Who is the worst actor to have been consistently nominated for an Oscar?

no Kevin Spacey?

also malkovich? either could get my vote if elegible?

in the end i voted for deniro why because he not interesting.

he is more interesting than tom freakin' cruise

Spacey has only been nominated twice (he won both times).

I don't think Malkovich has ever been nominated for an Oscar.

DONT BLAME ME I VOTED FOR ALBERT FINNET.

Spacey and Malkovich have only been nominated twice since 1980; everyone on the list has three or more nominations.

John Malkovich
1984 (57th) ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Places in the Heart {"Mr. Will"}
1993 (66th) ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- In the Line of Fire {"Mitch Leary"}

oh the answer to this is clearly Tom Cruise, although I can endorse a Hanks vote. Has Robin Williams ever been nominated?

Crowe is such a tool

wtf Williams is supposed to be on there

he is more interesting than tom freakin' cruise

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yeah but everybody hates cruise.

taking away heat and ronin i can't remember a deniro film that didn't bore me. cruise was in the awesome vanilla sky

Never been much of a fan of Hopkins, I think he considers himself a far better actor than he is and thus tends to give exceedingly smug performances. I might vote for Tom Cruise though, because he's Tom Fucking Cruise.

xp: Williams won for Good Will's Shrink, nom'd for Awakenings? and Good Morn Vietnam?

Weird. I searched for Malkovich at oscars.org and nothing came up.

Cruise's best performances weren't nominated, of course: Eyes Wide Shut and Risky Business.

Robin Williams has been nominated for Best Actor 3 times and Best Supporting Actor once.

Consider this as a write-in choice.

Robin Williams
1987 (60th) ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Good Morning, Vietnam {"Adrian Cronauer"}
1989 (62nd) ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Dead Poets Society {"John Keating"}
1991 (64th) ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- The Fisher King {"Parry"}
1997 (70th) * ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Good Will Hunting {"Sean McGuire"}

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cruise was in the awesome vanilla sky
clearly you have also suffered a horrible car accident and awoken in an alternate universe.

but if Robin Williams is available as a write-in, it's so him.

williams should be on there, but wtf cares cos we already ripped him to pieces on a poll lately.

and rightly so.

Eyes Wide Shut

lol. "duuuude I'm so stoned."

vanilla sky: it was awesome, i didn't claim that it was any good.

Tom Cruise is going to romp this one.

Cruise's best only palatable performances weren't nominated, of course: Eyes Wide Shut and Risky Business.

The last Tom Cruise movie I saw that I thought played to his strengths as an actor was M:I III. When he does "serious", he irritates the shit out of me.

I actually originally read your post as "cruise was awesome in vanilla sky" xxxp

Actually Tom Hanks is pretty shitty as well, my vote goes there seeing as the dude clearly only takes roles that will be a shoo-in for the Oscars these days.

I liked him ok in Minority Report but I was like 14 when that came out.

do you mean "this actor just sucks" or "the worst films by this actor to get nominated"?

Hanks would deserve it if he had been nominated for Da Vinci Code

The only film I've enjoyed Cruise in is Collateral, probably because he's playing a cunt in it.

Matt DC - so does Daniel Day-Lewis!

Tom Cruise, because he sucks. His mannerisms are just intensely irritating to me.

It's Tom Hanks.

Should we do a "what was Tom Hanks' last likable movie" poll or is a given that the answer is "Big"?

1980 cutoff keeps it competitive, cuz seriously, all these guys are better actors than Gary Cooper.

Yeah, it's "Big." xp

I liked Hanks fine in Saving Private Ryan.

Also I think Robin Williams would've run away with it if he was included in this.

Anyone voting De Niro is beyond baffling to me. Sure he's a shadow of his past glories, but dude has PAST GLORIES wtf has Hanks or Cruise ever done.

Oh God, imagine if Tom Cruise had done "Saving Private Ryan" and Tom Hanks had done "Minority Report".

Cruise by a country freakin' mile. Although I have never been a fan of Hanks I saw Charlie Wilson's War (which I nearly didn't bother with because of him being in it) last night and was pleasantly surprised by his performance in it. At least the equal of PSH who was good but just PSH.

Having said that Hanks deserves a pummelling for all the films he's been Oscar nominated for.

that's a wack database! It doesn't tell you that Hanks won twice!

oh wait Tom Hanks was in Toy Story that was good.

imagine if Tom Cruise was in every movie ever

lol "Albert Finnet" – sounds like a crisp Bordeaux.

De Niro deserves more mercy than Pacino, who I think won for probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

Is the "t" in Finnet silent?

who's the Greer Garson of the last 28 years?

Cruise was generally OK in his paralyzed-vet movie, Big Fat Motherfucking Penis

De Niro's nominations for Awakenings and Cape Fear were appalling, wtf.

He could also never have pulled off played the Rebecca DeMornay character in Risky Business. Come on guys, this guy can't act

Robert DeNiro couldn't pull off a sweater.

he could, but he'd just do that shrug, duck head, twist lips expression that wins him oscars.

it's even better if the sweater tears.

I'm sure Morgan Freeman is potentially a better actor than Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise, but I gotta pick him for playing very similar roles again and again for the last 20 years or so. The guy is a living definition of typecasting.

morgan freeman takes off hat, bows head, shakes sadly

"That's a crying shame tuomas".

walks off into the night, disappointed.

i vote jack

"while i'm at it- scorsese/deniro are a boring combination"

I've had some awful posts on these boards, but thank god I didn't say this. Holy shit

I voted Geoffrey Rush in lieu of Robin Williams.

Also, it's Tom Hanks.

wrong tom

Easy, Sean Penn.

His work in Turner and Hooch was masterful. xp

anyone voting for not Tom Cruise is probably a closeted scientologist, is my theory here.

Or a stalled Clear.

Johnny Depp

Best Actor in a Leading Role
for: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

what

I guess you guys don't follow Oscar nominations.

(I am still mad that Robin Williams was left off of my copy/paste.)

So am I.

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Al Pacino has been nominated for Best Actor once and Best Supporting Actor twice.

Leo's got as many Oscar noms as AlPac? wtf...

NO

Best Actor Nods for Pacino: Serpico, The Godfather II, Dog Day Afternoon, ...And Justice For All, Scent of a Woman.

Supporting Actor: The Godfather, Dick Tracy, Glengarry Glen Ross.

no one has mentioned denzel washington yet????

I don't see how Crowe won't take this in a landslide

yeah, disagreed, i like crowe.

In the absence of Kevin Costner (what, like, the FUCK) it has to be Tom Cruise.

Leo's got as many Oscar noms as AlPac?

SINCE 1980

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Srsly who voted for Ben Kingsley?

All too easy...

Two votes for Geoffrey Rush and William Hurt and zero for Michael Caine?

Michael Caine has been in some bad movies, bt I've never seen a bad Michael Caine performance.

dicaprio is an excellent actor wtf

clearly 4 people are still in 1997 "lol girls like leo" mode

I haven't seen an interesting Caine performance in years.

and, yeah, sometimes (The Cider House Rules) he's awful.

C'mon, he was great in Children of Men.

he was ok in The Quiet American.

Michael Caine has been in some bad movies, bt I've never seen a bad Michael Caine performance

What??!?! Are you nuts?

The Quiet American is maybe Caine's career best.

Did anyone besides me see "The Prestige"? Did you think Caine was super-awful in that?

He's been awful in lots of films

He is awful in all films. I kinda like him, but he's a bad, bad actor.

I have no arguments whatsoever about that top three.

Tom Hanks was pretty good in Charlie Wilson's War!

My opinion of Peter O'Toole has always been distorted by the fact that Samuel Beckett detested him so much... he's pretty crap though

I'm glad at least one other person in the world dislikes Daniel Day Lewis.

I haven't seen an interesting Caine performance in years.

Have you seen The Weatherman? He and Nick Cage (another actor many ILXors seem to hate more than he deserves) were really good in that, I was quite surpised in general how great that film was, because I wasn' expecting much of it.

Tuomas, looks like you and me are not going to agree on much when it comes to actors

To be honest, I haven't seen that many Caine films, so it's perfectly possible he's done bad performances in some of the ones I've missed. But in the films I've seen he quite often has the best performance, like in Batman Begins.

okay lolololololololol