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Sciences.
 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.
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)
- Jim Carrey (0 nominations)
- Maurice Chevalier (2 nominations, 0 wins)
- Montgomery Clift (4 nominations, 0 wins)
- Joseph Cotten (0 nominations)
- Glenn Close (5 nominations, 0 wins)
- Joseph Cotten (0 nominations)
- Kirk Douglas (3 nominations, 0 wins)
- Mia Farrow (0 nominations)
- Albert Finney (5 nominations, 0 wins)
- Errol Flynn (0 nominations)
- 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)
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- Piper Laurie (3 nominations, 0 wins)
- Jerry Lewis (0 nominations)
- Peter Lorre (0 nominations)
- Myrna Loy (0 nominations)
- Fred MacMurray (0 nominations)
- James Mason (3 nominations, 0 wins)
- Marilyn Monroe (0 nominations)
- Agnes Moorehead (4 nominations, 0 wins)
- Kim Novak (0 nominations)
- Maureen O'Hara (0 nominations)
- 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)
- Donald Sutherland (0 nominations)
- Orson Welles (1 nomination, 0 wins)
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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)
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- 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)
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Please note: Oscar omissions and
losses are also described for each year
in the complete Oscar history found on this site.
Note: Films that have been selected
as the 100 Greatest Films are
identified by a yellow star 
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