Top 25 actors who have never won oscar
by dusan-dimitrijevic4 | created - 03 Mar 2013 | updated - 27 Feb 2015 | PublicThis is my list of 25 great actors that I can think of, who have never won oscar, but I think they deserve at least one, and they still have a chance to win it (means they are still alive and still acting) :) list is not in order and probably there is more actors who should get oscar, but this is just my choice... If you think the list is not right or you don't agree with me you can comment or just go and make your own list ;)
1. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
Definitely really good actor. Nominated three times for oscar. He did awesome job in Donnie Brasco, Finding Neverland, Pirates of the Caribbean... But I think he is going to get one really soon.
2. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
He did amazing job doing Severus Snape during whole 7 movies, but especially in the last one. Other movies: Rasputin, Michael Collins... But Severus Snape is his best acting. With all respect for Academy, but I think that they made biggest mistake ever not giving him award for that role.
3. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
Another three times oscar nominated actor. I think I like every single movie that he ever made. The Last Samurai, Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on the 4th of July, Vanilla Sky, The Color of Money, Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Man... literally every single movie is great, you can choose any movie and give him oscar for that :D
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
And another three oscar nominations. His movies are also great: What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Basketball Diaries, The Departed, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Catch Me If You Can, Blood Diamond... I think that Great Gatsby is going to be really good too. I can see him with an oscar in the future
5. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
This guy has four nominations. He is also one of the greatest. There is some movies that he could really get academy award. Here is some of them: Moneyball, The Tree Of Life, Twelve Monkeys, Meet Joe Black, Troy, Interview With A Vampire...
6. Robert Downey Jr.
Actor | Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.
Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...
Sherlock Holmes, U.S. Marshals, Chaplin, Tropic Thunder, Iron Man. Those are all the movies of Robert Downey Jr. that are really good. He was two times nominated, but he didn't won. I think that he is going to win one in the future.
7. Kevin Bacon
Actor | Footloose
Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.
Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...
Mystic River, Murder In The First, Woodsman, Footloose, Apollo 13... He is a good actor, who did great movies and deserves to be on this list.
8. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Air Force One, Witness... Also my favourite The Fugitive. We should all agree that he is great actor and he deserve to get place on this list. He got one nomination.
9. Liam Neeson
Actor | Kinsey
Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...
I love this actor so much. Rob Roy, Schindler's List, Batman Begins, Michael Collins, Taken. He has one nomination. He is definitely awesome actor and I don't doubt that he is going to have more chance to win oscar.
10. Samuel L. Jackson
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...
This guy is a legend. He is amazing. Pulp Fiction, Coach Carter, A Time To Kill, Unbreakable, Die Hard: With A Vengeance, Shaft, Django Unchained... In every movie he is different and he is really amazing. He also deserve to get an oscar. He got one nomination.
11. Jude Law
Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes:...
This actor is going to do a lot of movies and I believe that he is going to be awarded for at least one of them. By the way he has two nominations. Law's movies: Sherlock Holmes, Enemy At The Gates, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain...
12. Richard Gere
Actor | Chicago
Humanitarian and actor Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, the second of five children of Doris Anna (Tiffany), a homemaker, and Homer George Gere, an insurance salesman, both Mayflower descendants. Richard started early as a musician, playing a number of instruments in high ...
I think that Gere also deserve his place on this list. Movies: An Officer And A Gentleman, Primal Fear, Chicago, Red Corner, Unfaithful... Those are all great movies we need to agree.
13. Hugh Jackman
Actor | Les Misérables
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...
He just recently got nomination for great movie Les Miserables and he probably is going to win oscar in some of the next movies, but he is worth of mentioning his name on this list. The Prestige, X-Men, Van Helsing, Les Miserables, just excellent, well done.
14. Bill Murray
Actor | Lost in Translation
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...
Another legendary actor. One nomination. He already got his place among legends, but it would be nice if he would have oscar, because I think he deserve it. Every other comment would be superfluous. Movies: Lost In Translation, What About Bob, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day.
15. Edward Norton
Actor | Fight Club
American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.
His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...
Edward is another such a great actor. He has two nominations for American History X and Primal Fear. Other movies that he did are The Illusionist, Fight Club, The Italian Job. He still got some time to get one.
16. Will Smith
Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...
The Pursuit Of Happiness, Ali, Men In Black, Wild Wild West, Bad Boys, I Am Legend, Hancock, Enemy Of The State. Two nominations. Serious, funny, talented... Really great actor.
17. John Malkovich
Actor | Being John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, to Joe Anne (Choisser), who owned a local newspaper, and Daniel Leon Malkovich, a state conservation director. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. In 1976, Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary ...
John Malkovich great actor. He is cool and funny. He is two times nominated for oscars. Some of John's movies: In The Line Of Fire, Places In The Heart, Red, The Killing Fields...
18. John Travolta
Actor | Pulp Fiction
John Joseph Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six children of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father owned a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, ...
My favourite Travolta's movies are Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction, Face Off. I always liked John Travolta, he really is a great actor. Two times nominated for oscars.
19. Bruce Willis
Actor | Die Hard
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...
Now this guy is one of those guys that you don't want to mess with him. When I think of him, I think of a good bad guy. Twelve Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, Armageddon, The Jackal and of course John McClane and Die Hard.
20. Ralph Fiennes
Actor | The Constant Gardener
Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus ...
Another great actor. Two nominations for the movies The English Patient and Schindler's list, but most famous like Lord Voldemort.
21. Ed Harris
Actor | Appaloosa
By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.
Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. ...
Ed Harris also got four nominations for oscars. He should got one very soon. We saw him in movies Pollock, The Truman Show, Apollo 13, The Hours, The Rock, A Beautiful Mind and lot of other great movies. Big time actor definitely.
22. Andy Garcia
Actor | Ocean's Eleven
One of Hollywood's most private and guarded leading men, Andy Garcia has created iconic characters while at the same time staying true to his acting roots and personal projects.
Garcia was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez on April 12, 1956, in Havana, Cuba, to Amelie Menéndez, a teacher of English...
Godfather, Black Rain, When A Man Loved A Woman. Great movies, great actor, one time nominated, deserve an oscar. No further comments
23. Mark Wahlberg
Producer | The Fighter
American actor Mark Wahlberg is one of a handful of respected entertainers who successfully made the transition from teen pop idol to acclaimed actor. A Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for The Departed (2006) who went on to receive positive critical reviews for his performance in The Fighter (...
Mark is nice guy and good actor. I love to watch his action movies. The Italian Job, The Fighter, Four Brothers, The Departed, Three Kings, great movies that Mark took a part in. He is a great actor with bright past and future. Two years nominated for oscars.
24. Gary Oldman
Actor | The Dark Knight
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
Once again great actor. Harry Potter (Sirius Blake), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Dracula, Batman. Once nominated for oscar.
25. Jim Carrey
Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...
This is the best imitator, great comedian, positively weird, he makes people laugh... Great movies Liar Liar, Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty and the best The Truman Show. No complaining, he deserves oscar.
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