Actors/Actresses Who Didn't Win for Best Project

[seabterry]

The title may be confusing, but I don't know how to describe this question in a title. Basically Jeff Bridges won his Academy Award for what most would say was not his BEST performance. Same goes for Martin Scorsese. So what Actors and Directors or even Cinematographers won their award, but not for their best project and what was their best?

[Coenskubrick]

Well so far my favourite DiCaprio role has been the Departed.

[zorbonaut]

Denzel Washington won Best Actor for Training Day but his best performance was either The Hurricane or in Malcolm X.

[dgoswald]

Pacino for SoAW instead of GF2..

[spanky87]

Jessica Lange won an Oscar for Tootsie but her best perfoemance was in Frances.

Jessica Lange in Frances > Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice. 😘

[P-Rock]

Leo Dicaprio for Django Unchained.

[ScarredLungs]

Originally Posted by Coenskubrick

Well so far my favourite DiCaprio role has been the Departed.

I like his role in Catch me if You Can & What's Eating Gilbert Grape

[Doctor Jack]

Kate Winslet winning for The Reader. Should have won for Sense and Sensibilty, Little Children, or Eternal Sunshine.

Joan Fontaine for Suspicion. Should have won for Rebecca.

Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful. Should have won for The Big Heat.

Many others but those are off the top of my head.

[seabterry]

Originally Posted by zorbonaut

Denzel Washington won Best Actor for Training Day but his best performance was either The Hurricane or in Malcolm X.

I think a lot people could get behind Training Day not being his best performance.

[ScarredLungs]

Originally Posted by seabterry

I think a lot people could get behind Training Day not being his best performance.

He was Great in Man on Fire

[Leonidas King]

Dicaprio winning for The Revenant when he should have won for The Wolf of Wall Street.

[seabterry]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Dicaprio winning for The Revenant when he should have won for The Wolf of Wall Street.

I was fine with this. He did have a hard role. It was challenging. He deserved an Oscar. "Why not for this" was my thought. He has been needing one for years. I didn't think Wolf of Wall Street was all that much of a challenge for an actor. I actually thought some of the performances in The Big Short deserved more merit than DiCaprio in WoWS.

[Leonidas King]

Challenging for grunting a lot and sleeping inside a horse's carcass. He was already due for an award so the Academy felt forced to pay his debt. I feel he provided a much better acting range in WoWS.


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[Impossible]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Dicaprio winning for The Revenant when he should have won for The Wolf of Wall Street.

This.

[Donnie D]

Colin Firth won for The King's Speech but his best was A Single Man

[AKORIS]

Paul Newman for COLOR OF MONEY when he clearly should have won for THE VERDICT.... (or NOBODY'S FOOL for that matter...)

[DarkEco910]

Angelina Jolie for Changeling. I mean, come on. I almost NEVER cry during movies, but she had me bawling through most of it. That's one of her most powerful performances.

[Talleyrand]

Nic Cage didn't win for Wild at Heart or Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. That being said, this isn't exactly an analogous case to many of the above, as Leaving Las Vegas is a fantastic performance that deserved an Oscar in and of itself anyways; also, Bad Lieutenant came out after Leaving Las Vegas.

De Niro didn't win for Once Upon a Time in America or Casino; again, though, not strictly analogous as he already had some at the times.

Pacino.... 'nuff said.

[CZAR]

Halle Berry won for Monsters Ball but her best work is Losing Isaiah. Got Em!!

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Leonidas_King

Dicaprio winning for The Revenant when he should have won for The Wolf of Wall Street.

Originally Posted by Donnie D

Colin Firth won for The King's Speech but his best was A Single Man

These two are painfully accurate.