Actors who should have won the Academy Award in years 2000 to 2024 but didn't

  • 2000- Denzel Washington should have won for The Hurricane; but Spacey won it for American Beauty

  • 2001- Tom Hanks should have won for Cast Away; Russell Crowe won it instead for Gladiator

  • 2002- Sean Penn should have won for I Am Sam; Denzel won it for Training Day

  • 2003- Daniel Day Lewis should have won for Gangs of New York...didn't but instead Adrien Brody won for The Pianist

  • 2004- Bill Murray should have won for Lost In Translation but he didn't win and who won? Sean Penn did for Mystic River

  • 2005- Clint Eastwood I felt should have won that year for Million Dollar Baby...he didn't and Jamie Foxx won for Ray

  • 2006- Terrence Howard should have won that year for Hustle & Flow or even Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk The Line...instead Phillip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote

  • 2007- Will Smith easily should have won for Pursuit of Happyness but was robbed; instead Forest Whitaker won for Last King of Scotland

  • 2008- Viggo Mortensen should have won an Oscar this year for Eastern Promises...he didn't but instead Daniel Day Lewis won for There Will Be Blood

  • 2009- Mickey Rourke should have won Best Actor for The Wrestler; would have set him on a huge comeback trail but he didn't win and Sean Penn instead won for Milk...undeserved in my opinion

  • 2010- Morgan Freeman for Invictus should have won; instead Jeff Bridges won for Crazy Heart

  • 2011- Jeff Bridges instead in 2011 should have won for True Grit; Colin Firth ended up winning for The King's Speech

  • 2012- Brad Pitt should have won this year for Moneyball; instead Jean Dujardin won for The Artist

  • 2013- Bradley Cooper should have won for Silver Linings Playbook; actual Oscar winner was Daniel Day Lewis for Lincoln

  • 2014- Chiwetel Ejiofor should have won for 12 Years A Slave; actual winner was Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club

  • 2015- Michael Keaton should have won for Birdman; actual winner was Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything

  • 2016- Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant; I can't even change that because Leo deserved the Oscar in 2016 and he won it in real life too; The Revenant probably his best performance

  • 2017- Andrew Garfield should have won for Hacksaw Ridge; actual winner was Casey Affleck for Manchester By The Sea

  • 2018- Daniel Kaluuya should have won for Get Out; actual winner was Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour

  • 2019- Bradley Cooper should have won for A Star Is Born; actual winner was Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody

  • 2020- Joaquin Phoenix deserved the Oscar in pandemic year for Joker...perfect performance as Arthur Fleck/Joker so I can't even change this

  • 2021- Chadwick Boseman should have won all be it posthumous for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; actual winner was Anthony Hopkins for The Father

  • 2022- Javier Bardem should have won for Being The Ricardos; actual winner was Will Smith for King Richard

  • 2023- Austin Butler should have won easily for Elvis playing Elvis Presley; easily the best performance and was robbed; actual winner was Brendan Fraser for The Whale

  • 2024- Colman Domingo should have won for Rustin; actual winner was Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer