Which movie/Actor/Actress was snubbed the biggest

[charlie and algernon]

Films that were nominated a bunch but only came away with at most 1 or 2 awards, if any.

[Ohio Joe]

1. No doubt, The Wrestler - nt

[Lost in CT]

2. The wrestler with a shout out to both Robert Downey jr as well as

Ahney Her http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3115704/

who should have gotten a nomination for her performance in Gran Torino.

[LynneSin]

3. I wonder if Heath Ledger was alive - would Best Supporting Actor have been more competitive

Don't get me wrong, Heath really played the hell out of the Joker and deserved the win, but I thought that Josh Brolin also deserved the win just as equally. Brolin is a very talented actor who has this amazing ability to play pathetic psycho losers really well and showed great range not just with playing Daniel White in "Milk" but doing George W. Bush in "W".

I don't think Michael Shannon ever had a chance and unfortunately I don't think Tropic Thunder was ever taken too seriously as an Oscar-Worthy movie (and they nominated the wrong person from that movie - it should have been Tom Cruise). Philip Seymour Hoffman is always a strong contender but it was really down to Brolin and Ledger. And Ledger had the sympathy vote which pretty much took away any chance of Brolin winning.

[sammythecat]

9. I agree with all you say.

I've also been very impressed by Josh Brolin. I forget who won the award last year, but Brolin was certainly equally as deserving of Best Actor for "No Country for Old Men". I haven't seen "W" yet but I don't doubt he did award worthy work.

I enjoyed "The Dark Knight", a fun but typical action adventure blockbuster type movie, but the only thing memorable from the movie was Heath Ledger's Joker, and it was memorable indeed. One of the best and most entertaining villains I've seen, but I can't help but think what a plum role that was. I think there must be a number of good actors who could have played that role, a little differently, but equally as "scene stealingly".

I think that most of the time winning an Oscar for acting is a matter of luck. All of the contenders are usually deserving and it's always a shame that some don't win. It's certainly a valid notion to wonder if Heath Ledger's tragic bad luck gave him the edge this year. His performance was as award worthy as the others, but I'm thinking the voters gave it to him as an acknowledgment of the loss of what could have been, and should have been, an outstanding career. It's likely he would get an Oscar eventually and this was his last shot.

[EastTennesseeDem]

10. Daniel Day-Lewis won it for There Will Be Blood

for which I didn't complain, but it was shocking that Brolin wasn't even nominated.

I think Ledger deserved the win this year, and I'm certain he would've won or come close to it if he were alive. I agree that Brolin is an amazing talent, and he's going to nab an Oscar one of these days.

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. The Wrestler

Rourke gave the best performance of any actor or actress I've seen in some time.

[LynneSin]

5. Then you didn't see Milk because Sean Penn did the same exact thing

He and Rourke were both equally deserving of the Oscar but last night it was Penn's night.

[EastTennesseeDem]

6. I saw Milk and I thought Penn was phenomenal

He was absolutely astounding. I just thought Rourke was a tiny small fraction of a bit better.

[undeterred]

7. I haven't seen Milk yet but Sean Penn

is always phenomenal. His performance in Dead Man Walking was also Oscarworthy. He is one of the best actors around.

[Shell Beau]

13. Mystic River as well!!

[KamaAina]

8. The ultimate meta-snub: Benjamin Button not even on your snub list

it would've happened two days before Mardi Gras, too. Heckuvajob, Brownie Academy! :sarcasm:

[Orangepeel]

11. I read somewhere once that the Academy tends not to give the Oscar when they think the actor ...

is playing themselves. What I read wasn't about Rourke (I don't remember who they were talking about), but that might have played into Penn's win. Rourke did a fantastic job, but Penn did a fantastic job while transforming himself into a completely different person.

Langella also did a great job and Pitt and the visitor guy were good, but none of those three were up to the standard of Rourke and Penn. Penn's win was also a tribute to Harvey Milk himself. That might have pushed it over the edge in a close vote. Bunch of commie, homo-loving, sons of guns that the Academy is. :-)

I'm not upset they rewarded Winslet, but I would have voted for Anne Hathaway myself.

I saw a lot of movies this year!

[LoveMyCali]

12. That theory is blown out of the water

by Marlee Maitlin winning for "Children of a Lesser God" where she played a deaf, mute and Angelina Jolie winning for "Girl Interrupted" for playing a crazy girl.