12 Saturn Award-Winning Performances Of The 2010s That Should've Been Oscar-Nominated

1. Charlize Theron - Mad Max: Fury Road

Patrick Stewart Logan
Warner Bros.

If there's one - just one - genre performance from the last decade that should have got all the awards, then it has to be the primal, transformative turn that forms half the beating heart of George Miller's long-awaited return to the wastelands of Mad Max. In Imperator Furiosa, Charlize Theron inhabits one of the all-time great female action characters - and delivers on just about every level conceivable.

It's a viscerally raw interpretation that never feels like it's carried on the shoulders of this breakneck, sandblasted action thriller - in fact, it always feels a step ahead of it, setting its own blistering pace and emotional tenor with a powerful, potent depth and desperation.

Fury Road helped break down the genre barrier at the Academy Awards with its ten nominations, but Theron came up empty-handed; a travesty of justice for what is a work of seminal brilliance.

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