top 30 people have been neglected by the American Film Academy (then they deserve to be nominated but were not nominated)

by vidovicljubisa | created - 22 Jul 2013 | updated - 03 Aug 2013 | Public

1. Al Pacino

Actor | Serpico

Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.

He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for Scarface(1983) This legend is 8 times nominated for an Oscar and has a golden statue. Play a range of fantastic role and his favorite role was the character Tonya Montana in the film Scarface. The Academy then had no ear for one of the best acting performances of all time.

2. Ingrid Bergman

Actress | Casablanca

Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...

Best Actress in a Leading Role for Casablancka(1942) It is of course acting icon has 3 Oscars course fully deserved. And of course, completely undeserved by people from the American Academy and avoid not nominated for perhaps her best role.

3. Edward Norton

Actor | Fight Club

American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.

His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for Fight Club (1999) It was *beep* great narrator and did a fantastic role perhaps his best and it's really hard to choose in this great actor what his best role but fight club and the narrator are certainly at the top but the academy is not interested in this movie as well as his brilliant role.

4. Christopher Nolan

Writer | Tenet

Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...

Best Director for The Dark Knight (2008) Certainly the most visionary this time, but Academy has never had this understanding for future legend wide horizons. Dark Knight is really a special film that exudes superb directing genius who all scrambled into place.

5. David Fincher

Director | Se7en

David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...

Best Director for Fight Club (1999) Bad words are really unnecessary, this dark guy and a fantastic director was able to direct a great story criticizing then-and let's face it, today's reality is probably exactly why he did not get the nomination

6. Christian Bale

Actor | The Dark Knight

Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for Machinist (2004) For this role Bale lost 30 pounds to better uživio as the man who fights with insomia but are not able to cope with the Academy, though deserved nomination for his fantastic acting

7. Gary Oldman

Actor | The Dark Knight

Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Leon(1994) This man has so many times for no reason neglected by the Academy that it has to sadly. But first of all I must mention the fantastic supporting role in the film Leon. Great was the skin hardened villain.

8. Sidney Lumet

Director | 12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...

Best Director for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) This legend in his lifetime had five Oscar nominations unfortunately he never won for his latest film did not get even a nomination for best director. This crime / family complex story I certainly deserved more nominations but mostly deserved for directing.

9. Helena Bonham Carter

Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...

Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Fight Club (1999) This British lady is phenomenal entered the skin and soul Marla Singer. Wild Women and the concept of the femme fatale who is more hurt the main character in this film, at least as far as his psyche and the academy but this does not interest

10. Leonardo DiCaprio

Actor | Inception

Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for Shutter Island(2010) How many times is the Academy screwed up this beautiful genius of Los Angeles. The film Shutter Island did what everyone expected of him, ingeniously played a brilliant role, but the Academy has never cared even when asked Leonardo DiCaprio.

11. Steve McQueen

Actor | The Great Escape

He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world's most popular actor. Over 40 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for Papilon (1973) The legendary charmer is considered by many in the film did a role of a lifetime but not in the academy, they decided not to nominate and have made a big mistake but what the heck we can always take a look at this iconic film and the legendary performance of this gentleman.

12. Martin Sheen

Actor | The Departed

Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Martin Sheen is one of America's most celebrated, colorful, and accomplished actors. Moving flawlessly between artistic mediums, Sheen's acting range is striking.

Sheen was born Ramón Antonio Gerard Estevez in Dayton, Ohio, to Mary-Ann (Phelan), an Irish ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for Apocalypse Now(1979) It is a shame that an actor of his quality has never been nominated for an Oscar. Apocalypse Now was then very overlooked movie unlike today when it is all considered classics. As they did not like the movie so much they did not liked the brilliant acting of this fantastic actor.

13. Michael Mann

Producer | The Insider

As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann ...

Best Director for Heat(1995) If the film we have two film legends (Pacino and Deniro) and directed by genius dark and heavy scene and yet the man whose camera so fast and so detailed and the story is so inspiring it's a shame that this man does not win the nomination for this film. The Academy is many times neglected the Chicago intellectual but this time they really overdid it.

14. Brad Pitt

Actor | Fight Club

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Fight Club (1999) This is definitely his best role and it is a really good actor. The Academy has nominated him as much as 3 times for now without this prestigious award but great sins which you are nominavali for Tjlera Durden in Fight Club, it's really a shame.

15. Joel Coen

Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...

and Ethan Coen Best Writing for The Big Lebowski (1998) This film is watchable for the most brilliant screenplay of course there are other great elements but the script simply brilliant thanks to the Coen brothers who were great as usual but this time the Academy has remained immune to them.

16. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Academy is a very late thought on this cold genius and pgotovo is a shame that he left out when it comes to this great western that takes your breath away every scene.

17. Mia Farrow

Actress | Rosemary's Baby

Mia Farrow is the daughter of the director John Farrow and the actress and Tarzan-girl Maureen O'Sullivan. She debuted at the movies in 1959 in very small roles. She was noticed for the first time in the film Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski. She showed her talent also on TV and at the ...

Best Actress in a Leading Role for Rosemary's Baby (1968) She will never be a legendary actress, but as legend has played a role in the cult classic Roman Polanskog.Mia Farrow was really great but the Academy did not notice.

18. Jim Carrey

Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Truman Show (1998) Although in this same role won a Golden Globe in the category of lead actor in a drama academy it is not thought that any nominee. Many are still challenged by his talent and it works and the American Film Academy

19. Jim Jarmusch

Director | Paterson

Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.

Best Director for Down by Law (1986) This fantastic genius films on a tight budget is a thousand times impressed critics and audiences but never really academy and none really do not know why. One of his best films is certainly Down by law

20. Richard Kelly

Writer | Donnie Darko

James Richard Kelly better known as Richard Kelly, is an American film director and writer, known for writing and directing the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001. Kelly was born James Richard Kelly in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Lane and Ennis Kelly. He grew up in Midlothian, Virginia, where...

Best Writing for Donnie Darko(2001) Its direction is the same ingenious script but simply without any errors and intensifying philosophy is that everyone can not understand.This was the first film of Richard kale that did not receive a nomination for this very good and mysterious movie.

21. Val Kilmer

Actor | The Doors

Val Kilmer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Swanette (Ekstadt) and Eugene Dorris Kilmer, who was a real estate developer and aerospace equipment distributor. His mother, born in Indiana, was from a Swedish family, and his father was from Texas. Val studied at Hollywood's ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Doors (1991) Perhaps the actor had plenty of failures in his career but damn it was fantastic Jim Morrison. Besides the physical similarities phenomenal feeling conveyed to the canvas to understand this brilliant musician.

22. Jennifer Connelly

Actress | A Beautiful Mind

Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across ...

Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Blood Diamond (2006) Although it has one Oscar, and it is in this category that certainly deserves this prestigious nomination for the film, which has a cruel way of talking about the civil war in Africa. She is very well played American journalist eager for the truth.

23. David Benioff

Producer | Game of Thrones

David Benioff was born on September 25, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Game of Thrones (2011), The Kite Runner (2007) and 25th Hour (2002). He has been married to Amanda Peet since September 30, 2006. They have three children.

Best Writing for 25 Hour (2002) This man is definitely enriched world cinema and television series. But I have to separate a genius Spike Lee film for which he wrote the script, and unfortunately did not get the nomination.

24. Zach Galifianakis

Actor | The Hangover

Zach Galifianakis was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, to Mary Frances (Cashion), who owned a community arts center, and Harry Galifianakis, a heating oil vendor. His father is of Greek descent and his mother is of mostly English and Scottish ancestry. Zach moved to New York City after failing ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Hangover (2009) I know that the Academy does not like comedies and such actors but the Zach svkako deserved nomination for his brilliant performance in The Hangover because our reality is all very well laugh

25. Brian De Palma

Director | Body Double

Brian De Palma is one of the well-known directors who spear-headed the new movement in Hollywood during the 1970s. He is known for his many films that go from violent pictures, to Hitchcock-like thrillers. Born on September 11, 1940, De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey in an Italian-American ...

Best Director for Scarface(1983) It's really funny that this expert for films about crime has never received a single Oscar nomination. Same can be understood in the end but still be immune to this kind of movie is that it really funny. Scarface is one of the most famous films of all time.

26. Tony Scott

Producer | Domino

Tony Scott was a British-born film director and producer. He was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom is fellow film director Ridley Scott. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England to parents Jean and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. As a result of his father's career in the British...

Best Director for Enemy of the State (1998) Unfortunately for Tony vrjeme his short life he never received an Oscar nomination and his fantastic thriller is certainly zaslužijo the goddamn nomination by his older brother Ridley repeatedly received.

27. Dakota Fanning

Actress | War of the Worlds

Hannah Dakota Fanning was born on the 23rd of February 1994, in Conyers, Georgia, USA, to Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven Fanning. Her mother played professional tennis, and her father, now an electronics salesman, played minor league baseball. She is of German, Irish, English, French, and ...

Best Actress in a Supporting Role for I am Sam (2001) She was only 7 years old and plays so well that it is matched by greats such as Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeffier . People of the academy is not noticed, probably will one day have at least one Oscar in his collection, but the damage had not received a nomination for this role.

28. Pam Grier

Actress | Jackie Brown

Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s. Her career started in 1971, when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched ...

Best Actress in a Leading Role for Jackie Brown (1997) Maybe Pam will not remember anything except for his role in the film Jackie Brown is exactly where she played Jackie Brown. And in 1997 everyone was very good competition but for God's sake Pam was fantastic and deserves a goddamn nomination.

29. Carrie-Anne Moss

Actress | The Matrix

Carrie-Anne Moss was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. At age 20, after studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she moved to Europe to pursue a career in modeling. While in Spain she was cast in the TV show Dark Justice which was produced in Barcelona for its first season and Los ...

Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Memento (2000) Carrie might not make a big career but he certainly did a great memento of the role played fantastic and enigmatic woman

30. Sylvester Stallone

Actor | Rocky

Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.

Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role for Cop Land (1997) It is certainly bad actor imo a series of flops in his long career and bad but it certainly played a fantastic Cop Land and proved to be milked at least sometimes play a good role



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