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Who the Oscars should have nominated: Acting

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

2561

8.7

12 Angry Men (1957)

Henry Fonda as Juror 8

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

4340

7.4

7.6

American Psycho (2000)

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

3965

8.2

8.4

Apocalypse Now (1979)

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!

Rossjm's rating:

3174

7.2

7.5

Babel (2006)

Brad Pitt as Richard Jones

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

Rossjm's rating:

4784

7.3

7.5

Beetlejuice (1988)

Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

4331

7.9

8.1

The Big Lebowski (1998)

John Goodman as Walter Sobchak

Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski'

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor (Goodman)
Best Actor (Bridges)

Rossjm's rating:

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

3623

6.4

7.3

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan... (2006)

Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

2887

8.2

8.3

Citizen Kane (1941)

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)

Rossjm's rating:

6297

8.2

8.3

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Malcolm McDowell as Alex Delarge

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

2153

7.3

7.6

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Richard Dreyfuss as Roy Neary

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

1765

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

John Cazale as Sal Naturile

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

Rossjm's rating:

5867

7.7

Donnie Darko (2001)

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

8613

7.7

7.9

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

9357

8.3

8.8

Fight Club (1999)

Edward Norton as The Narrator

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

1716

7.1

7.5

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Jamie Lee Curtis as Wanda Gershwitz

Michael Palin as Ken Pile

Should have been nominated for
Best Actress (Curtis)
Best Supporting Actor (Palin)

Rossjm's rating:

2269

7.3

7.6

The Fly (1986)

Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

734

7.4

7.7

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Jack Lemmon as Shelley Levene

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

264

7.5

High Sierra (1941)

Humphrey Bogart as Roy Earle

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

5518

8.4

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Mélanie Laurent as Shosana Dreyfus

Should have been nominated for
Best Actress/Best Supporting Actress (Could qualify for either)

Rossjm's rating:

562

7.8

7.9

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

1003

7.6

7.8

The King of Comedy (1982)

Robert De Niro as Rupert Pupkin

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

439

7.6

The Ladykillers (1955)

Alec Guinness as Professer Marcus

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

2073

7.3

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)

Rossjm's rating:

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

9070

8.2

8.9

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King... (2003)

Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

Rossjm's rating:

2925

7.5

7.6

The Machinist (2004)

Christian Bale as Trevor Reznik

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

2867

7.6

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.

Rossjm's rating:

1147

7.7

Miller's Crossing (1990)

John Turturro as Bernie Bernbaum

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

Rossjm's rating:

2905

7.2

7.3

Natural Born Killers (1994)

Robert Downey Jr. as Wayne Gale

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

Rossjm's rating:

905

8.1

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Robert Mitchem as Harry Powell

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

1929

8.3

North by Northwest (1959)

Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall

Should have been nominated for
Best Actress

Rossjm's rating:

649

7.4

7.5

The Player (1992)

Tim Robbins as Griffin Mill

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

4237

8.3

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.

Rossjm's rating:

5319

8.1

8.3

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Tim Roth as Mr. Orange

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

1841

7.1

7.3

Revolutionary Road (2008)

Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Wheeler

Kate Winslet as April Wheeler

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor (DiCaprio)
Best Actress (Winslet)

Rossjm's rating:

2579

7.4

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

2611

7.8

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Mia Farrow as Rosemary Woodhouse

Should have been nominated for
Best Actress

Rossjm's rating:

4220

7.9

8.3

Scarface (1983)

Al Pacino as Tony Montana

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

1950

8.1

8.3

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

Rossjm's rating:

6120

7.8

8.6

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Giovanni Ribisi as Irwin Wade

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

Rossjm's rating:

263

7.3

7.2

Scarecrow (1973)

Al Pacino as Francis Lionel Delbuchi

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

6544

8.1

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)

Rossjm's rating:

819

7.2

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

James Spader as Graham Dalton

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

6145

8.6

9.3

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne

James Whitmore as Brooks Hatlen

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor (Robbins)
Best Supporting Actor (Whitmore)

Rossjm's rating:

1969

8.2

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Tony Curtis as Joe/Josephine/Junior

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

6571

8.2

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.

Rossjm's rating:

947

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)

Rossjm's rating:

6266

7.6

8.2

The Truman Show (1998)

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

1760

7.5

7.9

True Romance (1993)

Christopher Walken as Vincenzo Coccotti

Should have been nominated for
Best Supporting Actor

Rossjm's rating:

2882

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)

Rossjm's rating:

411

8.1

White Heat (1949)

James Cagney as Cody Jarrett

Should have been nominated for
Best Actor

Rossjm's rating:

Voters of this movie list - View all

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