Good examples of people winning an Oscar without mounting a large scale campaign

Mo'Nique for PRECIOUS.

Didn't that Italian goofball's win for La vita è bella come out of nowhere?

Roberto Begnini was at every single Oscar pre-party working the circuit like a house clown. He also had Weinstein behind a huge "Life is Beautiful" campaign. His win certainly does not belong in this thread.

I can't imagine K Hepburn did the party circuit shaking hands until her hand fell off.

Glenda Jackson didn't campaign for either of her Oscars, the first of which was well deserved. She also didn't show up to accept either time.

Not sure if Maggie Smith campaigned for her JEAN BRODIE Oscar (I'm inclined to doubt it).

Kate Hepburn NEVER even attended the ceremony to pick up each of her FOUR statues. She didn't attend, period. I think that the only time she ever attended was to present a lifetime achievement award to George Cukor, memory serving. Kate didn't play that silly Hollywood shit.

Katina Paxinou.

Frances McDonald didn't campaign for either of her wins. Neither did Robert De Niro or Sissy Spacek for Raging Bill & Coal Miner's Daughter's respectively.Actually Sissy Spacek is another actress that doesn't campaign. Albert Finney is an actor who never campaigns.

Heath ledger

Marlon Brando for The Godfather.

Mark Rylance.

Anna Magnani, 1955 - "The Rose Tattoo"

R8, old McDonald has a farm. Frances McDormand, however, has two Oscars.

As for Sissy Spacek you may be right but I do recall it was a very tight race between her and Mary Tyler Moore right up until the end. I imagine she was pressured somewhat by the studio to get out there and promote her nomination.

Frances McDormand didn't campaign for her second Oscar per se. But she was a huge supporter of her film and the supporting performances of Harrelson and Rockwell and she definitely touted them all over the place in the 1,000 lead up awards ceremonies to the Oscars.

She seemed more excited at the opportunity to give a speech rather than win the Oscar last year (she put the actual gong on the floor immediately when she got up there to accept it - could you imagine AnnE letting it out of her hands?) I really don't see FM giving a shit about awards.

Marisa Tomei

Melissa Leo. Just kidding.

Hepburn’s only oscar appearance was presenting the Irving g thalberg award to a film producer named Lawrence weingarten.

Maggie smiths movie came and went early in the year. The category that year wasn’t that strong. Spacek actually did campaign a bit for coal miners daughter morseso for the movie and Loretta Lynn.

Finances McDorman and other actors/actresses of her category should never have to grovel for an award. It’s embarrassing. Good for her for not stooping that low.

Sam Rockwell didn't seem to this year.

Brie larson for room.

Anything and everyone that won prior to the late-1970s. Lindsay Ellis did a good video on Oscar bait and how it's a recent phenomenon.

Jack Palance

Did Glenn ever campaign for any of her nominations? Or campaign for a nomination that failed to happen?

Wasn't there a talk of a "Cookie's Fortune" nomination for G that never materialized?

1999 was a year when lots of good performances missed out on a nom. Reese Witherspoon (in one of her few excellent performances), Siggy in Map of the World, Michelle Pheiffer in The Deep End of the Ocean

Kathy Bates for Misery. I don't think she expected to win at all.

Kathy was thirsty for that second win for About Schmidt in 2003. She almost took Catherine Zeta Jones out with a well aimed heel.

Marilyn Hack

R5 Actually, Maggie Smith did campaign. After she was nominated for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she flew from London to LA to make appearances around Hollywood, including guesting on the Carol Burnett Show and attending rounds of parties. Hollywood voters, who really didn't know who she was at the time, were flattered by her attention. Her win for Brodie was a bit of an upset, although it was well-deserved. She missed the Oscar ceremony because she was doing a play.

Jane Fonda really should have won the year that Maggie Smith did, as much as I love the latter.

Mark Rylance

Maggie Smith was nominated for an oscar three years before r29, I doubt voters didn’t know who she was.

Kate Winslet for The Reader

^^^^You are obviously joking.

[quote]Sam Rockwell didn't seem to this year.

Yeah, no. He campaigned.

Christian Bale is known not to campaign, though I can’t remember if he did so for The Fighter or not. Daniel Day Lewis doesn’t either.

Judi D

May 16, 1929, first Academy Awards presentation: a Special Award to Charlie Chaplin, a multiple nominee for one movie (Best Actor, Best Writer and Best Director, Comedy; all for The Circus) having been removed from the list so as to recognize his total contribution to the industry.

Didn't they also have a couple of Best Picture awards? Like Best Serious Film and Best Popular Claptrap?