The 24 actors who have gotten the most Oscar nominations without winning one

Glenn close the wife — Glenn Close in "The Wife."
Sony Pictures Classics

The Oscars have repeatedly nominated and neglected numerous actors.
Glenn Close lost for the eighth time last year after being nominated for her role in "Hillbilly Elegy."
Here are 24 actors who have been nominated at least four times without winning.

Each year, deserving performances lose out in the Oscars' best acting categories. But there are a handful of great actors that the Academy has repeatedly nominated and neglected.

Last year, Glenn Close was nominated for the eighth time for her supporting role in Netflix's "Hillbilly Elegy." She lost again to "Minari" star Yuh-Jung Youn, tying with Peter O'Toole as the actor with the most acting Oscar nominations without a win (though O'Toole won an honorary Oscar).

Close was also the perceived frontrunner at the 2019 Oscars for her role in "The Wife" — until she lost to Olivia Colman.

This year, Will Smith and Jessica Chastain, neither of whom have ever won, are both nominated for the third time for their roles in "King Richard" and "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," respectively. They are both the perceived frontrunners heading into Oscars night on Sunday, but could they be facing another Close-Colman situation?

There are plenty of other actors who have been nominated more times than them and still haven't won the coveted statuette.

John Lynch contributed to a previous version of this post.

Here are the 24 actors who have been nominated for at least four acting Oscars without winning once:

Saoirse Ronan — 4 nominations

Best actress nominations: "Brooklyn" (2015), "Lady Bird" (2017), "Little Women" (2019)

Best supporting actress nominations: "Atonement" (2007)

Bradley Cooper — 4 nominations

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Warner Bros.

Best actor nominations: "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012), "American Sniper" (2014), "A Star Is Born" (2018)

Best supporting actor nominations: "American Hustle" (2013)

Willem Dafoe — 4 nominations

Best actor nominations: "At Eternity's Gate" (2018)

Best supporting actor nominations: "Platoon" (1986), "Shadow of a Vampire" (2000), "The Florida Project" (2017)

Michelle Williams — 4 nominations

Best actress nominations: "Blue Valentine" (2010), "My Week with Marilyn" (2011)

Best supporting actress nominations: "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), "Manchester by the Sea" (2016)

Barbara Stanwyck — 4 nominations

Best actress nominations: "Stella Dallas" (1937), "Ball of Fire" (1941), "Double Indemnity" (1944), "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948)

Stanwyck received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1981.

Rosalind Russell — 4 nominations

Best actress nominations: "My Sister Eileen" (1942), "Sister Kenny" (1946), "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1947), "Auntie Mame" (1958)

Mickey Rooney — 4 nominations

black stallion Mickey rooney — "The Black Stallion."
United Artists

Best actor nominations: "Babe in Arms" (1939), "The Human Comedy" (1943)

Best supporting actor nominations: "The Bold and the Brave" (1956), "The Black Stallion" (1979)

Rooney received the since-discontinued Academy Juvenile Award in 1938 and the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1982.

Claude Rains — 4 nominations

Best supporting actor nominations: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Casablanca (1942), Mr. Skeffington (1944), Notorious (1946)

Ed Harris — 4 nominations

Ed Harris Pollock — "Pollock."
Sony Pictures Classic

Best actor nomination: "Pollock" (2000)

Best supporting actor nominations: "Apollo 13" (1995), "The Truman Show" (1998), "The Hours" (2002)

Agnes Moorehead — 4 nominations

agnes moorehead hush hush — "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte."
20th Century Fox

Best supporting actress nominations: "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942), "Mrs. Parkington" (1944), "Johnny Belinda" (1948), "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964)

Marsha Mason — 4 nominations

Best actress nominations: "Cinderella Liberty" (1973), "The Goodbye Girl" (1977), "Chapter Two" (1979), "Only When I Laugh" (1981)

Montgomery Clift — 4 nominations

Best actor nominations: "The Search" (1948), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), "From Here to Eternity" (1953)

Best supporting actor nomination: "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961)

Charles Boyer — 4 nominations

Best actor nominations: "Conquest" (1937), "Algiers" (1938), "Gaslight" (1944), "Fanny" (1961)

Annette Bening — 4 nominations

Best actress nominations: "American Beauty" (1999), "Being Julia" (2004), "The Kids Are All Right" (2010)

Best supporting actress nomination: "The Grifters" (1990)

Jane Alexander — 4 nominations

Best actress nominations: "The Great White Hope" (1970), "Testament" (1983)

Best supporting actress nominations: "All the President's Men" (1976), "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979)

Arthur Kennedy — 5 nominations

Arthur Kennedy Brigh — "Bright Victory."
Universal Pictures

Best actor nomination: "Bright Victory" (1951)

Best supporting actor nominations: "Champion" (1949), "Trial" (1955), "Peyton Place" (1957), "Some Came Running" (1958)

Albert Finney — 5 nominations

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Universal Pictures

Best actor nominations: "Tom Jones" (1963), "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), "The Dresser" (1983), "Under the Volcano" (1984)

Best supporting actor nomination: "Erin Brockovich" (2000)

Irene Dunne — 5 nominations

Best actress nominations: "Cimarron" (1931), "Theodora Goes Wild" (1936), "The Awful Truth" (1937), "Love Affair" (1939), "I Remember Mama" (1948)

Amy Adams — 6 nominations

Best actress nomination: "American Hustle" (2013)

Best supporting actress nominations: "Junebug" (2005), "Doubt" (2008), "The Fighter" (2010), "The Master" (2012), "Vice" (2018)

Thelma Ritter — 6 nominations

Best supporting actress nominations: "All About Eve" (1950), "The Mating Season" (1951), "With a Song in My Heart" (1952), "Pickup on South Street" (1953), "Pillow Talk" (1959), "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962)

Deborah Kerr — 6 nominations

Best actress nominations: "Edward, My Son" (1949), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "The King and I" (1956), "Heaven Knows, Mr Allison" (1957), "Separate Tables" (1958), "The Sundowners" (1960)

Kerr received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 1994.

Richard Burton — 7 nominations

Richard Burton Woolf — "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Warner Bros.

Best actor nominations: "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)

Best supporting actor nomination: "My Cousin Rachel" (1952)

Glenn Close — 8 nominations

Best actress nominations: "Fatal Attraction" (1987), "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), "Albert Nobbs" (2011), "The Wife" (2018)

Best supporting actress nominations: "The World According to Garp" (1982), "The Big Chill" (1983), "The Natural" (1984), "Hillbilly Elegy" (2020)

Peter O'Toole — 8 nominations

Best actor nominations: "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Becket" (1964), "The Lion in Winter" (1968), "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969), "The Ruling Class "(1972), "The Stunt Man" (1980), "My Favorite Year" (1982), "Venus" (2006)

O'Toole received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement in 2002.

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