ONTD Original: When the Academy Awards the Wrong Performance from an Actor

[madamezuzu]

Don't you just hate when politics gets involved in your award shows and RUINS it all? Have you ever seen an actor give a performance so amazing, so life altering, only for them to go home empty handed come award season? Have you seen the same actor get awarded either the next year or twenty years later and the role is the epitome of "her?" Well,

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[shatteredglass]

I don't agree with the Brie Larson one both were great acting accomplishments imo

[tucker]

Yeah I thought she really killed it in room

[jumelles_mach6]

I was thinking this too. They're both good performances that the oscar could go either way for. But Room was def the stronger performance.

[undoit]

I don't even like Leo but he was great in The Departed and should've got his "sorry, bud" Oscar for that so it could've all been put to rest in 2006.

[izzzzy23]

ia or even wolf of wall street if they were determined not to award him when he was young

[ponyboy]

they rly fucking hated him for no reason

[fromyourashes]

it was because of titanic and his behavior during award season when he wasn't nominated.

[steph313]

"Catch Me If You Can" is such a fun, well-done movie. I can watch it every time it's on. It's Leo's best work.

And Nicole and Ewan were both so great in Moulin Rouge, but Nicole especially deserved that Oscar for it over the Hours.

And I didn't even know Pacino didn't win for Godfather 2. I just assumed he did and never checked because he does such a perfect, iconic job.

[walterwhiteh2o]

I think only Brando and De Niro won for The Godfather, which is bullshit. I think Michael Corleone is much more iconic than Vito

[januarysix]

I only recently saw Catch Me if You Can and I loved it? How did I miss this movie?

[ellyrianna]

Totally agree with Catch Me If You Can. It's such a delightful, zippy movie and still has heart to it!

[fbag17]

Boogie Nights won zero Academy Awards which is freakish and possibly criminal.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I am always shocked that PTA did that movie at 26!

[arilicious]

that's cause titanic had to get everything that year rme

[x_falsetto]

Joaquin def should have won for Walk the Line. I did love his performance in Joker (the movie itself was nothing special tho), but he was next level in Walk the Line.

[josiefier]

I'm still miffed about his Gladiator loss tbh.

[la_geni]

That role was iconique. I watched it as a kid and still remember it so well.

[sirlolsworthy]

honestly the greatest actor of his generation, it was quite something watching that movie and thinking 'this guy is going to go on to be an all-timer'