The First Annual "Robbed!" Film Festival
The other day, I was watching the movie Boiler Room, and thought to myself for the 40th time, “Ron Rifkin really should have had the Oscar for this role, or at least a nomination.” So it occurred to me that you could make a pretty good film festival out of movies where the actors were robbed of either nominations or maybe of wins, if they were actually nominated. These are the ones I came up with for the First Annual Robbed! Film Festival (actors who were robbed are in parentheses). There are probably several dozen I’m missing:Boiler Room (Ron Rifkin)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Warren Oates)
Gods and Monsters (both Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave)
A Simple Plan (Billy Bob Thornton)
Being There (Peter Sellers)
Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers again)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Martin Landau)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
The Manchurian Candidate (Angela Lansbury)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Ivana Baquero)
Full Metal Jacket (Vincent d’Onofrio)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Brad Dourif)
Mrs. Brown (Judi Dench)
The Station Agent (Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Canavale)
Cutter’s Way (John Heard)
