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* Cecil B. DeMille's 1952 film ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' is considered by many to be one of the worst films to ever win Best Picture. Some suspect the only reason it got the award was because DeMille's films had never won one yet, despite the man's career dating all the way back to the silent era. Ironically, they could have just waited a few years and given it to his last film and one of his best -- ''[[The Ten Commandments]]''. Instead, it lost Best Picture and [[Award Snub|DeMille wasn't even nominated as Best Director]].
* [[John Wayne]]'s Best Actor win in 1969 for ''[[True Grit]]'' is seen as a consolation for him not winning the award for his work in films like [[Red River]], ''[[The Quiet Man]]'', ''[[The Searchers]]'', and ''[[Sands Of Iwo Jima]]''.
* [[Henry Fonda]] finally won a Best Actor Oscar for ''[[On Golden Pond]]''—the last movie he ever made.
* By the time 2008 rolled around, [[Kate Winslet]] had been nominated six times and had yet to win an Oscar. What makes people believe that this occurred is that she won Best Actress for ''[[The Reader]],'' even though she won the Golden Globe for Best ''Supporting'' Actress for the same role. (Interestingly, she also won Best Lead Actress at the Golden Globes that year, but for ''Revolutionary Road''.)
* [[Al Pacino]] got a Best Actor Oscar in 1992 for ''[[Scent of a Woman]]'', despite the role not being nearly as critically acclaimed as ''[[The Godfather]]'', ''The Godfather Part II'' or ''[[Dog Day Afternoon]]''.
* An example of the cycle continuing: In 2001, [[Nicole Kidman]] was nominated for ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'', but lost to [[Halle Berry]]. The next year, she won for ''The Hours'', a film that has been all but forgotten. She beat [[Renee Zellwegger]] in ''[[Chicago]]'', who ended up winning Best Supporting Actress in 2003 for ''[[Cold Mountain]]''. A lot of the reviews of ''Cold Mountain'' actually contained comments along the lines of "just give Renee the Oscar already" (NOTE: She had been nominated for Best Actress in 2001 as well, for ''Bridget Jones's Diary.''
* One of the more infamous of these was [[Paul Newman]] winning for his work in a sequel to ''[[The Hustler (film)|The Hustler]]'', ''[[The Color of Money]]'', because he'd been snubbed decades earlier for his work in the original. Moreover, he'd just received an Honorary Oscar the previous year!
* Possibly the most famous (or infamous) of these is that [[Alfred Hitchcock]] never won an Oscar as a director (though ''[[Rebecca]]'' won Best Picture). The Academy gave him a lifetime achievement award, which he deserved anyway, but it was mostly an apology for never giving him an award for ''[[Vertigo]]'', ''[[Psycho]]'', ''[[North by Northwest]]'', ''[[The Birds]]'', ''[[Rope]]'', ''[[Strangers on a Train Plot Murder|Strangers on a Train]]'', ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', ''[[To Catch a Thief]]'', ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', ''[[Rear Window]]'', ''Marnie''...
* The first two installments of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy received nothing but technical awards. The final installment received just about ''every'' Oscar. The Academy was apparently reluctant to hand out big awards to the early installments for fear of clogging up the awards for the next three years, and decided to treat the last installment as a catch-all summation of the trilogy.
* Denzel Washington's work in ''[[Training Day]]'', after losing for ''The Hurricane'' and ''[[Malcolm X (film)|Malcolm X]]''.
* [[Elizabeth Taylor]]'s 1960 Oscar for ''BUtterfield 8'', a film that's pretty much forgotten, and she didn't even want to do. She was nominated in 1957 for ''Raintree County'', in 1958 for ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' and in 1959 for ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer]]'', of which the latter two are considered classics. It's widely thought that she won by a vote of sympathy, because of her recent near-fatal illness.
* Aversion: In 1996, it was thought of as certain that legendary Golden Age of Hollywood star [[Lauren Bacall]], who had never been ''nominated'' for an Oscar before, would win the Best Supporting Actress award for the poorly-reviewed Barbra Streisand vehicle ''The Mirror Has Two Faces''. When she '''didn't''' win, instead losing to Juliette Binoche for ''[[The English Patient]]'' (which swept that year's awards), it was a huge shock. (Bacall would receive an honorary Oscar in 2009.)
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* There's a possible analogue in Professional Wrestling - some performers can work for years, often in a jobber role, but just by ill fortune, injuries or other reasons can go largely unrecognised in terms of championships, so they get a token reign later on. Examples:
** Hugh Morrus in WCW stands out as one - he was a classic "jobber" for years, making other people look good on the way up, and eventually got a "feel good" US title reign in 2000.
** [[Mick Foley]] stated in his second book that he felt that his title reign in 1999 were granted more as a lifetime achievement award rather than being the "top guy" although some of the fans might have disagreed since he was the top active face at the time (Stone Cold was briefly on the shelf).
** Another notable example of a "Thank You" rein is when long time [[Jobber]], [[Brooklyn Rage|The Brooklyn Brawler]] beat (by way of a fluke) WWE golden boy Triple H for the Intercontinental championship. The Brawler is one of those guys that makes anyone look great but until that week he'd never even been a title contender.
** Steven Richards and Funaki were jobbers for years before they both got their own consolation gimmicks related to the shows they were on, Stevie Night Heat and Smackdown's Number 1 Ring Announcer. They were kept with the company for many years longer than most other jobbers as they were well liked and loyal to the company, but none of the writing team knew what to do with them.
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