Although the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® has awarded many deserving honors to its nominees over the years (Academy Awards® Winners from 1927/8 to the present), a large number of excellent performances by Film Actors and Actresses have been ignored, overlooked, snubbed, or passed over. Entertainment Weekly recently published an article entitled "The 100 Best Moments Snubbed by Oscar" (November 22, 2002), listing their selections of the top 100 Oscar-snubbed performances.

In all of Oscar's history, there are many actors and actresses who have either never been nominated for their performances, or have never won an acting Oscar, including these most glaring examples (see more below):

• Fred Astaire (1 nomination, 0 wins)
• Richard Burton (7 nominations, 0 wins)
• Maurice Chevalier (2 nominations, 0 wins)
• Montgomery Clift (4 nominations, 0 wins)
• Glenn Close (5 nominations, 0 wins)
• Joseph Cotten (0 nominations)
• Kirk Douglas (3 nominations, 0 wins)
• Albert Finney (5 nominations, 0 wins)
• Greta Garbo (4 nominations, 0 wins)
• Lillian Gish (1 nomination, 0 wins)
• Cary Grant (2 nominations, 0 wins)
• Madeline Kahn (2 nominations, 0 wins)
• Deborah Kerr (6 nominations, 0 wins)
• Angela Lansbury (3 nominations, 0 wins)
• Piper Laurie (3 nominations, 0 wins)
• James Mason (3 nominations, 0 wins)
• Agnes Moorehead (4 nominations, 0 wins)
• Peter O'Toole (8 nominations, 0 wins)
• Edward G. Robinson (0 nominations)
• Gena Rowlands (2 nominations, 0 wins)
• Rosalind Russell (4 nominations, 0 wins)
• Peter Sellers (2 nominations, 0 wins)
• Barbara Stanwyck (4 nominations, 0 wins)
• Orson Welles (1 nomination, 0 wins)

And likewise, there are many film directors who have either never been nominated for their directing, or have never won a directing Oscar, including these most glaring examples (see more below):

• Robert Altman (5 nominations, 0 wins)
• Charlie Chaplin (1 nomination, 0 wins)
• Cecil B. DeMille (1 nomination, 0 wins)
• D. W. Griffith (0 nominations)
• Howard Hawks (1 nomination, 0 wins)
• Alfred Hitchcock (5 nominations, 0 wins)
• Stanley Kubrick (4 nominations, 0 wins)
• Akira Kurosawa (1 nomination, 0 wins)
• Fritz Lang (0 nominations)
• Spike Lee (0 nominations as Best Director)
• Ernst Lubitsch (3 nominations, 0 wins)
• George Lucas (2 nominations, 0 wins)
• Sidney Lumet (4 nominations, 0 wins)
• F.W. Murnau (0 nominations)
• Sam Peckinpah (0 nominations)
• Arthur Penn (3 nominations, 0 wins)
• King Vidor (5 nominations, 0 wins)
• Orson Welles (1 nomination, 0 wins)

Please note: Oscar omissions and losses are also described for each year
in the complete Oscar history found on this site.

• Academy Awards®-Nominated Great Films
  That Didn't Win a Single Oscar®
  
  
• Great Films That Weren't Nominated
  For A Single Academy® Award
  
  
• 'Best Pictures' Not Nominated for Best Picture
  
  
• Great Acting Performances That Weren't Nominated
  For Academy Awards®
  
  
• Great Actors, Great Actresses, and Great Directors
  Who Have Not Won Actor, Actress and Best Director Academy Awards®

Note: Films that have been selected as the 100 Greatest Films are identified by a yellow star

• Dana Andrews (0)
• Alan Arkin (2)
• Fred Astaire (1) (Special Award in 1949)
• Lew Ayres (1)
• John Barrymore (0)
• Warren Beatty (4) (Won Best Director Award in 1981)
• Charles Bickford (3)
• Ralph Bellamy (1) (Honorary Award in 1986)
• Dirk Bogarde (0)
• Charles Boyer (4)
• Richard Burton (7)
• Jim Carrey (0)
• John Cassavetes (1)
• Charles Chaplin (2) (Honorary Awards in 1927/28 and 1971, a Special Award in 1927/8, and the Original Dramatic Score Award in 1972)
• Maurice Chevalier (2) (Honorary Award in 1958)
• Montgomery Clift (4)
• Lee J. Cobb (2)
• Joseph Cotten (0)
• Noel Coward (0)
• Tom Cruise (3)
• Tony Curtis (1)
• James Dean (2) - Both awarded posthumously
• Kirk Douglas (3)
• Clint Eastwood (1) (Thalberg Award in 1994)
• Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (0)
• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (0)
• W.C. Fields (0)
• Ralph Fiennes (2)
• Albert Finney (5)
• Errol Flynn (0)
• Peter Fonda (1)
• Glenn Ford (0)
• Harrison Ford (1)
• Morgan Freeman (3)
• John Garfield (2)
• James Garner (1)
• Elliott Gould (1)
• Cary Grant (2) (Honorary Award in 1969)
• Sydney Greenstreet (1)
• Richard Harris (2)
• Laurence Harvey (1)
• Bob Hope (0)
• Leslie Howard (2)
• Trevor Howard (1)
• Rock Hudson (1)
• Jerry Lewis (0) (Honorary Award in 2008)
• James Earl Jones (1)
• Louis Jourdan (0)
• Boris Karloff (0)
• Buster Keaton (0)
• Gene Kelly (1) (Honorary Award in 1951)
• Arthur Kennedy (5)

• Alan Ladd (0)
• Harold Lloyd (0)
• Peter Lorre (0)
• Bela Lugosi (0)
• Roddy MacDowall (0)
• Fred MacMurray (0)
• Dean Martin (0)
• Steve Martin (0)
• Groucho Marx (0)
• James Mason (3)
• Raymond Massey (1)
• Marcello Mastroianni (3)
• Joel McCrea (0)
• Malcolm McDowell (0)
• Steve McQueen (1)
• Adolphe Menjou (1)
• Burgess Meredith (2)
• Robert Mitchum (1)
• Robert Montgomery (2)
• Zero Mostel (0)
• Nick Nolte (2)
• Peter O'Toole (8) (Honorary Award in 2003)
• Anthony Perkins (1)
• Walter Pidgeon (2)
• William Powell (3)
• Tyrone Power (0)
• Vincent Price (0)
• Claude Rains (4)
• Basil Rathbone (2)
• Ronald Reagan (0)
• Robert Redford (1) (Won Best Director Award in 1980)
• Burt Reynolds (1)
• Ralph Richardson (2)
• Edward G. Robinson (0) (Honorary Award in 1972)
• Will Rogers (0)
• Mickey Rooney (4) (Honorary Awards in 1938 and 1982)
• Robert Ryan (1)
• George Segal (1)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger (0)
• Peter Sellers (2)
• Robert Shaw (1)
• Donald Sutherland (0)
• Robert Taylor (0)
• John Travolta (2)
• Max Von Sydow (1)
• Clifton Webb (3)
• Orson Welles (1)
• James Whitmore (2)
• Richard Widmark (1)
• Bruce Willis (0)
• Robert Young (0)

• Jane Alexander (4)
• Judith Anderson (1)
• Jean Arthur (1)
• Lauren Bacall (1)
• Lucille Ball (0)
• Tallulah Bankhead (0)
• Brigitte Bardot (0)
• Jacqueline Bisset (0)
• Beulah Bondi (2)
• Glenn Close (5)
• Doris Day (1)
• Catherine Deneuve (1)
• Marlene Dietrich (1)
• Irene Dunne (5)
• Mia Farrow (0)
• Greta Garbo (4) (Honorary Award in 1954)
• Ava Gardner (1)
• Judy Garland (2) (Honorary Award in 1939)
• Lillian Gish (1) (Honorary Award in 1970)
• Paulette Goddard (1)
• Jean Hagen (1)
• Jean Harlow (0)
• Jessica Harper (0)
• Julie Harris (1)
• Rita Hayworth (0)
• Miriam Hopkins (1)
• Madeline Kahn (2)
• Deborah Kerr (6) (Honorary Award in 1993)
• Elsa Lanchester (2)
• Angela Lansbury (3)
• Piper Laurie (3)
• Janet Leigh (1)
• Jennifer Jason Leigh (0)

• Carole Lombard (1)
• Myrna Loy (0) (Honorary Award in 1990)
• Ida Lupino (0)
• Marsha Mason (4)
• Bette Midler (2)
• Marilyn Monroe (0)
• Agnes Moorehead (4)
• Merle Oberon (1)
• Maureen O'Hara (0)
• Eleanor Parker (3)
• Michelle Pfeiffer (3)
• Debbie Reynolds (1)
• Thelma Ritter (6)
• Mimi Rogers (0)
• Gena Rowlands (2)
• Rosalind Russell (4) (Hersholt Award in 1972)
• Meg Ryan (0)
• Jean Simmons (2)
• Kim Stanley (2)
• Barbara Stanwyck (4) (Honorary Award in 1981)
• Margaret Sullavan (1)
• Gloria Swanson (3)
• Shirley Temple (0) (Honorary Award in 1934)
• Gene Tierney (1)
• Kathleen Turner (1)
• Lana Turner (1)
• Liv Ullmann (2)
• Tuesday Weld (1)
• Debra Winger (3)
• Natalie Wood (3)

• Robert Altman (5) (Honorary Award in 2005)
• Michelangelo Antonioni (1) (Honorary Award in 1994)
• Ingmar Bergman (3) (Thalberg Award in 1970)
• Richard Brooks (3)
• Clarence Brown (6)
• Tim Burton (0)
• Jane Campion (1)
• John Cassavetes (1)
• Charles Chaplin (1)
• Cecil B. De Mille (1) (Honorary Award in 1950)
• Brian De Palma (0)
• Stanley Donen (0) (Honorary Award in 1998)
• Blake Edwards (0)
• Federico Fellini (4) (Honorary Award in 1992)
• John Frankenheimer (0)
• D.W. Griffith (0) (Honorary Award in 1935)
• Howard Hawks (1) (Honorary Award in 1974)
• Alfred Hitchcock (5) (Thalberg Award in 1967)
• James Ivory (3)
  
• Norman Jewison (3) (Thalberg Award in 1999)
• Buster Keaton (0)
• Stanley Kramer (3) (Thalberg Award in 1961)
• Stanley Kubrick (4)
• Akira Kurosawa (1) (Honorary Award in 1990)
• Gregory La Cava (2)
• Fritz Lang (0)
• Spike Lee (0)
• Mervyn LeRoy (1) (Thalberg Award in 1975)
• Joshua Logan (2)