Notable Oscar Snubs: Supporting Actress Quiz

Answer: Julie Powell, "Julie and Julia" (2009)

Amy Adams was not nominated for "Julie and Julia" (2009), although Meryl Steep was for her role as Julia Child. A year earlier, both Adams and Streep were nominated for their roles as nuns in "Doubt" (2008).

Adams was nominated for playing Peggy Dodd, the wife of a charismatic cult leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in "The Master" (2012). Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix were both nominated for the film, which made many critics' top ten lists for the year.

Amy Adams received her first nomination for "Junebug" (2005), in which she plays a pregnant girl who loses her baby in North Carolina. She was also nominated for playing Dick Cheney's wife in "Vice" (2018) and as Charlene Fleming, the girlfriend of Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) in the 2010 boxing film "The Fighter." Adams was also nominated for Best Actress for "American Hustle" (2013).

Adams had her film debut as airhead cheerleader Leslie Miller in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (1999).

Answer: Mrs Colbert, "In The Heat of the Night" (1967)

Grant was not nominated for playing Mrs Colbert, the widow of the murder victim whose death initiates the plot of "In the Heat of the Night" (1967). The film did win Best Picture and Rod Steiger won Best Actor.

Grant won an Academy Award for playing Felicia, one of the lovers of hair stylist George Roundy (Warren Beatty), in "Shampoo" (1975).

Grant was nominated for playing Beau Bridges' mother in "The Landlord" (1970) and for playing Jewish refugee Lili Rosen in "Voyage of the Damned" (1976) which tells the true story of the MS St Louis, which carried Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.

Lee Grant kicked off her career with a bang, winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in "Detective Story". She was also nominated for an Oscar, but lost to Kim Hunter for "Streetcar Named Desire" (1951). "Detective Story" is a police procedural set in New York starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker.

Grant effectively retired from acting in 2005. She spent almost a decade as a ballet dancer before moving into acting.

Answer: Janine Roth, "Lions for Lambs" (2007)

In "Lions for Lambs," a political film directed by Robert Redford, Streep played a journalist interviewing a United States Senator (Tom Cruise). Streep received a couple of token nominations, but the film didn't win any awards. And it was a financial flop at the box office, despite having three of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Streep won her first Academy Award playing a woman in the middle of a divorce and custody battle. Dustin Hoffman won Best Actor and "Kramer vs Kramer" won Best Picture for 1979.

Streep was nominated for her turn as the witch in the Stephen Sondheim musical "Into the Woods" (2014) and as real life author Susan Orlean in "Adaptation" (2002). Nicholas Cage was nominated for playing twin brothers and Chris Cooper won a Supporting Actor award for playing Orlean's lover John Laroche. Streep received her first Academy Award nomination as Linda in "The Deer Hunter", the Best Picture of 1978.

Meryl Streep has been nominated for an award over 350 times during the course of her career, and won around half the time, including 3 Oscars as of 2019.

Answer: Daisy, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008)

Cate Blanchett has come a long way since appearing as a blonde cheerleader in the Egyptian comedy "Kaboria" (1990). Including Academy Awards for her roles in "The Aviator" (Supporting, 2004) and "Blue Jasmine" (Actress, 2013). She has also been nominated twice for playing Queen Elizabeth I.

She was not nominated for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) in which Brad Pitt plays a man who ages backwards. Blanchett played his love interest, a ballet dancer.

Blanchett became the first person to win an Academy Award for playing a real life Academy Award winner, as Katherine Hepburn in the Howard Hughes bio-pic "The Aviator" (2004). Two years later she was recognized for her work as a teacher caught in a complex relationship in "Notes on a Scandal" (2006). Judi Dench was also nominated, for Best Actress. In 2007, Blanchett played Jude, one of the manifestations of the personality of folk singer Bob Dylan in "I'm Not Here".

Answer: Teddy Barnes, "Jagged Edge" (1985)

Glenn Close started her career off with a bang, getting Oscar nominations for her first two film roles. She debuted as Jenny Fields, the mother of T.S. Garp, in "The World According to Garp" (1982) and she was the only member of the very talented cast of "The Big Chill" (1983) to be nominated. The film focuses on a group of college friends who reunite following the suicide of a friend, and starred William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Kline.

Close was also nominated as Iris, the woman who inspired Robert Redford, in the classic 1984 baseball film "The Natural".

Close was not nominated as Teddy Barnes, a defense attorney in a murder case, who falls in love with her client (Jeff Bridges) in "Jagged Edge" (1985).

Answer: Linda Litzke, "Burn After Reading" (2008)

McDormand was not nominated for playing Linda, a somewhat dim gym employee, in "Burn After Reading" (2008). The film was directed by the Coen Brothers, and also stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton. McDormand did receive a Golden Globe nomination.

Frances McDormand won her first nomination as the wife of a deputy sheriff in "Mississippi Burning" (1988). The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers in 1964 Mississippi.

Her second nomination was as the mother of a young journalist (Patrick Fugit) who was a reporter for "Rolling Stone" in the Cameron Crowe film "Almost Famous" (2000). Kate Hudson was also nominated as Penny Lane.

In "North Country" (2005), McDormand plays an iron miner dying of ALS. Charlize Theron was also nominated for playing Josey Aimes.

Frances McDormand won her first Oscar as sheriff Marge Gunderson in the 1994 Coen Brothers comedy "Fargo" and her second as a grieving mother in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (2017). McDormand has won the Triple Crown of Acting: An Academy Award ("Fargo"), a Tony Award ("Good People" in 2011) and an Emmy Award ("Oliver Kittridge" in 2014).

Answer: Rowena Jeffers, "Black or White" (2014)

Spencer was not nominated for "Black or White" (2014) in which she plays a grandmother in a custody fight with Kevin Costner over her grandchild.

Spencer won an Oscar for playing Minny Jackson, a maid in Mississippi, in the 2011 film "The Help". In a notable scene, Minny provides a former employer with a very special pie. Viola Davis and Jessica Chastain were also nominated for the film.

In 2017, Spencer was nominated for playing Dorothy Vaughn, one of the NASA engineers who helped get the Apollo missions off the ground, in "Hidden Figures" (2016).

The next year she was nominated for playing Zelda Fuller, the co-worker of a young woman who falls in love with an extra-terrestrial amphibian in "The Shape of Water" (2017). Sally Hawkins and Richard Jenkins were also nominated, and the film won Best Picture and Best Director (Guillermo Del Toro).

Spencer started in movies with a small role in the John Grisham thriller "A Time a Kill", as the nurse of Sandra Bullock. She actually played a nurse at least nine times during her early career.

Answer: Cynthia Baum, "The Big Short" (2015)

Marisa Tomei was not nominated as Cynthia Baum, the wife of Mark Baum (Steve Carell). The film gives an inside look at the financial manipulations that led to the economic crash of 2007. "The Big Short" has an impresive cast, including Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Melissa Leo.

Marisa Tomei won an Academy Award as Mona Lisa Vito, in one of the greatest cross examination scenes of all time, in "My Cousin Vinny" (1992). A big step up from Health Club Girl in "The Toxic Avenger" (1984).

Her next nomination was as Natalie Strout, a woman in the middle of a very violent love triangle in the 2001 crime drama "In the Bedroom". She was also nominated as Cassidy, an aging stripper who falls in love with a past-his-prime wrestler (Mickey Rourke) in "The Wrestler" (2008). Rourke was also nominated.

Answer: Jeanine Matthews, "Divergent" (2014)

Winslet was not nominated for her decidedly evil turn as Jeanine, the leader of a dystopian society in "Divergent" (2014). She was also in the second film of the series, "Insurgent" (2015).

Winslet received her first nomination for the Jane Austen film "Sense and Sensibility" (1995), for which Emma Thompson won an Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay. Thompson wrote herself to an Oscar nomination as Elinor Dashwood while Winslet played her sister Marianne.

Winslet's next nomination was for playing the young Iris Muroch in the 2001 biopic about British novelist Iris Murdoch. Judi Dench was nominated for playing the older Iris. In 2015, she was nominated for playing Apple Computer executive Joanna Hoffman in "Steve Jobs". Michael Fassenbder was nominated for playing the visionary computer entrepreneur.

Winslet finally won an Academy Award for "The Reader" (2008) in which she played a woman who went to prison rather than admit she was illiterate.

Answer: Emma, "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985)

Woody Allen was nominated for the screenplay for "Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), but none of the cast was nominated. Which is a shame, because Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrow did some terrific work.

The Woody Allen films she did win for were "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Bullets over Broadway" (1994). Wiest was also nominated for "Parenthood" (1989) in which she plays the sister of Steve Martin and the mother of Joaquin Phoenix and Martha Plimpton. She lost out to Brenda Fricker for "My Left Foot" (1989).