Actresses who should have been nominated for an Oscar

Yikes at your #2-5

Well there are some every year. In your 2011 I’d also put up Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene for the best actress dong.

Why does everyone pretend J-Lo's turn in "Hustlers" was some kind of tour de force?

Her performance was passable, nothing more. And the movie itself was just your run of the mill crime drama, except with a bunch of evil cunts instead of evil dicks.

Mia Farrow for “Rosemary’s baby”

R4 And for The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose & Alice.

Kathy Bates for Best Actress and Judy Parfitt for Best Supporting in DOLORES CLAIBORNE.

R1 Jennifer Aniston was actually pretty good at “Cake” and she deserved that nod.

Judy Parfitt for Dolores Claiborne (Supporting)

Tori Spelling for Trick (Supporting) - her For Your Consideration clip would be the New Jersey/cheese on fries diner breakdown

Hugh Grant - Paddington 2 (Supporting - included here because he played a nun)

Julianne Moore - Magnolia (Supporting)

Meryl Streep - Marvin's Room (Lead)

Gwen Verdon - Marvin's Room (Supporting)

Marion Cotillard - A Very Long Engagement (Supporting)

Audrey Tautou - Amelie (Lead)

Jodie Foster - Inside Man (Supporting)

Sarah Polley - Go (Supporting)

Reese Whiterspoon for “Election”.

Björk - Dancer in the Dark

R2 - Olsen was jaw-dropping in that film. Loved both it and her as an actress (despite her obnoxious siblings). I'm saddened that she has mostly starred in comic book crap since. I do get the big paycheck as a motivation, but Olsen is such a promising actress IMO; I hope that she gets involved with more exciting projects in the future.

I know it sounds like a joke but Rachel McAdams for “Mean Girls”. Time has proven she was iconic.

Co-sign Dunst in Melancholia, Bjork in Dancer in the Dark and Elizabeth Olsen in MMMM

Veronica Cartwright for THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

Mercedes Ruehl for MARRIED TO THE MOB

Both should have easily been nominated for supporting. They stole every scene they were in.

I watched "Age of Innocence" yesterday and it is shocking that Michelle Pfeiffer did not get a nod.

Gong Li in both Ju Dou and Coming Home

Sophia Loren for A Special Day

Hanna Schygulla for The Marriage of Maria Braun

Rosel Zech for Veronica Voss

^^^^ actually means Alicia Silverstone in Clueless

^^^^ the only one who deserved an Oscar nomination in Clueless was Paul Rudd - for being so pretty.

JLo's best role was in "Out of Sight", this was before she became JLo. She and Clooney has a Lauren Bacall/Humphrey Bogart steamy chemistry going. IMO she ruined her acting career by being an untalented singer. She could have been an acclaimed actress if she continued in that vein but instead for for the easy money. On second thought maybe not since she constantly needs to be in the public eye with cringe worthy pap shots.

Chrissy Metz -- Breakthrough

Gillian Anderson in The House of Mirth

Gillian Anderson in The House of Mirth

Chrissy Metz in The House of Girth

Any time Aniston is mentioned for 'Cake', I think of the story about her being so sure she'd be nominated that she rented out a hotel suite in Beverly Hills for the nomination celebration. I wouldn't even think Meryl would be presumptuous enough to jinx a nomination like that, but Aniston had been assured by her people that she was getting nominated and wanted to celebrate, dammit.

One I'll throw in for this year, since she's not getting any traction for a nomination (although she was amazing): Eva Noblezada in 'Yellow Rose'. A great Filipina-led film featuring Filipina actors and directed by a Filipina. We need more films with representation like this one.

Dianne Wiest, Edward Scissirhands & Little Man Tate. (Both supporting.)

Maggie Smith, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Quartet & The Lady and the Van (Leading)

Sissy Spacek, The Long Walk Home (Leading)

Mary Wickes, The Man Who Came to Dinner & either Sister Act movie, Little Women (Supporting), just because she's Mary fuckin' Wickes!

Ziyi Zhang for “House of Flying Daggers”

Molly Shannon-Other People

Rebecca Hall, Christine.

Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek, 3 Women

Diane Keaton and Dana Hill, Shoot the Moon.

Isabelle Adjani, Queen Margot.

Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

Gena Rowlands and Sandy Dennis, Another Woman

Emma Thompson-Saving Mr Banks Kate Winslet - The Dressmaker Regina Hall - Support The Girls Michelle Pfeiffer - Mother! Lisa Kudrow - The Opposite Of Sex

Cassandra Peterson and Edie McClurg - Elvira - Mistress of the Dark

Dee Wallace - Cujo

Toni Collette - Hereditary

JoBeth Williams - Poltergeist

To @R14

Mercedes Ruehl won the Supporting Actress Oscar for 'Married To The Mob

^^ Ruehl won for The Fisher King

Molly Ringwald for 16 Candles

Best Actress:

Uma Thurman - Kill Bill (Vol 1)

Michelle Pfieffer - Batman Returns

Regina Hall - Support the Girls

Goldie Hawn - Overboard

Best Supporting Actress:

Margot Martindale - Paris, je t’aime

Gena Rowlands - The Notebook

Grace Jones - Boomerang

Anna Faris - Lost in Translation

Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Sophie Lee and Jeanie Drynan for Muriel's Wedding

cept for robin wright, all of them are so so....la dunst???? anniston???? wtf?

Naomi Watts for Mulholland Drive

R37 Did you even watch Melancholia?

[quote] Mercedes Ruehl won the Supporting Actress Oscar for 'Married To The Mob

She did not. She wasn’t even nominated.

The cat from "Keanu"!

Kim Stanley The Goddess '58

Glenda Jackson Marat/Sade '67

Beryl Reid The Killing of Sister George '68

R32 Mercedes won for The Fisher King

JLo for Out of Sight and Hustlers

Constance Wu for Hustlers

Amy Adams for Nocturnal Animals

Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, or Marilyn Monroe for How to Marry a Millionaire

Jennifer Jason Leigh for Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Dolores Claiborne, Existenz, Georgia, Mrs. Parker, Rush, Miami Blues, Margot at the Wedding and Annihilation.

Maybe she gets one for Possessor as a compensation.

Marilyn for Some Like It Hot and The Misfits

Meryl for The Hours

Jennifer Aniston for Cake

Reese in Supporting for Election

Charlize Theron for Young Adult.

She was so damn good in that movie.

Idris Elba - Beasts of No Nation.

He deserved it, and it would have saved the Academy from that Oscars So White backlash.

[...]

I had no idea Idris Elba was an actRESS, r48

Ms Crawford for playing a crippled person

Karen Black for "The Day of the Locust".

Tuesday Weld for Play It as It Lays

Vanessa Redgrave for Wetherby

Virna Lisi for La reine Margot

Jeanne Moreau for Mademoiselle

Mimi Rogers for The Rapture

Julianne Moore for Safe

Annie Giradot for Mourir d’aimer...

Jennifer Jason Leigh for Georgia

Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan in "Annie"

Beatrice Straight and Zelda Rubinstein for "Poltergeist"

Faye Dunaway for "Mommie Dearest" (campy as it was, it's one hell of a performance)

Alfre Woodard - Clemency, Passion Fish

Nastassja Kinski - Paris, Texas

Sandra Bernhard - The King of Comedy

Shirley MacLaine - Postcards from the Edge

Janet Jackson, For Colored Girls

Uma Thurman for both volumes of Kill Bill

Jessica Lange for Men Don’t Leave

Meryl Streep for The Manchurian Candidate

Tilda Swindon for Julia

Kim Stanley for The Goddess

Shirley MacLaine for The Children’s Hour

Tuesday Weld for Once Upon a Time in America

Annette Bening for Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Björk for Dancer in the Dark

Sigourney Weaver for The Ice Storm

Michelle Pfeiffer for White Oleander

*Swinton

Michelle Pfeiffer for “White Oleander”. I felt that R58.

Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project

Deborah Kerr in The Innocents

Marilyn Burns in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Lin Shaye in Insidious

[quote]Sigourney Weaver for The Ice Storm

When Sigourney won Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs she started her speech "An award for The Ice Storm? Surely there's some mistake?"

(She was nominated alongside Jennifer Ehle and Zoe Wanamaker for Wilde and Lesley Sharp for The Full Monty, Kim Basinger was nominated as Best Actress for LA Confidential. Julianne Moore and the old woman from Titanic missed out on nominations, Joan Cusack and Minnie Driver's films hadn't been released. The Full Monty won best film and Baz Luhrmann won best director for R&J)

Love Siggy

[quote]Rebecca Hall, Christine.

I agree with this one. That performance was heart breaking.

This year, an actress who’s name I’d heard but had never seen and figured she was insignificant... Haley Bennett in Swallow. Exquisite performance.

E30 Team Chastity Pariah!

R67 meant R30.

I don't feel welcomed to Marathon.

Fink Estelle in STAH

So many great ones! Now that superhero movies can also be Oscar winners - Michelle for Batman Returns! Comedies finally starting to get their due and so many performances skipped - young adults, opposite of sex, clueless, and Carol B in Annie!

Ingrid Bergman for Notorious. It might have been her best Hollywood golden age performance, but she was not nominated that year during a stretch where she was almost a perennial nominee.

I am assuming this one has been mentioned, Cher for Mask.

Have occasionally wondered if Nicole should have been nominated for the Others instead of Moulin Rouge - although her win the following year for the Hours was probably in part due to both of those movies

Elizabeth Berkeley for Showgirls. The role was far more complex than people think!

Julie Christie for The Go-Between, she was enigmatic and compelling in this one.

Sarah Miles for The Servant

Jennifer Connelly for Requiem for a Dream and House of Sand & Fog

Phyllis Somerville for Little Children

Linda Darnell for Letter to Three Wives

Charlotte Rampling for Under the Sand

Ingrid Bergman for Voyage to Italy

Cunta in “The Rape of Shelli”.

Naomi Watts - Muholland Drive. A performance that has stead the test of time for critics as ‘one of the all time great performances’ and she wasn’t even nominated?

Alison Pill - Milk and Pieces of April.

Thandie Newton - Crash.

Most underserved nomination: Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air. WTF?

Jennifer Aniston was nothing spoecial in Cake. Thankfully people saw through that PR campaign that cost her a fortune. If Aniston had been smart she would have also pushed Adriana Barraza who was actually much more deserving of a nod. That might have garnered her some good will.

Audrey Hepburn for My Fair Lady

I thought Aniston was better in The Good Girl where she also gave the Cake performance.

Rosalind Russell for The Women. One of the funniest supporting performances ever.

Beverly D'Angelo for Coal Miner's Daughter. She did her own singing and did a great job capturing the Patsy Cline's charisma (and throw in a supporting actor nom for Tommy Lee Jones, too).

Kathy Bates for Dolores Claiborne. An even better performance than Misery, and she was great in Misery.

Meryl - Defending Your Life Regina King - Support The Girls Sally Field - Not Without My Daughter Virginia Madsen - Prairie Home Companion Neve Campbell - The Company Juliette Lewis - The Other Sister

Rosie O’Donnell for Riding The Bus With My Sister.

She was so raw it was like watching a real handiclapped person.

A true inspiration.

Ann Wedgeworth should have been up for supporting for Sweet Dreams. One of my favorite supporting performances.

Julianne Moore in The Kids Are All Right. She was better than Bening, who was nominated.

R84 Sooo true about Wedgeworth. She and Lange were sublime, both together and individually. Their chemistry was effortless.

ROSALIND RUSSELL

Best Actress for His Girl Friday

Best Supporting Actress for The Women

Jessica Lange, Men Don’t Leave and Cape Fear

Amy Adams for Enchanted

Lily Tonkin for 9 to 5

Teresa Wright for Shadow of a Doubt

R88 Ms. Tonkin was robbed!

Tomlin not Tonkin. Eesh. Stoopid spellcheck and me not checking before posting.

Nicole Kidman "To Die For"

Tuesday Weld "Pretty Poison"

Joanne Woodward "The Effects of Gamma Rays..."

Sian Phillips "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969

Verna Bloom "Medium Cool"

Tilda Swinton "We Need To Talk About Kevin."

Rebecca Hall, CHRISTINE

/thread

Marilyn Monroe Bus Stop.

Margaret Hamilton for The Wizard of Oz

Marilyn Hack for Home for Thanksgiving.

Julie Harris The Haunting 1963

Faye Dunaway for [italic]Barfly

Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek, ‘3 Women.’

Beast Actress- Debbie Reynolds in "Mother"

Best Supporting Actress-

Kathy Najimy in "Sister Act"

Carmen Electra in "Dirty Love"

IMO, "Dirty Love" is hilarious and Carmen Electra is terrific in it.

Best not Beast above. lol.

R100 She was a beast of an actress!

Meg Ryan for playing herself pre plastic surgery? Ummm no.

Miss Kay Lenz in Breezy.

Brandy for I Know What You Did Last Summer and Cinderella

Christina for Burlesque

Mariah for Glitter and Precious

Whitney for Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale Shoop Shoop, Preacher's Wife and Sparkle

Janet for Poetic Justice and For C**ored Girls

Madonna for Swept Away, Evita and Body of Evidence

Michelle Pfeiffer for “White Oleander”.

I love Michelle pFeiffer she seems like a lovely woman too, but I don’t get this constant Oscar buzz every time she has a come back. I think her boat has sailed. As much as I like her, I don’t think she’s ever given that strong a performance. I enjoyed her presence in film but that’s it.

I think her biggest mistake was turning down silence of the lambs I can imagine she would have been stand out in that film. It’s about the best role she could have played.

I can see her having a lot of success in a series now a la Glenn close and reese witherspoon if she could find the right material.

Kylie Minogue - Streetfighter

It's a cliche by now, but yes Dunaway should've got a nom for MD.

But I also think Puzzle of a Downfall Child in 1970. She got the Globe nomination and could've easily taken Janet Suzman's spot or even Carrie Snodgress in Mad Housewife (even though I love that performance).

Faye gives a tour de force as Lou Andreas Sand (Emily). She really should've taken McGraw's spot, but Love Story was such a juggernaut it didn't matter that Ali's performance was mediocre.

IF this trailer (made by fan) was out back then she would have gotten the nom! haha!

FANTASTIC TRAILER with Oscar written all over it.

Has anyone mentioned Faye Dunaway for "Barfly"?

That same year she had a critically acclaimed supporting performance in Little Big Man.

I always thought she would've gotten a supporting that year.

She's hilarious as Mrs. Pendrake. When Dustin Hoffman discovers her years later in a brothel I love how she says: "This life is not only wicked and sinful, it isn't even any fun! Sure, if I could come here once or twice a week, but EVERY NIGHT!"

R110 Yes, it was mentioned upthread, and I agree - definitely for Barfly.

Bridget Fonda for anything.

I miss Bridget Fonda.

Sandy in The Net

This year? Haley Bennett in Swallow.

For your consideration:

Kathleen Turner, BA for Body Heat Gloria Grahame, BA for In a Lonely Place Joan Bennett, BA for Scarlett Street Mary Astor, BA for The Maltese Falcon Alfre Woodard, BA for Clemency Leland Palmer, BSA for All That Jazz Ellen Barkin, BSA for Diner Lanie Kazan, BSA for My Favorite Year Jessica Tandy, BSA for The Birds Dale Dickey, BSA for Winter's Bone

Annette Bening for Bugsy

Dakota Fanning for "Man on Fire," Michelle Pfeiffer in "What Lies Beneath."

Alfre Woodard in Clemency. Wow, what an actress. Glad I just saw this.

Melanie Griffith for A Stranger Among Us

Sharon Stone for Last Dance

Geena Davis for Angie

R120 And for Passion Fish as well.

Oh, excuse me.

I thought you said "should [italic]not[/italic] have been nominated."

Never mind.

I meant to say that I should have been nominated every year I was eligible. 20 something nominations is not enough for my talent.

[quote]Alfre Woodard in Clemency. Wow, what an actress. Glad I just saw this.

BAFTA surprisingly nominated her, snubbing Viola Davis and Carey Mulligan.

Julie Christie for Nashville - what a performance!

Kirsten Dunst for "Melancholia."

Jessica Lange - TITUS

Maggie Gyllenhaal - SHERRYBABY

Isabella Rossellini for Blue Velvet Gwyneth Paltrow for The Talented Mr. Ripley

Pat Thomson for Strictly Ballroom

Pfeiffer was indeed brillant r119

Best Supporting Actress Nominations for:

Joan Crawford in Grand Hotel 1932

Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight 1933

But LB Mayer never would have allowed his stars to be nominated in that category.

"Kathleen Turner, BA for Body Heat"

I was just about the say that, R117. It's a classic film noir, and she was incredible in it.

regina king in ray.

William Hurt also for Body Heat

Sandy Dennis for Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Julie Christie wasn’t in Nashville

Madeline Kahn in Clue.

Catherine O'Hara in For Your Consideration

Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls

Comedy actresses always get the short shrift.

They were all great in Clue r139 and Kahn already had twice the number of nominations that Lesley Ann Warren and Eileen Brennan had

Warren should have won for Victor/Victoria.

R137 YAS! Dennis, Lange, and Streep are my favorite performances that year and in my too 25 of all time. If I had the power to award them each the 1982 Best Actress Oscar in a three-way tie, I would.

[quote]Julie Christie wasn't in Nashville

I think r126 was joking. She was indeed in Nashville, for about 30 seconds playing herself.

Mimi Rogers for "The Rapture",

Geraldine Chaplin for supporting, as her own mentally ill grandmother in "Chaplin",

Renee Taylor for "Made For Each Other", a very obscure movie, but Taylor gave a great comic performance.

Shelley Winters, Who Slew Auntie Ru?

R143 Ok I kind of remember that now.

Parker Posey in Henry Fool. Such a unique actress and I think in this film she was able to be her most but reels back before pushed into caricature.

Greta Gerwig in Greenberg

Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady Doris Day in Love Me Or Leave Me Debbie Reynolds in Mother

Sheryl Lee, Fire Walk With Me. The most disturbing performance I've ever seen.

Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Flintstones.

Sharon Stone for supporting actress in "Bobby". She is terrific in the role.

Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally isn't totally off base. She was widely considered a sure thing at the time. It was actually a surprise she was passed over for Pauline Collins. It's a great romantic comedy performance. Julia Roberts was also largely expected to be nominated for My Best Friend's Wedding and also deserved it for a really anti romantic comedy performance. Both are great female comedic performances reminiscent of old screwball comedies of the Golden Age.

I never imagined that Kate Winslet in Titanic, Julie Christie in Afterglow and Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets would be nominated over Jodie Foster in Contact and Roberts in MBFW

Nicole Kidman in "Birth."

Marisa Tomei- Slums Of Beverly Hills JJL - Dolores Claiborne Michelle Pfeiffer - Mother

Pia Zadora for butterfly. She was the new star of the year after all. The foreign press can’t be wrong.

Helena Bonham-Harter for that one Harry Potter movie. I don’t remember which. She was mesmerizing.

And also Imelda Staunton by Harry Potter 5.

Jennifer Jason Leigh in Dorothy Parker & The Vicious Circle

Naomi Watts owns this thread.

Michelle Pfeiffer for What Lies Beneath.

Diane Keaton “shoot the moon”

Jennifer Connelly “house of sand and fog”

Darlene cates “what’s eating Gilbert grape?”

Jan Sterling “ace in the hole”

One can start very early. 1928. Lillian Gish for The Wind, one of the greatest performances ever, but by the time of the nominations, silent films were passé, so they went with the disastrous, yet talking, Mary Pickford.

Joan Crawford for A Woman's Face

Joan Crawford for Humoresque

Rosalind Russell for The Women

Marilyn Monroe for Bus Stop

Debbie Reynolds for Mother (1996)