We love the Oscars, but they don’t really mean anything, do they? Last year we looked at When Oscar Blew It: Nine Times The Wrong Film Won Best Picture. This year we’re looking at Oscar worthy performances from actors who weren’t even nominated. From truly great comic performances to baddies who went too dark for the Academy, these performances hold up well past the year they were in contention. Today…part two of a four part series.  Read part one, with one through 10, here, read part two with eleven through twenty here.

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(click here to see 1-10)

(click here to see 11-20)

21.  Robert Walker, Strangers on a Train

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22.  Gary Oldman, Sid and Nancy

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23.  John Hawks, The Sessions

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24.  Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger

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25.  Colin Firth, Apartment Zero

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26.  Joseph Cotton, Shadow of a Doubt

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27.  Paul Henreid, Casablanca

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28.  John Goodman, Barton Fink

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29.  Robert Carlyle The Full Monty

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30.  Donald Sutherland, Ordinary People