Oscars 2014: For DiCaprio, Depp, Adams, no Academy Award just yet

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Nominated for: lead actor Oscar in “The Pursuit of Happyness,” 2007 | lead actor Oscar for “Ali,” 2002 (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: supporting actress for “Junebug,” 2006 | supporting actress for “Doubt,” 2009 | supporting actress for “The Fighter,” 2011 | supporting actress for “The Master,” 2013 | lead actress for “American Hustle,” 2014 (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: lead actor Oscar for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” 2008 | lead actor Oscar for “Finding Neverland,” 2005 | lead actor Oscar for “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” 2004 (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: lead actress Oscar for “Gorillas in the Mist,” 1989 | supporting actress Oscar for “Working Girl,” 1989 | lead actress Oscar for “Aliens,” 1987 (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: Supporting actor Oscar for “Magnolia,” 2000 | lead actor Oscar for “Jerry Maguire,” 1997 | lead actor Oscar for “Born on the Fourth of July,” 1990 (Shown center with “Valkyrie” director Bryan Singer and writer Chris McQuarrie.) (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: supporting actor Oscar for “Tropic Thunder,” 2009 | lead actor Oscar for “Chaplin,” 1993. (Shown here at left with “Iron Man 3” director Shane Black.) (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: lead actress Oscar for “Love Field,” 1993 | lead actress Oscar for “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” 1990 | supporting actress Oscar for “Dangerous Liaisons,” 1989 (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)

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Nominated for: supporting actor Oscar for “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” 2002 | lead actor Oscar for “Gods and Monsters,” 1999 (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)

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Nominated for: best picture Oscar for “The Fighter,” 2011 (shared with David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman) | supporting actor Oscar for “The Departed,” 2007 (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: lead actress Oscar for “Albert Nobbs,” 2011 | lead actress Oscar for “Dangerous Liaisons,” 1989 | lead actress Oscar for “Fatal Attraction,” 1988 | supporting actress Oscar for “The Natural,” 1985 | supporting actress Oscar for “The Big Chill,” 1984 | supporting actress Oscar for “The World According to Garp,” 1983 (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: lead actor Oscar for “Witness,” 1986 (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: supporting actor Oscar for “Pulp Fiction,” 1995 (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)

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Nominated for: lead actor Oscar for “Pulp Fiction,” 1995 | lead actor Oscar for “Saturday Night Fever,” 1978 (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: supporting actress for “The Wings of the Dove,” 1998 | lead actress Oscar for “The King’s Speech,” 2011 (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: Lead actress Oscar for “The Help,” 2012 (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Nominated for: lead actor for “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” 2012 (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

By Christy Khoshaba

March 2, 2014 1:45 PM PT

We watch these big-budget, big-star feature films time and again, and we learn to appreciate the actors and recognize them as Hollywood’s most famous stars. Sometimes we’re such fans that we see movies just because of them.

Brad Pitt. Will Smith. Tom Cruise. Hollywood’s very best, it seems. But, while all have been nominated for Academy Awards, none have won the little gold statue we call Oscar.

[Update: On Sunday night, Brad Pitt won an Oscar for co-producing “12 Years a Slave.”]

Take Leonardo DiCaprio, for example, as another movie mainstay with no Oscar win.

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As early as 1994 DiCaprio received a supporting actor Oscar nomination for “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” but lost to Tommy Lee Jones for “The Fugitive.” DiCaprio was later nominated for lead actor Oscars in 2005 for “The Aviator” and in 2007 for “Blood Diamond,” and lost.

This year DiCaprio is nominated again for lead actor in the corporate greed tale “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Pundits are predicting the Oscar to land in the hands of Matthew McConaughey for “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Add to that Amy Adams. The star this year is an Academy Award nominee for lead actress for “American Hustle.” She was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar in 2013 for “The Master,” and received previous supporting actress nods in 2011 for “The Fighter,” in 2009 for “Doubt” and in 2006 for “Junebug.”

Adams will arrive at the Oscars with two of her films up for the motion picture category, “American Hustle” and “Her.”

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Don’t forget Johnny Depp received a nomination for a lead actor Oscar in 2008 for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” but lost to Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood.”

Before that Depp was nominated for a lead actor Oscar in 2005 for “Finding Neverland” and in 2004 for “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” the first in the Pirates series.

Curious to see which other movie phenoms are without an Oscar? Click through the photo gallery up top to see just a few of the others.

Then check back with us once the Oscars are over to see the complete list of winners.

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