This weekend’s John Goodman news got me thinking —who are some of the best living actors/actresses to have never been nominated for an Oscar?
John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Martin Sheen, Oscar Isaac, Kevin Bacon, Emily Blunt, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Bruce Willis, John Turturro, Richard Gere, Danny Glover, Kurt Russell
For years I thought Buscemi had been nominated for “Ghost World,” but no — what a shameful snub! As for Goodman, he deserved nods just for his work in Coen movies alone, especially “The Big Lebowski,” “Barton Fink” and “Inside Llewyn Davis.”
As for the list of Oscar-snubbed actors who are no longer with us: Donald Sutherland, Klaus Kinski, Peter Lorre, Joseph Cotten, Edward G. Robinson, Rita Hayworth, Warren Oates, John Cazale, Maureen O’Hara, Myrna Loy, Raul Julia, Toshiro Mifune, Alan Rickman.