Who deserved an Oscar but didn't get a nomination?

OP needs to be slapped.

Seriously OP, this topic has been discussed a ZILLION times on the DL. Try something else...

Yes G. Slap him 8 times.

(eight! can you believe it?)

In recent memory?

Charlize Theron for "Young Adult"

Tilda Swinton for "We need to talk about Kevin"

Julianne Moore for "Map to the stars" - Yes I know she won that year for "Still Alice" but I still think she should've won for the former.

Kristen Scott Thomas - I've loved you so long

Colin Ferrel - The Lobester

Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus

Joan Greenwood in Kind Hearts and Coronets

Peggy Ashcroft in The 39 Steps and Quiet Wedding

Isabel Jeans in Gigi

Ursula Jeans in The Woman in the Hall

Jeez R5, how old are you?

Tori Spelling for Trick

Julianne Moore for Magnolia

Reese Witherspoon for Election

Naomi Watts Mulholland Drive

R4 spot on

Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus

She was amazing. I just saw the film last month. Looked her up and was shocked she wasn't nominated. Sadly the role kind of ruined her career I read. She got typecast.

The only sympathetic role she got was this one where she landed 'Mr. Dean'.

Adam Sandler 'Uncut Gems' 2019

Jake Gyllenhaal 'Nightcrawler' 2014

Alejandro G. Innarritu 'Amores Perros' 2000 [Director]

Nicole Kidman 'To Die For' 1995

Phillip Lathrop 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' 1969 [Cinematography] Haskell Wexler 'Medium Cool' 1969 [Cinematography]

Mia Farrow 'Rosemary's Baby' 1968

Dede Allen 'Bonnie and Clyde 1967 [Film editing]

Ruth Gordon 'Lord Love a Duck' 1966

Peter Sellers 'Lolita' 1962

Freddie Francis [Cinematography, b/w] and Deborah Kerr 'The Innocents' 1961

Kim Stanley 'The Goddess' 1958

Russell Metty 'Touch of Evil' 1958 [Cinematography, b/w]

Stanley Kubrick [Director] Paths of Glory 1958

Karl Malden and Eli Wallach 'Baby Doll' 1956

Alfred Hitchcock [Director] and Robert Walker 'Strangers on a Train' 1951

Dede Allen 'Bonnie and Clyde' 1967 [Film Editing]

Peter Sellers 'Lolita' 1962

Deborah Kerr 'The Innocents' 1961

Russell Metty 'Touch of Evil' 1958 [Cinematography, b/w]

Stanley Kubrick 'Paths of Glory' 1958 [Director]

Kim Stanley 'The Goddess' 1958

Eddie Murphy, The Nutty Professor, but of course The Academy shits on comic performances.

Malcolm McDowell 'A Clockwork Orange' 1971

Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotton (and Patricia Collinge for BSA), "Shadow of a Doubt"

Ida Lupino, "The Hard Way"

Burt Lancaster, "The Killers"

Giulietta Masina, "Nights of Cabiria" and "Juliet of the Spirits"

Coral Browne, "Dreamchild"

Joanne Woodward, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"

Sharon Stone for Sliver.

Woodward was nominated for "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge". Memorable performance.

Al Pacino 'Donnie Brasco'

Al Pacino, "The Insider"

I know she's (justifiably) hated here, but Susan Sarandon had the best role for an actress in years in Bull Durham, and she hit it out of the park.

Ennio Morricone's iconic score for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was brilliant 55 years ago and is still a part of pop culture today. I would also add Anton Karas' distinctive score using a zither for The Third Man as another that should have been nominated and won. Both of these scores were such a big part of their movie's appeal and their omission from the Oscars is baffling.

Anthony Perkins in Psycho and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train.

And Alfred Hitchcock for Strangers on a Train, Vertigo and North by Northwest.

Eddie Murphy in Showgirls and Dolemite is My Name

Bob Odenkirk in Nebraska

Sandler in Punch Drunk Love

Kathy Bates and Judy Parfitt for Dolores Claiborne

I also meant to add Eli Wallach for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. One of the funniest supporting performances of all time and easily the best that year.

Eddie Murphy’s pool scene in Showgirls is perfection. He has nice tits.

Me in all the years I was nominated. I was better than all the nominees and winners.

Ally Sheedy for High Art

Jean Smart in Guinevere

Elaine Stritch in September

Dennis Quaid in Far From Heaven

Dammit, r24, you're right. I meant Dreamgirls.

Showgirls should have won BEST PICTURE IN THE UNIVERSE though.

Paul Giamatti - Sideways

Vivian Vance - The Blue Veil

Kirsten Dunst for Melancholia

Lupita Nyong'o - Us

Toni Collette - Hereditary

Rebecca Hall - Christine

Zelda Rubinstein - Poltergeist

Martin Stephens - The Innocents

Donald Sutherland - for anything, ever. He was given an honorary award in 2018, but no nominations. Did he run over a producer's dog or something?

Jobeth Williams for “Poltergeist”

Gilbert Adrian for many things. Specifically 1938's "Marie Antoinette". Sadly, that Oscar wasn't first awarded until 1949. He would absolutely win for that today. And his work in "The Women" (at the time contemporary) deserved a nomination as well, though I think that he would've been nominated for "Oz" instead (as they were released in the same year).

I seriously doubt he'd have won for "Oz" in 1940 (particularly if he'd won the year before for "Marie Antoinette"), however. That would've gone to Walter Plunkett for "Gone With The Wind".

R13 I must have seen the clip you posted fifty times and it still cracks me up.

Eddie should have been nominated.

Alastair Sim "A Christmas Carol"

Robert Walker "Strangers On A Train"

Cliff Gorman "Boys In The Band"

Can't remember her name offhand, but the woman who played Ernest Borgnine's mother in "Marty".

"Donald Sutherland - for anything, ever. He was given an honorary award in 2018, but no nominations. Did he run over a producer's dog or something?"

Edward G. Robinson was another great actor who never got an Oscar nomination

Joseph Cotten - Shadow of a Doubt

Anthony Perkins - Psycho

Brian Cox - L.I.E

Trevante Rhodes in Moonlight

[quote] Edward G. Robinson was another great actor who never got an Oscar nomination

Robinson should've received nominations for "Two Seconds," "The Woman in the Window" and "Double Indemnity."

Helen Walker in "Nightmare Alley."

r41, totally agree about Robinson. I think he also deserved a nod for Scarlet Street

[quote] Dammit, [R24], you're right. I meant Dreamgirls.

he WAS nminated for ""Dreamgirls." Remember how he stormed out of the Kodak Theatre with his entourage when he lost to Alan Arkin?

Donald Sutherland absolutely should have been nominated and should have won for both "Don't Look Now" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," but except in rare cases the AMPAS looks down on horror.

If Eddie hadn't included so many dumb fart gags in "the Nutty professor" and "the Nutty professor 2" he probably would have been nominated for one of them, just for his sensitive portrayal of Sherman's kindly, dreamy, sensitive mother. That was the best thing he ever did in his life--he really made her a real person.

I was positive Dennis Quaid would be nominated for Far From Heaven. He must not be well liked.

Bull Durham launched Sarandon into her middle aged phase, nomination or not.

A few funny faves:

Henry Fonda, The Lady Eve

Edith Evans, The Importance of Being Ernest

Gene Wilder, Young Frankenstein

Michael Palin, Life of Brian

Diane Keaton, Baby Boom

Joan Crawford- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Marilyn Monroe- The Misfits, Some Like It Hot

Judy Garland- I Could Go On Singing

Marlene Dietrich- Judgement at Nuremberg

Naomi Watts Mulholland Drive..owns this thread!

Mae Marsh for "Birth of a Nation"

Michelle Pfeiffer, "Batman Returns"

James Cagney in "White Heat"

R52 for the win!

Dee Wallace - Cujo

R36 Esther Minciotti. 'Minc' as in mince'.

Jeez [R5], how old are you?

Well, R6, I'm old enough to know that movies have been happening for a century.

And I'm sufficiently knowledgable to know that a LOT of good movies were made before I was born.

Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train

Rita Hayworth in Gilda

Sidney Poitier in A Patch of Blue

Jacob Tremblay in Room

Julian Sands for "Best Butt" in "A Room with a View".

Rod Steiger-Dr Zhvago Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman and ESPECIALLY Kenneth Nelson from Boys in the band

Annette Bening, The Grifters, 1990. Lost to Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost.

Annette Bening, American Beauty, 1999. Lost to Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry.

Annette Bening, Being Julia, 2004. Lost to Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby.

Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right, 2010. Lost to Natalie Portman for Black Swan.

Note to Annette: Don't make movies to be released in the same year as films featuring Whoopi, Natalie, and especially that twice-usurping talented actor Hilary Swank!

I love Annette but she got a ton of nods.What she didn't get was ana actual Oscar. So maybe that's for another thread?

R64 Oops yes, my bad.

Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers. She's not my favorite entertainer (to say the VERY least), and the movie was not my usual cup o' tea, but have to say I agree she deserved a nomination based on her performance.

Frances McDormand for every movie she wasn't nominated.

I can think of one who has been nominated a few times who the Academy has decided isn't worthy of an award.

One would think they'd see the pattern and quit beating a dead horseface.

[quote] Rebecca Hall - Christine

I think maybe if that movie was released a year early or a year later, she may have had a better chance of getting a nod.