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Notable movies – 'The Color of Money’ (1986), ‘Rain Man’ (1988),’ Born on the Fourth of July’ (1989),’ Days of
Thunder’ (1990), ‘A Few Good
Men’ (1992), ‘Jerry Maguire’ (1996),
‘Magnolia’ (1999),’Vanilla Sky’ (2001), ‘Minority Report’ (2002), ‘The Last
Samurai’ (2003), ‘Collateral’ (2004),
and ‘War of the Worlds’ (2005).
He never got an Oscar for any of these movies though he was nominated
3 times; as of 2012 he is the highest paid actor in Hollywood.
8) Albert Finney - is an English actor
Oscar nominations
Best Actor
They are versatile enough to play any role that is given
to them and have already bagged many major awards except the Golden Knight. Their
track record at box-office and popularity with media, critics and audiences may
help them for an Academy’s nod in future but as for now they are not recognized
or blessed with an Oscar.
10) Tom Cruise -is an American film actor and
producer
Year’s active-1981-present
Record till now - 0-3
Oscar nominations
Best Supporting Actor
1999 – As Frank T.J. Mackey in Magnolia – lost to Michael
Caine as Dr. Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules
Best Actor
1989 – As Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July
– lost to Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in My Left Foot
1996 – As Jerry Maguire in Jerry Maguire – lost to
Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott in Shine
9) Richard Burton – was
an Welsh actor
Year’s active – 1944-84
Record till now – 0-7
Shot to fame – As "Tammy" MacRoberts
in ’The Desert Rats’ (1953)
Notable movies - ‘The Robe’ (1953), ‘Look Back in Anger’ (1958), ‘Cleopatra’ (1963),
‘The Night of the Iguana’ (1964), ‘The Spy Who Came in From the Cold’ (1965), ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
(1966),
‘Where Eagles Dare’ (1968), ‘Equus’
(1977), ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1984).From 1982 he and Peter
O’Toole shared the same number of nominations without winning an Oscar
(7) till latter won in 2003. He was one of the highest paid
actors of Hollywood in his time.
Oscar nominations-
Best Supporting Actor
1952 – As Philip
Ashley in My
Cousin Rachel – lost
to Anthony Quinn as Eufemio Zapata in Viva Zapata!
Best Actor
1953 – As Marcellus
Gallio in The Robe– lost to William Holdens as Sgt.J.J. Sefton in Stalag
17
1964 – As Thomas Becket in Becket– lost to Rex Harrison as Professor
Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
1965 – As Alec
Leamas in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold– lost to Lee Marvin as Kid
Shelleen Tim Strawn in Cat Ballou
1966 – As George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – lost
to Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All
Seasons
1969 – As King Henry
VIII of England in Anne
of the Thousand Days – lost to John Wayne as Rooster
Cogburn in True Grit
1977 – As Martin
Dysart in Equus – lost to Richard
Dreyfuss as Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl
Year’s active – 1958- present
Record till now – 0-5
Notable movies – ‘Tom Jones’ (1963,)
‘Murder on the Orient Express’
(1974), ‘Shoot the Moon’ (1982),
‘The Dresser’
(1983), ‘Under the Volcano’
(1984) and ‘Big Fish’ (2003) . He
has been nominated for two Tony Awards,
both for Best Actor in a Play, for Luther in
1964, and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in
1968 for his Broadway work.
Oscar nominations
Best Supporting Actor
2000 – As Edward L. Masry in Erin Brockovich – lost
to Benecio del Toro as Javier Rodriguez in Traffic
Best Actor
1963 – As Tom Jones in Tom Jones – lost to Sidney
Poitier as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field
1974 – As Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express
– lost to Art Carney as Harry Coombes in Harry and Tonto
1983 – As Sir in The Dresser – lost to Robert
Duvall as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies
1984 – As Geoffrey Firmin in Under the Volcano –
lost to F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus
7) Julianne Moore – is a British-American actress and children’s book author
Year’s active – 1983 – present
Record till now – 0-4
Shot to fame –as Marian
Wyman in ‘Shortcuts’ (1993)
Notable movies - ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’
(1992),'Short Cuts’ (1993),’Nine Months
’(1995),’Assassins’ (1995),’Boogie Nights’
(1997),’The Big Lebowski’ (1998), ‘Magnolia’ (1999), ‘Hannibal’ (2001),’The Forgotten’ (2004),’The End of the Affair’ (1999), ‘Far From Heaven’
(2002),’The Hours’ (2002),’The Kids Are All Right’ (2010), ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ (2011). In October 2007, she made her literary
debut with a children's book illustrated by LeUyen Pham
by the name of Freckleface
Strawberry.
Best Supporting Actress
1997 – As Amber
Waves in Boogie Nights – lost to Kim Basinger as Lynn
Bracken in L.A.Confdential
2002 – As Laura
Brown in The Hours – lost
to Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly in Chicago
Best Actress
1999 – As Sarah
Miles in The
End of the Affair– lost
to Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry
2002 – As Cathy
Whitaker in Far from Heaven– lost to Nicole Kidman as Virginia
Woolf in The Hours
6) Cary Grant – was an English-born American film
actor
Year’s active - 1932–1966
Record till now – 0-2
Shot to fame – as Stephen in ‘This is
the Night’ (1932)
Notable movies - ‘The Awful Truth’ (1937), ‘Bringing Up Baby’ (1938), ‘Gunga Din’ (1939),’The
Philadelphia Story’ (1940), ‘His Girl Friday’ (1940), ‘Arsenic
and Old Lace’ (1944), ‘Notorious’ (1946),’To Catch A
Thief’ (1955), ‘An Affair to
Remember’ (1957), ‘North by
Northwest’ (1959)
and ’Charade’ (1963).
Grant was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by
the American Film Institute (AFI).
Oscar nominations –
Best
Actor
1941 – As Roger Adams in Penny Serenade – lost to
Gary Cooper as Alvin C. York in Sergeant York
1944 – As Ernie Mott in None but the Lonely Heart
– lost to Bing Crosby as Father Chuck O’Malley in Going My
Way
5) Edward
Norton – is an American actor, screenwriter, film director and
producer
Year’s active – 1993 - present
Record till now – 0-2
Shot to fame – As Aaron Stampler in ‘Primal
Fear’ (1996)
Notable movies - ‘Fight Club’ (1999), ‘25th Hour’ (2002), ‘Red Dragon’ (2002), ‘The
Illusionist’ (2006), ‘The
Incredible Hulk’ (2008), and ‘The
Bourne Legacy’ (2012). He
had an unaccredited work in script for the movie The Incredible Hulk. In his very first movie he was nominated for an Oscar but unfortunately he lost to Cuba Gooding Jr.; but in this short span of time he has grabbed eyeballs for his matured performances and hopefully will win an Academy soon.
Oscar nominations
Best Supporting Actor
1996 – As Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear – lost to
Cuba Gooding Jr. as Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire
Best Actor
1998 – As Derek Vinyard in American History X –
lost to Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice in Life is Beautiful.
4) Leonardo DiCaprio – is an American actor and film producer
Year’s active – 1989-present
Record till now – 0-3
Shot to fame - as Tobias 'Toby' Wolff in ‘This
Boy's Life’ (1993)
Notable movies - ‘What's Eating Gilbert Grape’ (1993),‘The Basketball Diaries’ (1995)
, ‘Marvin's Room’ (1996),’Romeo +
Juliet’ (1996), ‘Catch Me If You Can’ (2002), ‘Gangs of New
York’ (2002), ‘The Aviator’ (2004), ‘Blood Diamond’ (2006), ‘The Departed’ (2006), ‘Revolutionary Road’ (2008),
‘Shutter Island’ (2010),
‘Inception’ (2010) . He never got a nomination for ‘Titanic’
though there was a nomination in Golden Globes but still could not
win it. In November 2010 he donated $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at
Russia's tiger summit for which Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin described him as a "muzhik" or "real
man".
Oscar nominations
Best Supporting Actor
1993 – As Arnie Grape in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
– lost to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive
Best Actor
2004 – As Howard Hughes in The Aviator – lost to Jamie
Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
2006 – As Danny Archer in Blood Diamond – lost to
Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
3) Robert Downey, Jr. – is an American actor
Year’s active – 1970–present
Record till now – 0-2
Shot to fame – as Jack Jericho ‘The
Pick-up Artist’ (1987)
Notable movies - 'Less Than Zero' (1987),
'Chaplin' (1992),
Richard III' (1995),
'The Singing
Detective' (2003), 'Kiss Kiss
Bang Bang' (2005), 'A Scanner
Darkly' (2006), 'Zodiac' (2007),
'Iron Man' (2008),
'Tropic
Thunder' (2008), ‘Sherlock Holmes’
(2009) and ‘The Avengers’
(2012). He made his screen debut at the age of five in
movie Pound (directed and written by his father Robert Downey, Sr.)
Oscar nominations –
Best Supporting Actor
2007 –As Kirk
Lazarus in Tropic Thunder – lost to Heath
Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight
Best Actor
1992– As Charlie
Chaplin in Chaplin
– lost to Al Pacino as Lieutenant Colonel
Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman
2) Peter O'Toole - is an Irish actor of stage and screen
Record till now - 0-8 though he got an honorary award in 2003
presented by Meryl Streep (has
Most nominations by an actress 17)
Notable movie – ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
(1962) , ‘Becket’ (1964) , ‘Night of the Generals’
(1967) , ‘The Lion in Winter’ (1968) , ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’
(1969) , ‘The Ruling Class’ (1972) , ‘The Stunt Man’
(1980) , ‘My Favorite Year’ (1982) , ‘The Last Emperor’
(1987) , ‘Venus’ (2006) . In 2003 when the Academy
informed him of an honorary award he said that "Still in the game
and would like more time to win the lovely bugger outright." But
the Academy informed that they will confer the award if he wants or not.
Oscar nominations
Best Actor
1962 – As T.E. Laurence in Laurence
of Arabia – lost to Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in
To Kill a Mocking Bird
1964 – As Becket in King Henry II
– lost to Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in My
Fair Lady
1968 – As King Henry II in The Lion in
Winter – lost to Cliff Robertson as Charly Gordon in Charly
1969 – As Arthur Chipping in Goodbye,
Mr. Chips – lost to John Wayne as Marshal Reuben J. Cogburn
in True Grit
1972 – As Jack Gurney in The Ruling
Class – lost to Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone in The
Godfather
1980 – As Eli Cross in The Stunt Man
– lost to Robert De Niro as Jack LaMotta in Raging Bull
1982 – As Alan Swann in My Favorite
Year – lost to Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Gandhi in Gandhi
2006 – As Maurice in Venus –
lost to Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of
Scotland
1) Johnny Depp – is an American actor, producer and musician
Year’s active – 1984 - present
Record till now – 0-3
Shot to fame - as Officer Thomas Hanson
on FOX's ‘21 Jump
Street’ (1987-1990)
Notable movies – ‘Sleepy Hollow’ (1999), ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (2005), ‘Rango’ (2011)
and the Pirates of the Caribbean film
series (2003–present). He has been named as "Sexiest Man
Alive" by People magazine
in 2003 and 2009. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as
the highest paid actor in world cinema with a salary of $75 million.
Best Actor
2003 – As Jack Sparrow in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
– lost to Sean Penn as Jimmy Markum in ‘Mystic River’
2004 – As Sir James Mathew Barrie in ‘Finding Neverland’
– lost to Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in ‘Ray’
2007 – As Sweeney Todd in ‘Sweeney Todd’ – lost
to Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in ‘There Will be
Blood’
There are many other actors with immense talent and were nominated but could not grab the Golden Statuette here Wishi'n them LUCK!!! for next Oscar (as luck is the only factor which they seem to be lacking now) :-
Will Smith – 0-2 (for Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness)
- Best Actor
Matt Damon – 0-2 (for Good Will
Hunting) - Best Actor
(for Invictus) - Best Supporting Actor
He got an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting
He got an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting
James Dean - 0-2 (for East of Eden and Giant) - Best
Actor
He is the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had two
posthumous Best Actor nominations.
John Malkovich - 0-2 (for Places in the Heart
and In the Line of Fire)
- Best Supporting Actor
Bill Murray - 0-1 (for Lost in Translation)
- Best Actor
Paul Giamatti – 0-1 (for Cinderella
Man) - Best Supporting Actor
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