Murder" (2014). Dina 2015, manéhna dibéntangan jeung dilayanan salaku produser eksekutif di vigilante thriller "Lila & Hawa", sarta drama pangadilan "Custody" taun saterusna, duanana pilem narima panarimaan dicampur sakabéh. Anjeunna muncul salaku antagonis Amanda Waller dina pilem superhero "Suicide Squad" (2016), kasuksésan komérsial pangageungna dugi ka ayeuna. Dina taun anu sarua, manéhna jeung Washington ulin peran maranéhanana dina film-adaptasi tina "pager", nu Davis narima Best ngarojong Aktris honors di BAFTAs,
SAG Awards, Golden Globe Awards, jeung Academy Awards. Sanggeus meunang Oscar, manéhna jadi aktor hideung munggaran nu meunang Triple Crown of Acting. Davis co-ngadegkeun JuVee Productions jeung salakina Julius Tennon dina 2012.