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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Firm
Mission Impossible
Top Gun 
Rain Man
Born on the 4th of July
Jerry Maguire
A few good men
Interview with the vampire
Days of thunder
The outsiders

Give the man an oscar!!

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when he actually wins one, then sure[/quote]
Plenty of great actors never won an Oscar for acting. Cary Grant, Robert Redford, James Earl Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Cicely Tyson, and several others. Henry Fonda and Paul Newman did not receive competitive Oscar wins until they were on the death bead. I think all the people I named made great movies and should have been recognized for their work, but probably did not play well with the crowd and was shunned. Reminds me of the person who played Erica Kane who basically carried Daytime Soap Operas for years, but was shunned every year for an award. [/quote]

Actually I think basically all those actors were well liked and respected in Hollywood but just got unlucky with nominations.  Cary Grant basically only did comedy and a couple Hitchcock things, and they really never nominated for comedy.  Paul Newman was nominated for the verdict but lost to Ben Kingsley in Gandhi — Gandhi was just a steamroller that year, and that was a tough choice. He has 10 minimalism and was 62 when he won so hardly on his deathbed.  Arguably should have won for cool hand luke in 1967 but that was an insanely competitive year.  Hes another that got a lifetime achievement award because Hollywood felt bad.  Redford was nominated for the sting but lost to Brandi’s godfather, so you can’t really fault that.  Somewhat surprising he wasn’t nominated for flight of the condor or all the presidents men but Redford didn’t like campaigning and I think the distributors didn’t push the film.  But he did get a competitive Oscar — for directing.
Weirdly, a lot of people who aren’t popular in Hollywood did get Oscar’s -/ I don’t think Brando, orsoj Welles or woody Allen are broadly liked but won lots of stuff.

I do think cruise is liked by a lot of industry people because his movies employ tons of people in makeup, costume, effects, music, etc, and he makes a lot of movies.  The bulk of Hollywood is not living on the sweet little art film made on a shoestring.  [/quote]

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