Rob Reiner directed some of the most consequential movies in popular culture that received him loads of accolades.
Except for one of the largest.
Though his motion pictures, from “Stand By Me” to “When Harry Met Sally…,” had been critically and commercially beloved, Reiner was never nominated for a finest director Academy Award.
Tributes to the celebrated actor, director and producer have poured in after Reiner and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner, had been discovered lifeless on Sunday. He was 78 and and he or she was 70.
Reiner’s filmography included some of the hottest movies of the final 50 years and whereas some of these motion pictures and performers scored nominations and wins, he was never acknowledged for what’s one of the most prestigious awards in Hollywood.
Kathy Bates, who received a finest actress Oscar in 1991 for “Misery” which Reiner directed, shared in April during the TCM Classic Film Festival that he informed her earlier than the awards present that he didn’t assume she would win.
“You said, ‘You can campaign, but you’re not gonna get it,’” Bates stated to Reiner. “You said because it’s a horror movie and not likely.”
The movie is predicated on a Stephen King novel of the similar title and Bates performs an unhinged fan of a author whom she holds captive.
Bates famous that Reiner was thrilled when she did win and mimicked him doing a collection of fist pumps when it occurred.
“Because you deserved it,” Reiner stated at the time. “It’s an amazing performance.”
Here are a couple of of his different movies that earned the director acclaim.
The 1984 mockumentary a couple of fictional heavy steel band was Reiner’s function directorial debut and is taken into account a cult basic.
In September 2025, the sequel he directed, “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” dropped and have become his ultimate movie previous to his loss of life.
“Stand By Me”
Reiner additionally discovered success with this undertaking tailored from a novel by Stephen King.
The 1986 drama facilities round a good friend group of 4 boys who set out on an journey in search of a lifeless physique.
It snagged a finest tailored screenplay Academy Award nomination whereas Reiner was nominated by the Golden Globes, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Directors Guild of America for his work, however there have been no wins.
For some followers it’s inconceivable that this 1987 fairy story comedy solely earned a finest authentic tune Academy Award nomination for “Storybook Love.”
The tune was written and carried out by Willy DeVille.
Both the movie, which was tailored from the William Goldman novel of the similar title, and the tune stay beloved to at the present time.
By 1989 loads of directors wouldn’t have minded having what Reiner was having at the time.
That’s as a result of he was credited with serving to to relaunch the success of rom-coms at the field workplace when that yr he launched “When Harry Met Sally…,” a couple of man and a lady decided to be mates as they searched for love.
Nora Ephron was nominated for an Academy Award for writing the script, however didn’t win.
It was the dialogue heard spherical the world.
When Jack Nicholson as Colonel Nathan Jessep bellowed to Tom Cruise as Judge Advocate General officer Daniel Kaffee “You can’t handle the truth!” it not solely gave Reiner one other hit, but it surely additionally made that line one of the most well-known in film historical past.
The 1992 authorized drama additionally introduced a number of Academy Award nominations together with finest image and finest supporting actor for Nicholson, however no wins.
NCS has reached out to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for remark.