Actors who inexplicably got overlooked for awards

They got overlooked because their campaigns weren't strong enough. If you want to get a nomination, and even more so - win the award, your campaign has to be strong.

they're all gurls, why didn't you say actresses?

Sigourney Weaver for THE ICE STORM. She won the BAFTA for supporting actress but no Oscar nod.

1998 Supporting Actress nominees:

Kim Basinger - L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (much undeserved winner) Joan Cusack - IN AND OUT Minnie Driver - GOOD WILL HUNTING Julianne Moore - BOOGIE NIGHTS Gloria Stuart - TITANIC

Weaver was much more deserving than Stuart.

ANY actor who graduated from Howard University.

R1, very true. And sometimes you must give up the pussy.

[quote] Charlize Theron (Monster)

Um, Theron won the Best Actress Oscar for Monster

R3 totally agree. Driver rode the Good Will Hunting coattails too, I remember nothing of her performance while Williams and Damon were standouts.

Sig was also overlooked for "Map Of The World"

R7 that's why I listed her as one of the 5 nominees. One of the best wins of the last 20 years

R2 because people might also want to talk about actors as well.

[quote]Diane Keaton (Something's Gotta Give) WTF?

What do you mean WTF? Only Theron and Keaton deserved to be on that list. Diane was fantastic and her nomination was particularity sweet as the Academy usually shits on comedic performances.

Isabelle Huppert should have won the Oscar for Elle instead of Emma Stone, who basically played herself in La La Land

R11 I disagree, Keaton played an enjoyable version of herself in SGTG but was embarrassingly bad in parts of it. I do agree there are many genius comedic performances which have been "shit on" but this was not one of them.

I happen to think Keaton was one of the best back when she challenged herself.

The scene below is awful but I put the (did)credit on Nancy Meyers for her lousy direction.

Six pins Dolores, you know that's the way I like it..

Daniel Day Lewis for Nine

R13 That entire movie was just awful. Nicholson did fine in a very-unchallenging role but Keaton was just over-the-top obnoxious and hammy. And I love Keaton as an actress. Her early films were amazing work and accolades were well-deserved. But around this time she started doing a lot of weird older-female empowerment roles (Hanging Up, among several others) that showcased her as a wealthy nut job who's kinda ditzy but still super successful and down-to-earth. I don't blame her for not wanting to take on challenging characters, but she makes me cringe with this stock comedic sexy rich old lady crapfest.

You must be joking, R15.

[quote]I disagree, Keaton played an enjoyable version of herself in SGTG but was embarrassingly bad in parts of it.

Well The Academy, The Golden Globes (winner), SAG, and National Board of Review (winner) all disagree with you.

"In America" was sappy and formulaic. I guess that's why it got a few nominations.

I keep Something's Gotta Give on my DVR. Whenever I can't fall asleep I play it. As soon as Amanda Peet (possibly the unsexiest actress out there) starts acting cute and sexy with Nicholson (within the first ten minutes) I just think, "they have to be kidding." I roll over and fall to sleep almost immediately.

I agree about Weaver and The Ice Storm: she at least deserved a nomination. Brilliant movie.

But Theron was always going to win as 1. Beautiful woman goes fully feral, and 2. She was quite convincing.

I always felt Kidman was Oscar nod worthy for To Die For.

R12 Also, had Huppert won instead of Emma Stone, there never would have been a Best Picture mix up between Moonlight and La La Land.

"Sig was also overlooked for "Map Of The World"

Very few people saw that film as it got scant distribution, in spite of being produced by Frank and Kathleen Kennedy. The first half of the film is quite good and Weaver is excellent, but the second half is less successful, mostly due to mediocre direction and some bad scripting, which undermines Weaver's performance. The director was Scott Elliott, a theater director whose work is, at best, uneven. I don't think he ever directed another film.

One nice thing about"Map" is that you also get to see a lot of David Strathairn's lean, muscular body. I hadn't realized how hot he was at that point in his career until I saw this film. Plus Julianne Moore does some fine work as well.

R23 never thought of that!

I was going to say Sean Penn for 21 Grams but then he got nominated and won for Mystic River. I guess you aren't allowed two nominations.

Naomi's performance in MD was what I call 'stylized'. She is artificially perky 'n chirpy because (spoiler alert) it's all a hallucinatiry dream. Yeah, it's entertaining- but probably too confusing for Academy voters.

Ralph Finnes for the Grand Budapest Hotel. It got nominated for everything but his brilliant performance was somehow not included.

Another vote for the fabulous Judy Parfitt as Vera Charles in DOLORES CLAIBORNE, and Kathy Bates too. I think Bates is better in this than in MISERY.

[quote]Another vote for the fabulous Judy Parfitt as Vera Charles in DOLORES CLAIBORNE, and Kathy Bates too. I think Bates is better in this than in MISERY

And we have a BINGO! Ladies and Gentlemen.

R24. Meryl Streep was originally sought for Weaver’s role. Streep would have brought out more of the character’s complexities and nuances.

Rebecca Hall in "Christine" (the Christine Chubbuck story, not the Stephen King car movie). She was astonishing and won many film critics' awards for Best Actress, then got totally snubbed at the Golden Globes and Oscars.

I was really surprised later to find out she's British and quite pretty in real life.