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What's a performance that should have won an Oscar, but didn't even get nominated.
Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka
At the top of my head:
Willem Dafoe in "The Lighthouse"
Adam Sandler in "Uncut Gems"
Toni Collette in "Hereditary"
Sandler not being nominated at least resulted in an amazing speech at the Spirit Awards.
God, this is hilarious. Why haven't I seen this before?
"Two years ago, Scott Rudin said the words that would forever change my life: 'No, those aren't homeless rabbis, those are the Safdie Brothers.'"
Jack Lemmon not even getting nominated for Glengarry Glen Ross was an insult.
One of the best acting performances of all American cinema.
SPOILER. When he finds out that lead was a nothing. His face crumbling. Kills me.
Toni Collette is incredible in Hereditary
The fact adam did t win a ything for uncut got gems is acrime
Val Kilmer in Tombstone
Val Kilmer in the Doors
Taron Edgerton in Rocketman
Val Kilmer in Tombstone is most definitely your huckleberry.
Val Kilmer In Salton Sea
Val Kilmer in MacGruber
Val Kilmer in The Saint
Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Val Kilmer in Real Genius
Val Kilmer in Willow
Val Kilmer in Top Gun
Val Kilmer in Top Secret!
Weeeelllll, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody jus' walked over yer grave.
Val Kilmer in top secret
“Skeet Surfing”
LATRINE!!
No, that was Mel Torme.
Val Kilmer in Thunder Heart. Seriously. Ebert goes nuts about his performance in his review. “If there is an award for the most unsung leading man of his generation, Kilmer should get it.”
Came here to say this . That movie and character was so on point.
Kilmer’s is all down to Disney not pre-screening the movie for critics. It had been such a troubled production, they didn’t want critics shitting on it because they thought it could make its money back. Then it came out and critics were raving about the movie and Kilmer in particular, saying he should be nominated, except it was so late in the process that Kilmer didn’t have the support in time before the nominations. He would have if they’d screened the movie for critics first.
Val Kilmer in Willow
Oh... No... Don't... I'm scared... There's a peck out here with an acorn pointed at me!
Val Kilmer in MacGruber
Val Kilmer in Real Genius
Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Gay Perry was fantastic
Edgerton blew me away in Rocketman. Best music biopic ever IMO. Laughable that people preferred Bohemian Rhapsody to this.
Val Kilmer in The Doors
Val Kilmer as a carrot.
I'd watch that!
lol this reminds me of that south park episode where they make fun of rob schneider for all his silly roles in movies.
Dead Man? Upvote.
I'm surprised how often "Stupid fucking white man" runs through my head since I saw it
( Fun fact the same character appears and says the same line in a different movie , might be Ghost Dog
Exaybachay! He who talks loud, says nothing. What a character and performance ❤️
Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler
Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“Did you see what GOOOOOOD just did to me!?!?”
God didn’t do that you did. You’re a fucking narcotics agent I knew it!
Careful…plenty of vultures out here. They’ll pick your bones clean by morning.
Can't stop here. This is bat country.
Denzel Washington: Philadelphia (Tom Hanks won Best Actor, Washington should have won Best Supporting)
The year before, Washington was nominated for X, but lost to Al Pacino’s absurd performance in Scent of a Woman. He eventually won for what was probably his weakest performance in Training Day.
The Oscars are ridiculous.
Training Day was not a weak performance... but I agree with you on Pacino, he shouldn't have won for that.
Yea Alonzo is a staple when you think of Hollywood villains.
Agree, Malcolm X should have been an easy Oscar win
Definitely. But it happens this way all the time, the Academy is so political, people rarely win for the movies they should've. I actually made a post about it recently, if you want to check it out and comment.
Another great example is Leo. The Revenant was a great movie, but definitely not what he should've won for.
I feel like he should have won for The Aviator, yeah, link me to the post!
HOO AH!
Not weak but it reminded me of Crowe in Gladiator. An excellent actor in peak form who should have won for earlier roles finally gets what amounts to a ‘you’ve been good for a while now’ award for a solid, flashy performance that lacks any of nuance of their better performances.
training day is his weakest performance? you’re nuts, that “I walk a higher path son” scene alone deserved its win.
To me, he should have 3 Oscars. Glory, Malcolm X, training day
Any bio pic Washington dose is amazing
You may need to watch Training Day again my friend. He eats up every scene he’s in and it’s not even close.
Jim Carrey in "The Truman Show". Seriously, he was a perfect fit for that role, but he didn't even get a nod.
Jim Carey in Man on the moon... He WAS Kaufman in that movie
Dave Chappelle tells a hilarious anecdote about getting to meet Jim for the first time while Jim was filming Man on the Moon, and how he wouldn’t break character. I think it was in his latest Netflix special.
Wes Studi in Last of the Mohicans
Wes Studi in Mystery Men.
If you do not win the Oscar, then the Oscar wins you
Paul Giamatti in Sideways
Tug Speedman as Simple Jack
Tom Cruise as Les Grossman
“First, take a big step back and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE!”
This comment makes me… huh-huh-happeeeeeee!
Nominations are very political
Hey that's Asta's dad in Resident Alien!
And Uncle Brownie in Reservation Dogs. I love this guy.
Yep. He's a great actor. If you haven't seen Dead Man, give it a chance.
It's also Victor's dad from Smoke Signals.
“It’s a good day to be indigenous”. Grew up in a Rez one state over and we loved this movie growing up. Fairly accurate depiction of home. Down to the car that only goes in reverse lol.
I'm what's af and that movie is one of my favorites, Thomas's "Hey, Victor" is one of those lines you never get out of your head.
Adam beach, Wind talkers, Flags of our fathers, bury my heart at wounded knee
Definitely for Flags of Our Fathers.
Toni Collette in “Hereditary”
Al Pacino in “The Godfather II”
Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Blvd”
Al Pacino was nominated for Godfather 2.
Toni Collette- everything, but the fact she wasn’t nominated for Hereditary when it was the best performance from any actress that year is just another embarrassment for the academy.
I couldn’t have said it any better.
I still remember the first time I saw her perform in "United States of Tara". Most performers are good professionals, and then sometimes one stumbles upon a ridiculous amount of talent. That's Toni.
She was so great in Muriel's Wedding and Velvet Goldmine before then, not surprised she went on to bigger and better things
Yep, there are maybe a handful of actors living or dead who could pull that role off over a multi-season series.
She is amazingly talented, but she would have been up against Olivia Colman in The Favourite and that was next level.
Graham Greene in Dances with Wolves
I think he was nominated. He lost to Joe Pesci for Goodfellas. Both great performances.
You are correct, he was nominated and lost to Pesci. As much as I loved Pesci’s performance in Good Fellas, Graham Greene’s performance was phenomenal! Of course I’m biased because I loved Dances with Wolves.
Gary Oldman in “True Romance”
Sam Rockwell in the green mile
He should have been nominated for Moon.
Jack Nicholson in The Shining
Sigourney Weaver in Aliens
Christian Bale in American Psycho
Steve Buscemi - Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Ghost World.
Mia Goth - Pearl.
Just watched pearl. She is so creepy in that. I totally agree with you.
Jim Carrey in the Truman Show
Williams over DeNiro in Awakenings Bridges over Williams in The Fisher King
Alan Rickman in Die Hard
Zack Efron the iron claw
He might be nominated this year
Bogie...The Maltese Falcon
Robert Pattinson AND Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse
The fact that Dafoe wasn’t even nominated was bullshit.
Tom Cruise in Collateral.
Yo homie. Is that my brief case? Great movie.
Bjork in Dancer in the Dark is a performance that still haunts me and I think about often. No nomination and then Julia Roberts won that year for a completely forgettable Erin Brockovich - eye roll.
Said it once, I’ll say it again million times: Rupert Everett in My Best Friend’s Wedding.
Plus Val Kilmer in Tombstone and Russell Crowe in LA Confidential.
Toshiro Mifune - Red Beard
Q’Orianka Kilcher - The New World
Robert Mitchum - Night of the Hunter
Ingrid Bergman - Notorious
Takashi Shimura - Ikiru
Kim Novak - Vertigo
Jimmy Stewart - Vertigo
Margaret Hamilton - The Wizard of Oz
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Almost Famous
Meiko Harada - Ran
Tony Shalhoub - Big Night
Kelly Macdonald - No Country for Old Men
John Goodman - The Big Lebowski
Julia Stiles - Hamlet
Jack Lemmon - Glengarry Glen Ross
Elizabeth Pena - Lone Star
Josh Brolin - No Country for Old Men
Robin Wright - Nine Lives
George C. Scott - Dr. Strangelove
Djimon Hounsou has two Oscar nominations. Can you believe that? Just 2?!
Should have been nominated for amistad at least.
He was so freaking good in Blood Diamond. I didn’t know his name so had to look him up. That dude is such a great actor!
Lee J Cobb in 12 Angry Men
The one you’ve shown: Gary Farmer as Nobody, in Dead Man (1995). The movie is a masterpiece, and he’s a big reason why.
Exaybachay! He Who Talks Loud, Saying Nothing!
The biggest crime as far as I'm concerned was the Academy Awards of 1968.....Audrey Hepburn was nominated for Best Actress in WAIT UNTIL DARK but lost out to Faye Dunaway in BONNIE AND CLYDE. Are you serious? NOBODY could hold a candle to Audrey's performance as a blind woman being terrorized by drug dealers.No offense to Faye,she is a fine actress,but Audrey was absolutely PHENOMENAL as Suzy Hendrix in WUD. She made you feel like you were right there with her in her terror. It was a gut-wrenching performance!!! My thought was they gave e it to Faye because B&C was a more commercially popular film than the darker tones of WUD. Goes to show the awards are primarily driven by inside politics. PEOPLE: if you ever get to see WAIT UNTIL DARK,probably on TCM or another cable station...please do...trust me,Audrey's performance will blow you away!!! She truly was a superstar actress and deserving of the terms ICON and LEGEND.
do you have any tobacco?
Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods
John Goodman in The Big Lebowski.
Dennis Quaid in Far from Heaven
Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love
James McAvoy in Split
Dead Man is such an interesting movie, but hardly anyone seems to have seen it or even heard of it. Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer were both great in it.
Tobey Maguire in Brothers
Chadwick Boseman in Get On Up
Adam Sandler Uncut Gems
I was surprised when Sandler didn't get nominated. I would have bet on him to win that year. He would have deserved it.
I think he has a stigma that he’s “The Funny Guy” and they don’t take him seriously
Tobey maguire in brothers is a deep cut, one of my favorite performances
Bruno Ganz-Downfall
Marie-Louise Parker-The Client
Harrison Ford-Mosquitoes Coast
Christopher Loyd-Back to the Future
Duane Jones-Night of the Living Dead
Andy Serkis-The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Duane Jones was the only experienced actor in Night of the Living Dead, and he did an excellent job of carrying the majority of the movie on his back. Definitely an Oscar worthy performance.
That lad in wind talkers.
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Nic Cage in Mandy!
John Goodman in 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Val Kilmer in Tombstone.
James Franco for “The Disaster Artist.”
Sure he’s a nightmare and all the allegations of his sexual misconduct hit the presses just after he won the Golden Globe for that same performance, but the guy still deserved a nod for his spot-on impression of the disaster himself, Tommy Wiseau.
Jeff Goldblum in The Fly
Was this the drunk dad from Smoke Signals?
Yup, does Victor know why he left?
Way way back. But Glynnis O’Connor for Ode to Billy Joe.
Deep soulful performance from an actress that should still be working a lot more.
Sean Penn in Carlito’s Way
John Malkovich in Burn After Reading and Toni Collette in The Glass Onion.
he who talks loud say nothing
Alec Baldwin - Glengarry Glen Ross
Lance Crouther as Pooty Tang
Sa da tay
Ethan Hawke in First Reformed
John Candy. Planes trains and automobiles.
Hugh Jackman for Prisoners
Toni Collette for Hereditary
Laura Dern for Inland Empire anyone?
Nobody will observe.
One of the greatest movies ever. It is the first DVD I ever bought as a child, not knowing what it even was. I love this movie like an old friend.
Jeffrey Wright in Basquiat
Saw it in the theater. Been a fan of his since. Great performance.
So, I saw that, (you’re not wrong btw) and was looking for “that one cool song I don’t know its name” (it’s all over now, baby blue) and was looking at various webpages and forums. I see one, they don’t have my answer, but there’s a back and forth with…. David Fucking Bowie. He cared about the movie enough that he was on some random website talking about it. Pretty cool.
He also worked with Chris Hadfield on his update to Space Odyssey.
Julianne Moore in Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio
Brad Pitt Babel
DiCaprio in the departed
Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice
Christopher Reeve as Superman (1978) should have gotten a nomination. His take on the dual identity was subtle and impressive. His performance absolutely made that movie.
Off the top of my head -- Russell Crowe in "LA Confidential" and John Goodman in "The Big Lebowski."
I didn’t realize Gary Farmer was in Dead Man. It’s been about 15 years since I last saw it. I know him best from the show Resident Alien.
My go-to performance for questions like this is always Bruno Ganz in Downfall. That was a powerful performance that really made one of the worst people in all of history feel mortal without being over-the-top evil. Maybe he wouldn’t have beaten Jaime Foxx for Ray, but he definitely should have been nominated.
Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later than night, you were lying, looking up at the ceiling, and the water in your head was not dissimilar from the landscape, and you think to yourself, "Why is it that the landscape is moving, but the boat is still?"
Chris Sarandon for playing Leon in Dog Day Afternoon. The guy stole the whole movie in one scene.
Pam Grier was absolutely incredible in Jackie Brown
Off the top of my head Florence Pugh in Lady McBeth.
Any number of John Goodman performances, especially the Coen bros roles. Barton Fink, in particular, stands out.
He's a great actor who has been grossly disregarded.
The faces Nobody made after wearing William’s hat were Oscar-worthy alone.
"I'm your huckleberry."
Delroy Lindo Da 5 Bloods.
R Lee Emery in Full Metal Jacket
John Goodman- the big Lebowski
Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar
Toni Collette for Hereditary
The biggest snub would be Idris Elba for Beasts of No Nation. He was all in and it was a phenomenal performance.
Michael Fassbender for Prometheus. Whether you like the movie or not he was so unsettling and memorable.
Greta Lee and Teo Yoo for Past Lives
Team America World Police? That's my nomination.
Tugg Speedman in Simple Jack
Toni Collette in Hereditary
Sam Rockwell in Moon
Michael B. Jordan in Creed.
That whole movie got robbed in the Oscars.
Jack Nicholson in Batman
Leo, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.
His first Oscar nomination.
Alan Rickman for Galaxy Quest
mike faist in west side story
Christian Bale in several.
Zac Efron was very good in The Iron Claw.
Talent doesn’t win Oscars. The studio that spends the most on their “For Your Consideration” parties is what wins Oscars. Just enjoy the movies and the performances you enjoy. The accolades are ultimately meaningless and are only used to further promote and advertise the winners for future retail releases.
Kurt Russell in Miracle
Steve Buscemi should've gotten the supporting actor nod for Fargo over William H. Macy
I thought Barney Rubble's work was over looked
John Wayne won the Oscar for "True Grit" which was a good movie. However, he maybe should have won it sooner for: "The Searchers", "Sands of Iwo Jima" or "Red River"
Adam Sandler in Hubie Halloween
Arrival. And the lead girl in that. Blanking on her name
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
John Goodman as Walter, The Big Lebowski
The father in Poltergeist
I’m here with nobody
Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger in Black Mass
Gladys George as Panama Red in The Roaring Twenties.
Funny that they’re both Gangster movies.
Maria Mercedes Coroy in the criminally underseen and undercelibrated La Llorona(2019, directed by Jayro Bustemente ). She does so much with so little dialogue and has the most haunting gaze I have ever seen.
James McAvoy in Split. Possibly the best performance I’ve seen in any movie
Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange. Cmon, the guy IS Alex. The role has cast a shadow over his whole career cause the role is larger than life. Wasn't even nominated