12 Saturn Award-Winning Performances Of The 2010s That Should've Been Oscar-Nominated

12. Richard Armitage - The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
New Line Cinema

Sir Peter Jackson's return to Middle-Earth proved an ultimately divisive endeavour, stretching out a slim volume into three epic-length movies that were met with a mostly mixed critical reception - yet one thing generally agreed on was the strength of the series' leading turns, anchored in its final chapter by the tortured dwarven king Thorin Oakenshield.

Under heavier prosthetics more than just about any other key player in the film, the former Spooks star digs deep to leave all the internalised anguish accumulated over the years by this exiled leader on the table, clouded by bouts of gold-induced mania and ultimately supplanted by the pained realisation that he must confront a final destiny for his people to truly rest.

In a film undoubtedly crippled by its own grandiosity, it's a starkly personal and underappreciated performance.