Oscar is the holy grail for any movie actor. While many will argue that “it’s an honor to be nominated,” the truth is that winning puts a huge gold star on his resume and is a huge step forward in his acting career. Actors get more money for their work when they win a golden statuette, not to mention the admiration of their peers and audiences.
While it’s easy to assume that most talented famous actors have won before, that’s definitely not the case. Here’s a list of industry heavyweights who haven’t taken home the grand prize yet.
near glenn
Holding the dubious record for living actor with the most nominations but no wins, Close has seven nods to his name dating back to 1983. The world according to Garp. She was recently nominated in 2019 for a role in Wife. Before that she got a yes sign albert nobbs 2012, among others, including her iconic role as a jilted lover in Fatal Attraction In 1988, when Cher hit her for in love with the moon. She has many other awards including three Golden Globes., the most significant of which was for 2017 Wife, resulting in an impassioned acceptance speech.
sam elliott
Perhaps one of the most underrated supporting actors in a career spanning 50(!) years, Elliott finally received his first Oscar nomination in 2019 for his supporting role in Bradley Cooper’s musical drama. A star has been born. After racking up a long list of appearances in iconic movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the big lebowskiElliott deserved the honor but ended up losing the Oscar Green Book actor Mahershala Ali.
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anette bening
With an illustrious decades-long career that began on stage in the 1980s and has included riveting performances in hit movies, Bening has yet to get a chance to dust off her mantle and make room for a golden statue. However, she was nominated four times, including for scammers (1990), American Beauty (1999), being julia (2004), I the kids are fine (2010).
Will Smith
Smith started out as a rapper, of course, which eventually led to his breakout role. The prince of Bel Air on TV. Smith eventually worked his way up to Hollywood’s A-list, delivering impressive performances in hit franchises like men in black and bad boys, becoming one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood. Smith has also shown serious acting chops in movies like But and Looking for happiness, which earned him Oscar nominations. Yet despite these honors and numerous attempts at critically acclaimed roles, Smith never won the coveted golden statue.
Johnny Depp
A leading man known as a standout character actor, Depp failed to win a statuette for some of his most famous roles. Nominated three times, once for the role of Captain Jack Sparrow Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2004), then for Finding Neverland (2005), and finally by Sweeney Todd: The Devil Barber of Fleet Street (2008), has gone over a decade without winning an Oscar. With his latest film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwaldwhich came out in 2018, and with Depp walking away from the franchise amid controversies surrounding his personal life, some are wondering if he’ll ever make it to the podium.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Wait, Gyllenhaal doesn’t have an Oscar? No. And he was actually nominated only once, in 2006 for Secret in the mountain. The actor hasn’t even won a Golden Globe, though he’s been nominated twice, which means he’s ripe for Hollywood’s respect. Although he has had many impressive and challenging roles in his career, Gyllenhaal hasn’t won them all. night crawler it is beyond us. Gyllenhaal to play director Robert Evans Francis and godmothera film that opens the curtain behind the creation Godfather. And with TV miniseries son, Based on Jo Nesbo’s novel of the same name, coming soon to HBO, Gyllenhaal might just get an Emmy before he gets to an Oscar.
amy adams
With six Oscar nominations, Adams is near the top of the list of actors with the most nominations without winning. She’s won a host of other awards, including Critics Choice Movie Awards, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, but Adams continues to be overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. First, she went for Best Supporting Actress at the junebug (2006), then Doubt (2009), Fighter (2011), I He Teacher; teacher (2013). She was nominated for best actress in 2013 american crowdbut lost to Cate Blanchett for Jasmine Blue. Can this girl take a break? Adams received her sixth nomination for Vice in 2019, only to lose to If Beale Street could talk actress Regina King.
Robert Downey Jr.
It’s clear that being a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (literally) pays off, as Downey Jr. was consistently on Forbes’ annual list of the highest-paid actors, even at the top spot from 2012 to 2015. However, the Oscar eluded him. He was nominated twice, once for Chaplin in 1993, and the second time for a completely different role in a comedy a tropical storm 2009. In 1993, he lost to Al Pacino by the smell of a womanand in 2009 he lost to the late Heath Ledger for the role in dark Knight. At least Downey Jr. can say that he lost out to a couple of good actors in amazing roles.
michelle williams
Williams rose to fame among Hollywood’s elite, earning a total of four Oscar nominations. But even though she received praise for her lead and supporting roles in Secret in the mountain (2006), blue valentines day (2011), My week with Marilyn (2012), I manchester by the sea (2017), has yet to win. Emmy and Golden Globe Awards 2019 for her performance as Gwen Verson in the FX miniseries Fosse/Verdon, with plans to play singer-songwriter Janis Joplin in a Sean Durkin biopic and astronaut Christa McAuliffe in challenger, there is a good chance that Williams could compete for the statuette again.
tom cruise
Despite starring in many iconic action movies and franchises that have grossed billions of dollars worldwide, Cruise has never won an Oscar. He was nominated three times, including for born on july 4th (1989)Jerry Maguire (1996), I Magnolia (1999). Still, it’s been nearly two decades since Cruise was seen close to the Oscars race. Given his focus on action movies that don’t usually draw acclaim, he may have to kiss any Oscar hopes other than a potential lifetime achievement award goodbye.
Sigourney Weaver
With a long and successful career that includes key roles in box office hits like Aliens, Ghostbustersand Avatar, Weaver has always been in the background of Oscar season. She received three nominations, for aliens (1987), working girl (1989), and Gorillas in the Mist (1989). In fact, her last two nominations, as she’ll note, were in the same year, and she took home Golden Globes for both roles in the same year, making her the first person to do so. It looks like Weaver won’t be getting an Oscar anytime soon, but you never know when the planets will align.
edward norton
When you think of some of the most interesting movies of the last 20 years, chances are Norton has starred in many of them. In fact, she received three Oscar nominations, for primal fear (1997), American history X (1999), I a bird watcher (2015) but has not yet won. At the 2015 ceremony, the last time Norton’s face was shown at the nominee readings, she lost to JK Simmons by lash.
Woody Harrelson
far from joking Health to work on impactful films like Natural Born Killers as well as TV anthology series a true detective, Harrelson has had a long and varied career. His third nomination came in 2018 for Three billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri, where he competed in the Best Supporting Actor race. Unfortunately for Harrelson, he lost out to his co-star, Sam Rockwell. Harrelson was also nominated for Best Actor for The people against Larry Flynt (1997) and Best Supporting Actor for Delivery courier (2010), but has yet to be called to the stage as a winner.
ed harris
Known to new generations as the Man in Black in the HBO series Western worldHarris has been among Hollywood’s elite for decades, appearing in some of the most memorable films of the past 40 years, from GlengarryGlen Ross to Nixon An amazing mind. He is a winner of many Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Critics Awards and more. He never received an Academy Award, although he was nominated three times: in 1999 for the truman showin 2001 for pout, and in 2003 for Hours.
alan rickman
It’s a farce to know that the late Alan Rickman never won an Oscar during his 30+ year film career. Rickman, who died in 2016, not only never won an Oscar, he was never nominated. He has won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work on the small screen. Rasputin: Dark Servant of Fate in 1996. But Rickman was largely passed over for the Oscars despite starring in movies like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Sense and Sensibility, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Sweeney Todd: The Devil Barber of Fleet Street, and, of course, as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series. While there’s no chance of a posthumous Oscar at this point, perhaps Rickman could be in the running for some sort of Lifetime Achievement Award in the future.
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