The 85th Oscars are so last month. We have clearly moved on and ahead to next
year. And while there are already
potential Oscar contender names being bandied about (Grace of Monaco, August:
Osage County, Inside Llewyn Davies, Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave,
Saving Mr. Banks to name a few), I wanted to look at some actors who have yet
to nab that elusive Oscar. Every year, we see
some of the same actors (Daniel Day-Lewis, Christoph Waltz) win yet another
Oscar and some actors who receive their very first (Jennifer Lawrence, Anne
Hathaway). When will this highly
acclaimed bunch of actors make to the podium to finally make their victory
speech? Very, very soon, one can only hope…
1) Amy Adams
4 nominations for Junebug (2005), Doubt (2008), The Fighter (2010) and The Master (2012).
Amy Adams leads this list with 4 nominations in the past 8 years. She is in the Kate Winslet category, meaning she has to really earn her eventual Oscar. Winslet was nominated for years and years before she won her Oscar for The Reader (2008), which actually was actually a supporting role and ignored for her real leading turn in the devastating Revolutionary Road. Either way, she got that Oscar monkey off her back after 6 nominations. I think I've figured out what she needs to do to win, get nominated in an odd number year to finally win. She's working with director David O. Russell again so that's great sign and she also has a Janis Joplin biopic in the pipeline. The Academy does love its biopics.
(Rest of the actors after the cut)
