Ascotrudgeracer Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 One of the greatest travesties in Academy Award history...Bobby Darin gets the nod for Best Supporting Actor for "Captain Newman, MD" (1963) while Eddie Albert, in the same film, is ignored. Albert's performance was breathtaking, unique and there has never been anything like it before or since. Darin wasn't half-bad, but couldn't come close to Eddie Albert in that movie. Maybe the Academy likes singers over actors (and actresses). Cher for "Moonstruck." That was the dumbest Best Actress choice in world history. Sad. Link to post Share on other sites
Terrence1 Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 There are so many actors who should have been nominated. I am sure I will be responding to this thread many times, as more names occur to me. Two that come to mind are from "The Music Man": Robert Preston and Hermione Gingold. I realize that it's tough for a musical to receive recognition at Oscar time, but these two performances were so great, and so funny. They definitely should have been on the list for that year. Terrence. Link to post Share on other sites
PrinceSaliano Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Bela Lugosi (as Ygor) in SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939). Link to post Share on other sites
kingrat Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Among the actors never nominated in any role are Donald Sutherland, Edward G. Robinson, Myrna Loy, and Maureen O'Hara. The list of great performances not nominated would be endless. Diane Cilento in "Hombre," George Segal and James Fox in "King Rat," Harry Andrews and Ossie Davis in "The Hill," Lee Remick in both "Wild River" and "Anatomy of a Murder," Jo Van Fleet in "Wild River," Barbara Stanwyck, Judith Anderson, and Walter Huston in "The Furies" are a few that come immediately to mind. And Ralph Fiennes as Charles Van Doren in "Quiz Show"--a character who's both charismatic and weak, a tough combination to pull off. Link to post Share on other sites
ILoveRayMilland Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Well, I think that maybe Eddie, should have ALSO been nominated. But, there is no way that Bobby's nomination should have been taken away from him. He was an excellent actor and gave a great performance. Eddie was nominated twice in the course of his career (and it was a shame he never won), but this was Bobby's single nomination. By 1973 (ten years later) Bobby was dead from heart-failure. Link to post Share on other sites
BelleLeGrand1 Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Speaking of *Quiz Show*, John Turturro should also have been nominated. I'm amazed he has yet to be nominated for any of his fine performances. Errol Flynn, Dick Powell, Joel McCrea... Link to post Share on other sites
jh33 Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Jean Harlow for either Dinner At Eight or Bombshell. Link to post Share on other sites
Terrence1 Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 OK. Here's another I just though of---Lana Turner in "Madame X". She was far superior to her nomination for "Peyton Place." I read where one critic said that if the movie had done better at the box office, she would have been assured of a nomination. To me, this just does not make sense. I can think of many nominations and even winners that were for unsuccessful movies. Anyway, I've always felt Ms. Turner did an exceptional job. Terrence. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Well there's the whole volume dedicated to Cary Grant performances that were never nominated: 1937 The Awful Truth 1938 Bringing up Baby 1939 Only Angels Have Wings 1940 His Girl Friday AND The Philadelphia Story 1946 Notorious 1959 North by Northwest Link to post Share on other sites
Terrence1 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Here's one that most people wuold never think of---Shirley Booth in "Matchmaker." Before this, I had never seen her in a comedy, and she is nothing less than terrific. I don't think it did great business when it was released, but it is wonderful. And Ms. Booth does so much with the role of Dolly. Anyway, this one gets my vote. Terrence. Link to post Share on other sites
traceyk65 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Cary Grant in Suspicion and Notorious Lightweight charmer or bad guy, lover or clown--the man really could do it all--it's a crime he was never nominated. Ava Gardner in Mogambo She played the "showgirl" with a heart of gold beautifully. Bawdy, fun, yet tender and vulnerable, especially when she's cautioning Grace Kelly's character about getting mixed up with Gable's Victor Marswell. Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution Elsa Lanchester's excellent comic turn as the Nurse stole the movie and unfortunately Dietrich's brittle and multi-layered portrayal of Christine Vole was ignored. Link to post Share on other sites
kriegerg69 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Farrah Fawcett in Extremities Terence Stamp in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert Joel Grey in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Roddy McDowall in Fright Night Just a few I've always thought deserved nominations....it's almost criminal that Stamp didn't get nominated. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Welcome to THE 75 GREATEST PERFORMANCES NEVER NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD!!! First, off two provisos. A. Performances in foreign language films aren't included. This isn't because there aren't any, but because the Academy so rarely bothers to acknowledge their existence it would be pointless to complain, at least in this individual post. B. Performances by Cary Grant are omitted, because I already mentioned them in an earlier post. So with that in mind... 1. Groucho Marx, Duck Soup 2. Myrna Loy, The Thin Man 3. Fred Astaire, Top Hat (or Swing Time, or The Gay Divorcee or...) 4. Ginger Rogers, Top Hat (or Swing Time, or The Gay Divorcee or..) 5. Charles Chaplin, Modern Times 6. Katharine Hepburn, Bringing up Baby 7. Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz 8. Bert Lahr, The Wizard of Oz 9, Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz 10. James Stewart, The Shop Around the Corner 11. Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday 12. Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon 13, Roger Livesey, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 14, Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not 15. Ingrid Bergman, Notorious 16. Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux 17. Anton Walbrook, The Red Shoes 18, Robert Walker, Strangers on a Train 19, Henry Fonda, Twelve Angry Men 20. James Stewart, Vertigo 21, Kim Novak, Vertigo 22, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vertigo 23. Orson Welles, Touch of Evil 24, Marilyn Monroe, Some Like it Hot 25. James Mason, North by Northwest 26. Anthony Perkins, Psycho 27. James Mason, Lolita 28, Shelly Winters, Lolita 29, Peter Sellers, Lolita 30. George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 31. Leo McKern, Help! 32, Leo McKern, A Man for All Seasons 33. Albert Finney, Two for the Road 34. Audrey Heburn, Two for the Road 35. Douglas Rain, 2001: A Space Odyssey (yes, he's only a voice, but what other man gave a better performance in 1968) 36. Boris Karloff, Targets 37. Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange 38. Gene Hackman, The Conversation 39. Peter Falk, A Woman Under the Influence 40. John Cazale, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II 41. Sean Connery, The Man who Would be King 42. Michael Caine, The Man who Would be King 43. Graham Chapman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 44. Tim Curry, The Rocky Horror Picture Show 45. Peter Ustinov, Death on the Nile 46. Jack Nicholson, The Shining 47, Shelly Duvall, The Shining 48. Natassia Kinski, Tess 49. Leslie Nielsen, Airplane! 50. Steve Martin, The Man with Two Brains 51. Steve Martin, All of Me 52. Daryl Hannah, Splash 53. Tom Hanks, Splash 54. Harry Dean Stanton, Paris, Texas 55. Jonathan Pryce, Brazil 56. Holly Hunter, Raising Arizona 57. John Cleese, A Fish Called Wanda 58. Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers 59. Daniel Day-Lewis, The Unbearable Lightness of Being 60. Lena Olin, The Unbearable Lightness of Being 61. Jack Lemmon, Glengarry Glen Ross 62. Bill Murray, Groundhog Day 63. Sandra Bullock, Speed 64. Morgan Freeman, Se7en 65. Ian MacKellan, Richard III 66. Bruce Willis, Twelve Monkeys 67. Mara Wilson, Matilda 68. Jennifer Tilly, Bound 69. Kevin Spacey, LA Confidential 70. Steve Martin, The Spanish Prisoner 71. Cameron Diaz, There's Something About Mary 72. John Cusack, High Fidelity 73. Joel Haley Osment, AI: Artificial Intelligence 74. Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive 75. Robert Downey Jr., Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Link to post Share on other sites
Terrence1 Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Tracey, you have made some good choices, but if I remember correctly, Ava Gardner did receive a nomination for "Mogambo",.And she was terrific in it. Who said she couldn't act? Terrence. Link to post Share on other sites
traceyk65 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Tracey, you have made some good choices, but if I remember correctly, Ava Gardner did receive a nomination for "Mogambo",.And she was terrific in it. Who said she couldn't act? Terrence. Did she? Well, she deserved it. She nailed that part. She was very good as Maxine in Night of the Iguana, too. Too bad her looks distracted from her talent most of the time. Link to post Share on other sites
VideoVertigo Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Another vote for Joel McCrea... in particular: Foreign Correspondent Sullivan's Travels Palm Beach Story That's 3 films in 4 years that IIRC were all Best Picture nominees... you'd think the lead actor might have had something to do with it. Also off the top of my head... if any of these did get nominated, please correct me. Van Heflin "Patterns (1956) Kirk Douglas "Ace in The Hole" (1951) Laurence Harvey "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins "On The Beach" (1959) Was Fred MacMurray nominated for Double Indemnity? If not, he should have as well. Link to post Share on other sites
Ascotrudgeracer Posted July 7, 2009 Author Share Posted July 7, 2009 yes...YES!!! I had forgotten about Fred Astaire's stellar performance in "On the Beach." Oscar nomination ignored; maybe he should have won for that bit of work. And a big nod to the producers and casting bigshots for giving him his ONLY dramatic role, to that point. I think he was astounding. Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Are these in order? If so, this gets my vote for most diligence in formulating a posting.i Link to post Share on other sites
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