EW's 100 Performances Snubbed by Oscar

[Rath/Brendan]

By snubbed they mean not nominated.

1. Jimmy Stewart, ''Vertigo''
2. Anthony Perkins, ''Psycho''
3. Cary Grant, ''The Philadelphia Story''
4. Ingrid Bergman, ''Casablanca''
5. Samuel L. Jackson, ''Jungle Fever''
6. Susan Sarandon, ''Bull Durham''
7. John Cazale, ''The Godfather Part 2''
8. Judy Garland, ''The Wizard of Oz''
9. Marilyn Monroe, ''Some Like It Hot''
10. Dennis Hopper, ''Blue Velvet''
11. Sidney Poitier, "In the Heat of the Night"
12. Kathleen Turner, "Body Heat"
13. Orson Welles, "Touch of Evil"
14. Bette Davis, "Of Human Bondage"
15. Donald Sutherland, "Ordinary People"
16. Rosalind Russell, "His Girl Friday"
17. Malcolm McDowell, "A Clockwork Orange"
18. Katharine Hepburn, "Bringing Up Baby"
19. Robert De Niro, "Mean Streets"
20. Gene Tierney, "Laura"
21. Rita Hayworth, "Gilda"
22. Gene Kelly, "Singin' in the Rain"
23. Gary Oldman, "Sid & Nancy"
24. Denzel Washington, "Philadelphia"
25. Audrey Hepburn, "My Fair Lady"
26. Glenn Close, "Reversal of Fortune"
27. Humphrey Bogart, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
28. John Wayne, "The Searchers"
29. Anjelica Huston, "The Dead"
30. Morgan Freeman, "Glory"
31. Jack Nicholson, "The Shining"
32. Frank Sinatra, "The Manchurian Candidate"
33. James Cagney, "White Heat"
34. Julie Christie, "Doctor Zhivago"
35. Toshiro Mifune, "Throne of Blood"
36. Carole Lombard, "Nothing Sacred"
37. Kathy Bates, "Dolores Claiborne"
38. Robert Shaw, "Jaws"
39. Nicole Kidman, "The Others"
40. Edward G. Robinson, "Double Indemnity"
41. Sean Penn, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
42. Al Pacino, "Donnie Brasco"
43. Tim Curry, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
44. Sigourney Weaver, "The Ice Storm"
45. Julianne Moore, "Safe"
46. Kirk Douglas, "Paths of Glory"
47. Lana Turner, "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
48. Mia Farrow, "Rosemary's Baby"
49. Ed Harris, "The Right Stuff"
50. Dylan Baker, "Happiness"
51. Gene Wilder, "Young Frankenstein"
52. Boris Karloff, "Frankenstein"
53. Peter Sellers, "The Pink Panther"
54. Marlene Dietrich, "Witness for the Prosecution"
55. Errol Flynn, "Gentleman Jim"
56. Cher, "Mask"
57. Robert Mitchum, "The Night of the Hunter"
58. Sissy Spacek, "Badlands"
59. Ewan McGregor, "Moulin Rouge"
60. Johnny Depp, "Ed Wood"
61. Alec Guinness, "Kind Hearts and Coronets"
62. Jean-Pierre Leaud, "The 400 Blows"
63. Alan Rickman, "Die Hard"
64. Michelle Yeoh, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
65. Tony Curtis, "Sweet Smell of Success"
66. Buster Keaton, "The General"
67. Richard Pryor, "Blue Collar"
68. Falconetti, 'The Passion of Joan of Arc"
69. Vincent D'Onofrio, "Full Metal Jacket"
70. Robert Walker, "Strangers on a Train"
71. Alfre Woodard, "Crooklyn"
72. Maureen O'Hara, "The Quiet Man"
73. Bill Murray, "Groundhog Day"
74. Joseph Cotten, "Shadow of a Doubt"
75. Joanne Woodward, "The Glass Menagerie"
76. Kate Winslet, "Heavenly Creatures"
77. Christina Ricci, "The Opposite of Sex"
78. Faye Dunaway, "Mommie Dearest"
79. John Malkovich, "Being John Malkovich"
80. Eric Roberts, "Star 80"
81. Lionel Barrymore, "It's a Wonderful Life"
82. Liv Ullmann, "Scenes from a Marriage"
83. Matt Damon, "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
84. Annette Bening, "Valmont"
85. Angela Bassett, "Waiting to Exhale"
86. Mieko Harada, "Ran"
87. Michael Caine, "The Man Who Would Be King"
88. Jennifer Jason Leigh, "Georgia"
89. Gillian Anderson, "The House of Mirth"
90. Laurence Fishburne, "Boyz in the Hood"
91. Divine, "Hairspray"
92. Ralph Fiennes, "Quiz Show"
93. Steve Martin, "All of Me"
94. Eddie Murphy, "The Nutty Professor"
95. Nick Nolte, "North Dallas Forty"
96. Sean Connery, "From Russia with Love"
97. Harry Belafonte, "Kansas City"
98. Christopher Walken, "Pennies from Heaven"
99. Lauren Bacall, "To Have and Have Not"
100. Molly Ringwald, "Sixteen Candles"

[Whiskey]

A recent one: Tilda Swinton, The Deep End
An amazing performance. I felt like a voyeur, watching someone else's worst day. Can't understand how she missed out.

[Disciple]

Steven Seagal, Hard to Kill.

"I'm gonna to take you to the bank. To the BLOOD bank."

Even a nod from the Academy would have been nice.

[mecha superior]

Eric Roberts, "Star 80"

Damn fucking right. We're talking peak Deniro level of acting. So good, it probably ruined Roberts' career. But I'd take Paul Snider over Travis Bickle any day.

[flyarz]

Jim Carrey, "The Truman Show"

[Dan Laugharn]

Mitchum at 57 is bullshit. But nice to see some Throne of Blood love in there.

[Disciple]

mecha superior:
Eric Roberts, "Star 80"

Damn fucking right. We're talking peak Deniro level of acting. So good, it probably ruined Roberts' career. But I'd take Paul Snider over Travis Bickle any day.You're right, Roberts could have gone to the top if only luck had smiled on him. And DeNiro could be the one doing Best of the Best II.

[Matt Goldberg]

Eddie Murphy for Nutty Professor? He'd played multiple roles before and in a more creative fashion (see Coming to America).

I don't know if there's a one star/one film thing going on, but I think bigger snubs for people already on the list are Cary Grant for North by Northwest and Bill Murray for Rushmore.

[Andre Dellamorte]

Glad to see Samuel L. in the top five for Jungle Fever. Cannes film festival invented a prize to give him for that performance and he wasn't even nominated. That was one of the most offensive things ever to see not nominated vs the five who were:
City Slickers - Jack Palance
Barton Fink - Michael Lerner
Bugsy - Harvey Keitel
Bugsy - Ben Kingsley
JFK - Tommy Lee Jones

[Richard Dickson]

Sean Bean for FOTR

Christopher Lloyd for Back to the Future

[muncie girl]

I'm trying to figure out what would make them name Christopher Walken for Pennies From Heaven. I love that movie, as much as anyone can, and certainly Walken's striptease to the tune of "Let's Misbehave" was unforgettable( eek! ), but Steve Martin didn't get nominated for that film either. Considering that Martin played the lead, and incredibly I might add, and Walken wasn't even in the film for ten minutes, EW's ideas seem as skewed as the Academy's.
EW pisses me off. It used to be like this smart mischievous kid, but it grew into the useless cheerleader bimbo that sleeps with all the football players and never does her own homework. You'd think that if they were willing to get behind old and accepted yet edgy films that they would be willing to use their power for the benefit of new ones. But apparently they don't care enough.

[mecha superior]

muncie girl:
.....EW pisses me off. It used to be like this smart mischievous kid, but it grew into the useless cheerleader bimbo that sleeps with all the football players and never does her own homework.Yes.

And Hopper got nominated for HOOSIERS instead of BLUE VELVET. It was the safer pick that year. Both were good performances though.

[Seabass Inna Bun]

Sean Connery, "From Russia with Love"

Huh?

[Mr. Sodium]

I'm just glad to see some more Touch of Evil Orson-love. Though my wife commences ranting whenever Gene Hackman's unnominated performance in The Royal Tenenbaums is mentioned.

[Duke]

Molly Ringwald???

Never understood the comments on these boards about Sean Bean for Best Supporting Actor in LOTR.

How about Jeff Bridges in Big Lebowski or Harrison Ford in Mosquito Coast?

[Matt Goldberg]

That reminds me: John Goodman for Big Lebowski is also a major snub in my book.

[Burke]

Guy Pearce for L.A. Confidential (supporting) and Memento (lead).

[Electrichead]

damn straight burke, pearce got jacked...great perfs in both films...

sorry, couldn't spell guy's name right

[Scott Standridge]

Humphrey Bogart - Treasure of the Sierra Madre

No shit. I recently rewatched African Queen , which is the movie he won the oscar for, and imho the job he did in Treasure blows that performance away. But then I believe Casablanca is the most nearly perfect film ever, so I'm a little biased. :D

Also:
Edward G. Robinson - Double Indemnity
Damn straight. One of the greatest supporting performances I can think of that wasn't nominated. Great film, great actor, great call.

[Scott Standridge]

Oh, and:

Lauren Bacall - To Have and Have Not

19 years old, making her screen debut, and OWNING it. She should have won the oscar just on the basis of HOTNESS. They don't build 'em like that anymore. :)

"You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? Just put your lips together...and blow."

[Living Dead Milkman]

Man, there's a whole lotta bull mixed in there with some good picks.

I mean, Nicole Kidman??? Ewan MacGregor???

[amadeus]

I spent a blissful two hours watching E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial again last night. Henry Thomas is just breathtaking as Elliott. One of the benchmarks of great acting.

[amadeus]

Oh yeah, and they're absolutely right about Nicole Kidman in The Others. That she wasn't even nominated for that performance is criminal.

[Boomstick]

say what you will. jimmy stewart's acting in 'vertigo' is laughable. i heartily disagree with most everything ew puts out.

[Angel Red Wings]

Which just further proves my theory-no, not that Germans love David Hasslehoff, but that the Oscars are completely full of shit. It's all about politics and bullshit. When Forrest Gump beat out Pulp Fiction for best flick that's when I knew it was all about not rocking the boat. Julia Roberts? Pssh. Don't even get me started.

[muncie girl]

Boomstick:
say what you will. jimmy stewart's acting in 'vertigo' is laughable. i heartily disagree with most everything ew puts out.I think Stewart was good in some parts, but that he was badly miscast in that. He doesn't seem like the type to be caught in the grip of an obsession.
Not even for Campbell's Home Cooking Soup.

[Smilin' Jack Ruby]

Alec Guinness for "Kind Hearts and Coronets" is dead on. As for Peter Sellers, I would've given it to him for "A Shot in the Dark," one of the greatest comedic perfs ever.

Boris Karloff for "Frankenstein" and Bill Murray for "Groundhog Day" are things we pretty much see with great hindsight as well. Rita Hayworth missing out for "Gilda" is a fucking crime, though, as is John Wayne for "The Searchers."

"Oh, it's just a noir picture" or "Oh, it's just a Western."

[Rath/Brendan]

I would have liked to see Christopher Plummer for "The Insider", Richard Harris for "Unforgiven", Sean Bean for "FOTR," and Paul Bettany for either "A Knight's Tale" or "A Beautiful Mind."

[Stew]

I wholeheartedly agree about Christopher Plummer for "The Insider".

I personally thought that Deniro's "Heat" performance was his 90s best, and better than some of his other nominated performances.

[BaldRayo]

Norton(lead), HBC(supporting), Pitt(supporting) for Fight Club? I thought they were awesome performances, and I can't even think of anyone else that could have pulled off those roles...

[Living Dead Milkman]

Boomstick:
say what you will. jimmy stewart's acting in 'vertigo' is laughable.I can say what I will? Okay: That opinion is laughable.