Each year, deserving performances lose out in the Oscars' best acting categories. But there are a handful of great actors that the Academy has repeatedly nominated and neglected.
Amy Adams has lost five times at the Oscars for five captivating roles, and she's up for her sixth Oscar on February 24. Likewise, Glenn Close was nominated for her seventh Oscar this year. Will they finally win?
Both Bradley Cooper and Willem Dafoe are nominated for their fourth acting Oscars this year (Cooper has a total of seven nominations for producing "American Sniper" and "A Star is Born," and writing "A Star Is Born").
And all-time great Peter O'Toole, unfortunately, had it even worse.
Here are the 23 actors who have been nominated for at least four Oscars without winning once:
Warner Bros.
Best actor nominations: "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012), "American Sniper" (2014), "A Star Is Born" (2018)
Best supporting actor nominations: "American Hustle" (2013)
CBS Films
Best actor nominations: "At Eternity's Gate" (2018)
Best supporting actor nominations: "Platoon" (1986), "Shadow of a Vampire" (2000), "The Flordia Project" (2017)
Alliance Vivafilm
Best actress nominations: "Blue Valentine" (2010), "My Week with Marilyn" (2011)
Best supporting actress nominations: "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), "Manchester by the Sea" (2016)
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Best actress nominations: "Stella Dallas" (1937), "Ball of Fire" (1941), "Double Indemnity" (1944), "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948)
Stanwyck received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1981.
Warner Bros.
Best actress nominations: "My Sister Eileen" (1942), "Sister Kenny" (1946), "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1947), "Auntie Mame" (1958)
United Artists
Best actor nominations: "Babe in Arms" (1939), "The Human Comedy" (1943)
Best supporting actor nominations: "The Bold and the Brave" (1956), "The Black Stallion" (1979)
Rooney received the since-discontinued Academy Juvenile Award in 1938 and the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1982.
Warner Bros.
Best supporting actor nominations: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Casablanca (1942), Mr. Skeffington (1944), Notorious (1946)
Sony Pictures Classic
Best actor nomination: "Pollock" (2000)
Best supporting actor nominations: "Apollo 13" (1995), "The Truman Show" (1998), "The Hours" (2002)
20th Century Fox
Best supporting actress nominations: "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942), "Mrs. Parkington" (1944), "Johnny Belinda" (1948), "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964)
Warner Bros.
Best actress nominations: "Cinderella Liberty" (1973), "The Goodbye Girl" (1977), "Chapter Two" (1979), "Only When I Laugh" (1981)
Paramount Pictures
Best actor nominations: "The Search" (1948), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), "From Here to Eternity" (1953)
Best supporting actor nomination: "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961)
MGM
Best actor nominations: "Conquest" (1937), "Algiers" (1938), "Gaslight" (1944), "Fanny" (1961)
DreamWorks Pictures
Best actress nominations: "American Beauty" (1999), "Being Julia" (2004), "The Kids Are All Right" (2010)
Best supporting actress nomination: "The Grifters" (1990)
20th Century Fox
Best actress nominations: "The Great White Hope" (1970), "Testament" (1983)
Best supporting actress nominations: "All the President's Men" (1976), "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979)
Universal Pictures
Best actor nomination: "Bright Victory" (1951)
Best supporting actor nominations: "Champion" (1949),"Trial" (1955), "Peyton Place" (1957), "Some Came Running" (1958)
Universal Pictures
Best actor nominations: "Tom Jones" (1963), "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), "The Dresser" (1983), "Under the Volcano" (1984)
Best supporting actor nomination: "Erin Brockovich" (2000)
RKO Pictures
Best actress nominations: "Cimarron" (1931), "Theodora Goes Wild" (1936), "The Awful Truth" (1937), "Love Affair" (1939), "I Remember Mama" (1948)
Annapurna Pictures
Best actress nomination: "American Hustle" (2013)
Best supporting actress nominations: "Junebug" (2005), "Doubt" (2008), "The Fighter" (2010), "The Master" (2012), "Vice" (2018)
United Artists
Best supporting actress nominations: "All About Eve" (1950), "The Mating Season" (1951), "With a Song in My Heart" (1952), "Pickup on South Street" (1953), "Pillow Talk" (1959), "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962)
Warner Bros.
Best actress nominations: "Edward, My Son" (1949), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "The King and I" (1956), "Heaven Knows, Mr Allison" (1957), "Separate Tables" (1958), "The Sundowners" (1960)
Kerr received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1994.
Sony Pictures Classics
Best actress nominations: "Fatal Attraction" (1987), "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), "Albert Nobbs" (2011), "The Wife" (2018)
Best supporting actress nominations: "The World According to Garp" (1982), "The Big Chill" (1983), "The Natural" (1984)
Warner Bros.
Best actor nominations: " The Robe" (1954), "Becket" (1964), "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1965), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969), "Equus" (1977)
Best supporting actor nomination: "My Cousin Rachel" (1952)
Columbia Pictures
Best actor nominations: "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Becket" (1964), "The Lion in Winter"(1968), "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969), "The Ruling Class"(1972), "The Stunt Man"(1980), "My Favorite Year" (1982), "Venus" (2006)
O'Toole received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 2002.
See Also:
SEE ALSO: 14 Hollywood stars who didn't accept their Oscars or boycotted the ceremony
Eyewitness? Submit your stories now via social or:
Email: news@pulselive.co.ke
