Snubbed by Oscar, Adams is still waiting for her Leo moment

Amy Adams won't be accepting her first Academy Award on Sunday, Feb. 26, even though her performance in best-picture nominee "Arrival" was lauded as one of the year's best and was key to the emotional sci-fi film's success. Adams didn't make the cut this year - apparently Meryl Streep just needed that 20th nomination! But that's OK. Adams has become one of Hollywood's best, most versatile actresses and will have her Leonardo DiCaprio moment soon enough.

Adams has five previous Oscar nominations for "Junebug," "Doubt," "The Fighter," "The Master" and "American Hustle," and I dare say she should have been nominated for 2007's animated princess-comes-to-life comedy "Enchanted." (Good news for fans: A sequel, "Disenchanted," is planned for 2018.) She also has time to class up DC's big-budget blowouts like "Man of Steel" and "Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice," and to brighten family fare like "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian." Her charming performance as Amelia Earhart is a class above that mediocre Ben Stiller franchise.

Netflix subscribers can delight in one of Amy's lesser-known films, "Mrs. Pettigrew Lives for a Day." The 2008 comedy casts Frances McDormand in the title role of a dowdy 1930s governess who finds herself in the employ of a flighty, funny singer and actress (Adams) who enlists Mrs. Pettigrew's help in juggling a parade of suitors. It's light, it runs a brisk 91 minutes, and it will make you swoon.

If you haven't seen Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" since it first came out in 2002, you might be surprised to learn that Adams played the would-be wife of con-man Frank Abagnale (DiCaprio). Her naive, braces-wearing nurse is the film's innocent heart and shows flashes of the great actress (and movie star) that Adams has become. You can seek out the film on digital HD or disc - or just wait for its next inevitable airing on TNT.

Her "Catch" co-star was nominated five times over two decades before finally winning last year's best-actor Oscar for "The Revenant," so perhaps the sixth time will be the charm for Adams as well. That might not come next year, as she'll more likely be on the TV awards circuit for HBO's upcoming series "Sharp Objects," an eight-episode adaptation of the novel by "Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn.

In the meantime, you can see the best performance Oscar didn't recognize on Tuesday, Jan. 31, when "Arrival" comes to digital platforms. The DVD and Blu-ray will follow on Feb. 14.

• Sean Stangland is a Daily Herald multiplatform editor. You can follow him on Twitter at @SeanStanglandDH.