Actors that should have won Oscars but didn't

[Sandpiper]

Morgan Freeman - Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Lost to Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump :puke:

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Robin Williams - Bicentenial Man (1999)

[fujiyama]

29. I thought he did better

in Mrs. Doubtfire. That was a great acting job, but it's obvious the Acasdemy looks down on comedic roles.

Atleast he won for supporting actor in Good Will Hunting.

[Fenris]

2. As said in the other thread Ralph Fiennes for "Schindler's List"

Lost to Tommy Lee Jones for "The Fugitive."

[NV Whino]

3. Cate Blanchette--Elizabeth

On Edit: spelling... again

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. I second that-she was brilliant in that movie

[Shadowen]

14. To quote a film critic I'm rather fond of...

"Cate Blanchett is a goddess. So beautiful that you just want to fall at her feet and weep, sure, but the talent. My god, the talent. This is her bestest, stunningest, most remarkably surefooted performance ever, but I think I've said that about each of her previous roles, I'll probably say that about the next one, too, and the one after that, and the one after that.

I want to have her babies."

[Shadowen]

8. Indeed.

Also: no E at the end of Blanchett.

[NV Whino]

25. Thanks. I did go back and put the "h" in, though

I can't believe she lost to "bare boob" Paltrow that year. Cate can do anything. If you've never seen her in Pushing Tin, try to find it. One of those films that fell through the cracks.

[xmas74]

31. I love Pushing Tin.

I have a friend who became an air traffic controller and he said that they really do act like they did in the control room.

[flamingyouth]

4. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard

Lost to Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday," which is not a bad film, but geez, Norma Desmond is a classic role.

[joeybee12]

10. Oh God yes! Her loss shows why the Oscars are so dumb...Judy

Holiday was good, but Gloria Swanson's Nora Desmond was pure genius--it has held up over the years...you can't really judge how good something is until a bit of time has passed.

[Shadowen]

5. Ian McKellan.

The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).

Or, rather, I should say Gandalf. For anyone who sees Fellowship understands that Ian McKellan does not actually exist; rather, Gandalf somehow found his way into our world many years ago and has been masquerading as a gay British actor of excellent ability ever since.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. Ian McKellan in "Gods and Monsters"

they gave the Best Actor Oscar to Roberto Benigni. Notice we haven't heard anything from him since.

[terrya]

19. Winning Best Actor can be a mixed blessing...look at F. Murray Abraham...

won Best Actor for "Amadeus"...and he more or less vanished from films afterward.

Benigni made a movie in Italy a couple of years back: "Pinoccio", which was...dreadful. Imported to the States...and was a critical and box office bomb. I think Benigni's film career here is gone...whereas someone like Ian McKellan's film career is thriving...good roles in big films. :-)

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[Ilsa]

13. He is brilliant! I also thought he was wonderful in

Richard III (contemporary version).

[terrya]

21. Wasn't that a terrific film?

Interesting idea about transplanting the story to a Nazi Germany type totaltarian country. Yet remaining true to the dialogue. Excellent casting as well.

[Hokie]

7. I forgot about that travesty

I have watched Shawshank Redemption at least a dozen times. I watched Forrest Gump once. :puke: is right for Gump.

[hippiechick]

9. Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire 1999

Supporting Actor in a dead-on (excuse the pun) portrayal of Max Shreck, the original 'Nosferatu'.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v739/Indylisa/dafoeshreck.bmp

[terrya]

11. Sir Ian McKellan - "Gods and Monsters" - lost to Roberto Beningni(sp)

Actually, there were two others that should of won over that idiot Beninigni(sp)...Edward Norton (outstanding in American History X) and Nick Nolte

[Shadowen]

15. Edward Norton is perhaps the best actor of his generation.

No diggity.

...I apologize. I will never do that again.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. That was a sentimental award

you're spot on about the other three performances.

[Shadowen]

17. Sentimental indeed.

No offense is intended, but perhaps there is something to the babblings of the "Jew-run media", as the Academy has a large number of Jewish voters, and Holocaust movies always have a leg up on other contenders at the Oscars.

[Ilsa]

18. In Music, I thought Enya and deserved an Oscar for

May It Be... from Fellowship of the Lord of the Rings, whereas someone else got it that year. Then Annie Lennox won it for singing the theme song for Return of the King three years later when ROTK took many of the oscars, given, no doubt in my mind, to honor all the trilogy. I thought Howard Shores' music from the first movie was superior than that of the second and third.

[Sannum]

20. Robert Downey Jr. for 'Chaplin'

The movie was so-so, but the performance was amazing.

[Skittles]

27. last time I saw Robert on TV he had cleaned up and was looking good

I hope he keeps control of his demons because he is an amazing talent and a good person

[caledesi]

22. Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Lost to John Wayne (True Grit) :puke:

[terrya]

23. I'll go along with that. Or Peter O'Toole.

Both Hoffman and O'Toole (The Lion in Winter) should have won over the same performance John Wayne has given in his entire career.

[yellowdogintexas]

32. that was a case of they all knew John Wayne was not long

for this world, and this might be his last chance. Hoffman has since gotten two oscars, OToole still has not but does have a lifetime achievement oscar

[Blue-Jay]

24. Edward Norton for American History X.

Also agree with Sir Ian for Gods & Monsters. Brilliant.

[Skittles]

26. Edward Norton in Fear

I think he lost to Cuba Gooding Jr who is a terrible actor

[Geek_Girl]

28. Tom Cruise For Born On the Forth of July

I don't generally like Tom Cruise but this was a great performance.

[yellowdogintexas]

30. Paul Newman for Cool Hand Luke, for starters and about

20 other things before he finally got one for "Color of Money"

Robert Redford for any movie for which he was nominated and did not win

Richard Burton for Becket, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, and others


Peter OToole for Lawrence, Becket, Lion in Winter

[DawgHouse]

33. Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog

Lost to Sean Penn for Mystic River

I thought Penn's performance was great but still think Kingsley's was better.