The People With the Most Oscar Nominations Without a Win

No wins yet, but five acting nominations before age 40 (Junebug, Doubt, The Fighter, The Master, American Hustle) is a major achievement — and she didn’t even get a nod this year for her acclaimed performance in Arrival. (Photo: WireImage)

The graceful Brit (who passed away in 2007) was a frequent Best Actress contender between 1950 and 1961 (Edward, My Son, From Here to Eternity, The King and I, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Separate Tables, The Sundowners). She won an honorary Oscar in 1994. (Photo: WireImage)

A half-dozen chances (The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, Albert Nobbs) without a win leave her tied with Kerr for the most Oscar disappointments among actresses. (Photo: WireImage)

Empty-handed from 1952 (a Best Supporting Actor nod for My Cousin Rachel) to 1977 (a Best Actor nom for Equus) with The Robe, Becket, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Anne of the Thousand Days in between. (Photo: Getty Images)

The prolific songwriter lost again for last year’s Best Original Song (” ‘Til It Happens to You” (from The Hunting Ground), which extends a futility streak going back to 1987, for ”Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now.” Yes, Mannequin was Oscar-nominated. (Photo: WireImage)

She didn’t add one more as the driving Force behind 2015’s Star Wars’ return, but she was producer of would-be Best Pictures E.T., The Color Purple, The Sixth Sense, Seabiscuit, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, War Horse, and Lincoln. (Photo: Getty Images)

Art director on 300+ films between 1934 and 1953 (feeling lazy yet?), he earned noms for Magnificent Brute, You’re a Sweetheart, Mad About Music, First Love, The Boys From Syracuse, The Flame of New Orleans, Arabian Nights, and The Spoilers (pictured). (Photo: Everett)

The prolific composer whose recent credits include the Hunger Games saga has scored non-winning noms for The Prince of Tides, The Fugitive, Junior, One Fine Day, My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Village, Michael Clayton, and Defiance. (Photo: FilmMagic)

The lyricist-songwriter earned his first Best Original Song nomination for “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” from Disney’s 1950 classic Cinderella. He’d add seven more bids from 1960 to 1967, including for the title tracks to It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Cat Ballou (pictured). (Photo: Everett)

Dolan is the third composer to go 0-for-8, getting shut out in his run between 1942 and 1948, despite notable scores from the Bing Crosby song-and-dance pictures Birth of the Blues, Holiday Inn, Star Spangled Rhythm, and Road to Rio. (Photo: Getty Images)

Most years, O’Toole would have won Best Actor for Lawrence of Arabia, but not against stiff competition from 1963’s eventual victor, Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird). Despite later nominations for films like Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he never cashed in. (Photo: WireImage)

The director-producer who tackled big topics in films like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner never won an Academy Award, sure. But since 2002, the Stanley Kramer Award, an honorary Producers Guild prize, annually salutes a film that illuminates “provocative social issues.” (Photo: WireImage)

The set decorator’s eclectic résumé included Hitchcock’s Rope and the Rat Pack ensemble Ocean’s Eleven — neither of which he was nominated for. He did score noms, though, for The Pride of the Yankees, Guys and Dolls, Thoroughly Modern Millie (pictured), and Star! (Photo: Everett)

Remarkably, one of history’s most influential filmmakers never landed an Oscar — and only three of his noms were for directing (Cries & Whispers, Face to Face, Fanny and Alexander). His most acclaimed film, The Seventh Seal, was snubbed entirely. (Photo: Getty Images)

He won an Emmy (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau) and a Golden Globe (Ben), but Oscar eluded the composer despite double-digit chances, including the 1968 adaptation of Funny Girl (pictured) and 1971 family favorite Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. (Photo: Everett)

Like that other Walt (Disney), who owns the record for most Oscars won, Lantz was an animation mogul whose short films were regularly nominated. Given an honorary Academy Award in 1979, his biggest claim to fame is creating Woody Woodpecker. (Photo: WireImage)

The first woman nominated in the Best Sound category (for 1996 Best Picture winner Braveheart) has been in the running for such films as L.A. Confidential, Moulin Rouge!, The Last Samurai, War of the Worlds (2005), and Star Trek (2009) without a win. (Photo: WireImage)

Pick a major movie franchise and this sound engineer has probably worked on it: Star Wars, The Godfather, Rocky, Rambo, Harry Potter, X-Men, Fast and Furious, Top Gun (pictured), and more. His most recent nomination came in 2006 for Memoirs of a Geisha. (Photo: Columbia)

As with Ingmar Bergman, it’s staggering this giant never won Best Director. His first chance, after four nominations for writing, came in 1962 (La Dolce Vita). He did direct four Best Foreign Films and got an honorary Oscar in 1993. (Photo: Getty)

The composer is up for his 14th try this year for the score for Passengers.Previous unsuccessful bids include his nominated scores for The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, WALL-E, and Skyfall. (Photo: WireImage)

The revered cinematographer lost again last year for his work in the drug-war drama Sicario. Films that previously put him in the running include The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Skyfall, and‘Unbroken.(Photo: WireImage)

Eight months before his death in 1988, the esteemed director of photography earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers. His Oscar-nominated credits include Meet Me in St. Louis (pictured) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. (Photo: Everett)

The sound engineer won five Oscars, just not in competitive categories (he collected Technical Achievement Awards and other special honors). His losses included noms for Double Indemnity, The War of the Worlds (1953), Rear Window(pictured), and The Ten Commandments. (Photo: Everett)

The first composer to earn an honorary Academy Award, in 1986, his impressive list of nominated, if non-winning, scores include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rainmaker (1956), Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Photo: Everett)

The art director who frequently worked with Cecil B. DeMille earned an Oscar nomination for his first film, 1932’s A Farewell to Arms, and contended for decades with films including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (pictured), until his final miss in 1964. (Photo: Everett)

The runner-up among all-time Oscar runners-up is this frequent soundman for Michael Bay, nominated each year from 2010 to 2013, and before that for The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the first two Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies. He’s nominated this year for 13 Hours. (Photo: Getty Images)

The king of Oscar denials is the soundman who shares many credits with Greg P. Russell, as well as nominations for Terms of Endearment, Dune, Silverado, and Top Gun. He’s got another chance to break the streak with a nomination this year for Hacksaw Ridge. (Photo: WireImage)