By Kevin Lally
Ryan Gosling, Mila Kunis, Andrew Garfield and Julianne Moore, you're not alone. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a history of neglecting great performances when the five nominations in each acting category are announced each year. In fact, the roll call of overlooked actors includes some of the most beloved and indelible portrayals in screen history. Here's our personal list of remarkable performanceswhich did not receiveanOscar nomination. We welcome your own additions to the Academy's (dis)honor roll.
James Stewart in Vertigo
Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter
Humphrey Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre
James Cagney in White Heat
John Wayne in The Searchers
Anthony Perkins in Psycho
Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity
Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt
Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt
Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd
Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve
Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger in The Wizard of Oz
Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz
Charles Chaplin in Modern Times
Toshiro Mifune in The Seven Samurai
James Mason in Bigger Than Life
Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success
Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby
Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet
Robert De Niro in Mean Streets
Myrna Loy in The Best Years of Our Lives
James Stewart in The Naked Spur
Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
Carole Lombard in Twentieth Century
Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train
Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday
Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair
River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho
Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands
Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers
Robert Preston in The Music Man
Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot
Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage
Orson Welles in Touch of Evil
Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night
Clark Gable in The Misfits
Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Paul Giamatti in Sideways
Steve Martin in All of Me
Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol
Spencer Tracy in Fury
Carmen Maura in Law of Desire
Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat
Claude Rains in The Invisible Man
Gary Oldman in Sid and Nancy
James Cagney in One, Two, Three
Kirk Douglas in Paths of Glory
Denzel Washington in Philadelphia
Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns
I agree with most of those.
ReplyDeleteAs for Barbara Stanwyck, in 1941 she was not nominated for The Lady Eve (one of the best performances ever, if you ask me), but her wonderful work in that year (she gave another great performance in Meet John Doe) was at least recognized because she got a nom for Ball of Fire.
The same can be said for Michelle Pfeiffer, who in 1992 was nominated for Love Field, instead of Batman Returns.
Problem is, neither of these amazing actresses ever won an Oscar!