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Wed Jun-23-04 04:21 PM
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Name an actor/actress who |
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you think should have won an Academy Award, but never did.
I'll start with Peter O'Toole (for "Lawrence of Arabia.")
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:23 PM
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:24 PM
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but the one that still stings is Cate Blanchett not winning for Elizabeth in favor of Gwyneth Paltry.
Also, Alfred Hitchcock never won one.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:29 PM
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for the same or "Starting Over" which brings us to Jill Clayburgh. OK< I'll stop.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:31 PM
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17. Reynolds was real good in Boogie Nights but |
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he lost to Robin Williams for Good Will Hunting and I think that was a great choice.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:26 PM
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Can't think of an actress....maybe Marg Helgenberger for "Erin Brockovich". She was excellent.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:26 PM
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It's all political, and The Shatner is so above all that.
Fucking politics. Fucking Academy.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:37 PM
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:27 PM
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only two nominations and not even for his best films. He should have been nominated for "The Awful Truth", "Bringing UP Baby", "Gunda Din", "His Girl Friday", "Notorious", and "North by Northwest" and he should have won "The Awful Truth"
Females--Jean Arthur--another talented comedienne--comedies are not well rewarded by the Academy. She was brilliant in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Easy Living", "The More the Merrier" and should have won for "Shane"
Other notables Rosalind Russell Edward G. Robinson Richard Burton
never won an Oscar!!
AND in the supporting category--despite four nominations Agnes Moorehead should have won for her role of Fanny Minafer in "The Magnificent Ambersons"
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:29 PM
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13. I always thought that Agnes Moorehead won for something at the end |
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:30 PM
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Nominated 4 times, never won.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:33 PM
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22. Well that stinks. She was a great actress in the old style. |
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Edited on Wed Jun-23-04 04:34 PM by efhmc
By that I mean that she was staged trained and had great depth and discipline.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:32 PM
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for an episode of "The Wild Wild West" and a Golden Globe for "Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte". Won the NY film critics award for "Ambersons"
BTW, I'm writing a biography of Agnes which will be released next April--incase any fans are on board.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:36 PM
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24. Same soroity (also Eva Marie Saint) so I always paid attention. |
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As a disclaimer, I'll tell you the Oscars are a serious hobby, so I could go on for hours, but I'll endeavour not to. Richard Burton, "Who's Afraid Virginia Woolf?" Ann Savage, "Detour" Glenn Close "Dangerous Liasons" John Malkovich, ditto. Donald Sutherland "Ordinary People" Cicely Tyson, "Sounder" Deborah Kerr "From Here to Eternity" Montgomery Clift, ditto James Dean, anything he did. I'll stop now. I've only listed people that never won a competitive Oscar, btw.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:30 PM
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15. Yes, Glenn Close in DL |
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and for Fatal Attraction
Also, Donald Sutherland for OP was a good choice you also listed.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:31 PM
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wasn't even nominated, but his lefty politics always got under the older, conservative members undies.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:35 PM
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23. What about another non-nominated preformer |
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Malcolm McDowell in 'A Clockwork Orange' or Al Pacino in 'Scarface'
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:31 PM
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19. Madonna...for Shanghai Surprise |
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Her performance was sooo moving :)
(Yes I'll admit I'm being sarcastic...)
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:40 PM
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29. Madonna....for 'Evita' |
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should have at least gotten a nomination.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:31 PM
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20. Edward D. Wood in "Glenn or Glenda" |
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:36 PM
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25. Cary Grant, Buster Keaton... |
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And yes, certainly O'Toole, who also should have won for "Becket," a remastered version of which is now being released. Amazingly, Rex Harrison won that year for "My Fair Lady." For that matter, Richard Burton should have won an Oscar, but never did. He was nominated that same year (1964), along with O'Toole, and perhaps they split the vote. Though I would have given it to him for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Oh yeah---O'Toole gave an Oscar-worthy performance in "The Stunt Man" in 1980, but it's hard to argue with that year's winner: De Niro in "Raging Bull."
I could also make the case for Bob Hoskins, specifically for "The Long Good Friday."
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:36 PM
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How many nominations without the trophy? He should have won it for "Whose afraid of Virginia Woolf".
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:39 PM
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Should have won best supporting actor in 2002
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:47 PM
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:48 PM
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31. Whoopi Goldberg deserved the Oscar in 1985 for the Color Purple... |
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Instead, the Academy chose to pay tribute to Geraldine Page's career by giving her Best Actress for The Trip to Bountiful.
Whoopi later did get Best Supporting for Ghost.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:48 PM
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32. the year: 1994 the crime: |
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giving Hanks a second consecutive oscar, this time for the Gumpster.
Any actor worth their salt can tell you that playing the mentally challenged is the easiest type of role to do. Try it yourself, I'll bet you'll be damned convincing.
who should have won that year is:
Morgan Freeman for Shawshank Redemption. He had to carefully balance a role that could have become so sappy if played even a little bit wrong. He nailed it. It was a hard role- quiet, crucial, exactly the kind of part actors are scared to even attempt.
But no. Hanks had to have two.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:53 PM
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33. Morgan Freeman should have won for |
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just about anything he's ever done. If he's in a film, you can be sure it's going to be a winner.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:57 PM
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36. I agree with you there. |
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Edited on Wed Jun-23-04 04:57 PM by Supormom
Morgan Freeman was wonderful in Shawshank Redemption. Tom Hanks should have received an Oscar for Apollo 13, though I don't recall his competition that year.
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Wed Jun-23-04 05:30 PM
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38. Freeman was excellent in Shawshank but what |
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not even a nomination for Tim Robbins in that movie. Robbins' role in that film is my favorite screen character in history.
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:54 PM
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34. I'll give you a director: Martin Scorcese |
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I can't believe that a director of his caliber has never won an Oscar. And what I personally consider his best film, "Goodfellas," lost to the interminably long and boring "Dances with Wolves."
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Wed Jun-23-04 06:41 PM
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40. Scorsese is the most neglected person in Hollywood |
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period. He should have a handful of Oscars by now.
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Wed Jun-23-04 08:28 PM
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His is the one and only name that will definitely get me to the theater to see a movie, no matter what it's subject. He's that fucking good!
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Wed Jun-23-04 04:56 PM
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35. Peter O' Toole for "The Lion in Winter" |
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O' Toole was every bit Katharine Hepburn's equal in "TLIW". She won an Oscar for it, he didn't.
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Wed Jun-23-04 05:28 PM
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37. orson welles and charlie chaplin |
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they each won 'honary' awards toward the end of their lives, but were never the recipient of the any of yearly competitive awards
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Wed Jun-23-04 08:36 PM
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42. Damn shame, too. Brilliant talents, indeed. |
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Hollywood should bow every morning in honor to and memory of Welles.
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Wed Jun-23-04 06:40 PM
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39. Denzel Washington for Malcolm X |
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I'm still not convinced his win for Training Day - a good performance, but not the caliber of his ASTONISHING work in Spike Lee's masterpiece - isn't a makeup for not giving him the golden boy for Malcolm X. He WAS Malcolm, through and through.
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