Oscar Also-Rans Answers 1. Best Actor - 1997   Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting Robert Duvall - The Apostle Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog   Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets   2. Best Actress - 1986   Jane Fonda - The Morning After Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got Married Sigourney Weaver - Aliens   Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God   3. Best Picture - 1994   Four Weddings and a Funeral Pulp Fiction Quiz Show The Shawshank Redemption   Forrest Gump   4. Best Actor - 1972   Michael Caine - Sleuth Peter O'Toole - The Ruling Class Laurence Olivier - Sleuth Paul Winfield - Sounder   Marlon Brando - The Godfather   5. Best Actress - 1991   Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise Laura Dern - Rambling Rose Bette Midler - For the Boys Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise   Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs   6. Best Picture - 1975   Barry Lyndon Dog Day Afternoon Jaws Nashville   One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest   7. Best Supporting Actress - 1973   Linda Blair - The Exorcist Candy Clark - American Graffiti Madeline Kahn - Paper Moon Sylvia Sidney - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams   Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon   8. Best Supporting Actor - 1995   James Cromwell - Babe Ed Harris - Apollo 13 Brad Pitt - 12 Monkeys Tim Roth - Rob Roy   Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects   9. Best Picture - 1967   Bonnie & Clyde Doctor Dolittle The Graduate Guess Who's Coming to Dinner   In the Heat of the Night   10. Best Director - 1977   George Lucas - Star Wars Herbert Ross - The Turning Point Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind Fred Zinnemann - Julia   Woody Allen - Annie Hall   11. Best Picture - 1976   All the President's Men Bound for Glory Network Taxi Driver   Rocky   12. Best Actress - 1987   Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction Holly Hunter - Broadcast News Sally Kirkland - Anna Meryl Streep - Ironweed   Cher - Moonstruck   13. Best Actor - 1992   Robert Downey Jr. - Chaplin Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven Stephen Rea - The Crying Game Denzel Washington - Malcolm X   Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman   14. Best Picture - 1990   Awakenings Ghost The Godfather, Part 3 Goodfellas   Dances with Wolves   15. Best Director - 1979   Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now Bob Fosse - All That Jazz Edouard Molinaro - La Cage aux Folles Peter Yates - Breaking Away   Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer   16. Best Supporting Actress - 1993   Holly Hunter - The Firm Rosie Perez - Fearless Winona Ryder - The Age of Innocence Emma Thompson - In the Name of the Father   Anna Paquin - The Piano   17. Best Supporting Actor - 1978   Bruce Dern - Coming Home Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman John Hurt - Midnight Express Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait   Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter   18. Best Picture - 1973   American Graffiti Cries and Whispers The Exorcist A Touch of Class   The Sting   19. Best Director - 1998   Roberto Benigni - Life is Beautiful John Madden - Shakespeare in Love Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line Peter Weir - The Truman Show   Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan   20. Best Supporting Actor - 1988   Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit, Film 1: Nobody's Fault Martin Landau - Tucker: The Man and His Dream River Phoenix - Running on Empty Dean Stockwell - Married to the Mob   Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda   21. Best Picture - 1962   The Longest Day The Manchurian Candidate The Music Man Mutiny on the Bounty   Lawrence of Arabia   22. Best Actress - 1981   Diane Keaton - Reds Marsha Mason - Only When I Laugh Susan Sarandon - Atlantic City Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman   Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond   23. Best Picture - 1996   Fargo Jerry Maguire Secrets and Lies Shine   The English Patient   24. Best Director - 2000   Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ridley Scott - Gladiator Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich   Steven Soderbergh - Traffic   25. Best Picture - 1989   Born on the Fourth of July Dead Poets Society Field of Dreams My Left Foot   Driving Miss Daisy