Iconic Actors Who Never Won an Academy Award

Samuel L. Jackson

Jackson has been in over 125 movies during the span of his career, and aside from being a great actor, he's also a pop culture icon. Everyone knows who he is, but he hasn't made enough of an impression on The Academy. His only nomination was from 1995's Pulp Fiction.

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The More You Know

  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • Toto was paid more than the Munchkins in "The Wizard of Oz".
  • The first public movie screening was held in 1895 in Paris.
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