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An Oscar is the award every person in Hollywood dreams of. Winning one can make your career explode and get many new opportunities, and it also tells the rest of the world that you’re the very best at your job in that movie year.
Unfortunately, many great artists have been very unfortunate at the Oscars. Some took many nominations to earn the award, like cinematographer Roger Deakins, who won on his 14th try, or Martin Scorsese, who had to wait until his ninth nomination to take his home (even though it may have been for the wrong film). Even worse, some talented and famous artists like Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick died without getting to take the gold statue home. Many more are still waiting to hear their names called and win the movie’s highest honor, especially the people with the most Oscar nominations who’ve never won it.
Number of Nominations: 15, for Best Music, Original Score (14) and Best Music, Original Song (1)
Nominated For: A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Viva Zapata!, The Rose Tattoo, Unchained, The Rainmaker, Spartacus, Cleopatra, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Shoes of the Fisherman, Shanks, Bite the Bullet, Dragonslayer, and Under the Volcano
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Greg P. Russell
Number of Nominations: 17, for Best Sound and Sound Mixing
Nominated For: Black Rain, The Rock, Con Air, The Mask of Zorro, Armageddon, The Patriot, Pearl Harbor, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Memoirs of a Geisha, Apocalypto, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Salt, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Skyfall, and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Number of Nominations: 15, for Best Music, Original Song
Nominated For: Mannequin, Up Close & Personal, Con Air, Armageddon, Music of the Heart, Pearl Harbor, Beyond the Lights, The Hunting Ground, Marshall, RBG, Breakthrough, La Vita Davanti a Sé, Four Good Days, Tell It Like a Woman, and Flamin' Hot
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George J. Folsey
Number of Nominations: 13, for Best Cinematography
Nominated For: Reunion in Vienna, Operator 13, The Gorgeous Hussy, Thousands Cheer, Meet Me in St. Louis, The White Cliffs of Dover, The Green Years, Green Dolphin Street, Million Dollar Mermaid, All the Brothers Were Valiant, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Executive Suite, and The Balcony
Number of Nominations: 6, for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated For: All About Eve, The Mating Season, With a Song in My Heart, Pickup on South Street, Pillow Talk, and Birdman of Alcatraz
Number of Nominations: 12, for Best Original Screenplay (7), Best Director (4), Best Adapted Screenplay (1)
Nominated For: Roma Città Aperta, Paisà, La strada, I Vitelloni, La Dolce Vita, 8½, Fellini - Satyricon, Amarcord, and Il Casanova di Federico Fellini
