Action movies where actors should have been nominated by the Academy just based off of performance alone
- Daniel Craig as James Bond in Skyfall [2012]
Harrison Ford as Dr Richard Kimble in The Fugitive [1993]
Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard [1988]
Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies [1994]
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible: Fallout [2018]
Benicio Del Toro in Sicario [2015]
Charlize Theron as Furiosa in Mad Max Fury Road [2015]
Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine in Logan [2017]
Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame [2019]
Lastly Uma Thurman should have been nominated as The Bride in both Kill Bill movies Part 1 and 2