A list about actors who won the Oscar (for best actor) but should have lost (to another nominee that year)
1973 : winner : Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger as Harry Stoner Other nominees: Marlon Brando - Last Tango in Paris as Paul Al Pacino - Serpico as Frank Serpico Robert Redford - The Sting as Johnny Hooker 1974 winner: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto as Harry Coombes other nominees: Jack Nicholson - Chinatown as Jake 'J.J.' Gittes Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II as Don Michael Corleone 1985 winner: William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina other nominees: Harrison Ford - Witness as Detective Captain John Book Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor as Charley Partanna 1990 winner: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow other nominees: Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves as Lieutenant John J. Dunbar Robert De Niro - Awakenings as Leonard Lowe Gérard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac 1992 winner: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman as Lieutenant Colone...