Not Even Nominated: 40 Overlooked Costars of Oscar-Winning Performances

by John DiLeo

320 pages, Hardcover

Published October 10, 2024

About the author

John DiLeo is the author of eight books about classic movies: AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW CLASSIC MOVIES (1999, reissued in 2013), 100 GREAT FILM PERFORMANCES YOU SHOULD REMEMBER BUT PROBABLY DON'T (2002), SCREEN SAVERS: 40 REMARKABLE MOVIES AWAITING REDISCOVERY (2007), TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY: HIS ESSENTIAL SCREEN ACTORS (2010), SCREEN SAVERS II: MY GRAB BAG OF CLASSIC MOVIES (2012), TEN MOVIES AT A TIME: A 350-FILM JOURNEY THROUGH HOLLYWOOD AND AMERICA 1930-1970 (2017), THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS: 100 OUTSTANDING FILM PERFORMANCES WITH SCREEN TIME OF TEN MINUTES OR LESS (2022), and NOT EVEN NOMINATED: 40 OVERLOOKED COSTARS OF OSCAR-WINNING PERFORMANCES (2024).

Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, John currently resides in Milford, PA. He went to Ithaca College and received a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts. After thirteen years of on-and-off stage acting, and one film credit (THE JERKY BOYS), he switched to writing about film.

John has been a contributing book reviewer for the Washington Post‘s Book World and frequently hosts classic-film series, appears on radio programs, conducts film-history seminars, and has been an annual participant in the Black Bear Film Festival in the Poconos where he conducted onstage interviews with Farley Granger (2005), Arlene Dahl (2006), Marge Champion (2010), Keir Dullea (2014), Jane Powell (2015), Rex Reed (2016), Tab Hunter (2017), Lorna Luft (2018), and Jane Alexander (2018). His website is johndileo.com and he's on Instagram at john.dileo.12.

Born in 1961 in Brooklyn, John was raised on Long Island and graduated from Ithaca College in 1982 with a B.F.A.

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

John DiLeo understands the futility of trying to find justice at the Oscars. Those prized golden statuettes handed out at each year’s Academy Awards ceremony are frequently given based on popularity rather than merit. At other times, actors are rewarded for a better performance from a previous year, as if a weird sense of balance must be maintained in the Oscar universe. Yet despite all the inconsistencies and injustices of Oscar night, we can’t stop watching, nor can we keep ourselves from reflecting on who should have won. DiLeo’s new book, Not Even Nominated: 40 Overlooked Costars of Oscar-Winning Performances, examines such cases of thievery (or at least neglect), yet adds a twist: Looking at a film’s winning performers in the four major acting categories, DiLeo focuses on actors from the same movie who delivered exceptional performances (sometimes besting the actual winner) yet didn’t even receive a nomination.

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