Which Actors/Actress's do you Feel were robbed of an Oscar?
 

Al Pacino- Godfather, Godfather Part 2 and Serpico

Joaquin Phoenix- Gladiator and The Master

Ellen burstyn- Requiem for a Dream

Robert De niro- Taxi Driver

Edward Norton- American History X and Primal Fear

I've got a couple more, But What are yours?

All of Leonardo DiCaprio’s nominations before his first win...

I still can’t believe Tommy Lee Jones beat him for Playing himself. Utter Travesty Leo Didn’t Win For Gilbert

Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain

I've seen alot of comments over time about Martin Landau (as Bella Lugosi in "Ed Wood") beating Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) and how it was a travesty that Sam didn't win and it drives me mad.

Yes, Samuel was great in PF but he's literally playing himself like in almost every other film he's been in.

Landau's Lugosi is scarily accurate and hilarious whilst at the same time being really sad tbh. Well deserved imo.

I agree about Tommy Lee Jones beating DiCaprio though, that was ridiculous.

Gary Oldman's oscar should've gone to Daniel Kaluuya or Timothee Chalamet.

Viola Davis should've won for The Help when Meryl won for 'The Iron Lady'. Another film, like Oldman's Churchill one, that was pretty average overall and just seemed to pay it forward to a legend rather than a deserving performance.

Also as good as Natalie Portman was in Black Swan, I wish Annette Bening had won for The Kids Are All Right. Or indeed for 'American Beauty' over Hilary Swank's "Boys Don't Cry".

No way in hell did he deserve Wolf of Wall Street over McConaughey's Dallas Buyers Club performance. Never seen the Aviator but Blood Diamond wasn't that great either, Whitaker's Idi Amin was a deserving winner.

The GREAT Paul Newman for Cool Hand Luke AND The Verdict.

ANOTHER great thread, by the way, Scarface. :thumbs:

ANGELA BASSETT for ha portrayal of Tina Turner!

a ROBBERY

Was she nominated?

Thanks, Kirk :love:

Too many. The Oscars rarely get it right.

yes :bawling:

What do you consider were at least your Personal top 5 Robberies, Alf?

I was gonna put Pacino's Dog Day Afternoon, But Jack's Performance in One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest was simply in another league

Yes, I totally agree with this. She gave the performance of a lifetime.

I Feel Denzil or Robert Downey Jr should have won over Pacino tbh. He Only Won as a Make up Oscar for the Many loses in the Past.

Henry Fonda for The Grapes of Wrath
Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
Jack Lemmon for Some Like it Hot
Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia
Rex Harrison for Cleopatra

For a kick off

Impressive list, Alf - I agree with them all, especially Hank Fonda for the brilliant Grapes of Wrath.

De Niro plays every part the same.

I'm actually surprised it took so long for Di caprio to get his first Oscar and it was for a movie that I didn't expect , he's pretty much solo isn't he in The Revenant ? It's a survival story . I haven't watched it yet .

Well said, sis

Lawrence of Arabia, yes sis :hee:

Betty Davis literally was robbed

Literally!

The whole Joan Crawford accepting awards for the other nominees was just savage though, proper old school Hollywood deception. :clap2: