40 Famous Actors Who Actually Won Oscars, Despite Barely Being In The Movie

Here's every actor nominated in that category, including who won*:

*Olympia Dukakis — Moonstruck

Norma Aleandro — Gaby: A True Story

Anne Archer — Fatal Attraction

Anne Ramsey — Throw Momma from the Train

Ann Sothern — The Whales of August

*Joel Grey — Cabaret

Eddie Albert — The Heartbreak Kid

James Caan — The Godfather

Robert Duvall — The Godfather

Al Pacino — The Godfather

*John Gielgud — Arthur

James Coco — Only When I Laugh

Ian Holm — Chariots of Fire

Jack Nicholson — Reds

Howard E. Rollins Jr. — Ragtime

*Laura Dern — Marriage Story

Kathy Bates — Richard Jewell

Scarlett Johansson — Jojo Rabbit

Florence Pugh — Little Women

Margot Robbie — Bombshell

Bruce Dern was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for 1978's Coming Home, as well as Best Actor for 2013's Nebraska.

Diane Ladd was nominated for three Supporting Actress Oscars for 1974's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, 1990's Wild at Heart, and 1991's Rambling Rose.

*Lee Grant — Shampoo

Ronee Blakley — Nashville

Sylvia Miles — Farewell, My Lovely

Lily Tomlin — Nashville

Brenda Vaccaro — Once Is Not Enough

*Tilda Swinton — Michael Clayton

Cate Blanchett — I'm Not There

Ruby Dee — American Gangster

Saoirse Ronan — Atonement

Amy Ryan — Gone Baby Gone

*Donna Reed — From Here to Eternity

Grace Kelly — Mogambo

Geraldine Page — Hondo

Marjorie Rambeau — Torch Song

Thelma Ritter — Pickup on South Street

*Anjelica Huston — Prizzi's Honor

Margaret Avery — The Color Purple

Amy Madigan — Twice in a Lifetime

Meg Tilly — Agnes of God

Oprah Winfrey — The Color Purple

*Vanessa Redgrave — Julia

Leslie Browne — The Turning Point

Quinn Cummings — The Goodbye Girl

Melinda Dillon — Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Tuesday Weld — Looking for Mr. Goodbar

*James Coburn — Affliction

Robert Duvall — A Civil Action

Ed Harris — The Truman Show

Geoffrey Rush — Shakespeare in Love

Billy Bob Thornton — A Simple Plan

*Jamie Lee Curtis — Everything Everywhere All at Once

Angela Bassett — Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Hong Chau — The Whale

Kerry Condon — The Banshees of Inisherin

Stephanie Hsu — Everything Everywhere All at Once

*Claire Trevor — Key Largo

Barbara Bel Geddes — I Remember Mama

Ellen Corby Agnes — I Remember Mama

Agnes Moorehead — Johnny Belinda

Jean Simmons — Hamlet

*Hugh Griffith — Ben-Hur

Arthur O'Connell — Anatomy of a Murder

George C. Scott — Anatomy of a Murder

Robert Vaughn — The Young Philadelphians

Ed Wynn — The Diary of Anne Frank

*Cloris Leachman — The Last Picture Show

Ann-Margret — Carnal Knowledge

Ellen Burstyn — The Last Picture Show

Barbara Harris — Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

Margaret Leighton — The Go-Between

*John Houseman – The Paper Chase

Vincent Gardenia – Bang the Drum Slowly

Jack Gilford – Save the Tiger

Jason Miller – The Exorcist

Randy Quaid – The Last Detail

*Miyoshi Umeki — Sayonara

Carolyn Jones — The Bachelor Party

Elsa Lanchester — Witness for the Prosecution

Hope Lange — Peyton Place

Diane Varsi — Peyton Place

*Anthony Hopkins — The Silence of the Lambs

Warren Beatty — Bugsy

Robert De Niro — Cape Fear

Nick Nolte — The Prince of Tides

Robin Williams — The Fisher King

*Ruth Gordon — Rosemary's Baby

Lynn Carlin — Faces

Sondra Locke —The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Kay Medford — Funny Girl

Estelle Parsons — Rachel, Rachel

*David Niven — Separate Tables

Tony Curtis — The Defiant Ones

Paul Newman — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Sidney Poitier — The Defiant Ones

Spencer Tracy — The Old Man and the Sea

*Allison Janney — I, Tonya

Mary J. Blige — Mudbound

Lesley Manville — Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf — Lady Bird

Octavia Spencer — The Shape of Water

*Jo Van Fleet — East of Eden

Betsy Blair — Marty

Peggy Lee — Pete Kelly's Blues

Marisa Pavan — The Rose Tattoo

Natalie Wood — Rebel Without a Cause

*Shelley Winters — A Patch of Blue

Ruth Gordon — Inside Daisy Clover

Joyce Redman — Othello

Maggie Smith — Othello

Peggy Wood — The Sound of Music

*Joseph Schildkraut — The Life of Emile Zola

Ralph Bellamy — The Awful Truth

Thomas Mitchell — The Hurricane

H. B. Warner — Lost Horizon

Roland Young — TopperTopper

*Anne Hathaway — Les Misérables

Amy Adams — The Master

Sally Field — Lincoln

Helen Hunt — The Sessions

Jacki Weaver — Silver Linings Playbook

*Celeste Holm — Gentleman's Agreement

Ethel Barrymore — The Paradine Case

Gloria Grahame — Crossfire

Marjorie Main — The Egg and I

Anne Revere – Gentleman's Agreement

*Kim Basinger — L.A. Confidential

Joan Cusack — In & Out

Minnie Driver — Good Will Hunting

Julianne Moore — Boogie Nights

Gloria Stuart — Titanic

*Penélope Cruz — Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Amy Adams — Doubt

Viola Davis — Doubt

Taraji P. Henson — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Marisa Tomei — The Wrestler

*Alan Arkin — Little Miss Sunshine

Jackie Earle Haley — Little Children

Djimon Hounsou — Blood Diamond

Eddie Murphy — Dreamgirls

Mark Wahlberg — The Departed

*Ingrid Bergman — Murder on the Orient Express

Valentina Cortese — Day for Night

Madeline Kahn — Blazing Saddles

Diane Ladd — Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Talia Shire — The Godfather Part II

*Shirley Jones — Elmer Gantry

Glynis Johns — The Sundowners

Shirley Knight — The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Janet Leigh — Psycho

Mary Ure — Sons and Lovers

*Gale Sondergaard — Anthony Adverse

Beulah Bondi — The Gorgeous Hussy

Alice Brady — My Man Godfrey

Bonita Granville — These Three

Maria Ouspenskaya — Dodsworth

*Margaret Rutherford — The V.I.P.s

Diane Cilento — Tom Jones

Edith Evans — Tom Jones

Joyce Redman — Tom Jones

Lilia Skala — Lilies of the Field

*Jason Robards — All the President's Men

Ned Beatty — Network

Burgess Meredith — Rocky

Laurence Olivier — Marathon Man

Burt Young — Rocky

*Jack Palance — City Slickers

Tommy Lee Jones — JFK

Harvey Keitel — Bugsy

Ben Kingsley — Bugsy

Michael Lerner — Barton Fink

*Maureen Stapleton — Reds

Melinda Dillon — Absence of Malice

Jane Fonda — On Golden Pond

Joan Hackett — Only When I Laugh

Elizabeth McGovern — Ragtime

*Jason Robards — Julia

Mikhail Baryshnikov — The Turning Point

Peter Firth — Equus

Alec Guinness — Star Wars

Maximilian Schell — Julia

*Martin Balsam — A Thousand Clowns

Ian Bannen — The Flight of the Phoenix

Tom Courtenay — Doctor Zhivago

Michael Dunn — Ship of Fools

Frank Finlay — Othello

*Ben Johnson — The Last Picture Show

Jeff Bridges — The Last Picture Show

Leonard Frey — Fiddler on the Roof

Richard Jaeckel — Sometimes a Great Notion

Roy Scheider — The French Connection

*Gloria Grahame — The Bad and the Beautiful

Jean Hagen — Singin' in the Rain

Colette Marchand — Moulin Rouge

Terry Moore — Come Back, Little Sheba

Thelma Ritter — With a Song in My Heart

*Judi Dench – Shakespeare in Love

Kathy Bates — Primary Colors

Brenda Blethyn — Little Voice

Rachel Griffiths — Hilary and Jackie

Lynn Redgrave — Gods and Monsters

*Beatrice Straight — Network

Jane Alexander — All the President's Men

Jodie Foster — Taxi Driver

Lee Grant — Voyage of the Damned

Piper Laurie — Carrie