Actors Who Should Have an Oscar...but don't.

[Jolly Jimmy Tinsel Todd]

Whom do you think should have an Oscar under their belt, but doesn't?
I think Kevin Bacon, Danny Glover Tom.Cruiise and Sigourney Weaver should have an Oscar on their bookshelf.
Who would you suggest?

 

[darkshadows38]

there's a lot of them Judy Garland is one for example Christopher Lee as well. there are a ton who were nominated but never won

 

[Emelee]

Samuel L Jackson
Glenn Close
Cary Grant
Greta Garbo
Barbara Stanwyck
Laura Linney
Ralph Fiennes
Ed Harris
Stanley Tucci
Michael Keaton

 

[Angels Chanting]

Glenn Close never won an Oscar and should have won one for best female actor Oscar on multiple occasions. I'm still puzzled how her performance in The Wife was overlooked in favour of Olivia Coleman shouty performance in The Favourite.

Montgomery Clift should have won for Judgment At Nuremberg but was beaten by George Chakiris for West Side Story. Monty was unlucky as in any other year I think he would have won.

Cary Grant never won but should have for North By North West.

Ed Norton never won and should have for American History X.

 

[darkshadows38]

see there's a lot of them quite a number of them are now sadly gone but you kind of wonder why they never did?

 

[DallasFanForever]

Barbara Stanwyck

I’m not sure which surprises me more, the fact that she never won or the fact that she was only nominated four times. Although it may not be the same, at least she did get an Honorary Award in 1982.

 

[Emelee]

I’m not sure which surprises me more, the fact that she never won or the fact that she was only nominated four times. Although it may not be the same, at least she did get an Honorary Award in 1982.

Those honorary awards feel like an after thought. Like "crap, this person has never won, that's bad. Let's just give him/her one anyway. We can call it an honorary Oscar to make it seem super special."

 

[Jolly Jimmy Tinsel Todd]

see there's a lot of them quite a number of them are now sadly gone but you kind of wonder why they never did?

And there are others who have won, yet didn't seem to deserve it.
There's also a lot of behind the scenes campaigning, I'm sure. I read one of the things that turned voters off regarding Diana Ross nomination for Lady Sings the Blues is Berry Gordy's heavy handed campaign for her.

 

[darkshadows38]

Lady sings the blues (1972) i still have not seen that, but Halle Berry i like her as an actress but Monsters Ball (2001) is an awful film and she's honestly she's terrible in it and yet she won an oscar for it? i don't get it. what i really find f... up is that sometimes if you win one that can hurt your career as well F. Murray Abraham is a good example on that he won in (1984) for Amadaues i'm not sure on the spelling so sorry about that, and after that for whatever reason his career isn't the same since though he has been in hit movies since than

 

[DallasFanForever]

I think of Cher winning her Oscar in the late 80s for Moonstruck, and I’m not saying she didn’t deserve it, but I’m sure things like that have to make some great actors and actresses who have never won one wonder.

 

[Jolly Jimmy Tinsel Todd]

I think of Cher winning her Oscar in the late 80s for Moonstruck, and I’m not saying she didn’t deserve it, but I’m sure things like that have to make some great actors and actresses who have never won one wonder.

I bet Glenn Close would agree with you. She lost to Cher that year.
Cher wasn't even nominated for Mask, which, imho, she should have been, and Whoopi Goldberg won for Ghost, but not for The Color Purple! If some Hollywood insider knows the scoop on the whole process and behind the scenes shenanigans, he or she would have a great book to write.

 

[Angels Chanting]

Lady sings the blues (1972) i still have not seen that, but Halle Berry i like her as an actress but Monsters Ball (2001) is an awful film and she's honestly she's terrible in it and yet she won an oscar for it? i don't get it. what i really find f... up is that sometimes if you win one that can hurt your career as well F. Murray Abraham is a good example on that he won in (1984) for Amadaues i'm not sure on the spelling so sorry about that, and after that for whatever reason his career isn't the same since though he has been in hit movies since than

Diana Ross was up against Liza Minelli in Cabaret that year and I don't think anything that Berry Gordy did or didn't do would have stopped Liza from winning. Diana Ross was excellent in that film and would have won in another year.

 

[darkshadows38]

another film i've never seen but it's on my list to watch

 

[The First Noele]

I dont get why Alfred Hitchcock never won a best director Oscar but was given an honoray one before he died

and Also Cary Grant - and totally agree re Stanley Tucci, one of the best out and adds to anything he is involved in.

 

[darkshadows38]

agreed with Hitch he's my all time favorite Director of all time and there will never will be another like him he was a genius even if he did treat women like shit in real life.
Rebecca (1940) yes is a great film but it's not my favorite of his 'North By Northwest (1959) is my all time favorite of his and it's a f... masterpiece in my book i love Psycho (1960) don't get me wrong but i love North By North West (1959) even more!

so yes i agree on that and Grant and Tucci as well but Tucci has got time as well he's still alive.

 

[DallasFanForever]

I dont get why Alfred Hitchcock never won a best director Oscar but was given an honoray one before he died

Hitchcock never winning is a travesty. I was afraid we’d be saying the same thing about Martin Scorsese until he finally won in 2007. Some of these names being mentioned are quite baffling to me as to why they never got their due.

 

[darkshadows38]

Martin Scorsese is favorite director of mine as well but he's way overrated The Irishman (2019) is a good movie but am i gonna buy it or watch it again ? hell no it wasn't that good to get any awards. honestly i'd rather watch After Hours (1985) it's a far better film in my opinion if i wanted to pick one of his films.

 

[Karin Schill]

I agree about Alfred Hitchcock. It's mindboggling he never won an Oscar.

Another actor who I think should have won one is Richard Burton. He was nominated seven times without winning.

I also think Sarah Michelle Gellar has enough talent to win one even if the movies she's made hasn't exactly been Oscar worthy. I wish someone would give her a role in a movie where she'd get the chance to show what she's got.

 

[darkshadows38]

yeah he is one, SMG is one where part of it these days anyways is she really doesn't act like she used to since she's a Mom now she has that on the forefront over acting i think. which i can fully understand but she was really never offered those kind of roles when she was doing films as far as i'm aware of. you have to seek the roles out or maybe have the right agent that can find you a role where you can win an oscar if you are lucky enough. i've always wanted to own one but than i've never done a film before either

 

[Monzo]

Halle Berry i like her as an actress but Monsters Ball (2001) is an awful film and she's honestly she's terrible in it and yet she won an oscar for it?

This is part of the dilemma that the Oscars are stuck in. 2021 marked the first year that the Oscars weren't among the top 100 most-watched shows of the year in the United States. The Oscars always lost viewers, but as television generally loses viewers, it wasn't too bad, but this year it's different. The Oscars are actually threatened with insignificance.

The discussion about People of Color gives the impression that colored actors have been passed over for decades and, if at all, like Halle Barry only received a compassionate Oscar to improve the academy's image. It is forgotten that colored actors did not get any strong roles at all and therefore had no chance of a nomination. I'm worried that the classic Oscar decades will not be remembered as great, but as racist and misogynist.