Other than John Wayne, which was kind of a lifetime achievement award at the time, all the other performances were equally amazing. So, I agree that if some of those movies were released in different years, he may have won several Oscars.

It didn't help that O'Toole was nominated that yeat for a) a remake and b) a remake for which the previous lead actor won best actor and c) that the Robert Donat win in '39 is controversial to this day, with one camp saying it should have gone to Gable and the other saying it should have gone to Olivier (and a sizable Jimmy Stewart contingent is out there as well).

in highly popular vehicles, although Lawrence/Arabia was top of the line, but as DUers here have always reminded, Are you really going to deny PECK/Mockingbird?!1

Including having to compete with Richard Burton from the same film in Beckett. Today, Burton would have been nomed for lead; O'Toole for supporting, and he'd have won that in a walk.

Before there was Mad Men -- before Don Draper -- there was Jerry Webster. Lover Come Back is one of my all time favorites -- with Hudson/Day/Randall and many others.

Carter Burwell (Fargo and most of The Coen brothers films) never has been nominated at all and Fargo is one damn fine score.

The closest Alfred Hitchcock, the greatest director ever, came to winning was best song, Que Sera Sera for The Man Who Knew Too Much.

They did give Morricone an honorary Oscar and Hitchcock too. Hitchcock gave the shortest speech in Oscar history, he said, "Thank you, very much indeed" and the last three words were cut off.

I'm not sure I'd agree that Hitch is the greatest director ever, but he was a great director, and it's certainly odd that he never won.

He has 5 nominations for Best Director. I'll share with you the other 5x nominees and their records:

4 – John Ford (5)
2 – Elia Kazan (5)
2 – George Stevens (5)
1 – George Cukor (5)
1 – Michael Curtiz (5)
1 – John Huston (5)
0 – Robert Altman (5)
0 – Clarence Brown (5)
0 – Alfred Hitchcock (5)
0 – King Vidor (5)


By the way, the list of 4x nominees who've been shut out isn't too shabby

0 – Federico Fellini (4)
0 – Stanley Kubrick (4)
0 – Sidney Lumet (4)
0 – Peter Weir (4)

Back to Hitch

1940: He loses for Rebecca to John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath
1944: He loses for Lifeboat to Leo McCarey for Going My Way.
1945: He loses for Spellbound to Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
1954: He loses for Rear Window to Elia Kazan for On the Waterfront
1960: He loses for Psycho to Billy Wilder for The Apartment

RE 1960: I think he should have won for Psycho, even though I'd have still given BP to The Apartment. Psych is a masterful building of suspense and a wicked plot twist. We all know about the shower scene now, but seeing that movie for the first time, you'd be thinking it was going in a different direction.
RE 1944: IMO, the best director that year should have gone to Billy Wilder for Double Indemnity

He and Kubrick were far too talented for Oscar voters to understand they were actually seeing art.

But Kevin O'Connell, a sound re-recording mixer, has been nominated 20 times without winning.

I'd be surprised if he wasn't nominated yearly. I'm surprised he's never won.

Well, no, I'm not...the Oscars are very starfucker. If you're a big enough film or loved enough, you can win for things you didn't even do well. To wit, Avatar. a film with a negligible amount of non-CGI shots outside of the first 15 minutes won "best cinematography." Note the computer-generated scenes may not be considered in the evaluation of cinematographic work for this award.

It's really easy to get passed over many times if you don't work on blockbusters or awards-darlings.

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I remember watching his acceptance speech for his honorary Oscar, what a gracious statement it was. The video is out there in googleland.

And if you haven't seen My Favorite Year, you should.

Peace

However, my favorite underrrated/underappreciated Peter O'Toole performance is is voice work as Anton Ego in the Dixney/Pixar film Ratatouille

He was approached about an honorary, and he demurred ever so graciously and humbly, paraphrasing, "Oh, no, perhaps I still have time to EARN one?!1"

Here's the deal, the Academy is not nothing if not scarfing-up of the glorious names of others for its own glory, so bringing in a Name into its circus is always a commodity to be yearned after. Most of the showbizzers are themselves dying for the spotlight.

But not him, at least not that time. I think I detect the subtlest DIG at them.

Thanks for the additional information about this.

Peace

cinema in history.

1994, What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Best Supporting Actor, lost to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive.

2005, The Aviator - Best Actor, lost to Jamie Foxx for Ray.

2007, Blood Diamond - Best Actor, lost to Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland.

2014, The Wolf of Wall Street - Best Actor, lost to Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club.

2014, The Wolf of Wall Street - Best Picture (as producer), lost to Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Anthony Katagas for 12 Years a Slave.

He's still young enough that he can be nominated a few more times.

I've never seen more than a scene of anything with Katherine HEPBURN, but neither her vehicles or her presence have ever drawn me the least little bit. Yeah:

I have never believed that it was a tie for STREISAND's Funny Girl. Can anybody really explain how it could be in terms of just plain numbers? -- Was it an even number of votes cast? And it was a tie? STREISAND was clearly the biggest thing in (generations?). With the HEP's already having gotten enough (did she even show up to accept anything?), this should have been a clean win for STREISAND.

Besides that, there are scores of one-time whosits that nobody remembers or cares about who got those knickknacks. It's almost all not only subjective, but a game of power, money, and trade-offs in the background.