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Added by Rossjm on 18 Nov 2010 10:36
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Who the Oscars should have nominated: Acting

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People who added this item 2561 Average listal rating (1704 ratings) 8.7 IMDB Rating 9
12 Angry Men (1957)
Henry Fonda as Juror 8



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 4340 Average listal rating (2861 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.6
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 3965 Average listal rating (2480 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.4
Marlon Brando as Col. Kurtz



Dennis Hopper as The Photojournalist



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor (Brando)
Best Supporting Actor (Hopper)

Come on, shorter roles than these have been nominated!
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People who added this item 3174 Average listal rating (1955 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.5
Babel (2006)
Brad Pitt as Richard Jones



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor
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People who added this item 4784 Average listal rating (3318 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.5
Beetlejuice (1988)
Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 4331 Average listal rating (2912 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 8.1
John Goodman as Walter Sobchak



Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski'



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor (Goodman)
Best Actor (Bridges)
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Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 2887 Average listal rating (1790 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.3
Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein



Joseph Cotton as Jedediah Leland



Agnes Moorehead as Mary Kane



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor (Sloane)
Best Supporting Actor (Cotten)
Best Supporting Actress (Moorehead)
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People who added this item 6297 Average listal rating (4285 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.3
Malcolm McDowell as Alex Delarge



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 1765 Average listal rating (1147 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8
John Cazale as Sal Naturile



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor
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People who added this item 5867 Average listal rating (3975 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 8
Donnie Darko (2001)
Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 8613 Average listal rating (6151 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.9
Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 9357 Average listal rating (6883 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.8
Fight Club (1999)
Edward Norton as The Narrator



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 1716 Average listal rating (1141 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.5
Jamie Lee Curtis as Wanda Gershwitz



Michael Palin as Ken Pile



Should have been nominated for
Best Actress (Curtis)
Best Supporting Actor (Palin)
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People who added this item 2269 Average listal rating (1470 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.6
The Fly (1986)
Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 734 Average listal rating (465 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.7
Jack Lemmon as Shelley Levene



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

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People who added this item 264 Average listal rating (157 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.5
Humphrey Bogart as Roy Earle



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 5518 Average listal rating (3832 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8.4
Mรฉlanie Laurent as Shosana Dreyfus



Should have been nominated for
Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress (Could qualify for either)
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People who added this item 562 Average listal rating (389 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.9
Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 1003 Average listal rating (636 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.8
Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 439 Average listal rating (265 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.6
Alec Guinness as Professer Marcus



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 2073 Average listal rating (1062 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.5
Lolita (1962)
James Mason as Humbert Humbert



Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor (Mason)
Best Supporting Actor (Sellers)
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Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor
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People who added this item 2925 Average listal rating (1758 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.6
The Machinist (2004)
Christian Bale as Trevor Reznik



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 2867 Average listal rating (1698 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 8
Magnolia (1999)
John C. Reilly as Officer Jim Kurring



Julianne Moore as Linda Partridge



William H. Macy as Donnie Smith



Melora Waters as Claudia Wilson



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor (Reilly)
Best Supporting Actress (Moore)
Best Supporting Actor (Macy)
Best Supporting Actress (Waters)

The whole cast could have been nominated to be honest. Not a single bad performance in the film.

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People who added this item 1147 Average listal rating (706 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.7
John Turturro as Bernie Bernbaum



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor
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People who added this item 2905 Average listal rating (1817 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.3
Robert Downey Jr. as Wayne Gale



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor
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People who added this item 905 Average listal rating (592 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8
Robert Mitchem as Harry Powell



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 1929 Average listal rating (1270 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.3
Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall



Should have been nominated for
Best Actress
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People who added this item 649 Average listal rating (378 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.5
The Player (1992)
Tim Robbins as Griffin Mill



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 4237 Average listal rating (2804 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.5
Psycho (1960)
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

This one is a real disgrace. The best performance of all time, in any film (in my opinion and I'm sure others share this view) and he wasn't even nominated, let alone win.

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People who added this item 5319 Average listal rating (3660 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.3
Tim Roth as Mr. Orange



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 1841 Average listal rating (1061 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.3
Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Wheeler



Kate Winslet as April Wheeler



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor (DiCaprio)
Best Actress (Winslet)
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People who added this item 2579 Average listal rating (1619 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.4
Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 2611 Average listal rating (1616 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 8
Mia Farrow as Rosemary Woodhouse



Should have been nominated for
Best Actress
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People who added this item 4220 Average listal rating (2751 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 8.3
Scarface (1983)
Al Pacino as Tony Montana



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

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People who added this item 6120 Average listal rating (4167 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 8.6
Giovanni Ribisi as Irwin Wade



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor
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People who added this item 263 Average listal rating (130 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.2
Scarecrow (1973)
Al Pacino as Francis Lionel Delbuchi



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 6544 Average listal rating (4625 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.6
Seven (1995)
Brad Pitt as David Mills



Morgan Freeman as William Somerset



Should hav been nominated for
Best Actor (Pitt)
Best Actor (Freeman)
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James Spader as Graham Dalton



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 6145 Average listal rating (4366 ratings) 8.6 IMDB Rating 9.3
Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne



James Whitmore as Brooks Hatlen



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor (Robbins)
Best Supporting Actor (Whitmore)
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People who added this item 1969 Average listal rating (1291 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.2
Tony Curtis as Joe/Josephine/Junior



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 6571 Average listal rating (4568 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.4
The Shining (1980)
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Another travesty. A brilliant film where not only was Nicholson overlooked but Stanley Kubrick too.
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People who added this item 947 Average listal rating (548 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.4
Straw Dogs (1971)
Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner



Susan George as Amy Sumner



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor (Hoffman)
Best Actress (George)
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People who added this item 6266 Average listal rating (4500 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 8.2
Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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People who added this item 1760 Average listal rating (1134 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.9
True Romance (1993)
Christopher Walken as Vincenzo Coccotti



Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor
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People who added this item 2882 Average listal rating (1817 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.3
Vertigo (1958)
James Stewart as John 'Scottie' Ferguson



Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor (Stewart)
Best Actress (Novak)
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People who added this item 411 Average listal rating (259 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8.1
James Cagney as Cody Jarrett



Should have been nominated for
Best Actor
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A list of fantastic performances overlooked by the often incompetent Academy Awards.

Alphabetical.

In some films, an actor or actress were nominated. However, for some of them I think more of the cast should/could have been nominated (Eg. Apocalypse Now and Magnolia). I'm not saying they made the wrong choice with the people they did choose, I just believe that there were other equally good performances in the film.

Some of these roles are very short. However, some actors and actresses have often been nominated for very short roles and so I have included good short performances too.

For my Directing list, see the link below
Who the Oscars should have nominated: Directing


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