Oscar snubs: A history of overlooked performances

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