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When bully isn't bully capable successful the eyes of the grant shows.
Artists of each disciplines enactment their lives into their work, yet adjacent those who've been showered with praise haven't been recognized astatine the highest levels.
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While Diana Ross was handed a Lifetime Achievement award, she ne'er actually won an award successful a circumstantial class astatine the Grammys.
It's a superior shame that revered musicians and actors don't get their due recognition from their peers, and successful immoderate cases, it's excessively precocious earlier they do.
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Heath Ledger, for example, won his archetypal Oscar posthumously for his superb portrayal of the Joker successful Dark Knight.
However, adjacent so, plentifulness of superb actors and musicians successful the satellite ne'er get oregon got their flowers.
Here are 23 celebrities who ne'er won a Tony, Emmy, Oscar, oregon Grammy — excluding honorary awards.
1. Tupac
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With 7 Grammy nominations —five of which were posthumous—Tupac Shakur ne'er really took location the trophy. Unfortunately, his acting career didn't effect successful immoderate large accolades, either.
2. Johnny Depp
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While perchance a arguable figure, Johnny Depp is undoubtedly 1 of the greats who delivered immoderate stellar performances. He's been nominated 3 times astatine the Oscars and but ne'er took location immoderate awards.
3. Bob Marley
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It should beryllium noted that Bob Marley passed distant earlier the Best Reggae Album was ever introduced to the Grammys. He was besides posthumously honored by the Grammys with the Lifetime Achievement Award successful 2001.
4. Björk
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It's chaotic to deliberation that Björk hasn't secured a azygous triumph passim her career, particularly since she's been nominated for 16 Grammys, 2 Golden Globe awards, and 1 Oscar.
5. Angela Bassett
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With specified a stellar resumé, it's blasphemous that Angela Bassett hasn't secured a azygous Oscar oregon Emmy during her career. Though the Oscars honored her with an Academy Honorary Award successful 2024, she should've won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her relation successful Black Panther: Wakanda Forever astatine the precise least.
6. Vivica A. Fox
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Despite being successful large roles passim her career, Vivica A. Fox has ne'er won an Emmy, Oscar, oregon a Tony.
7. Jimi Hendrix
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Nominated for his rendition of "Star Spangled Banner" astatine the Grammys, Jimi Hendrix, portion 1 of the astir influential musicians of each time, ne'er received accolades from the Recording Academy.
8. Tom Cruise
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Despite an awesome resume that includes franchises similar Mission Impossible and Blockbuster hits similar Top Gun and its sequel, Tom Cruise has yet to triumph an Oscar, Emmy oregon Tony. Still, he's 1 of the astir decorated actors successful Hollywood with 3 Golden Globes, which helium aboriginal returned successful 2021 successful protestation of HFPA.
9. Nicki Minaj
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I judge Nicki Minaj could go an EGOT victor astatine immoderate constituent successful her career, but first, the Recording Academy indispensable admit her contributions to the euphony industry. Though highly decorated successful accolades, Nicki Minaj has yet to triumph a Grammy, adjacent with 12 nominations. She's dabbled successful acting before, with credits successful Barbershop: The Next Cut and dependable acting roles successful the Ice Age series. Hopefully, we volition spot her look connected the signifier and large surface successful the future. Before each else, she decidedly deserves a Grammy.
10. Willem Defoe
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A fable successful his ain right, Willem Defoe delivered immoderate superb performances passim his storied career. But adjacent with 4 Academy Awards nominations, he's yet to instrumentality location the award, nor has helium won a Tony, Emmy, oregon a Grammy.
11. Taraji P. Henson
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Taraji P. Henson's vocation spans implicit 2 decades with galore accomplishments nether her belt. She's earned 1 Academy Award nomination, 3 Primetime Emmy nominations, and 2 Daytime Emmy Award nominations successful her vocation but has yet to win. She's besides been nominated for a Tony Award for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding successful the Best Play category, which mislaid to Stereophonic.
12. Patti Smith
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Though inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame successful 2021, Patti Smith ne'er won a azygous Grammy successful the 4 times she was nominated.
13. Saoirse Ronan
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Even though Ronan is considered 1 of the top actors ever, she has yet to gain an Academy Award. The Oscars nominated her 4 times betwixt 2008 and 2024 but clip aft time, she's near empty-handed. Hopefully, that volition alteration successful the future.
14. Amy Adams
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From meal theatre to Golden Globe awards, Amy Adams has had a fruitful vocation with an expansive resumé. However, adjacent with six Academy Award nominations and 2 Primetime Emmy nods, she's yet to triumph immoderate of these converted awards.
15. Ice Cube
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With a prolific vocation arsenic an MC and an actor, Ice Cube's lone Grammy triumph came arsenic a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to N.W.A. However, adjacent with an arsenic awesome filmography, he's ne'er been nominated for a Emmy oregon an Oscar.
16. Damson Idris
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I truly believed that his show successful the bid finale of Snowfall would've, astatine the precise least, earned him an Emmy nod. Damson Idris has yet to beryllium acknowledged successful the highest forms. However, it's inactive aboriginal and it's lone a substance of clip until helium delivers an epic winning code astatine 1 of the large grant ceremonies.
17. Brian Tyree Henry
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Ever since Atlanta, Brian Tyree Henry has been everywhere. From starring alongside Brad Pitt in Bullet Train to his enactment in Joker, Henry has proven to beryllium 1 of the astir awesome actors of this generation. Unfortunately, adjacent with stellar performances successful Atlanta and Joker, he's yet to triumph immoderate large awards for his efforts.
18. Busta Rhymes
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A definitive hip-hop enactment whose power remains palpable, Busta Rhymes has earned 12 Grammy nominations passim his vocation without winning once.
19. Demi Moore
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Demi Moore is simply a staple successful Hollywood but perhaps, her performances lone received its conscionable owed successful retrospect. Moore has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for If These Walls Could Talk, though she's ne'er had the accidental to judge immoderate large award.
20. Jake Gyllenhaal
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While he's been nominated for 3 Tony Awards and 1 Academy Award, Gyllenhaal hasn't had large luck astatine grant ceremonies.
21. Kevin Hart
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Hart's past with the Academy Awards has been analyzable ever since he stepped down arsenic the big of the 2019 ceremony. Interestingly enough, he's ne'er really been nominated for an Oscar. However, helium has been recognized astatine the Grammys and the Primetime Emmy Awards, though he's ne'er really won successful immoderate of the categories helium was nominated in.
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