What do Kim Novak, Jim Carrey, John Turturro, and the late Donald Sutherland all have in frequent? Properly, other than being acclaimed actors, these stars have by no means (we repeat: by no means) been nominated for an Academy Award. And that crime is now being celebrated by the annual anti-awards season competition, hosted by the Museum of the Shifting Picture.
The beloved museum introduced its third iteration of the favored “Snubbed” screening sequence, which reexamines movies which were neglected by the Academy. The 2025 theme is centered on actors and titled “Snubbed Eternally: Nice Actors, No Nominations.” This system will run February 1 by March 9, and have 21 movies starring actors who’ve by no means been nominated for an Oscar.
Highlights embrace Kim Novak within the enduring “Vertigo,” John Turturro and John Goodman in “Barton Fink,” Rita Hayworth in “The Girl from Shanghai,” Jim Carrey in “Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts,” and Danny DeVito in “Batman Returns.”
“Rosemary’s Child” with Mia Farrow and “An Officer and a Gentleman” starring Richard Gere additionally will display screen, together with Christopher Visitor’s “For Your Consideration” which the competition has deemed the “funniest film ever made in regards to the expertise of being snubbed for an Oscar nomination.” As “For Your Consideration” lead star Catherine O’Hara stated throughout her tenure as Moira in “Schitt’s Creek,” her favourite season is awards — that’s, in the event you’re nominated.
Take a look at the lineup for “Snubbed Eternally: Nice Actors, No Nominations,” with movie descriptions supplied by MoMI, beneath.
Canine Day Afternoon
Snubbed Eternally: John Cazale
Saturday, February 1, 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 2, 3:30 p.m.
Dir. Sidney Lumet. 1975, 125 minutes. 35mm. With Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Carol Kane, Charles Durning. Pacino provides one in all his biggest performances as determined criminal Sonny Wortzik in Lumet’s epochal New York crime drama, primarily based on the weird true story of a 1972 financial institution theft staged blocks from the film’s Brooklyn location. An anti-establishment thriller that completely captures the anarchy of Seventies New York, the movie is remembered primarily for Pacino’s more and more unhinged work, however the actor is given essential assist from the at all times poignant Cazale, whose slow-burn flip as Sonny’s unpredictable confederate, “Sal” Naturile, is a spotlight of the underappreciated actor’s legendary run by Seventies American cinema.
Barton Fink
Snubbed Eternally: John Goodman and John Turturro
Saturday, February 1, 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 2, 6:00 p.m.
Dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen. 1991, 116 minutes. U.S. 35mm. With John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney. The Coen brothers’ tour de pressure set in Nineteen Thirties Hollywood stars Turturro as an excessively idealistic east coast playwright who goes west for a gig writing studio scripts. Going through an epic bout of writers’ block whereas cooped up in a rotting Los Angeles resort, Barton befriends a diabolically charismatic touring salesman named Charlie (Goodman) who’s staying down the corridor. Whereas drawn to Charlie’s everyman high quality, Barton will get drawn additional into his personal psyche, going through ever extra blurred strains of actuality and fantasy. Exquisitely designed and brilliantly acted by odd couple Turturro and Goodman, Barton Fink stays one of many Coens’ most deliriously inscrutable darkish comedies.
Batman Returns
Snubbed Eternally: Danny DeVito
Saturday, February 1, 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 2, 1:00 p.m.
Dir. Tim Burton. 1992, 126 minutes. U.S. 35mm. With Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken. Working on the top of his powers, Burton was given free rein to create one of the astonishingly unusual and perverse summer time blockbusters of all time. Batman Returns pits Keaton’s brooding Caped Crusader in opposition to two archrivals, each expertly realized in unforgettable performances: Pfeiffer’s mousy, abused secretary Selena Kyle (aka Catwoman), and DeVito’s demeaned, deserted orphan Oswald Cobblepot (aka The Penguin). Wreaking ugly havoc on the town, the Penguin is a fiend for the ages, inhabited by DeVito with uncompromising grotesquerie, proper up by his Grand Guignol end.
3:10 to Yuma
Snubbed Eternally: Glenn Ford
Friday, February 7, 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 9, 4:00 p.m.
Dir. Delmer Daves. 1957, 92 minutes. U.S. DCP. With Glenn Ford, Van Heflin. The laidback magnetism of Glenn Ford isn’t the form of efficiency model that often wins Academy Awards, however the psychological complexity and cool-as-ice charisma Ford dropped at his roles in style movies made him one of many low-key nice film stars of Hollywood’s golden age. Because the ostensible villain of Delmer Daves’s western basic, the outlaw Ben Wade who’s being guarded and dropped at justice by civilian rancher Dan Evans (Oscar-winner Van Heflin), Ford retains peeling again layers of humanity, whilst the 2 males enact a tense cat-and-mouse sport. 3:10 to Yuma is a morally sophisticated thriller, tight as a drum, and elegantly shot by western grasp Charles Lawton Jr.
Rosemary’s Child
Snubbed Eternally: Mia Farrow
Friday, February 7, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 8, 6:00 p.m.
Dir. Roman Polanski. 1968, 137 minutes. U.S. 35mm. With Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Bellamy. One of many biggest horror films ever made, Rosemary’s Child is a movie of unusual psychological depth that enables the viewer into the delicate, disintegrating mindscape of a newly pregnant girl (Farrow) who strikes together with her actor husband (Cassavetes) right into a Manhattan constructing with a haunted previous and begins to suspect her seemingly regular aged neighbors (Gordon, Blackmer) have sinister plans for her and her child. Terrified but, ultimately, frighteningly resilient, Farrow is totally fascinating and completely sympathetic, on-screen for each scene.
The Quiet Man
Snubbed Eternally: Maureen O’Hara
Saturday, February 8, 1:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 9, 6:00 p.m.
Dir. John Ford. 1952, 129 minutes. U.S. 35mm. With John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald. Ford—born John Martin Feeney—as soon as once more returned to his Irish roots in The Quiet Man, sumptuously photographed in Technicolor by three-time Oscar winner Winton C. Hoch (who additionally shot She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and The Searchers). Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an ex-heavyweight from Pittsburgh, returns to his ancestral dwelling within the Irish countryside, the place he will get the battle of his life from strong-willed native woman Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O’Hara) who’s each bit his equal. O’Hara’s lyrical but down-to-earth efficiency is the crown jewel in a profession of no-nonsense ladies who elevate the sport of everybody round them.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Snubbed Eternally: Joseph Cotten
Saturday, February 8, 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 9, 2:00 p.m.
Dir. Orson Welles. 1942, 88 minutes. U.S. DCP. With Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter. Welles’s beautiful, richly cynical adaptation of Sales space Tarkington’s novel a few turn-of-the-century household unwilling to alter with the instances was famously snatched from Welles’s fingers by RKO, re-edited and accomplished with a brand new ending. Astonishingly, the movie, made only one 12 months after Citizen Kane, stays, regardless of the tampering, one of many biggest Hollywood films ever made, a ruthless portrait of an intractable, tradition-minded younger man named George Amberson Minafer, whose vice grip on his household results in its downfall. Cotten provides a gloriously transferring and humane efficiency because the motorcar producer seen by George as an undesirable interloper. Almost each shot in Welles’s movie pushes the cinematic medium into new expressive territory.
The Lady from Missouri
Snubbed Eternally: Jean Harlow
Friday, February 14, 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 15, 2:00 p.m.
Dir. Jack Conway. 1934, 75 minutes. U.S. 35mm. With Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Lionel Barrymore, Patsy Kelly. Sultry famous person Jean Harlow owned the display screen within the “pre-code” good ol’ unhealthy days, and she or he’s excellent on this comedian drama by which the bombshell performs the quintessential position of a waitress and dance woman who escapes together with her loose-lipped pal (Kelly) to New York from dead-end Kansas Metropolis to begin over. Within the hopes of touchdown a millionaire, with out sacrificing her advantage, she finds herself falling into one startling prevalence after one other. The Lady from Missouri is a grand showcase for Harlow’s knowledgeable mixture of seductive comedy and poignant humanity.
Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts
Snubbed Eternally: Jim Carrey
Friday, February 14, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 15, 3:45 p.m.
Dir. Michel Gondry. 2004, 108 minutes. U.S. DCP. With Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wooden, Tom Wilkinson. Regardless of giving his tenderest and most nuanced efficiency, Carrey was once more ignored by the Academy for his work because the lovelorn Joel, who undergoes an experimental process to erase recollections of his former flame Clementine (Winslet, who did obtain a nomination). Directing an Oscar-winning script by Charlie Kaufman, Gondry proves his fluid virtuosity and masterful management of picture and sound after having made his mark with playful and creative music movies for Björk, Daft Punk, the Rolling Stones, and extra. Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts is a deeply transferring meditation on romantic love and the fragility of the human consciousness.
An Officer and a Gentleman
Snubbed Eternally: Richard Gere
Friday, February 14, 7:45 p.m.
Sunday, February 16, 12:30 p.m.
Dir. Taylor Hackford. 1982, 124 minutes. U.S. 35mm. With Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett, Jr., David Keith, Lisa Blount, Robert Loggia, Lisa Eilbacher. Hackford’s rousing romantic melodrama gave Gere one in all his most complicated and acclaimed starring roles, as Zack Mayo, who, down on his luck after his mom’s suicide, makes an attempt to show his life round by getting into Aviation Officer Candidate Faculty to change into a Navy Jet Pilot and show his mettle to himself and his many doubters. Following Zack’s arduous journey by each a grueling fundamental coaching overseen by robust Gunnery Sergeant Foley (Gossett) and a trial-by-fire relationship with native manufacturing unit employee Paula (Winger), Hackford’s gripping movie strikes from private tragedy to crowd-pleasing finale. Gossett gained an Oscar, and Winger was nominated, however ascendant star Gere was unnoticed, though he supplies the movie’s complicated, slow-burning emotional heart.
Maurice
Snubbed Eternally: Hugh Grant
Saturday, February 15, 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 16, 5:30 p.m.
Dir. James Ivory. 1987, 140 minutes. U.Okay. DCP. With James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw. As a follow-up to their worldwide breakout smash A Room with a View, director James Ivory and producer Ismail Service provider took an infinite danger with this daring, superbly mounted adaptation of E. M. Forster’s posthumous novel a few homosexual man’s coming of age in Edwardian England. Wilby performs Maurice Corridor, who falls for dashing faculty chum Clive Durham, performed by Hugh Grant in a efficiency of heartbreaking complexity, humor, and attraction. Clive gained’t commit toMaurice, regardless of his profound romantic emotions for him, petrified of the social shame, paving the best way for Maurice to fulfill Rupert Graves’s salt-of-the-earth groundskeeper Scudder. It’s impeccably crafted, but there’s nothing easy or simple about Maurice, a breakthrough homosexual film that was forward of its time and put Grant on the map a full seven years earlier than 4 Weddings and a Funeral.
Carmen Jones
Snubbed Eternally: Harry Belafonte
Friday, February 21, 5:15 p.m.
Sunday, February 23, 2:00 p.m.
Dir. Otto Preminger. 1954, 105 minutes. U.S. DCP. With Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Brock Peters. Following up on his profitable 1953 display screen debut Shiny Highway, Harry Belafonte co-starred once more with Dorothy Dandridge on this early CinemaScope musical, which adapts the love story of Bizet’s Carmen to World Struggle II. Belafonte performs the younger soldier Joe, and Dandridge is the alluring parachute-factory employee Carmen Jones. Dandridge rightfully and traditionally obtained a Greatest Actress nomination for her blazing, charismatic lead efficiency, but Belafonte, certifying his newfound stardom, was as fiery, sensual, and magnetic as Joe, whose obsession results in his downfall and to the movie’s explosive climax.
Blue Collar
Snubbed Eternally: Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto
Friday, February 21, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 23, 6:00 p.m.
Dir. Paul Schrader. 1978, 114 minutes. U.S. DCP. With Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, Harvey Keitel, Ed Begley, Jr. Paul Schrader’s directorial debut gave Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto two of their biggest roles, as Detroit auto employees who take issues into their very own fingers after being mistreated by each administration and their Union bosses. After deciding to commit an ill-planned theft at union headquarters, they arrive upon papers linking their organizers to a criminal offense syndicate. Paranoia and recrimination abound from the fallout in Schrader’s incisive, gritty characteristic. In his first severe position, Pryor harnesses the fashion of his standup routines for dramatic impact, whereas Kotto instructions the display screen together with his easy charisma, as he would all through his distinguished profession.
Scarlet Avenue
Snubbed Eternally: Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett
Friday, February 28, 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 1, 2:15 p.m.
Dir. Fritz Lang. 1945, 102 minutes. U.S. 35mm archival print from the Library of Congress. With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosiland Ivan. Even amidst the darkness of the burgeoning, as-yet-unnamed movie noir motion in American cinema, Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Avenue is a jolt of pure fatalism. Robinson provides a career-best lead efficiency as a browbeaten, retired Greenwich Village cashier and novice painter who falls right into a lure set by a shady native woman who dangles the hope of a romantic affair in entrance of him, all of the whereas swindling him out of money. Giving performances unsparing of their pitifulness and malignancy, respectively, Robinson and Bennett information viewers by the jaw-dropping, labyrinthine plot all the best way to a haunting ending that contributed to the movie being banned in a lot of cities throughout america.
For Your Consideration
Snubbed Eternally: Catherine O’Hara
Friday, February 28, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 2, 4:45 p.m.
Dir. Christopher Visitor. 2006, 86 minutes. U.S. 35mm. With Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey, Michael McKean, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Eugene Levy, Larry Miller. The funniest film ever made in regards to the expertise of being snubbed for an Oscar nomination, For Your Consideration discovered Christopher Visitor and firm transferring away from their patented mockumentary format for this hilarious and cruel satire. Focusing equally on the hellish Oscar-prognostication media panorama as a lot as on the Tinseltown fools who purchase into it with self-destructive relish, Visitor’s movie provides O’Hara one in all her biggest display screen roles as Marilyn Hack, who discovers, a lot to her detriment, that she has been tapped for a potential Oscar nomination for the ridiculous ethnic melodrama (“Dwelling for Purim,” in a little bit of basic Borscht Belt humor) she’s at present taking pictures. Everyone seems to be skewered, from journalists and critics to brokers and producers to, after all, useless film stars, on this pleasant, finally poignant parody.
Cutter’s Approach
Snubbed Eternally: John Heard
Friday, February 28, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 1, 4:30 p.m.
Dir. Ivan Passer. 1981, 109 minutes. U.S. 35mm. With Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn. Ivan Passer’s gripping neo-noir gave Heard the meatiest position of his profession, a efficiency of outstanding, implosive rage. He performs Cutter, a broken-down, one-eyed Vietnam veteran decided to precise revenge on the loss of life of a younger girl whose physique is found by his pal Bone (Bridges). Though nobody may be positive who the assassin is, Cutter’s conspiracy theories make them imagine an area tycoon is accountable. Initially buried by its studio, this trickily ambiguous thriller looks like an elegy for the seventies and was later recouped as probably the greatest movies of its period.
Saint Jack
Snubbed Eternally: Ben Gazzara
Saturday, March 1, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 2, 2:15 p.m.
Dir Peter Bogdanovich. 1979. 112 minutes. U.S. DCP. With Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lazenby. Bogdanovich closed out his most celebrated decade with an underappreciated gem. Tailored from a novel by Paul Theroux, Saint Jack stars Seventies king Ben Gazzara in one in all his most charming and sophisticated star turns as American expat Jack Flowers, an amiable pimp in Singapore who is aware of everybody by title, by no means turns down a drink, and wears the blues with a smile. Produced by Roger Corman, shot by legendary DP Robby Müller, and that includes ecstatically self-effacing performances by Elliott, Lazenby, and Bogdanovich as a sleazy self-parody of himself, Saint Jack is what the children name “a vibe,” with gestures and moments and visions ambulating previous—and someplace alongside the best way time passes and every part modifications.
The Physique Snatcher
Snubbed Eternally: Boris Karloff
Saturday, March 1, 12:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 2, 12:30 p.m.
Dir. Robert Smart. 1945, 78 minutes. U.S. 35mm archival print from the Library of Congress. With Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Bela Lugosi, Russell Wade. Primarily based on a narrative by Robert Louis Stevenson, this spare and chilling entry in Val Lewton’s hallowed Forties run of B horror films stars an excellent Boris Karloff as a struggling cab driver in Nineteenth-century Edinburgh who helps procure our bodies from freshly dug graves for an area physician. Quickly sufficient, the our bodies he delivers change into just a little too recent. Lewton and director Robert Smart, after all, present the eerie atmospherics on a price range, but Karloff brings his customary richness of character to this difficult position, slicing by all of the ghoulish homicide and blackmail with humor and literate depth because it builds towards its really macabre finale.
Don’t Look Now
Snubbed Eternally: Donald Sutherland
Friday, March 7, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 8, 5:30 p.m.
Dir. Nicolas Roeg. 1973, 110 minutes. U.Okay. DCP. With Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Renato Scarpa. A red-hooded coat good points an ominous significance in Nicolas Roeg’s masterful thriller tailored from a haunting novella by Daphne du Maurier. Don’t Look Now follows married couple John and Laura Baxter (Sutherland and Christie) as they journey to Venice, the place they attempt to come to phrases with their daughter’s unintended loss of life. On this decaying, labyrinthine metropolis, John and Laura meet a pair of bizarre sisters who declare to have seen their lifeless little one, sending the couple right into a spiral of hope, worry, and, lastly, unspeakable horror. Sutherland’s immensely transferring, wholly naturalistic portrayal of grief, sure up together with his character’s have to emotionally and romantically reconnect together with his spouse, supplies the middle of this supernatural basic, brilliantly directed by Roeg as an limitless cascade of temporal and spatial disorientation that displays its central couple’s expertise.
The Girl from Shanghai
Snubbed Eternally: Rita Hayworth
Saturday, March 8, 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 9, 1:00 p.m.
Dir. Orson Welles. 1947, 88 minutes. U.S. DCP. With Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane. Recent off her star-making flip within the smash hit Gilda, Rita Hayworth was forged in one other quintessential noir of the 40’s, this one directed by none aside from her then-husband Orson Welles. The larger-than-life writer-director performs the dupe, an Irish sailor who falls head over heels in confounded lust for Elsa (Hayworth), the enigmatic spouse of a crooked lawyer (Everett Sloane), just lately arrived in New York from Shanghai. When Michael is roped right into a nefarious plot to enact a pretend homicide, he’s drawn ever nearer to hazard. Hayworth, who commanded the display screen as few stars may, is the haunting heart of this ever-spiraling thriller, which climaxes in a hall-of-mirrors shootout that is likely one of the most visually complicated scenes of the period.
Vertigo
Snubbed Eternally: Kim Novak
Saturday, March 8, 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 9, 5:30 p.m.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1958, 128 minutes. U.S. DCP. With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Voted the best movie of all time within the 2012 Sight & Sound worldwide critics ballot, Hitchcock’s peerless psychological thriller follows a San Francisco non-public detective who comes out of retirement to path an previous schoolmate’s lovely spouse, who seems to be haunted by a determine from her ancestral previous. Each an ingeniously plotted thriller and a profoundly disturbing story of romantic obsession, Vertigo is an emotional expertise like no different—an astonishment on the extent of picture, sound, and storytelling. Stewart’s rightfully acclaimed efficiency as a person who falls into spirals of psychosis is matched at each flip by Novak’s ethereal work as two totally different, but equally tragic ladies: the inscrutable Madeleine and the earthy Judy.