He made his film debut (as Billy Crystal's kid!) in City Slickers, although we first noticed him in Donnie Darko. As the titular character in Bubble Boy and the lovelorn admirer of Jennifer Aniston’s character in The Good Girl, Jake Gyllenhaal was high on our radar in the early 2000s. He’s given us a handful of superb characters that should have gotten him the highest acting honour- the Oscar, but the golden statue has always escaped his grasp.
Here are four movies that Gyllenhaal should have totally gotten the Best Actor Oscar for.
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