Performances that deserved an Oscar nomination- but failed to garner one

Gillian Anderson, The House of Mirth

James Spader in sex, lies, and videotape.

MIA rosemary's baby

DL fave Nicole Kidman, "To Die For."

Alfre Woodard, Passion Fish

Gary Oldman-Sid & Nancy

Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive

I agree about Nicole in To Die For, a laugh out loud performance from that icy bitch. The role had her name written on it and she did it justice.

Margaret Hamilton, "The Wizard of Oz."

Still one of the most memorable supporting performances of all time.

Michelle Pfeiffer- Batman Returns

Madonna - Evita

Robert Shaw- Jaws

JoBeth Williams - Poltergeist

Jack Nicholson- The Shining

Eric Roberts - Star 80

Audrey Hepburn- My Fair Lady

Terrance Stamp- Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Mink Stole - Desperate Living Divine - Pink Flamingos Edith Maissey - Female Trouble

Esai Morales in Ultraviolet.

Christopher Reeve - Superman II

Warner's even mounted an Oscar campaign for him for that sequel

Christian Bale - Empire of the Sun

Kathy Bates for Best Actress and Judy Parfitt for Best Supporting Actress in Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Faye Dunaway in Barfly

Very few people saw "Christine," the Christine Chubbuck story, when it came out in 2016, but Rebecca Hall's performance in the lead was the best I saw that year, period.

She won a ton of film critics' best actress awards, but no Oscar nod.

Hall is both British and a beauty, but she absolutely nailed the plain-Jane American character.

Faye - Mommie Dearest

Tilda Swinton - The Deep End

Alistair Sim in "A Christmas Carol" 1951 Alan Arkin in "Wait Until Dark" Kim Darby in "True Grit" Leonard Frey in "Boys In The Band"

Don Cheadle in Devil with the Blue Dress Sandra Bernhard in King of Comedy Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor Tamu in Claudine Regina King in Ray

From last year alone: Toni Collette - Hereditary, Nicole Kidman - Destroyer, Rosamund Pike - A Private War, Jonathan Pryce - The Wife, Emily Blunt - A Quiet Place.

From other years: Linda Fiorentino - The Last Seduction (she was ineligible though) Deborah Kerr - The Innocents Giulietta Masina - The Nights of Cabiria Juliette Binoche - Three Colors: Blue, and Clouds of Sils Maria Kerry Fox - An Angel at My Table Mark Ruffalo - You Can Count On Me Johnny Depp - Black Mass

Don't laugh -- but Courtney Love in an indie film called "Julie Johnson" with Lili Taylor and Mischa Barton. She was the best thing in the movie.

The NBC switchboard at 30 Rock was seen in "A Face in the Crowd" when viewers called to complain. A friend's mother was one of the operators.

R4 YES. And the costume designer and makeup artist as well.

Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop

Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain

Lead Actor

Edward G. Robinson-"Little Caesar", "Scarlet Street", "The Woman in the Window"

James Cagney-"The Public Enemy"

Fred MacMurray-"Double Indemnity"

Robert Mitchum-"Night of the Hunter", "Cape Fear"

Joseph Cotten-"Shadow of a Doubt"

Boris Karloff-"Frankenstein"

Steve Martin-"Pennies From Heaven"

Nicol Williamson-"The Seven Per Cent Solution"

Johnny Depp-"Ed Wood"

Rex Harrison-"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"

Cary Grant-"The Awful Truth", "Holiday", "His Girl Friday"

David Carradine -"Bound for Glory"

Dana Andrews-"The Best Years of Our Lives"

John Barrymore-"Twentieth Century"

Jeff Bridges-"Bad Company", "American Heart"

Joel McCrea-"Ride the High Country"

Marlon Brando-"The Freshman"

Lead Actress

Lillian Gish-"The Wind"

Joan Crawford-"Grand Hotel"

Myrna Loy-"The Thin Man", "The Best Years of Our Lives"

Deborah Kerr-"Black Narcissus", "The Innocents"

Jean Arthur-"Easy Living"

Katharine Hepburn-"Little Women", "Stage Door"

Ginger Rogers-"Stage Door"

Ingrid Bergman-"Casablanca", "Notorious"

Judy Holliday-"The Marrying Kind", "It Should Happen to You", "The Solid Gold Cadillac"

Barbara Streisand-"What's Up, Doc?"

Barbara Stanwyck-"The Miracle Woman", "Remember the Night", "The Lady Eve"

Teresa Wright-"Shadow of a Doubt"

Bernadette Peters-"Pennies From Heaven"

Margaret Sullavan-"The Shop Around the Corner"

Rosalind Russell- "His Girl Friday"

Supporting Actor

Edward G. Robinson-"Double Indemnity", "Key Largo", "The Ten Commandments"

Alan Hale-"They Drive by Night"

Charley Grapewin-"The Petrified Forest", "The Grapes of Wrath"

John Qualen-"The Grapes of Wrath"

John Carradine-"The Grapes of Wrath"

John Megna-"To Kill a Mockingbird"

Peter Lorre-"The Maltese Falcon", "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Casablanca"

Evan Adams-"Smoke Signals"

Christopher Walken-"Pennies From Heaven"

Fred MacMurray-"The Apartment"

Joe E. Brown-"Some Like It Hot"

Rudy Vallee-"The Palm Beach Story"

Sydney Greenstreet-"Flamingo Road"

Ernest Anderson-"In This Our Life"

Frank Craven-"In This Our Life"

Dub Taylor-"Bonnie and Clyde"

Claude Rains-"King's Row"

Eugene Pallette-"My Man Godfrey","The Lady Eve", "The Male Animal"

Jack Carson-"The Male Animal"

Frank Morgan-"The Wizard of Oz", "The Shop Around the Corner"

William Tracy-"The Shop Around the Corner"

Supporting Actress

Joan Blondell-"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"

Elizabeth Patterson-"Remember the Night"

Buelah Bondi-"Remember the Night"

Ann Sheridan-"King's Row"

Hattie McDaniel-"Show Boat","In This Our Life"

Kirsten Dunst-"Interview With the Vampire", "Little Women"

Madeline Kahn-"What's Up, Doc?"

Margaret Hamilton-"The Wizard of Oz"

Mary Astor-"The Palm Beach Story"

Val Kilmer Tombstone

Kirsten Dunst in ‘Melancholia’

I second the choice of Dana Andrews in The Best Years of Our Lives; Andrews was also nomination-worthy in The Ox-Bow Incident (Supporting), Laura, Daisy Kenyon, and Where the Sidewalk Ends.

Also in Daisy Kenyon, Ruth Warrick was nomination-worthy for Supporting.

AWESOME CHOICES

LOVING:

JoBeth Williams- Poltergeist (Truly one of my favorite performances ever- You want to see the meaning of CHARISMA- THAT IS IT)

Nicole Kidman- Destroyer (Truly wonderful and a full realized- I think it is her best performance on film-)

Toni Collette- Hereditary

Kirsten Dunst- Melancholia (Truly underrated performance in a really special film)

Shit! Let me add the dude who played Tonya Harding's boyfriend in I , Tonya.

Don't know his name, but the guy was brilliant.

R34, Sebastian Stan. He’s my hung husband.

Roddy McDowell for Supporting in “Cleopatra.”

Fox foolishly promoted him for Best Actor, then publicly apologized for not promoting him for Supporting. Too bad.

Elaine May in "A New Leaf."

Orson Welles, The Third Man

Edith Evans, The Importance of Being Earnest

Timothy Carey, Paths of Glory

James Mason, Lolita

Shelley Winter, Lolita

Anthony Perkins, Psycho

Christopher Guest, This is Spinal Tap

Bjork “Dancer in the Dark”.

Oh how lovely R37 ! Thats one of my most favorite movies ever !

Mickey Rourke, Barfly

Lindsay Crouse, House of Games

Paul Le Mat, Melvin and Howard

Jeff Daniels, Something Wild

Cloris Leachman, High Anxiety

Christine Lahti and Steven Hill for “Running On Empty”.

Robert Mitchum & Steven Keats, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle".

From last year:

Joanna Kulig in Cold War

Elizabeth Debicki in Widows

Millicent Simmonds in A Quiet Place

Hugh Grant in Paddington 2

Sebastian Koch in Never Look Away

Anthony Perkins in Psycho is a travesty. Iconic performance that still holds up beautifully.

Marilyn Monroe for Supporting Actress for Some Like It Hot

GARNER

Campbell Scott - Roger Dodger

Pamela Franklin - 1970 - Best Supporting Actress - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

great one r48

She was brilliant opposite Dame Maggie.

Not being nominated? Sorry I can not relate to this thread.

Susan Sarandon - Bull Durhami

Coral Browne -- Dreamchild (lead)

Mimi Rogers -- The Rapture (lead)

Bernadette Peters -- Pennies from Heaven (lead or supporting)

Cate Blanchett -- The Talented Mr Ripley (supporting)

Olivia Williams -- An Education (supporting)

Judy Parfitt -- Girl with a Pearl Earring (supporting)

Judy Parfitt -- Dolores Claiborne (supporting)

Laura Dern -- Smooth Talk (lead)

Peter Boyle for Joe.

Ann Wedgeworth SWEET DREAMS Supporting

Beverly D'Angelo in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (Supporting)

Gene Hackman -- The Royal Tenenbaums

Steve Carell -- The Forty Year Old Virgin

Melissa McCarthy-- Spy

Miss Kay Lenz -- Breezy

Tim Curry for Rocky Horror Picture Show

Paula Prentiss for The Stepford Wives

John Cazale for Dog Day Afternoon

Lenny Baker, Ellen Greene and Shelley Winters, all for Next Stop, Greenwich Village

Gena Rowlands for Opening Night, Love Streams, Light of Day, Once Around and Unhook the Stars

Shelley Duvall for Three Women

Donna Pescow for Saturday Night Fever

John Savage for The Deer Hunter, The Onion Field and Inside Moves

Veronica Cartwright for Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Ted Ross for The Wiz

E.G. Marshall for Interiors

Treat Williams for Hair and Prince of the City

Christopher Plummer for The Silent Partner

Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Scatman Crothers for The Shining

Barry Miller and Anne Meara for Fame

Diane Lane for Touched by Love

Albert Finney, Diane Keaton and Dana Hill for Shoot the Moon

Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh for Fast Times and Ridgemont High (both supporting)

Robert DeNiro, Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard for The King of Comedy

Dianne Wiest for Independence Day

Kathleen Turner for Crimes of Passion

Mia Farrow for Broadway Danny Rose

Miranda Richardson for Dance With a Stranger

Eric Stoltz for Mask

Sean Penn for The Falcon & The Snowman and At Close Range

Audra Lindley for Desert Hearts

Steve Buscemi for Parting Glances and Ghost World

Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place and Treat Williams for Smooth Talk

Rachel Levin for Gaby, A True Story

Kevin Anderson for Orphans

Sigourney Weaver, The Ice Storm

Veronica Cartwright, The Witches of Eastwick

Diane Keaton, Looking for Mister Mr. Goodbar (couldn't be nominated for two films in the same year in the same category, but even so... )

I cannot believe Robert Shaw wasn't nominated for Jaws. I was certain he had been. How did THAT happen?

"Andy Griffith - " A Face In The Crowd"- 1957'

Why thank ya, OPee.

Christine Lahti and Steven Hill for Running on Empty

Mercedes Ruehl for Married to the Mob

Matt Dillon for Drugstore Cowboy and Factotum

John Hurt and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer for Scandal

Laura Dern for Wild at Heart

Jennifer Jason Leigh for Last Exit to Brooklyn, Single White Female, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Margot at the Wedding

Shirley MacLaine for Postcards from the Edge

Ruth Nelson for Awakenings

Val Kilmer for The Doors

Mimi Rogers for The Rapture

Sally Field for Soapdish

Donald Sutherland for Ordinary People, Six Degrees of Separation and Without Limits

Lili Taylor for Household Saints and I Shot Andy Warhol

Tracey Ullman for Household Saints

Kathleen Turner for Serial Mom

Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench for The Ref

Toni Collette for Muriel's Wedding and Velvet Goldmine

Joan Allen for The Ice Storm and Pleasantville

Max Perlich for Georgia

Mary Tyler Moore for Flirting With Disaster

Victoire Thivisol for Ponette

Holly Hunter for Living Out Loud

Winona Ryder and Brittany Murphy for Girl Interrupted

Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire for Wonder Boys

Haley Joel Osment for AI

Paul Dano and Brian Cox for L.I.E.

Jamie Bell for Billy Elliott and Nicholas Nickelby

Samantha Morton for Morvern Callar

Susan St. James - How to Beat the High Cost of Living

Trevor Howard for Brief Encounter.

Celia Johnson was nominated and she is admittedly the heart of the film but I think Howard was brilliant as well.

Interesting how so many of these roles are unsympathetic characters. Baddies are the meatiest parts, but seem to get short shrift at awards time.

Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation is another. I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that she was 17 when it was shot.

Mary Astor in "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte." She was in this for just a few moments, but her performance was immaculate. Even Bette Davis held her in the highest regard. Such was the superiority of her acting.

Marilyn Burns in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project

Bela Lugosi in Dracula

Barbara Hershey in The Entity

Molly Shannon in Other People

Cecilia Roth in All About My Mother