17 iconic actors who have never been nominated for Academy Awards and what they should've won for

Donald Sutherland was known for his roles in "The Hunger Games," "Ordinary People," "JFK," and "Klute."Jason Merritt/Getty Images

• Donald Sutherland died in June 2024. He was 88 years old.
• Although he appeared in dozens of iconic films, he was never nominated for a competitive Oscar.

Being nominated for an Academy Award is one of the highest honors an actor could receive, and winning one is a whole new level.

But there are plenty of actors who have never received an Oscar nomination, even though their work has spanned decades, is consistently great, or made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.

Donald Sutherland, for example, appeared in numerous Oscar-quality films throughout his career before his death in June 2024. But he only received an honorary Oscar in 2017.

He's not the only A-lister who was never recognized by the Academy.