Despite what you might think Amy Adams, as great an actress as she is, has never won an Oscar. Zero Oscars for Sir Albert Finney too, despite 5 nominations! Lets take a look at those who have come close, but got no cigar!

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

3️⃣ Nominations

🎞 Chaplin (1991)
🪖 Tropic Thunder (2009)
💣 Oppenheimer (2024)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

AMY ADAMS

6️⃣ Nominations

🎨 Junebug (2005)
⛪️ Doubt (2008)
🥊 The Fighter (2010)
👨‍👦 The Master (2012)
💰 American Hustle (2013)
👔 Vice (2018)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

MARK RUFFALO

4️⃣ Nominations

♂️ The Kids Are All Right (2010)
🤼‍♂️ Foxcatcher (2014)
🗞 Spotlight (2015)
🎬 Poor Things (2024)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

ANNETTE BENING

5️⃣ Nominations

🕶 The Grifters (1990)
🌹 American Beauty (1999)
🎭 Being Julia (2004)
♂️ The Kids Are All Right (2010)
🏊‍♀️ Nyad (2024)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

ALBERT FINNEY

5️⃣ Nominations

Erin Brockovich starring Sir Albert Finney and Julia Roberts

💋 Tom Jones (1963)
🚂 Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
🎭 The Dresser (1983)
🥃 Under the Volcano (1984)
⚖️ Erin Brockovich (2000)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

MICHELLE PFEIFFER

3️⃣ Nominations

💔 Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
🎹 The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
💝 Love Field (1992)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

RICHARD BURTON

7️⃣ Nominations

🖤 My Cousin Rachel (1952)
🗡 The Robe (1954)
👑 Becket (1964)
🔍 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
👫 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
🐴 Equus (1977)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

MICHELLE WILLIAMS

5️⃣ Nominations

👢 Brokeback Mountain (2005)
💙 Blue Valentine (2010)
👄 My Week with Marilyn (2011)
🌊 Manchester by the Sea (2016)
📽 The Fabelmans (2023)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

BRADLEY COOPER

5️⃣ Nominations

Bradley Cooper walking on the red carpet at the 94th Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA

📓 Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
💰 American Hustle (2013)
🔫 American Sniper (2014)
🎵 A Star Is Born (2018)
🎹 Maestro (2024)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

GLENN CLOSE

8️⃣ Nominations

🐰 Fatal Attraction (1987)
💔 Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
📖 The World According to Garp (1982)
⚰️ The Big Chill (1983)
⚾️ The Natural (1984)
🛎 Albert Nobbs (2012)
👰‍♂ The Wife (2019)
🏚 Hillbilly Elegy (2021)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

RYAN GOSLING

3️⃣ Nominations

📝 Half Nelson (2006)
✨️ La La Land (2016)
👠 Barbie (2024)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

SAOIRSE RONAN

4️⃣ Nominations

🪖 Atonement (2007)
🗽 Brooklyn (2015)
🐞 Lady Bird (2017)
♀️ Little Women (2019)

0️⃣ Academy Awards

TOM CRUISE – ZERO OSCARS?

3️⃣ Nominations

Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

🇺🇲 Born on the Fourth of July (1990)
🏈 Jerry Maguire (1997)
🐸 Magnolia (2000)

He was also nominated (but failed to win) as a producer in 2023, with his return to the role of Maverick in the much-loved Top Gun sequel.

0️⃣ Academy Awards

CAREY MULLIGAN

3️⃣ Nominations

✏️ An Education (2009)
💋 A Promising Young Woman (2020)
🎹 Maestro (2024)

0️⃣ Academy Awards