When it comes to acting nominations, let's face it, not everyone can be Meryl Streep (the clear leader with 17 nominations and counting). And with only 20 acting nominations to hand out each year, there's always going to be people left out. After all, a lot factors into getting that nomination: how well an actor is liked in the industry, whether or not they've been nominated (or won) before, how visible they've been out promoting the movie, or if it's simply their "time". Sometimes it seems the actual performance doesn't weigh in as heavily as it should.
Which is why the Academy gives something I like to call the "Oh, sorry we didn't nominate you for that great movie you were in a couple years ago, but let's call it even by nominating you for this instead" nomination. It's for those great actors who's body of work greatly out-weighs the single nomination they've received. (For purposes of this list, I'm focusing only on actors who've received their nomination in the past 25 years or so as I'm more familiar with their filmography. Not to say that it hasn't been happening since the beginning.)
With so many great actors yet to receive a nomination, perhaps I should be grateful that the following can precede their names with "Academy Award Nominee", but knowing how much better they are than that single nomination implies just gets to me every time I think about it...
Single Nomination: Best Actress, Catherine Deneuve Indochine (1992)
