Much like when Phil Mickelson won the Masters and we had to ask “Who is now the greatest golfer to never win a major?” For years, I have said that Morgan Freeman should be an Oscar winner. Last night that gripe ended. So who now takes his place?
Who is out there that you think “I can’t believe So&So hasn’t won one yet?”
Someone who you assume will win one one day.
Because I am drawing blank.
I’d say Harrison Ford, but he is doing work so bad these days, he can’t be included.
On the female side, I’d say Laura Linney and Kate Blanchett are nice candidates (thought Blanchett is still to young for this “honor”). You could mention Annette Benning, but I think she hasn’t put in as many great performances. If she weren’t married to Warren Beatty, I think she’d be less famous.
Jeff Bridges, Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Sigourney Weaver, Glenn Close, and Albert Finney all have at least 4 Oscar nominations and are still very active in the industy. None have won. There are plenty of other terrifically talented people, naturally, who have also never won, but if you’re tallying “snubs” or who’s “overdue”, these people are at the top.
D’oh! My previous post doesn’t make any damn sense, as usual. I thought Fiennes won for Schindler’s List, but he didn’t. It seems hard to believe that Tommy Lee Jones beat him out, but he did.
Anyway … has Annette Bening won an Oscar? She’d be my pick.
I’m always amazed to see the X-Men movies in which two of the ensemble cast have Oscars… and it’s not Ian McKellen, or Brian Cox, or Patrick Stewart. Sometimes there really is no justice.
Of course, if there were any justice, Don Cheadle would have won last night. Not that I disliked Fox’s performance, but Cheadle’s just left me stunned. Maybe he’ll win in a few years for a lesser movie that’s really an award for this one, but I hate that sort of thing.
Living? Annette Bening, Laura Dern, Julianne Moore - especially seeing the likes of Gwynneth Platrow, Nicole Kidman and Helen Hunt all have one. I was sad that Alan Alda didn’t win last night.
Dead? Peter Sellars, Montgomery Clift and Stanley Kubrick for starters
D’Oh! Stanley Kubrick, of course,wasn’t an actor and I can’t believe Glen Close hasn’t won one - she was perfectly ubiquitous for a time there in the 80’s.
Don Cheadle’s performance in Hotel Rawanda was one of the best bits of screen acting I’ve ever seen. We saw that movie on Saturday and I’m still crying. We were rooting for him, but he never had a chance.