Dan Cirucci: These Great Actors, Directors Never Won An Oscar!

Monday, January 19, 2015

These Great Actors, Directors Never Won An Oscar!

By their very nature the Oscars are unfair.
They're unfair because you can't tabulate the score of a work of art and analytically declare a winner -- or even a top five or top ten. By his very nature, Oscar is subjective.
The Oscars are unfair because somebody's nominated and somebody's not.
They're unfair because some movies are nominated and some are not.
The latest flap over not enough African-American actors being nominated is just the newest round in a long line of grievances against the Oscars. Somebody always celebrates and many more get left out. They lose.
But again, we must remember that the system and the process are inherently prone to leave some people and some movies out of the nominated and/or winners' circle. That's just the way it is. And sometimes it happens again and again and again.
If you don't believe us, consider these actors and directors who never won an Oscar for a performance or for directing:

Greta Garbo
Alfred Hitchcock
Marlene Dietrich
Barbara Stanwyck
Cary Grant
Richard Burton
Fritz Lang
Natalie Wood
Steve McQueen
James Dean
Leonardo DiCaprio
Stanley Kramer
Ava Gardner
Erroll Flynn
Montgomery Clift
Brad Pitt
Glenn Close
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Fred Astaire
Judy Garland
Howard Hawks
Kim Novak
Ian McKellen
Rita Hayworth
Peter O'Toole
Marilyn Monroe
Cecil B. DeMille
Tony Curtis
Dorothy Dandridge
Albert Finney
Annette Bening
Lana Turner
Edward Norton
Peter Sellers
Tom Cruise
Jeff Daniels
Otto Preminger
Amy Adams
Lauren Bacall
Sam Pekinpah
Julianne Moore
Catherine Deneuve
Jean Harlow
Ernst Lubitsch
Ewan McGregor
Bill Murray
Arthur Penn
Deborah Kerr
Johnny Depp
Robert Altman
Sidney Lumet
John Cassevetes
William H. Macy
John Malkovich
Liv Ullmann
Rosalind Russell

Well, that's more than 50 Big Names.
Is that enough to convince you that the Oscars are unfair?
And, by the way: Life is unfair as well! Get used to it.

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He's been cited by the late Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed across all media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, a Save Jersey blog columnist, frequent guest on the Matt Rooney radio show and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post, Broad and Liberty and other print and online platforms.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include all things Italian, politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

He and his wife Carole have two grown children and seven grandchildren.

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