A selection of famous actors who should have received an Oscar much earlier (10 photos)

Each of these talented actors has a lot of film awards. And against the background of this collection, of course, it will be especially to stand out for the Oscar, which they certainly deserve. However, many people agree ... that they got it too late! After all, on their account there are many roles that were worthy of the main award. Hollywood. And as you know, some of this company is too long waiting for the coveted "Oscar". Who do you think is missing from this? list?

Joaquin Phoenix





Won first Oscar for Joker (2019), but should have won award at the beginning of the century for a supporting role in the film "Gladiator" (2000). And then he played the role of an even bigger villain than Arthur Fleck.

Leonardo DiCaprio



Received his first Oscar for The Revenant (2015), but went all out on complete and should have received an award a couple of years earlier for his role in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

Morgan Freeman





Received his first Oscar for Million Dollar Baby (2004), but should have received it 10 years ago for his role as Red in the great Escape from Shawshank (1994).

Will Smith



With a scandal, he received an Oscar for the film King Richard (2021), but should have received an award twenty years ago for his role in another sports film, where he also played the real person "Ali" (2001).

Robin Williams



Won his only Oscar for Good Will Hunting. (1997), but should have received an award for Best Actor in a Film Dead Poets Society (1989).

Daniel Kaluuya



Received an Oscar for his supporting role in Judas and the Black messiah (2020), but should have won an award for the lead role in breakthrough horror Get Out (2017).

Jack Nicholson



Received his first Oscar for the legendary film One Flew Over cuckoo's nest "(1975), but in a good way a year before that, Jack had already won an award for a crime-detective masterpiece by Roman Polanski "Chinatown" (1974).

Al Pacino



Received so far the only (!) "Oscar" for his role in the film "Smell women "(1992), but should have received long before that, and here you can choose for what. At least for one of the first two parts of The Godfather (1972; 1974), well, or in extreme cases for "Serpico" (1973) or "Dog Afternoon" (1976).

We remind you that for the role in the film "Scarface" (1983) Al Pacino didn't even get an Oscar nomination. And then we'll look at two similar examples.

Jeff Bridges



Received the first Oscar for his role in the film "Crazy Heart" (2009), but had to receive, firstly, the nomination, and secondly, the award for the iconic "Big Lebowski" (1998).

Gary Oldman



Received his first Oscar for playing Winston Churchill in a film Darkest Hour (2017), and received his first nomination for his role in the film "Spy, get out!" (2011). However, we all understand that this actor should have been nominated and won an Oscar back in the 1990s, at least for the role of Norman Stansfield in the film "Leon" (1994).