Daniel Carlson sings the praises of consistently good, hard-working, character actors who never receive due praise or nominations.  He notes that some of these actors — people like Paul Giamatti or William H. Macy — break the ceiling, but many of them don’t.

Here are a few of the un-nominated, but praise-worthy charactor actors cited by Carlson:

James Rebhorn:

(The late) James T. Walsh:

David Morse:

William Sadler:

Stephen Toblowsky:

Peter Stromare:

Michael Rooker:

What about for women?  Any thoughts?

I’ve always admired Lili Taylor:

and Ileana Douglas

and Anna Deavere Smith:

Those are just off the top of my head.  Any others?