Movies Who's the three best actors to never been nominated for an Oscar?

[Takes Two To Tango]

Nobody would vote for him in a poll like this because he's too old school, but Edward G. Robinson is my pick. He received an Honorary Award, but he was a beast of an actor who never got any love from the Academy. He should've been nominated tons of times and at the very least deserved Best Actor for Little Caesar and Best Supporting Actor for The Cincinnati Kid.

Yeah I'm thinking of putting him on now, with also Donald Sutherland.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

because Tombstone was released at the ass-end of ‘93 (on xmas day) & nobody saw it (this part is hyperbole). its first week it got clobbered by Mrs. Doubtfire (on its 6th week) & The Pelican Brief (its 2nd week). then continued to get clobbered by Mrs. Doubtfire & fall short of The Pelican Brief until Tombstone fell out of the top 5 in its 4th week & out of the top 10 by February.

then when you compound all that w/ …
1. The Piano still in theaters through December & January
2. Schindler’s List released two weeks before Tombstone (on <100 screens each week until January, but had an Oscar buzz gravitational pull stronger than the sun)
3. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape gets a limited release the week before Xmas
4. Philadelphia gets a limited release the same week/a few days before xmas (then wide release in January)
5. oh yeah, & Jurassic Park has still been parked in theaters this entire time (on its 29th week when Tombstone premieres)

conclusion: the Oscars math was never ever ever going to add up for Val Kilmer in Tombstone

Very interesting, it was just pretty much bad timing and bad luck for Kilmer.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

You can choose 3 actors now.

 

[Bullitt68]

Shimura and Mifune

Oh boy, this can get real unwieldy if we open things up to the entire history of cinema, not just the pretty much exclusively Hollywood field from which the Academy nominates. But they're two great non-Hollywood/non-English-speaking candidates.

It's amazing when you think about it........98% of the best acting performance since the 1930s THAT THE MAJORITY OF CASUAL MOVIEGOERS have been by Americans and Brits. Maybe chuck the odd Aussie in there.

Fixed that for you. This is like saying that most of the best MMA fighters have been Americans like Stipe, Cain, Jones, DC, Liddell, Hughes. They're great, sure, but anyone who actually knows the history of MMA knows that that's a very small sample size. How many casual moviegoers have seen Jean Gabin in La Bête Humaine, or Giulietta Masina in La Strada, or Toshiro Mifune in I Live in Fear, or Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries, or Nina Pens Rode in Gertrud, or Liv Ullmann in Autumn Sonata, or Alexander Kaidanovsky in Stalker, or Jorge Perugorría in Strawberry and Chocolate, or Maggie Cheung in In the Mood for Love, and on and on down the enormous list of amazing performances turned in by amazing actors in amazing films not in English?

Clint Eastwood

He was nominated for Unforgiven.

Yeah I'm thinking of putting him on now.

 

[LEWIS540]

Fixed that for you. This is like saying that most of the best MMA fighters have been Americans like Stipe, Cain, Jones, DC, Liddell, Hughes. They're great, sure, but anyone who actually knows the history of MMA knows that that's a very small sample size. How many casual moviegoers have seen Jean Gabin in La Bête Humaine, or Giulietta Masina in La Strada, or Toshiro Mifune in I Live in Fear, or Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries, or Nina Pens Rode in Gertrud, or Liv Ullmann in Autumn Sonata, or Alexander Kaidanovsky in Stalker, or Jorge Perugorría in Strawberry and Chocolate, or Maggie Cheung in In the Mood for Love, and on and on down the enormous list of amazing performances turned in by amazing actors in amazing films not in English?

But yeah, the Oscars has largely always been a Hollywood circle jerk / self promotion vehicle. They'll occasionally throw a 'Parasite" in to pretend they are diverse, I suppose.

John Wayne won a best actor, ffs!

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Edward G. Robinson.
Should have won for Double Indemnity.

 

[HenryFlower]

feels like the Academy has been blatantly perpetuating the hollywood circle jerk in recent years when it comes to the acting nominations (they’ll throw in a few “Look! We’re cultured!” best picture noms because the nom count is up to TEN friggin’ movies) as it seems as if they’re more than happy to let the Independent Spirit Awards cover the performances that truly deserve recognition. that way the academy has more spaces to fill w/ their homies or the actors they feel they owe. Last year was a particularly egregious example of this when Greta Lee (Past Lives) & Charles Melton (May December) got totally snubbed by the academy jabronis

 

[Ima5starman]

Nobody would vote for him in a poll like this because he's too old school, but Edward G. Robinson is my pick. He received an Honorary Award, but he was a beast of an actor who never got any love from the Academy. He should've been nominated tons of times and at the very least deserved Best Actor for Little Caesar and Best Supporting Actor for The Cincinnati Kid.

Robinson and Mifune

 

[moreorless87]

feels like the Academy has been blatantly perpetuating the hollywood circle jerk in recent years when it comes to the acting nominations (they’ll throw in a few “Look! We’re cultured!” best picture noms because the nom count is up to TEN friggin’ movies) as it seems as if they’re more than happy to let the Independent Spirit Awards cover the performances that truly deserve recognition. that way the academy has more spaces to fill w/ their homies or the actors they feel they owe. Last year was a particularly egregious example of this when Greta Lee (Past Lives) & Charles Melton (May December) got totally snubbed by the academy jabronis

Honestly though there was only a relatively brief period in the New Hollywood era were the Academy coud claim to somewhat have its finger on the pulse of the very best cinema being made and its been trading off of that ever since IMHO.

 

[sanguinius]

because Tombstone was released at the ass-end of ‘93 (on xmas day) & nobody saw it (this part is hyperbole). its first week it got clobbered by Mrs. Doubtfire (on its 6th week) & The Pelican Brief (its 2nd week). then continued to get clobbered by Mrs. Doubtfire & fall short of The Pelican Brief until Tombstone fell out of the top 5 in its 4th week & out of the top 10 by February.

then when you compound all that w/ …
1. The Piano still in theaters through December & January
2. Schindler’s List released two weeks before Tombstone (on <100 screens each week until January, but had an Oscar buzz gravitational pull stronger than the sun)
3. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape gets a limited release the week before Xmas
4. Philadelphia gets a limited release the same week/a few days before xmas (then wide release in January)
5. oh yeah, & Jurassic Park has still been parked in theaters this entire time (on its 29th week when Tombstone premieres)

conclusion: the Oscars math was never ever ever going to add up for Val Kilmer in Tombstone

The hurt locker won an oscar and the only ones that watched it were in the academy.

 

[Koala]

Andy Lau
Toshiro Mifune
Adel Emam

 

[Pliny Pete]

Tim Blake Nelson is probably my favorite actor at the moment, that dude steals the show in every movie he plays in

 

[HenryFlower]

The hurt locker won an oscar and the only ones that watched it were in the academy.

and?

 

[Fedorgasm]

Val Kilmer not being nominated for tombstone really shows what a sham the academy is.

It's widely accepted as one of the greatest performances in history.

I also picked Mifune and Turturro who ate just consistently excellent in everything

 

[khukurikoo]

I picked Private Pyle, Doc Holiday, and Tommy Vercetti. I just looked it up and appears Danny Glover didn't get any nominations either. Guess his movies weren't good enough to qualify but I liked him in everything I seen him in.

 

[helax]

Edward G was never nominated? That’s wild.

 

[HenryFlower]

Val Kilmer not being nominated for tombstone really shows what a sham the academy is.

It's widely accepted as one of the greatest performances in history.

 

[Bullitt68]

John Wayne won a best actor, ffs!

I don't have a problem with Wayne (though if he should've won it should've been for The Searchers) but that particular year belonged to either Jon Voight or Dustin Hoffman for Midnight Cowboy.

Val Kilmer not being nominated for tombstone really shows what a sham the academy is.

It's widely accepted as one of the greatest performances in history.

Haha, yeah, let's pump the brakes a little. Tombstone is a terrible movie with two good performances in it from Val Kilmer and Michael Biehn, and Kilmer's performance isn't even the best performance of that character (that distinction goes to Kirk Douglas in Gunfight at the OK Corral in my book) or that year (in the Best Actor category, Laurence Fishburne in What's Love Got to Do With It and Michael Douglas in Falling Down have him beat, while in the Best Supporting Actor category, Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive, Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, and John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire have him beat) much less one of the greatest in film history.

 

[moreorless87]

Honestly though Val's Tombstone performance is not really the kind of thing the Academy goes for most of the time, fun characteristic character performance in an action film.

 

[HenryFlower]

idk what it is about sherdoggers & their boners for Tombstone. it’s one of the most basic bitch gen x dude movies ever