Christopher Lloyd, Back to the Future (1985)
As it happens, a sci-fi movie did win Best Supporting Actor that year: Don Ameche in Cocoon. But Lloyd’s scene-stealing turn in a summer blockbuster that scored big with both critics and audiences and became a pop-culture sensation was passed over. If only eccentric inventor Doc Brown’s flux-capacitor technology really existed, we could zip back in time like Marty McFly and right this wrong.
