Acting Performances Robbed of the Oscar

By: Danny Bailey

Deserved Actor-Undeserving-Deserved picture

Nigel Hawthorne and Daniel Day Lewis losing to Tom Hanks (In the Name of the Father & Madness of King George)-1994
Peter O’Toole losing to Rex Harrison (Becket) 1964
Tom Courtenay losing to Martin Balsam and then Robert Duvall (Dr. Zhivago & The Dresser)1965 and 1983
Brenda Blethyn losing to Frances McDormand (Secrets and Lies) 1996
Ellen Burstyn losing to Julia Roberts (Requiem for a Dream) 2000
Mickey Rourke and Bill Murray losing to Sean Penn (The Wrestler & Lost in Translation) 2003 and 2008
Shirley McClaine losing to Elizabeth Taylor (The Apartment) 1960
Kim Stanley losing to Julie Andrews (Seance on a Wet Afternoon)1964
Gena Rowlands losing to Ellen Burstyn (A Woman Under The Influence)1974
Daniel Day Lewis losing to Tom Hanks (In the Name of the Father)1993
Armin Mueller-Stahl losing to Cuba Gooding Jr. (Shine)1996
Laurence Olivier and Peter Firth losing to Jason Robards (Marathon Man & Equus)1976 and 1977
Cate Blanchett losing to Jennifer Hudson (Notes on a Scandal)2006
Piper Laurie losing to Beatrice Straight (Carrie)1976
Janet Suzman and Geraldine Page losing to Jane Fonda (Nicholas and Alexandra & Interiors)1971 and 1978
Bette Midler and Judy Davis losing to Sally Field (The Rose & Passage To India) 1979 and 1984
Joan Plowright and Judy Davis losing to Marisa Tomei (Enchanted April & Husbands and Wives) 1992
Kate Winslet losing to Mira Sorvino (Sense and Sensibility) 1995
Sharon Stone losing to Susan Sarandon (Casino) 1995
Lorraine Bracco losing to Whoppi Goldberg (Goodfellas) 1990
Stephen Rea losing to Al Pacino (The Crying Game) 1992
Pete Postelwaithe losing to Tommy Lee Jones (In the Name of the Father) 1993
Max von Sydow losing to Dustin Hoffman (Pelle the Conqueror) 1988
Russell Crowe losing to Denzel Washington (A Beautiful Mind) 2001
Ed Harris and Geoffrey Rush losing to Russell Crowe (Pollock and Quills) 2000
Gloria Stuart losing to Kim Basinger (Titianic) 1997
Claude Rains losing to Charles Coburn (Casablanca) 1943
Richard Widmark losing to Edmund Gwenn (Kiss of Death) 1947
Brandon DeWilde losing to Frank Sinatra (Shane) 1953
Ann Blyth losing to Anne Revere (Mildred Pierce) 1945
Jack Lemmon losing to Gregory Peck (Days of Wine and Roses) 1962
Bette Davis and Gloria Swanson losing to Judy Holliday (All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard) 1950
Isabelle Adjani losing to Jessica Tandy (Camille Claudel) 1989
Judy Garland losing to Grace Kelly (A Star is Born) 1954
Peter O’Toole losing to Rex Harrison (Becket) 1964
Madeline Kahn losing to Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon) 1973
Teri Garr losing to Jessica Lange (Tootsie) 1982
Faye Dunaway losing to Katherine Hepburn (Bonnie and Clyde) 1967
Hope Emerson losing to Josephine Hull (Caged) 1950
Eileen Heckart losing to Dorothy Malone (The Bad Seed) 1956
Judi Dench losing to Helen Hunt (Mrs Brown) 1997
Ralph Richardson losing to Dean Jagger (The Heiress) 1949
Don Murray losing to Anthony Quinn (Bus Stop) 1956