Alfred Hitchcock tops poll of best Oscar losers
LONDON (AFP) - British director Alfred Hitchcock is the best film-maker never to have been handed an Oscar, according to a poll of British movie viewers released a day before the 2005 nominations come out.
Hitchcock was nominated as best director at the Academy Awards (news - web sites) six times between 1941 and 1961 for classic thrillers like "Psycho" and "Rear Window", but failed to win a single one.
In a poll of deserving non-Oscar winning directors by British viewers of cable film channel Turner Classic Movies, Hitchcock edged out Martin Scorsese and the late Stanley Kubrick.
Scorsese, who has been nominated five times since 1981, is widely expected to be a favourite for this year's directing Oscar for Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator".
In a similar list of actors who have never won, US star Samuel L. Jackson, who received a nomination for 1994's "Pulp Fiction", edged out Steve McQueen for the top spot.
Third was late Welsh actor Richard Burton, who received seven nominations for films ranging from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" to "Equus".
Perhaps more curiously, US actress Demi Moore -- never a critics' favourite and without an Oscar nomination to her name -- was top of the equivalent female list.
She beat Sharon Stone, who was nominated for 1995's "Casino" and queen of the romantic comedy Meg Ryan, with Marilyn Monroe fourth.
The top 10 in each category was:
Most deserving directors never to have won an Oscar:
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. Ridley Scott
5. Tim Burton
6. Ingmar Bergman
7. Spike Lee
8. Mike Leigh
9. Howard Hawks
10. Roberto Rossellini
Most deserving actor never to have won an Oscar:
1. Samuel L Jackson
2. Steve McQueen
3. Richard Burton
4. Tom Cruise
5. Brad Pitt
6. Bruce Willis
7. John Travolta
8. Cary Grant
9. Hugh Grant
10. Kirk Douglas
Most deserving actress never to have won an Oscar:
1. Demi Moore
2. Sharon Stone
3. Meg Ryan
4. Marilyn Monroe
5. Michelle Pfeiffer
6. Drew Barrymore
7. Lauren Bacall
8. Glenn Close
9. Cate Blanchett
10. Ava Gardner
That actress list is an absolute trainwreck. Demi Moore? Wow.
even the actors list is pretty sad. samuel l jackson? brad pitt? bruce willis? john travolta? hugh grant? what are these guys doing beside cary grant and kirk douglas?
I agreed (give or take) with the directors list.
The actors and actresses lists were both pretty pathetic.
Quote from: cinephileeven the actors list is pretty sad. samuel l jackson? brad pitt? bruce willis? john travolta? hugh grant? what are these guys doing beside cary grant and kirk douglas?
At least Samuel L. Jackson has had one great performance (Pulp Fiction), unlike those other guys. But, yeah, I agree with you.
I love how Ridley Scott is on that list but Robert Altman isn't.
Sidney Lumet?
David Lynch?
Where is Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton for actor snubs?
The actress list is pathetic. :lol: Really aweful.
Where is Deborah Kerr? I mean shit, she was only in some of the biggest films of the 1950s.
An Affair to Remember?
King and I?
Quote from: MyxomatosisWhere is Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton for actor snubs?
Burton is on the list... :saywhat:
Quote from: cinephileQuote from: MyxomatosisWhere is Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton for actor snubs?
Burton is on the list... :saywhat:
Ah, so he is!
Heh. Ok, O'Toole then!
Terrible! Travolta or SLJ come off that list and he's replaced by O'Toole.
where's that list of the world's greatest living directors? Lynch and Terrence Malick were at the top of the list.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/page/0,11456,1082823,00.html
From this thread (http://www.xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=4479&highlight=guardian+directors).
ah yes. very prompt and thorough work. that's what i like.
It is outrageous that Nick Nolte and Julianne Moore have never won Oscars. It's even more absurd that Paul Schrader has never even been nominated!
Think of the foreign directors who have never won -- Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Godard, Renoir, Truffaut...but Ron Howard has won. Bogus!
Kubrick has won an Oscar -- for special effects on 2001.
I think it's absurd that PTA has been nominated for Best Original Screenplay twice, but not for Best Director.
Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Altman, Lynch, Scorsese, Ashby -- the list of Best Director losers boggles the mind. But Ron Howard has won. Bogus!
kinda makes you wonder why any film snob, such as we of xixax, would even remotely care about the academy awards.