8 Actors Who Were Seriously Snubbed Of Oscars Wins For Their Amaaaazing Performances

Forget the manager, I'd like to speak with the "Academy" please... 👀

Oscar voting is complicated, but sometimes you wonder how a performer won. I think it's time to highlight the true best performances from the past.

Here are eight actors who should have won Oscars for their performances:

Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment

United Artists

Elizabeth Taylor won for BUtterfield 8 that year, a performance she herself hated. It's theorized that the reason she did win was because she had become gravely ill before voting had started, and members of the Academy wanted to reward her.

Judy Garland for A Star is Born

Warner Bros.

I mean, between her performance of "The Man That Got Away" and her breakdown in her dressing room, I don't know how Judy didn't win in 1954.

Dorothy Dandridge for Carmen Jones

20th Century Fox

I also would've been happy if Dorothy Dandridge won that year, too. She was electric in Carmen Jones, and to have her win would have been Earth-shattering in multiple ways.

Holly Hunter for Broadcast News

20th Century Fox

Holly Hunter was heartbreaking in Broadcast News, and while a lot of the focus is on the love triangle, none of it would have worked if you didn't love her character Jane and her hopes for her career.

Angela Bassett for What's Love Got to Do with It

Buena Vista Pictures

Using Oscar logic, if Holly Hunter had won for Broadcast News, maybe they would have awarded the deserving performance of Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in this unflinching biopic.

Denzel Washington for Malcolm X

Warner Bros.

You could have Al Pacino being loud in Scent of a Woman, or you could have Denzel Washington in Spike Lee's epic biopic of Malcolm X. I mean, I know which one I'm picking...

Carole Lombard for My Man Godfrey

Universal Pictures

My Man Godfrey is a great screwball and class comedy of the '30s. It interrogates class distinctions while also being laugh out loud funny.

Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird

A24

As much as I love Allison Janney in I, Tonya, I think Laurie Metcalf gave the best supporting performance that year. She was so heartbreaking as Lady Bird's mother, and their relationship was the heart of that film.

Who do you think should have won Oscars for their performances? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below!