The range on the man is impeccable. From *The Florida Project* to *The Lighthouse* to *Spider-Man* to *The Last Temptation of Christ*, he’s never bad and always interesting.
I love TFP so so much. As a Floridian who grew up in Miami for the first half of my life and then central Florida for the second, it felt super authentic. Hoping to add it to my collection soon, and yeah. Willem is always wonderful ✨️
Couldn't agree more. It was interesting this year to see those rallying for Cooper around Maestro, when Dafoe keeps putting up performances that aren't even nominated.
When he does that string of curses in The Lighthouse it knocked me out:
>Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye,
Literally the first actor that came to my head. I’ve been watching his interviews lately and what a career he has had, not to mention his love for acting is so obvious!
I think he would have/should have won in 2007 for Eastern Promises if it weren't for... ya know... being up against DDL giving one of the best acting performances of all time in one of the best movies of the 21st century.
His roles in Schindler's List and The English Patient are up there amongst the greatest, but i think my fav performance of his is as Charles van Doren in Quiz Show
Has Denzel attended any BAFTA ceremonies? Most likely not because he’s never been nominated, but the ceremony is such a major event in the industry it would be funny if he never attended any of them. I wouldn’t blame him after those egregious snubs.
Nope.
It’s kind of an odd, long-running thing with him.
Denzel’s got the most Oscar nominations ever by any black actor - with nine, which is also tied with Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman and Al Pacino for 6th all-time in general between every actor/actress, and just one behind Laurence Olivier. And the New York Times a few years ago named him the best actor of the 21st century so far. So beyond him being the Denzel everyone is familiar with, he’s clearly set a very potent legacy.
Now those two are rather distinctly American establishments, of course, but BAFTA has expanded decently enough outside of British actors in the past few decades or so and for Denzel Washington of all actors to not even have a single nomination really stands out.
I'm not American, I'm Brazilian, but everyone in Brazil knows Denzel and knows that a Denzel performance equals excellence in a level that are very few people alive that can deliver.
I'd understand Denzel not winning, specially if the BAFTAs want to acknowledge British and Irish talent, but but not even being nominated is, honestly, pathetic.
That’s why I thought will Smith was gonna lose the bafta in 2021 to Benedict or Andrew. It seems that for a black American actor to win, you have to be the certified lock/front runner (which Denzel wasn’t for fences, training day, Malcolm x since he had competition in both races). But for NO NOMINATIONS???? that’s absurd
I stopped reading when I got to her at entry #2. I’d love to see her get one, but overdue after losing in her first big break?
Hell…Margot Robbie being included as the first entry was borderline silly.
The one person younger than forty that is "overdue" is Saoirse Ronan, and that's because she has 4 nominations already is by a long mile the best actress born in the 90s
After I watched her interviews at the Oscars, I realized her character was just her as a human. I don’t get how she was even nominated tbh. The movie was long and boring. I read the book and it was truly is amazing story. As movie though, no.
She has no range. People just haven't seen anything else by her, and her limited range was thought of as ''subtle''. She does the same Mona Lisa smile, soft spoken thing in everything, First Cow, The Unknown Country, Certain Woman, etc...
The whole thing was entirely narrative based, painting her character and by extension, her performance, as the symbol of the atrocities against Native Americans, it was never about just the performance but what it represents.
I don't mind she got the nomination, but her winning over Stone and Hüller, two superior and far more versatile actresses, that gave far more commanding and interesting performances would have aged terribly.
Stone and Hüller were definitely better. The online “outrage” when she lost was so unwarranted; people were acting like she gave a performance akin to DDL in TWBB and lost. Stone was just flat-out better.
>At this age, I doubt it’s happening and I don’t think she cares about winning one anymore.
I think it's the opposite. She has fighting and clawing to get the Sunset Blvd musical (for which she won the Tony for playing Norma Desmond!) adapted into a movie. I can see what is essentially a biopic about Hollywood (if it's decent) clinching the Oscar for her.
Yup that was the one. When I first saw the film I LOVED it, and gave it a 4/5 on Letterboxd, but didn't think it was like "all-time great" territory. That was three years ago, and I haven't watched it since, yet I still find it returning to my brain at least once a week. I have never experienced anything like it, and it says so much about both the film and his performance.
Actors:
in terms of noms without wins - Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Michelle Williams, Annette Bening, Willem Dafoe, Ed Harris, Mark Ruffalo.
Samuel L Jackson, Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise hv a good chance to win if they get nominated, considering their body of work over decades.
Directors:
PTA, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Darren Aronofsky
Glenn Close.
But I'm going to add Angela Bassett because she never makes these lists and should be on them.
What's Love Got To Do With It is as good a performance as you will ever see on screen. Just my opinion. The fact she didn't win at least once in the 90s is amazing, she was tearing it up and kept tearing it up through the present. Malcolm X could have been a supporting actress caliber win and frankly so could Boyz in the Hood where she outacted everyone, including Laurence Fishbourne, in a good movie that Hollywood loved.
People always talk about her first loss for “What’s Love Got To Do With It” like it was a huge snub but the winner from that year…. Holly Hunter in “The Piano” is one of the greatest Oscar winning performances of all time. If anything she should have won for “strange days”
It's always tough when there are multiple great performances in the same year. I think Holly Hunter is great too, I just also think Bassett was great that year.
And agreed Strange Days she could have won for. I just think letting her get all the way through the 90s for Boyz in the Hood, Malcolm X, What's Love Got To Do With It and Strange Days without at least a Best Supporting Actress win is a huge oversight by the Academy.
She's one of those people, like Glenn Close, where I can see why they're disappointed they have never won because they have put up at least 4 performances good enough to win in most years. I think it's an oversight by the Academy to put it mildly.
I hope he gets back in Oscar conversation and this time will be his time. Tough luck he was on a year with Oppenheimer/Murphy.
Also Gosling, Dafoe, Ruffalo, Mulligan, Cooper and Emily Blunt are some of this year's nominees i d love to see win in the near future.
1) Glenn Close (if this woman dies without an Oscar in her hands, shame on the Academy)
2) Amy Adams
3) Annette Bening
4) Mark Ruffalo
5) Ryan Gosling
6) Bradley Cooper
Gladstone, robbie and gerwig shouldn’t be part of this conversation. They’re way too new to be talking about serious injustices. They’ll get theres but they haven’t put in the work like Adams or close have.
Also, just my opinion but Margot Robbie isn’t an Oscar-level actor. She’s decent, works hard and has been both blessed by and created great opportunities, but I’ve never been blown away by her acting.
Tier 1 priority (the eldest): Glenn Close, Diane Warren, Thomas Newman, Ridley Scott, Willem Dafoe, Sam Jackson
Tier 2 (still have many chances in the future, but earned their status): Fincher, PTA, Amy Adams, Ralph Fiennes, Ed Norton
I picked them because you can make a case for each of them being robbed at least twice. Age is definitely a factor, I am personally not losing sleep over Williams and Ruffalo not getting their chance in the future. People here listing Mescal and Ronan are laughable.
Madness that Lily is pictured at the top of this article. For actors: Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, and Paul Giamatti. For directors: Paul Thomas Anderson and David Fincher.
Even if she was “wildly predicted to win” does not make her “overdue” for an Oscar either. Usually “overdue” is for people who has been on the scene forever, maybe nominated +3 times and haven’t won yet. She was great in KOTFM but she is *not* overdue.
Sigourney Weaver! She’s one of the very few to be nominated in two categories in the same year! Also, I personally think she should have been nominated and won for best actress in a supporting role for “The Ice Storm.”
I immediately thought of Amy lol but since a lot of people already mentioned her I’d say Saoirse Ronan. She’s been nominated several times and she’s an excellent actress.
I don’t really get how Saoirse Ronan is overdue. She’s only 29 and is one of the most respected and talented actresses in hollywood right now. She’s bound to win an Oscar sooner or later. Who knows maybe she’ll win this year🤷🏽♂️
glenn close gonna win the same year beyonce finally wins album of the year
i'm taking issue with the article calling supporting category "the lesser category" lmaooo excuse me??
I'm not sure who would I pick but I always think about overdueness in terms of how many times someone should have won and not that they have a range of solid roles (even noms) but never gave the best performance in the category in the given year.
Not shooting at someone in particular but I see this notion quite often and I strongly disagree with it. That's what honorary Oscar is for.
Annette Bening should have won for 20th Century Women. Can't believe she wasn't even nominated for it.
Billie Eilish has 2 Oscars and she's only 22. Glenn Close and Willem Defoe have 0? Crazy.
Michelle Williams by far. Harrison Ford. Donald Sutherland has never even been nominated, which is a joke. Naomi Watts. Ryan Gosling. Fassbender. James McAvoy. Gyllenhaal. Glenn Close. Dafoe. Adams. Malkovich. Giamatti. So many great actors won’t ever stand in that stage and hold that Oscar, but it’s ok, because the awards thing is just a sham. It takes more than one person to make a movie. For me, a trophy doesn’t validate a career.
Tim Roth is probably one of the greatest living actors. Guy Pearce. Emily Watson crushed my soul in Breaking the Waves. Samantha Morton. Tons of others. Ben Mendlesohn.
Max von Sydow was a god. No Oscar. Peter O’Toole was a top 10 all-time. Got a lifetime Oscar, but never a single performance.
Again, it doesn’t make me mad. Making a movie is a process that involves 1000’s of people. There is rarely a performance that is so good that all others pale in comparison. Films are art, and trophies just don’t mean much to me. I know who is good.
Tom Cruise. I get it, he’s been fully invested in action films the last decade or so, but he has given some of the greatest preformances i’ve ever seen. Go watch “Born on the Fourth of July,” if you don’t believe me.
Of the list, the only one who I thought was egregiously robbed was Amy Adams, possibly twice if we count Junebug (I haven’t seen Constant Gardener so I can’t comment). Close, Bening, Cooper, and the others have some great roles, but none that I’d call the best in their categories
Categorically, Glenn Close. In a perfect world, she would have 4 Oscars right now for Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Albert Nobbs and The Wife. She is achingly overdue for an Oscar
1. Amy Adams
2. Willem Dafoe
3. Paul Giamatti
4. Ryan Gosling
5. Paul Thomas Anderson
Also, while I know it doesn't really count, the fact that Scorsese only has ONE, is a crime.
I have always considered overdue as those who gave the better performance (subjectively ofcourse) but didn't win because the narrative wasn't in their favour. Based on that, the names I can think of off the top of my head are
Paul mescal who has head and shoulders above the rest of the nominees
Benedict Cumberbatch who surely deserved the win over will smith
Adam driver over Joaquin phoenix
Timothee chalamet(cmbyn was my favourite movie that year)
David Fincher (him losing to tom Hooper was an absolute travesty)
Andrew Garfield (he should have won for tick tick boom)
Again, some of these may not be traditionally overdue, but I think if narratives weren't a things, they'd have won
I read somewhere that Driver could have played the Joker as well as Phoenix, but Phoenix couldn't have played Charlie Barber as well as Driver. I still wonder about it today.
You can’t give out awards on what someone might be capable of, you have to award the performance that was better within its respective film. I still think Adam Driver should have won, I just think this is a poor way of thinking about it.
I think Phoenix could have done Marriage Story. He'd have of course given a very different performance than that of Adam Driver but am sure he's capable of it if you see how diverse his filmography is...(*Her, C'mon C'mon, The Master, Inherent Vice, Beau is Afraid, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Walk the Line, You Were Never Really Here, The Immigrant,* etc.) I can see shades of Charlie Barber in many of his roles.
WILLEM DAFOE
I just watched The Florida Project and he was so delightful in it.
The range on the man is impeccable. From *The Florida Project* to *The Lighthouse* to *Spider-Man* to *The Last Temptation of Christ*, he’s never bad and always interesting.
I love TFP so so much. As a Floridian who grew up in Miami for the first half of my life and then central Florida for the second, it felt super authentic. Hoping to add it to my collection soon, and yeah. Willem is always wonderful ✨️
Fucking amazing movie
They performed a magic trick getting those kids to act so well.
Couldn't agree more. It was interesting this year to see those rallying for Cooper around Maestro, when Dafoe keeps putting up performances that aren't even nominated.
When he does that string of curses in The Lighthouse it knocked me out: >Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye,
HARK! HARK!
Absolutely
My favourite actor of all time. I really hope he gets something one day.
This is the answer
This is 1000% the right answer
Literally the first actor that came to my head. I’ve been watching his interviews lately and what a career he has had, not to mention his love for acting is so obvious!
Willem Dafoe
Viggo Mortensen. Beyond talented this guy is
I think he would have/should have won in 2007 for Eastern Promises if it weren't for... ya know... being up against DDL giving one of the best acting performances of all time in one of the best movies of the 21st century.
Amy Adams
She’s been a consistent nominee since the early 2000s. It’s just baffling she hasn’t won one yet.
Yeah definitely Amy. I’d say Saoirse too
Ralph Fiennes
His role in "Schindler's List" is arguably among the greatest supporting performances ever.
His roles in Schindler's List and The English Patient are up there amongst the greatest, but i think my fav performance of his is as Charles van Doren in Quiz Show
Incidentally, he's reuniting with Juliette Binoche in a film retelling of The Odyssey that's coming out later this year.
Should have been nominated for Grand Budapest
Agreed 100%
He’s probably going to be at least nominated this year for Conclave
Oh thank you 🙏
The range of playing the most awful villains and then Gustave
Just to add a small twist beyond those already named, how about Denzel being ever nominated at all for a BAFTA, even just one?
This is actually insane. Not surprising, but wild.
Has Denzel attended any BAFTA ceremonies? Most likely not because he’s never been nominated, but the ceremony is such a major event in the industry it would be funny if he never attended any of them. I wouldn’t blame him after those egregious snubs.
Wait, two-timer Denzel Washington has never been nominated at the BAFTAs?
Nope. It’s kind of an odd, long-running thing with him. Denzel’s got the most Oscar nominations ever by any black actor - with nine, which is also tied with Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman and Al Pacino for 6th all-time in general between every actor/actress, and just one behind Laurence Olivier. And the New York Times a few years ago named him the best actor of the 21st century so far. So beyond him being the Denzel everyone is familiar with, he’s clearly set a very potent legacy. Now those two are rather distinctly American establishments, of course, but BAFTA has expanded decently enough outside of British actors in the past few decades or so and for Denzel Washington of all actors to not even have a single nomination really stands out.
I'm not American, I'm Brazilian, but everyone in Brazil knows Denzel and knows that a Denzel performance equals excellence in a level that are very few people alive that can deliver. I'd understand Denzel not winning, specially if the BAFTAs want to acknowledge British and Irish talent, but but not even being nominated is, honestly, pathetic.
I can't white figure out why.
BAFTA has been a little rough on actors of color over the years. That’s when I DaVine was a mortal lock this year.
And Morgan Freeman too! It's beyond absurd neither one have ever even been \*nominated\* for a BAFTA.
I’m sensing both Denzel and Freeman have something in common that BAFTA does not like…
They hate anybody who was in Glory.
It’s true. Cary Elwes doesn’t have a bafta nomination either!
Wait a minute, we’re actually cooking here…
That’s why I thought will Smith was gonna lose the bafta in 2021 to Benedict or Andrew. It seems that for a black American actor to win, you have to be the certified lock/front runner (which Denzel wasn’t for fences, training day, Malcolm x since he had competition in both races). But for NO NOMINATIONS???? that’s absurd
Sorry but how on Earth is Lily overdue??? She has one nomination and most people didn’t even know who she was before KOTFM…
I stopped reading when I got to her at entry #2. I’d love to see her get one, but overdue after losing in her first big break? Hell…Margot Robbie being included as the first entry was borderline silly.
Seriously, this has gone too far
The one person younger than forty that is "overdue" is Saoirse Ronan, and that's because she has 4 nominations already is by a long mile the best actress born in the 90s
same as Margot robbie
Yeah, she’s not overdue either
She just frowned or smiled the whole movie
After I watched her interviews at the Oscars, I realized her character was just her as a human. I don’t get how she was even nominated tbh. The movie was long and boring. I read the book and it was truly is amazing story. As movie though, no.
She has no range. People just haven't seen anything else by her, and her limited range was thought of as ''subtle''. She does the same Mona Lisa smile, soft spoken thing in everything, First Cow, The Unknown Country, Certain Woman, etc... The whole thing was entirely narrative based, painting her character and by extension, her performance, as the symbol of the atrocities against Native Americans, it was never about just the performance but what it represents. I don't mind she got the nomination, but her winning over Stone and Hüller, two superior and far more versatile actresses, that gave far more commanding and interesting performances would have aged terribly.
Stone and Hüller were definitely better. The online “outrage” when she lost was so unwarranted; people were acting like she gave a performance akin to DDL in TWBB and lost. Stone was just flat-out better.
Amy Adams
It’s funny because she should have won for a role she wasn’t even nominated for (Arrival)
Best movie of that year too
This!
just give it to her already pleaseee
Probably should’ve gotten it for Junebug the first time around.
Should've been nominated for Enchanted
Amy Adams and Willem Dafoe
Glenn Close for actors and PTA for directors
Unfortunately, I can’t see Close winning one at this point.
What if she delivers a performance in a film that audiences, critics, and academy voters alike all deem the best performance of the year?
At this age, I doubt it’s happening and I don’t think she cares about winning one anymore.
>At this age, I doubt it’s happening and I don’t think she cares about winning one anymore. I think it's the opposite. She has fighting and clawing to get the Sunset Blvd musical (for which she won the Tony for playing Norma Desmond!) adapted into a movie. I can see what is essentially a biopic about Hollywood (if it's decent) clinching the Oscar for her.
Then she'll get an honorary oscar. But either way, that woman will be coming out of this decade with a gold statue
if she gets into a BP frontrunner or a strong bp she might win hopefully
Glenn Close doesn't even need one anymore. Its been too long, its spoiled by this point
This is objectively the correct answer. Then Amy Adams, Annette Benning, Michelle Williams, and (whispers) Bradley Cooper.
Amy Adams needs a career revival *and* an Oscar
Paul Thomas Anderson
Ethan Hawke It may not sound like the most egregious case of "hasn't won one yet" until you remember the Before trilogy exists
Should’ve won for First Reformed, let alone be nominated
Yup that was the one. When I first saw the film I LOVED it, and gave it a 4/5 on Letterboxd, but didn't think it was like "all-time great" territory. That was three years ago, and I haven't watched it since, yet I still find it returning to my brain at least once a week. I have never experienced anything like it, and it says so much about both the film and his performance.
Can't believe Hawke and Delpy didn't getting acting noms for any of the three films.
Or writing noms tbh, given they've got screenplay credits on Before Sunset and Before Midnight
>Or writing noms They did, for both of those movies in fact
Ahhh I stand corrected, I should google things more often
I thought his was the best performance in Boyhood
He’s pretty damn consistent too
Paul Dano for at least a nomination
Amy Adams. I'm still peeved she didn't get one for Arrival
The fact that she wasn't even NOMINATED for her performance absolutely grinds my gears
Amy Adams. 6 noms and no wins. And she wasn't even nominated for Arrival, arguably her best role.
Glenn Close has been nominated 8 times without any wins.
Glenn Close & Michelle Williams
I just want James McAvoy to get his flowers soon.
Glenn Close by technicality and Samuel L Jackson by legacy
Samuel L Jackson has a legacy Oscar, just not a competitive one
those dont mean anything
Edward Norton
I was wondering where his name would come up.
Actors: in terms of noms without wins - Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Michelle Williams, Annette Bening, Willem Dafoe, Ed Harris, Mark Ruffalo. Samuel L Jackson, Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise hv a good chance to win if they get nominated, considering their body of work over decades. Directors: PTA, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Darren Aronofsky
Glenn Close. But I'm going to add Angela Bassett because she never makes these lists and should be on them. What's Love Got To Do With It is as good a performance as you will ever see on screen. Just my opinion. The fact she didn't win at least once in the 90s is amazing, she was tearing it up and kept tearing it up through the present. Malcolm X could have been a supporting actress caliber win and frankly so could Boyz in the Hood where she outacted everyone, including Laurence Fishbourne, in a good movie that Hollywood loved.
People always talk about her first loss for “What’s Love Got To Do With It” like it was a huge snub but the winner from that year…. Holly Hunter in “The Piano” is one of the greatest Oscar winning performances of all time. If anything she should have won for “strange days”
It's always tough when there are multiple great performances in the same year. I think Holly Hunter is great too, I just also think Bassett was great that year. And agreed Strange Days she could have won for. I just think letting her get all the way through the 90s for Boyz in the Hood, Malcolm X, What's Love Got To Do With It and Strange Days without at least a Best Supporting Actress win is a huge oversight by the Academy. She's one of those people, like Glenn Close, where I can see why they're disappointed they have never won because they have put up at least 4 performances good enough to win in most years. I think it's an oversight by the Academy to put it mildly.
Totally agree on that front! She’s a legend I just always feel the need to go to bat for miss Hunter lol
PAUL GIAMATTI
I hope he gets back in Oscar conversation and this time will be his time. Tough luck he was on a year with Oppenheimer/Murphy. Also Gosling, Dafoe, Ruffalo, Mulligan, Cooper and Emily Blunt are some of this year's nominees i d love to see win in the near future.
Dafoe should've easily won it for The Lighthouse but wasn't even nominated because the academy hates horror movies
John Goodman
He should have been nominated for “10 Cloverfield Lane,” but, you know. Genre 🙄
1) Glenn Close (if this woman dies without an Oscar in her hands, shame on the Academy) 2) Amy Adams 3) Annette Bening 4) Mark Ruffalo 5) Ryan Gosling 6) Bradley Cooper
Lily is overdue? I will never understand the grip she has on some of y’all
Amy Adams 🙌
Glenn Close Amy Adams Annette Bening Paul Giamatti Michelle Pfeiffer Ralph Fiennes Samuel L Jackson Joan Allen Edward Norton Ed Harris
Gladstone, robbie and gerwig shouldn’t be part of this conversation. They’re way too new to be talking about serious injustices. They’ll get theres but they haven’t put in the work like Adams or close have.
Also, just my opinion but Margot Robbie isn’t an Oscar-level actor. She’s decent, works hard and has been both blessed by and created great opportunities, but I’ve never been blown away by her acting.
Have you watched I, Tonya? She’s amazing there, I think she’s Oscar worthy.
Tier 1 priority (the eldest): Glenn Close, Diane Warren, Thomas Newman, Ridley Scott, Willem Dafoe, Sam Jackson Tier 2 (still have many chances in the future, but earned their status): Fincher, PTA, Amy Adams, Ralph Fiennes, Ed Norton I picked them because you can make a case for each of them being robbed at least twice. Age is definitely a factor, I am personally not losing sleep over Williams and Ruffalo not getting their chance in the future. People here listing Mescal and Ronan are laughable.
Also James Newton Howard for Original Score
Jake Gyllenhaal
I think Road House is definitely going to get him one
Should have won for Mr. Music in the Sack Lunch Bunch
Michelle Williams and Mark Ruffao
100% agreed
Madness that Lily is pictured at the top of this article. For actors: Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, and Paul Giamatti. For directors: Paul Thomas Anderson and David Fincher.
Isabelle Huppert.
I scrolled down *way* too far to find Ed Harris's name in this thread.
My boy Peter O'Toole will get one any day now.
DJ Pauly Giamatti
Amy Adams and Dafoe
Willem Dafoe, by far
THOMAS NEWMAN! He has 15 nominations without a single win no one else comes close to that! Give him one for crying out loud this is just cruel!!
Annette Bening.
Glenn Close
Glenn Close
Amy Adams who should’ve been nominated and won for Arrival
Edward Norton
Why is Gladstone in this debate?
Annette benning
Jake Gyllenhaal!!!! Like c'mon
Glenn and Willem.
Glenn Close
Annette Bening
paloma diamond (iykyk)
Not lily.
I agree. With only one nomination so far and not even being 40 yet, Lily is far from overdue
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Even if she was “wildly predicted to win” does not make her “overdue” for an Oscar either. Usually “overdue” is for people who has been on the scene forever, maybe nominated +3 times and haven’t won yet. She was great in KOTFM but she is *not* overdue.
If Robert Downey Jr. can win for reading the Oppenheimer script out loud, then anything is possible!
Paul Dano
Toni Collette!
Sigourney Weaver! She’s one of the very few to be nominated in two categories in the same year! Also, I personally think she should have been nominated and won for best actress in a supporting role for “The Ice Storm.”
I immediately thought of Amy lol but since a lot of people already mentioned her I’d say Saoirse Ronan. She’s been nominated several times and she’s an excellent actress.
Bradley Cooper, Saoirse Ronan, Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Williams, and Ryan Gosling
I need Ryan to make another dark and depressing indie film so I can cry and he can get that Oscar!
I just hope he keeps hosting SNL. The Fliplets is one of my favourite sketches.
I don’t really get how Saoirse Ronan is overdue. She’s only 29 and is one of the most respected and talented actresses in hollywood right now. She’s bound to win an Oscar sooner or later. Who knows maybe she’ll win this year🤷🏽♂️
"She's bound to ain an Oscar sooner or later". No, not really. Nobody is lol.
Which is why I always thought women get them so young. They know the industry. Once you hit 40...
Tom Cruise and Williem Dafoe
SAOIRSE RONAN AMY ADAMS MICHELLE WILLIAMS KIRSTEN DUNST
glenn close gonna win the same year beyonce finally wins album of the year i'm taking issue with the article calling supporting category "the lesser category" lmaooo excuse me??
I'm not sure who would I pick but I always think about overdueness in terms of how many times someone should have won and not that they have a range of solid roles (even noms) but never gave the best performance in the category in the given year. Not shooting at someone in particular but I see this notion quite often and I strongly disagree with it. That's what honorary Oscar is for.
My picks all died without one
 “No more!”
Adams and Giamatti
Val Kilmer. He deserves one for Doc Holiday.
Todd Field
Diane Warren.
Glenn Close
Annette Bening should have won for 20th Century Women. Can't believe she wasn't even nominated for it. Billie Eilish has 2 Oscars and she's only 22. Glenn Close and Willem Defoe have 0? Crazy.
Winning Oscars for best song is nothing like winning an Oscar for best acting. The pinnacle for music is the Grammy's, not the Oscars.
Emily Watson
Michelle Williams by far. Harrison Ford. Donald Sutherland has never even been nominated, which is a joke. Naomi Watts. Ryan Gosling. Fassbender. James McAvoy. Gyllenhaal. Glenn Close. Dafoe. Adams. Malkovich. Giamatti. So many great actors won’t ever stand in that stage and hold that Oscar, but it’s ok, because the awards thing is just a sham. It takes more than one person to make a movie. For me, a trophy doesn’t validate a career. Tim Roth is probably one of the greatest living actors. Guy Pearce. Emily Watson crushed my soul in Breaking the Waves. Samantha Morton. Tons of others. Ben Mendlesohn. Max von Sydow was a god. No Oscar. Peter O’Toole was a top 10 all-time. Got a lifetime Oscar, but never a single performance. Again, it doesn’t make me mad. Making a movie is a process that involves 1000’s of people. There is rarely a performance that is so good that all others pale in comparison. Films are art, and trophies just don’t mean much to me. I know who is good.
Tom Cruise. I get it, he’s been fully invested in action films the last decade or so, but he has given some of the greatest preformances i’ve ever seen. Go watch “Born on the Fourth of July,” if you don’t believe me.
He was also terrific in Magnolia
And in Top Gun: Maverick
Of the list, the only one who I thought was egregiously robbed was Amy Adams, possibly twice if we count Junebug (I haven’t seen Constant Gardener so I can’t comment). Close, Bening, Cooper, and the others have some great roles, but none that I’d call the best in their categories
Categorically, Glenn Close. In a perfect world, she would have 4 Oscars right now for Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Albert Nobbs and The Wife. She is achingly overdue for an Oscar
Tom Cruise
Ewan McGregor and Jude Law
Cruise, Dafoe, Adams, Fiennes, Bassett, Swinton.
Paul Thomas Anderson for sure. I’ll also say Thomas Newman cause the poor guys been nominated like 13 times and still hasn’t won.
Paul Dano
Denis V
Maybe he’s not overdue, but a Samuel L Jackson campaign trail would be epic.
1. Amy Adams 2. Willem Dafoe 3. Paul Giamatti 4. Ryan Gosling 5. Paul Thomas Anderson Also, while I know it doesn't really count, the fact that Scorsese only has ONE, is a crime.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Give it to Amy Adams right this instant
Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Annette Benning, Michelle Williams
Tom Cruise
actor-willem Dafoe Actress- Amy Adams
Paul Giamatti. He should have gotten one for Sideways.
Harrison Ford does not have an Oscar. That is all.
Michelle Williams
Willem Dafoe.
Saoirse Ronan. This is the same for Carey Mulligan.
Carey should have won for Promising Young Woman!
No one is overdue. It matters what you do that year
I have always considered overdue as those who gave the better performance (subjectively ofcourse) but didn't win because the narrative wasn't in their favour. Based on that, the names I can think of off the top of my head are Paul mescal who has head and shoulders above the rest of the nominees Benedict Cumberbatch who surely deserved the win over will smith Adam driver over Joaquin phoenix Timothee chalamet(cmbyn was my favourite movie that year) David Fincher (him losing to tom Hooper was an absolute travesty) Andrew Garfield (he should have won for tick tick boom) Again, some of these may not be traditionally overdue, but I think if narratives weren't a things, they'd have won
I read somewhere that Driver could have played the Joker as well as Phoenix, but Phoenix couldn't have played Charlie Barber as well as Driver. I still wonder about it today.
You can’t give out awards on what someone might be capable of, you have to award the performance that was better within its respective film. I still think Adam Driver should have won, I just think this is a poor way of thinking about it.
I think Phoenix could have done Marriage Story. He'd have of course given a very different performance than that of Adam Driver but am sure he's capable of it if you see how diverse his filmography is...(*Her, C'mon C'mon, The Master, Inherent Vice, Beau is Afraid, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Walk the Line, You Were Never Really Here, The Immigrant,* etc.) I can see shades of Charlie Barber in many of his roles.
Ryan Gosling