10 Great Actors Never Nominated For An Oscar
3. Jamie Lee Curtis
The daughter of silver screen legends Tony Curtis and Vivien Leigh, Jamie Lee-Curtis first rose to cinematic prominence as one of the original scream queens, thanks to her work in horror films such as Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Prom Night (1980) and Terror Train (1980 again, a very busy year for Curtis).
She would reprise her Halloween role of Laurie Strode four times with Halloween II, Halloween H20 and the critically acclaimed 2018 Halloween which provided a very different take on the character decades after the original. Diving head on into a PTSD stricken Laurie, Curtis provided an intensely believable, heavy hitting performance in the slasher sequel that retconned everything bar the original out of continuity.
Branching out from the horror genre, Curtis provided excellent deadpan delivery and humour in acclaimed comedies such as Trading Places (1983), A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and True Lies (1994), along with excellent dramatic performances in films such as police thriller Blue Steel (no relation to Derek Zoolander) and romantic drama Forever Young.
In her four plus decades on screen, Curtis has played all sorts of characters in many genres and has earned acclaim from critics, audiences and seemingly every major awarding body with one very notable exception: The Academy.