Legendary Stars Without Awards: You’ll Be Surprised To Know These A-List Stars Never Won An Oscar

An absolute legend and a first-class professional, Glenn played many truly amazing roles that were included in the golden pool of world cinema – but she never received the coveted golden statuette. Although her very first role (Close played in the film adaptation of John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp) received a nomination, and since then the actress’s name has been heard at the awards ceremony eight times. Glenn was 74 in 2021, the last time she was nominated for her role in Hillbilly’s Elegy, and she was again left without a statuette, saying it would be great to never win an Oscar at all. “Maybe it’s better to be pumped up in a wheelchair and get a lifetime achievement award? Then you don’t have to talk,” the diva joked. Or is he kidding?

Tom generally has a difficult relationship with the Oscars – he literally ran away from the last award just to avoid bumping into ex-wife Nicole Kidman (by the way, he has five nominations and a coveted statuette for his role as writer Virginia Woolf in 2003’s The Hours).

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Tom was nominated four times, but without success. And to be honest, we don’t really believe that he will show his dramatic talent – Cruise clearly chooses projects for a fee. Well, the audience is happy with everything.

Michelle literally broke into big cinema, playing an unforgettable role in the movie Scarface in 1983 – and for many years she continued her ascent to the Olympus of acting fame, becoming one of the most famous and beloved by the audience on the screen. Her merits were marked by many important awards and three Oscar nominations, but unfortunately Michelle never received a statuette. But in 2007, she opened a nominal star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

One of the brightest actors of the 1990s, Norton was nominated for an Oscar three times (for his work in the films American History X, Birdman, Primal Fear), but each time someone else took home the statuette. Unfortunately, Edward hasn’t had much work in recent years (although we enjoyed seeing him in the second film of the Knives Out franchise), but the images of his characters from Fight Club, The People versus Larry Flynt, Kill Smoochy and “Painted Veil” will forever be in our hearts and without any confirmation from the film academy.

6 nominations and not a single win! Of course, this guy was very lucky without an Oscar in his life (not everyone, you know, has a daughter from Irina Shayk), but it was probably a little insulting when, for example, my partner in the movie My Friend is Crazy, Jennifer Lawrence, got him a figurine and the actor himself the role of the psycho guy left without a salty drool. Nothing, Bradley, you have your whole life ahead of you and there is no shortage of worthy roles!

The ageless Sharon’s most famous film will probably forever be “Basic Instinct”, but she received an Oscar nomination for “Casino” – but never won the award. This did not prevent Stone from becoming a legend, and it is unlikely that this beautiful and strong woman has already said her last word in the cinema.

He played with the best directors in the most famous projects and no one doubted his talent – but Depp never received the main prize. And then it seemed that his career was ended by a loud scandal with ex-wife Amber Heard, who accused the pet of several generations of Johnny of abuse and all imaginable sins. However, the incredible happened – the court really sided with Depp, and the actor not only returned to the camp with trembling hands, but celebrated his triumph at the Cannes Film Festival 2023 – the role in the drama Jeanne Dubarry became the first premiere with his participation in a long time. Depp himself now says that he is much more interested in independent European cinema than Hollywood, and is apparently ready to accept the absence of a golden mantelpiece. Well, to tell you the truth, he had bigger problems.

If asked, we’d have given Amy an Oscar for her soulful performance in 2003’s Arrival (after all, there’s hardly another film on such a grand scale and big budget about the importance of the philological profession), but Adams wasn’t even nominated for a Major Film Award for that role. Although her record so far includes 6 times when the Oscar was almost in her hands. Alas! The red-haired beauty, who rose to fame thanks to her comedic role as the fairy-tale princess Giselle, but has repeatedly demonstrated her extraordinary and diverse acting talent, so we hope that she will still win the statuette.

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