Who are some actors who never won the Oscar?

[WI_DEM]

and if you could give them the Oscar--for what performance?

Well, my #1 Oscarless great actor is Cary Grant. Despite two nominations--he never won an Oscar--he later got a honorary Oscar.

There are tons of films he deserved to be nominated for but I think the film which best sums up his career is "North by Northwest" it had it all--comedy, romance, suspense, drama.

[terrya]

1. Peter O' Toole for "The Lion in Winter"

Every bit the equal of Katharine Hepburn. He should have won as well.

[WI_DEM]

2. I agree

and Hepburn should have won her Oscar alone--not sharing it with Barbara Streisand.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Barbara Stanwyck.

Deserved to win for "Double Indemnity."

[mitchum]

8. She certainly did

[swag]

24. She was also killer in "The Lady Eve," I thought.

[CBHagman]

4. Here are some people who never won a competitive Oscar

Some received honorary Oscars. Some were not even nominated.

Edward G. Robinson
Barbara Stanwyck
Claude Rains
Lauren Bacall
Cary Grant
Peter Lorre
John Garfield
Kathleen Turner
Sigourney Weaver
Glenn Close
Ian Holm
Ian McKellen
Peter O'Toole
Albert Finney
Liv Ullman
Lena Olin
Lynn Redgrave
Kenneth Branagh

[Donkeyboy75]

11. You forgot Jeremy Piven.

[ohiosmith]

5. Richard Burton for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

[CBHagman]

6. And he was nominated on other occasions.

The story that I heard was that Richard Burton was halfway out of his seat when they were announcing Best Actor on the very last occasion that he was nominated for an Oscar...and then he realized they were calling Richard Dreyfuss's name. :cry:

[blondeatlast]

7. I don't believe Gregory Peck ever did.

Edit: correction; he won the In 1967, Peck received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (from AMPAS). (Info is from IMdB).

But he never won an award for acting.

[CBHagman]

16. Ever hear of something called To Kill a Mockingbird?

Yes, yes, it's true! Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch got him the little nekkid statue.

I got to get you an almanac, blondeatlast, so you can look up this stuff late at night.

[blondeatlast]

28. Okay, my bad. IMdB didn't have it listed--I swear it. nt

[jpgray]

17. He won best actor for To Kill a Mockingbird in '63

[mitchum]

9. Robert Mitchum for "Night of the Hunter"

[fishwax]

10. Ed Harris

and I wish he'd won for Pollock. (Russel Crowe won for Gladiator that year.)

[nytemare]

12. Johnny Depp

He should get one sooner or later.

[bertha katzenengel]

13. Even though it's WAY not too late: Glenn Close.

Now, not to say that Cher isn't a good actress, but DAMN, the Academy ROBBED Glenn Close (Moonstruck? Fatal Attraction? No contest).

:hi:

[bigwillq]

14. Julianne Moore

Ed Norton

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. Peter Billingsley never won an oscar

nor did Tim Conway

[Beausoir]

20. True, but he IS the producer of Dinner For Five. One of my fave shows.

And I must admit I am shocked that Conway never won a statue for his Dorf On Golf series.

The academy is blind.

[Warchild]

18. how about..

..Joe Pesci? He deserves one for every movie he's been in.

oh wait....he got a best supporting actor oscar for Goodfellas...my bad

[Robeson]

19. Richard Burton for "The Night of the Iguana".

[yellowdogintexas]

25. Richard Burton for umpteen different things he did.

most nominations without a win, I think

[Robeson]

26. No doubt. He really was snubbed.

[allalone]

21. Steve Mcqueen

[devilgrrl]

22. Tom Cruise and John Travolta

Not that either have ever deserved one.

[swag]

23. Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper in "Beach Blanket Bingo."

[CBHagman]

29. No, but they could create....

...the Harvey Lembeck Memorial "You Stupids!" Award for bad decisions of various sorts. However, I suspect politicians would win it at least as often as producers.

[LynneSin]

27. Charlie Chaplin

and he is so deserving of one too!

[Burma Jones]

30. Me

Not even a nomination,