Christian Bale for American Psycho
2000
Comment: a cult fearless magnetic performance by Bale that put him on the radar and that would deserve an Oscar nod in the Best Actor category than Ed Harris' one in Pollock. Hey, Bale was so great and made the character so unforgettable that someone decided to create Dexter!
Björk for Dancer in the Dark
2000
Comment: in spite of delivering a raw, emotionally naked and disturbing performance as a mother who's turning blind, Björk should got a Best Actress nod for being so fantastic as Selma in Dancer in the Dark in that year for such a remarkable performance in a Lars von Trier movie, but it seems the Academy doesn't like von Trier's genius that much! She was able to be so catching and more sweet than Juliette Binoche in Chocolat...
Naomi Watts for Mulholland Drive
2001
Comment: I know that Judi Dench is a great actress and that she was marvelous in Iris, but wasn't Naomi Watts' performance in Mulholland Drive much more Oscar-worthy than Dench's? I mean, Watts role required great acting chops for portraying such a complex part and she was one of the main causes why the movie became one of the most unforgettable David Lynch's works.
Scarlett Johansson for Lost In Translation
2003
Comment: her character wasn't THAT special, but she made it special and more than hold herself alongside Bill Murray - she shined with him and made the audience fall in love for the peaceful, sweet and lonely Charlotte of Lost In Translation. How could the Academy nominate Keisha Castle-Hughes for Whale Rider instead of Johansson? Scarlett was 17 and played a 20's something year old woman with a great maturity in one of the best movies ever made!... Oh, wait, maybe they prefer children!...
Jim Carrey for The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
2004
Comment: After proving he can do something more dramatic in The Truman Show and Man On the Moon, Carrey was both funny and dramatic in The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and he shined bright. I know it must be difficult choosing 2 between Depp for Finding Neverland, Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda, Giamatti for Sideways and Carrey, but this man was almost unrecognizable in The Eternal Sunhine... you don't see Jim Carrey, you see the character! Well, maybe they didn't find Joel Barish on the list.
Paul Giamatti for Sideways
2004
Comment: 2004 had a really competitive Best Actor race and Giamatti, as Jim Carrey, didn't get the Oscar nod he deserved. He was so charismatic in the lead role of Sideways, he was funny, he was the best of the cast, but the Academy decided to nominate a couple of his costars and snubed him... I felt terrible, for sure! But the Academy apologized him in 2005 by nominating him in the Best Supporting category for Cinderella Man.
Don Cheadle for Crash
2005
Comment: maybe the nomination he got in 2004 for Hotel Rwanda didn't help in the Best Supporting Actor race of 2005 and he saw William Hurt taking his seat between the 5 nominees for A History of Violence. I can't say Cheadle deserved the nod more than Hurt, because both were outstanding in their roles, but it was a bit shocking not to see Cheadle nominated that year, for such a great performance in such a great movie! He was snubed, it was an ugly thing to do... but it wasn't the ugliest snub in Oscar history, but still a bad snub.
Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2006
Comment: he was unconventional in the role of Borat, but he was completely outstanding, funny, charismatic and catching. Such a charismatic performance should be nominated for an Oscar better than Will Smith's one in The Pursuit of Happiness, but let's be honest - Will Smith was less unconventional as a street man that takes care of a child, but it doesn't mean he was better than Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat!
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed
2006
Comment: the Academy nominated the right actor, but for the wrong performance. DiCaprio was great in Blood Diamond, but he was so much better in The Departed. In this movie he showed something new, that I don't know why, but made be seeing him as more than just the boy from Titanic and The Aviator. Once again, right actor, wrong movie!
Jack Nicholson for The Departed
2006
Comment: he was great and he was completely snubed. He delivered the best performance by a supporting actor that year and he didn't got nominated. Nicholson under Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Mark Wahlberg (The Departed), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond), Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children)? Really? They were good, but Nicholson was far more remarkable than them. I think the AMPAS voters need to change glasses... or maybe they are simply jealous of Nicholson's talent.
Emile Hirsch for Into the Wild
2007
Comment: he was simply great in Into the Wild as Christopher McCandless, he had the right charisma, he was simply magnetic and he was able to portray the free spirit his character was in such a flawless way. But Into the Wild was so snubed and so was Hirsch. The worst thing is that he was better than Tommy Lee Jones and maybe he deserved an Oscar nod more than him and even more than Ryan Gosling for Lars and the Real Girl, but it seems that the Academy doesn't like a free spirit who tries to stay away from a materialistic and superficial society. Did the Academy felt described as part of the society McCandless tried to run away?
Ryan Gosling for Lars and the Real Girl
2007
Comment: he was so funny, but he put a lot of emotional depth in Lars and it was the reason why he was so amazing in Lars and the Real Girl. Maybe he deserved an Oscar nod more than Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd, maybe not, but he was better than Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah, and so was Hirsch too, that's sure! A bad snub, definetely!
Angelina Jolie for A Mighty Heart
2007
Comment: maybe Jolie's best performance to date and maybe one of the biggest snubs of the last years - we saw Jolie as we never saw her and she was amazing in the role of Marianne Pearl in A Mighty Heart. So heart-breaking and so Oscar-worthy, I still don't understand why Cate Blanchett and Laura Linney were nominated over her that year. They are usually better than Jolie, but she was better than them that time. Maybe it the "sex-symbol-status" was the responsible for not being taken seriously by the Academy.
Keira Knightley for Atonement
2007
Comment: Atonement was one of the best movies of the decade and Knightley was superb in it! She was so catching, so beautiful, so touching, so emotionally naked... I liked Cate Blachett in Elizabeth: the Golden Age (I always like Blanchett), but I think Knightley's performance in Atonement was more Oscar-deserving.
Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky
2008
Comment: did the Oscar voters are depressed people? Hawkins was so full of positive energy, she was so feel-good, that it is the only explanation I can get for her horrible snub! She was so charismatic, so great, so remarkable, so sweet, so unforgettable in Happy-Go-Lucky that it seems impossible to not get an Oscar nomination. Melissa Leo for Frozen River instead of her? Please! Leo was very good, but Hawkins simply deserved the Oscar nomination!
Abbie Cornish for Bright Star
2009
Comment: she didn't get the Oscar nomination, but Sandra Bullock did! REALLY? God, there's something wrong with the world. Cornish was perfect in Bright Star, every detail, every breath, every move... her performance was compared to Kate Winslet's ones! What a compliment! Bullock was good, but she was, only nice, not good enough to take Cornish's place between the Best Actress nominees and not good enough to win the Oscar.
Title: The 15 Biggest Acting Oscar Snubs of the Last Decade (2000-2009)
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