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Jean Dujardin
It was a stacked category success year. In 2011, George Clooney, Gary Oldman, and Brad Pitt lost to Jean Dujardin in The Artist. He was charming and entertaining. Yet, most people saw him as the category’s weakest. The Academy had a soft spot for that year’s old-fashioned sultry story. I suppose they can’t get it right every year, or any year.
Mira Sorvino
Just a few short years into her career, in Woody Allen’s 1995 movie Mighty Aphrodite, Mira Sorvino scooped an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She’s done nothing worthwhile since. Since then, she’s acted in 20 critical duds of films, and her performance in the movie was good, but Oscar-worthy? Her career history says what you need to know. Hindsight is twenty-twenty.