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John Turturro Has Waited 40 Years for an Oscar Nomination. ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ Makes the Case

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John Turturro Has Waited 40 Years for an Oscar Nomination. ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ Makes the Case
Sep 6, 2026 2:40pm PT John Turturro Has Waited 40 Years for an Oscar Nomination. ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ Makes the Case

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Clayton Davis

Chief Awards Editor

byClaytonDavis See All John Turturro appears in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York by Noah Segan, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. | photo by MRC II Distribution Company L.P. MRC II Distribution Company L.P.

Forty years into a career that has made him one of American cinema’s most recognizable character actors, John Turturro has a Cannes best actor prize, an enviable résumé and exactly zero Oscar mornings when his name was read aloud with the words “and the nominees are.”

Sony Pictures Classics is determined to end the drought with his work in the acclaimed “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” which premiered at Sundance last January and made its fall festival bow at Telluride this weekend, where the film and Turturro’s invigorating turn as an aging pickpocket are drawing acclaim.

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