I used the same weighting system as before (favoring leads in dramas, supporting roles, and comedies in that order), so there are a number of contenders, such as Cary Grant, Julie Andrews, Sally Field, and Walter Matthau who just miss the cut. Also, for the sake of uniformity, I'm only including the below actors' film acting nominations, though I am aware at least two of them have received nominations in other categories at the Globes or the Oscars.
Nominated for Both Globes and Oscars: 8 (The Godfather, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, ...And Justice for All, Dick Tracy, Glengarry Glen Ross, Scent of a Woman)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 0
Nominated for Just Globes: 5 (Bobby Deerfield, Author! Author!, Scarface, Sea of Love, The Godfather Part III)
Winner?: 1 Oscar (Scent of a Woman) and 2 Globes (Serpico, Scent of a Woman)
Closest He Got to Another: The Godfather Part III
Like de Niro, Duvall, Hoffman, and Nicholson, Pacino enjoyed a "do-no-wrong" sort of joyride for a while with awards bodies, from roughly 1972-92 (he is, to date, the only one of those five to not have been nominated in the past twenty years). One of Oscars favorites, it's hard to imagine him receiving many more nominations (eight puts him fifth amongst all male actors), though one has to wonder how close he must have been for The Godfather Part III. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and Pacino had to be close to taking out his longtime buddy Robert de Niro (who was probably just included over his costar Robin Williams) or Gerard Depardieu (who was likely close to cancelling himself out with the successful Green Card also in theaters that year). One wonders if, in this alternate universe, pressure would have mounted to give Pacino one of the two Oscars that he was nominated for, and thus giving Denzel Washington his Malcolm X Oscar, which many feel he deserved.
Nominated for Both Globes and Oscars: 3 (The French Connection, Mississippi Burning, Unforgiven)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 2 (Bonnie and Clyde, I Never Sang for My Father)
Nominated for Just Globes: 5 (The Conversation, The French Connection II, Under Fire, Twice in a Lifetime, The Royal Tenenbaums)
Winner?: 2 Oscars (The French Connection, Unforgiven) and 3 Globes (The French Connection, Unforgiven, The Royal Tenenbaums)
Closest He Got to Another: The Royal Tenenbaums or The Conversation (see below)
Hackman actually has a pretty solid track record outside of the Globes-two nominations without a Globe nomination for either is a pretty solid position to be in, especially considering they both came before his first Globe nod. However, the Globes were particularly fond of him in the sixteen years between The French Connection and Mississippi Burning, giving him a nomination even for the "really?" sequel to The French Connection. I'd say that The Conversation was the most likely nominee, possibly taking out Albert Finney, but with Hoffman's Lenny, Pacino's Godfather 2, and Nicholson's Chinatown, they may have had enough of the new generation and it might have been a longshot for Hackman to make it too. The Royal Tenenbaums likely would have gotten him a nomination had they been a little clearer on his campaign-he won the Globe for lead but they campaigned him in supporting, a smart move, but the confusion probably cost him and benefited surprise nominee Ethan Hawke.
Nominated for Globes and Oscars: 2 (Cactus Flower, Private Benjamin)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 0
Nominated for Just Globes: 6 (Butterflies are Free, Shampoo, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, Foul Play, Best Friends, The Banger Sisters)
Winner?: 1 Oscar (Cactus Flower) and 1 Globe (Cactus Flower)
Closest She Got to Another: Shampoo or Butterflies are Free
Am I the only person who desperately misses Goldie Hawn? I don't think it's fair that she retired on us so abruptly after 2002's The Banger Sisters and am always hoping someone finds a role suitable for her. She might be the most surprising entry on this list-unlike Pacino and Hackman, she hasn't given so many critically-lauded performances to put her into a ubiquitous, "always-nominated" state. Every single one of her "extra" nominations happened for comedies, which likely caused this big gap, though I suspect that she had a shot to take out Maggie Smith in Butterflies are Free (competing at the time with Carol Burnett for the fifth slot). There's also a chance that she could have gotten in on the wild mess that was the 1975 Best Actress race, though Marilyn Hassett, Faye Dunaway, and Hawn's costar Julie Christie were all also trying to break into that wild category. Considering her enormous influence on the Globes you would think she could get the DeMille at some point.
Nominated for Globes and Oscars: 3 (Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, Rabbit Hole)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 0
Nominated for Just Globes: 6 (Billy Bathgate, To Die For, The Others, Cold Mountain, Birth, The Paperboy)
Winner? 1 Oscar (The Hours) and 3 Globes (To Die For, Moulin Rouge!, The Hours)
Closest She Got to Another: Cold Mountain or The Paperboy
With actresses that aren't named Meryl, Oscar frequently forgets that they exist once they've won their trophy. Think of how many women have done interesting work that was looked over for years, perhaps forever, after they won their Oscars. Kidman, at least up until Rabbit Hole (which, despite it being the best of the year, seems like a sort of fourth or fifth slot nomination rather than one the Academy actively pursued). She was obviously in the running for Cold Mountain, though the 2003 Best Actress race is one that I think we all can agree was Oscar (thankfully) thinking outside of the box, so it's difficult to gage where the more standard nominations like Kidman would have fallen into place. The Paperboy was definitely outside of the box, and Jacki Weaver clearly upset some frontrunner, though I partially think it was Maggie Smith for Best Exotic who was in sixth place rather than Kidman (who knows though-throw in Ann Dowd and those four women had to have been separated by single-digits).
Nominated for Globes and Oscars: 3 (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, The Departed)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 0
Nominated for Just Globes: 6 (Titanic, Catch Me If You Can, The Departed, Revolutionary Road, J. Edgar, Django Unchained)
Winner?: No Oscars, but he won the Globe for The Aviator
Closest He Got to Another: Django Unchained
Look at the spread of time that DiCaprio has wracked up nine nominations. Over the course of fifteen years, he scored nine Globe nominations, and three led to Oscar. That's a stunningly low conversion rate, particularly when you consider that he has never been nominated in a comedy. Part of his problem is that the Oscars don't care for younger men-DiCaprio has not yet turned forty, whcih is when the Oscars really start paying attention for men, but some of these are just odd, particularly Django. Considering that Waltz was a lead and Arkin was on autopilot (and Waltz, oddly enough, was not a sure thing at the Oscars), had DiCaprio been able to trounce him and get into the race, he likely would have won taking on four previous winners. It seems deeply apparent that at some point DiCaprio is going to pull a Paul Newman and win the big trophy after his golden boy looks have faded, but clearly the Globes are going to rub their "we honored him first" at Oscar for the time being.
5. Johnny Depp
Nominated for Globes and Oscars: 3 (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Finding Neverland, Sweeney Todd)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 0
Nominated for Just Globes: 7 (Edward Scissorhands, Benny & Joon, Ed Wood, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Tourist, Alice in Wonderland)
Winner? No Oscars, but one Globe for Sweeney Todd (though sadly he won during the Writer's Strike, so instead of Depp accepting we had to sit through Billy Bush prattling)
Closest He Got to Another: The Tourist...just kidding, probably Ed Wood (though admittedly none of these were super close)
Depp seems content to be without an Oscar indefinitely at this point, as his constant, garish cartoons that Tim Burton has dreamt up keep him from getting back to the comedic brilliance that he hit in Pirates. It's worth noting that with the exception of Finding Neverland (which did gain him an Oscar nod), he's never been nominated in the drama category, which puts him in a situation where he's rarely going to be nominated for an Oscar based off of Globes love (the comedy category, especially for men, is usually a slate of broken dreams for those HFPA-nominees with Dolby-aspirations). Of the ten on this list, he's the one I see moving up the most frequently in the future, as his star status is still huge, getting him Globe attention and the Globes, oftentimes a bit pressed for Comedy nominees, go with the big hits rather than the critical ones on a regular basis (can't you see him landing for the cringe-worthy Lone Ranger?).
Nominated for Globes and Oscars: 2 (Funny Girl, The Way We Were)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 0
Nominated for Just Globes: 8 (Hello, Dolly!, The Owl and the Pussycat, Funny Lady, A Star is Born, Yentl, Nuts, The Mirror Has Two Faces)
Winner?: 1 Oscar (Funny Girl) and 2 Globes (Funny Girl, A Star is Born)
Closest She Got to Another: Babs usually gets closer behind the camera when she misses, but my best guess would be Yentl.
Yes, before anyone says anything I am aware that Streisand has been nominated for directing, producing, and song-writing in her long awards career with these two bodies, but this, as I mentioned above, is limited to acting nominations only. Even then, Streisand, who is treasured by the Globes, comes ahead by eight. She and Hawn are the only two people on this list to have only two acting nominations with the Oscars, and like Hawn, Streisand won these nominations predominantly for comedies or musicals. Streisand has a long history with the Oscars, and has been fairly vocal about her inability to be nominated for directing for Yentl or The Prince of Tides, so it's actually quite overlooked how frequenty she's missed in the acting categories. She was probably in sixth or seventh place for Yentl (but based on the strength of the eventual Oscar nominees, wasn't a major contender). And of course, as she made a film in 1975 that was somewhat noteworthy, she was part of the conversation in that weirdest of Best Actress years, though probably not to the extent that Hawn was.
Nominated for Globes and Oscars:15 (The Deer Hunter, Kramer vs. Kramer, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice, Silkwood, Out of Africa, A Cry in the Dark, Postcards from the Edge, The Bridges of Madison County, One True Thing, Music of the Heart, Adaptation, The Devil Wears Prada, Doubt, Julie and Julia, The Iron Lady)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 1 (Ironweed)
Nominated for Just Globes: 8 (She-Devil, Death Becomes Her, The River Wild, Marvin's Room, The Hours, The Manchurian Candidate, Mamma Mia!, It's Complicated, Hope Springs)
Winner?: 3 Oscars (Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, The Iron Lady) and 7 Globes (Kramer vs. Kramer, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice, Adaptation, The Devil Wears Prada, Julie and Julia, The Iron Lady)
Closest She Got to Another: Hmm...probably The River Wild or The Hours
Yes, Virginia, there is someone who loves Meryl more than the Oscars, and it is the HFPA. Streep, despite seventeen Oscar nominations, has managed to pull off another eight Globe nominations that Oscar didn't cite. It's worth noting that Mamma Mia and It's Complicated couldn't land her Oscar nominations, as she was already nominated (the Oscars limit their actors to one performance per category, the Globes do not). Meryl gets the occasional Globes-loving-celebrities sorts of nomination where it seems more about the person having a film out than about the performance (She-Devil, anyone?), but I can see a few films here where she was clearly making a play with Oscar. The Manchurian Candidate I distinctly remember as part of the conversation, though people were divided on the remake. The Hours she was obviously in sixth place, but that Best Actress race was impenetrable (it's hard to say who was in sixth place, as they were all so obviously going to be nominated). I think, therefore, the closest she got was for her surprise nomination for The River Wild. Meryl kind of came out of nowhere to get the nomination, and then once she became part of the conversation and I have a feeling she almost landed her nomination (in the same way that she got her fifth place nod for Music of the Heart over Reese Witherspoon and Sigourney Weaver).
Nominated for Globes and Oscars: 7 (Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses, Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, Tribute, Missing)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 1 (Mister Roberts)
Nominated for Just Globes: 9 (Under the Yum Yum Tree, Irma la Douce, The Great Race, The Odd Couple, The Out of Towners, Avanti!, The Front Page, That's Life!, Dad)
Winner?: 2 Oscars (Mister Roberts, Save the Tiger) and 3 Golden Globes (Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Avanti!)
Closest He Got to Another: Dad?
Lemmon for years held the title of the most-nominated actor at the Globes (until Meryl took the title, like she is wont to do). Though he is one of the rare comedic actors to make a significant impression on Oscar, there was still plenty of room for him to score at the Globes for his many comedies of the 1960's and 1970's. Looking at the nine films that he didn't get nominated for, none really scream out as odd that the Oscars didn't nominate him-The Odd Couple is a classic, but one where he shared the lead and likely split the vote with his longtime costar Walter Matthau. I don't know enough about the 1989 acting race to make a guess, but based off most years, a nomination for Best Actor in a Drama (the only time he missed with Oscar but got in at the Globes in that category) is usually a tip of someone making a play for the Oscar, though with Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson also Globe-nominated for memorable roles, I can't be sure (I'd love some thoughts in the comments for those who remember that year's Oscars).
Nominated for Globes and Oscars: 4 (Some Came Running, The Apartment, Irma la Douce, Terms of Endearment)
Nominated for Just Oscar: 1 (The Turning Point)
Nominated for Just Globes: 10 (Ask Any Girl, The Children's Hour, Gambit, Woman Times Seven, Sweet Charity, Being There, Madame Sousatzka, Postcards from the Edge, Used People, Guarding Tess, In Her Shoes)
Winner?: 1 Oscar (Terms of Endearment) and 4 Globes (The Apartment, Irma la Douce, Terms of Endearment, Madame Sousatzka)
Closest She Got to Another: Postcards from the Edge, Being There, Madame Sousatzka...let's discuss.
Shirley MacLaine is one of the best actors who doesn't instantly come up on lists of the greatest actors. Sure, you get to her eventually (as do most life achievement awards bodies, the Kennedy Center Honors being the strange and remaining holdout), but she's not Streep, Nicholson, de Niro instant. She also has a weird history with the Oscars. Despite five nominations (solid) in four different decades (damn impressive), you could make a very legitimate argument that the number should be considerably higher. How many actors, especially high-name actors, miss out on performances like Being There (getting bumped for Marsha Mason in a fairly one-note role?) or Postcards from the Edge (again, I liked Diane Ladd in Wild at Heart, but MacLaine is much more in their wheelhouse)? And MacLaine is one of only six actors to have won the Drama lead Globe and then not get nominated for an Oscar (oddly enough, our leader in the other Globes countdown, Jim Carrey, is one of the remaining six). Is it perhaps MacLaine's politics that turns off the Academy (the Globes seem to court controversy a bit more)? Whatever the reason, it's a weird circumstance and one worthy of discussion (especially since this is one of the only film nomination awards lists where someone beats Meryl)! Theorize in the comments, and also on which of these actors perhaps got the closest to either going up (Globe snubs-we know they happen) or down (Oscar snubs-the weirdest of the Top 10 for me is Pacino in Godfather III, but I'd love your thoughts!)
No comments:
Post a Comment