5 Favorites #63: 5 Favorite Non-Nominated Performances

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With the heavy number of performances that weren't nominated for Oscars this year, I'd like to pose the following question. What are your 5 favorite non-nominated performances. And while I'm only looking for five names, let's do five lists. The first list will be your five favorite performances from 2011 that weren't nominated this year. Then, do your 5 favorite non-nominated performances in each category: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. And these should be from 2010 and prior so as not to muddle the two.

What are your 5 Favorite non-nominated performances?

Written by: Wesley Lovell - Jan 31, 2012 (2:00 pm) | Filed under: 5 Favorites ( Leave a comment )

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Almasy
February 2nd, 2012 - 11:17

From 1990 to 2011, the year I’ve watched the oscars

Best Actor
Paul Giamatti – Sideways
Bruno Ganz – Downfall
Matt Damon – The Talented Mr. Ripley
Ian Holm – The Sweet Hereafter
Kenneth Branagh – Hamlet
Jack Lemmon – Glengarry Glen Ross
Gary Oldman – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Best Actress
Happy Go-Lucky – Sally Hawkins
Naomi Watts – Mullholland Dr.
Nicole Kidman – Eyes Wide Shut
Reese Witherspoon – Election
Linda Fiorentino – The Last Seduction
Linda Hamilton – Terminator 2

Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks – Drive
Leonardo di Caprio – The Departed
Sean Astin – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Ben Kingsley – Schindler’s List
Gary Oldman – JFK
Samuel L. Jackson – Jungle Fever

Best Supporting Actress
Lesley Manville – Another Year
Julianne Moore – A Single Man, The Hours, Magnolia
Sigourney Weaver – The Ice Storm
Kirsten Dunst – Interview With Vampire

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Tarek
February 2nd, 2012 - 08:33

The cast of Carnage was amazing….especially Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster deserved a nomination.

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Tom Swanner
February 1st, 2012 - 13:07

Albert Brooks Drive
Patton Oswalt Young Adult
Joseph Gordon-Levitt 50/50
Charlize Theron Young Adult
Sharlene Woodley The Descendants

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Mike Furlong
February 1st, 2012 - 02:24

First off, this was a really fun list to make. Second, I found it damn near impossible to limit my lists to only 5, but I scaled down as much as possible.

2011: (I still haven’t seen Shame, Take Shelter or a Dangerous Method)

Shailene Woodley, The Descendants; Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia; Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, 50/50; Patton Oswalt, Young Adult; John C. Reilly, Cedar Rapids

Actor:

Steve Martin, Roxanne; Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange; Nicol Williamson, The Bofors Gun; Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times; Andy Griffith, A Face in the Crowd; Bruno Ganz, Downfall; Robert Mitchum, Night of the Hunter; Anthony Perkins, Psycho; Monty Woolley, The Man Who Came to Dinner; W.C. Fields, The Bank Dick; David Thewlis, Naked

Actress:

Giulietta Masina, La Strada; Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot; Tilda Swinton, The Deep End; Joan Fontaine, Letter From an Unknown Woman; Bibi Andersson, Persona; Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road; Sigourney Weaver, Death and the Maiden; Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve

Supporting Actor:

Jean-Louis Barrault, Children of Paradise; Henry Fonda, Once Upon a Time in the West; Robert Shaw, Jaws; R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket; Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet; Peter Lorre, M; George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove; Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity; M. Emmet Walsh, Blood Simple; James Woods, Split Image; Robert Morley, Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe

Supporting Actress:

Judy Parfitt, Dolores Claiborne; Martha Raye, Monsieur Verdoux; Lillian Gish, Night of the Hunter; Angela Lansbury, The Manchurian Candidate; Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz; Sarah Polley, The Sweet Hereafter; Flora Robson, Fire Over England

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- Peter J Patrick
  February 1st, 2012 - 05:28
  
  Nice list, Mike, but Angela Lansbury was nominated for The Manchurian Candidate, she just didn’t win.
  
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  - Mike Furlong
    February 1st, 2012 - 12:54
    
    Indeed, nice catch, that one just slipped through.
    
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Joe
February 1st, 2012 - 00:28

2011: Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar), Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life)

Before: Meryl Streep (The Hours)

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Peter J Patrick
January 31st, 2012 - 19:11

2011:

Michael Fassbender, Shame; Michael Shannon, Take Shelter; Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks, Drive and Vanessa Redgrave, Coriolanus.

Best Actors – 1927/28-2010:

Cary Grant, The Awful Truth; John Wayne, The Quiet Man; Spencer Tracy, The Last Hurrah, Anthony Perkins, Psycho; Jack Lemmon, Glengarry Glen Ross

Best Actress – 1927/28-2010:

Beulah Bondi, Make Way for Tomorrow; Deborah Kerr, Black Narcissus; Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution; Diane Keaton, Looking for Mr. Goodbar; Maggie Smith, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Best Supporting Actor – 1936-2010:

Frank Morgan, The Mortal Storm; Robert Walker, Strangers on a Train; Fredric March, Seven Days in May; Trevor Howard, Ryan’s Daughter; Christopher Plummer, The Insider

Best Supporting Actress – 1936-2000:

Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz; Rosalind Russell, Picnic; Helen Hayes, Anastasia; Maureen O’Hara, Only the Lonely; Joan Plowright, Tea with Mussolini

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- Mike Furlong
  February 1st, 2012 - 02:27
  
  Peter, I’m so happy to see Lemmon, Perkins, Bondi, Dietrich, Walker, Plummer, Hamilton, Hayes and O’Hara on your lists. All of yours are deserved of accolades.
  
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Luigipisa
January 31st, 2012 - 15:57

di Caprio (J Edgard), Fassbender (Shame), Ryan Gosling & Albert Brooks (Drive) & Kate Winslet (Carnage)

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