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Filmsite's list of the greatest actors to never win an Oscar. These actors have done great work in the industry but have not been recognized properly with an Academy Award. For the full article go to: http://www.filmsite.org/noawards3.html
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Dana Andrews is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Dana Andrews The Best Years of Our Lives, Laura, The Ox-Bow Incident

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Alan Arkin is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Alan Arkin Edward Scissorhands, Little Miss Sunshine, Argo

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Fred Astaire is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Fred Astaire The Towering Inferno, Top Hat, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

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Lew Ayres is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Lew Ayres All Quiet on the Western Front, Salem's Lot, Battle for the Planet of the Apes

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John Barrymore is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
John Barrymore Cinema Paradiso, Grand Hotel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Warren Beatty is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Warren Beatty Bonnie and Clyde, Dick Tracy, Heaven Can Wait

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Charles Bickford is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Charles Bickford Days of Wine and Roses, Duel in the Sun, A Big Hand for the Little Lady

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Ralph Bellamy is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Ralph Bellamy Rosemary's Baby, Pretty Woman, Trading Places

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Dirk Bogarde is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Dirk Bogarde A Bridge Too Far, Death in Venice, The Singer Not the Song

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Charles Boyer is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Charles Boyer Casino Royale, Gaslight, Around the World in 80 Days

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Richard Burton is listed (or ranked) 11 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Richard Burton The Longest Day, Where Eagles Dare, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Jim Carrey is listed (or ranked) 12 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Jim Carrey Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Batman Forever, Dumb and Dumber

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John Cassavetes is listed (or ranked) 13 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
John Cassavetes Rosemary's Baby, The Dirty Dozen, The Fury

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Charlie Chaplin is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Charlie Chaplin City Lights, Modern Times, The Gold Rush

The Worst Oscar-Winning Actors Ever

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Maurice Chevalier is listed (or ranked) 15 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Maurice Chevalier Gigi, The Merry Widow, Love in the Afternoon

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Montgomery Clift is listed (or ranked) 16 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Montgomery Clift From Here to Eternity, Red River, Judgment at Nuremberg

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Lee J. Cobb is listed (or ranked) 17 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Lee J. Cobb The Exorcist, On the Waterfront, 12 Angry Men

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Joseph Cotten is listed (or ranked) 18 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Joseph Cotten Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Touch of Evil

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Noël Coward is listed (or ranked) 19 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Noël Coward The Italian Job, Around the World in 80 Days, Bunny Lake Is Missing

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Tom Cruise is listed (or ranked) 20 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Tom Cruise Top Gun, Rain Man, Jerry Maguire

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Tony Curtis is listed (or ranked) 21 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Tony Curtis Rosemary's Baby, Some Like It Hot, Spartacus

The Best Scary Movies Based on True Stories

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James Dean is listed (or ranked) 22 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
James Dean Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, East of Eden

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Kirk Douglas is listed (or ranked) 23 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Kirk Douglas Spartacus, Paths of Glory, 20

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Clint Eastwood is listed (or ranked) 24 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Clint Eastwood Good, Unforgiven, Dirty Harry

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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is listed (or ranked) 25 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Little Caesar, Gunga Din, Ghost Story

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Douglas Fairbanks is listed (or ranked) 26 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Douglas Fairbanks The Thief of Bagdad, Intolerance, The Mark of Zorro

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W. C. Fields is listed (or ranked) 27 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
W. C. Fields The Bank Dick, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, David Copperfield

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Ralph Fiennes is listed (or ranked) 28 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Ralph Fiennes Schindler's List, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Greatest Actors Who Have Never Won an Oscar (for Acting)

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Albert Finney is listed (or ranked) 29 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Albert Finney Skyfall, Big Fish, The Bourne Ultimatum

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Errol Flynn is listed (or ranked) 30 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Errol Flynn The Adventures of Robin Hood, Cinema Paradiso, Captain Blood

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Peter Fonda is listed (or ranked) 31 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Peter Fonda Ghost Rider, Easy Rider: The Ride Back, 3:10 to Yuma

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Glenn Ford is listed (or ranked) 32 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Glenn Ford Superman, Superman II, Midway

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Harrison Ford is listed (or ranked) 33 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Harrison Ford Star Wars, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Morgan Freeman is listed (or ranked) 34 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Morgan Freeman The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises

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John Garfield is listed (or ranked) 35 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
John Garfield The Postman Always Rings Twice, Gentleman's Agreement, Force of Evil

Stars Who Passed on Iconic Hollywood Roles

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James Garner is listed (or ranked) 36 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
James Garner The Notebook, The Great Escape, Atlantis: The Lost Empire

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Elliott Gould is listed (or ranked) 37 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Elliott Gould American History X, MASH, Ocean's Eleven

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Cary Grant is listed (or ranked) 38 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Cary Grant North by Northwest, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story

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Sydney Greenstreet is listed (or ranked) 39 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Sydney Greenstreet Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Between Two Worlds

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Richard Harris is listed (or ranked) 40 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Richard Harris Gladiator, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Laurence Harvey is listed (or ranked) 41 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Laurence Harvey The Manchurian Candidate, Cinema Paradiso, The Alamo

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Bob Hope is listed (or ranked) 42 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Bob Hope The Muppet Movie, The Greatest Show on Earth, Spies Like Us

Laffy Taffy Jokes

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Leslie Howard is listed (or ranked) 43 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Leslie Howard Gone with the Wind, Of Human Bondage, Pygmalion

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Trevor Howard is listed (or ranked) 44 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Trevor Howard Superman, The Third Man, Gandhi

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Rock Hudson is listed (or ranked) 45 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Rock Hudson Pillow Talk, Giant, Winchester '73

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Jerry Lewis is listed (or ranked) 46 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Jerry Lewis The King of Comedy, The Nutty Professor, Arizona Dream

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James Earl Jones is listed (or ranked) 47 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
James Earl Jones Star Wars, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, The Lion King

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Louis Jourdan is listed (or ranked) 48 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Louis Jourdan Octopussy, Gigi, Irma la Douce

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Boris Karloff is listed (or ranked) 49 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Boris Karloff Natural Born Killers, Bride of Frankenstein, The General

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Buster Keaton is listed (or ranked) 50 on the list Filmsite's Great Actors (Male) Who Have Not Won An Oscar
Buster Keaton Sunset Boulevard, It's a Mad, Mad