This is true, most likely a reflection of himself with the character clearly being the best at what he does but has become completely disenchanted and out of love with his work and money plus the chance for meeting and hooking up with women are his only true motives for sticking with it.

I like him in it but even Rourke admits that he gave up on acting at the time of angel heart, and you see it in his performance but somehow it works.

Barfly was his ultimate snub (and one of the greatest snubs in the ceremony's general history for that matter). A dream role for character acting and he pulled it off in spades with even Bukowski himself admitting that after his initial skepticism of Rourke taking on the role due to his young age that he made it made the character even better than what the writer ever envisioned it as being. But Angel Heart and Pope of Greenwich Village closely trail it as what he should've been at least nominated for.

he also was great in diner

Agreed !
"The Lord Commander of Kingsguard Gabste of house Musgood"

Yes ! And should also win for best suporting actor for the Motorcycle boy in "Rumble Fish" .

Yes ! That's my favorite of his.
"The Lord Commander of Kingsguard Gabste of house Musgood"

Absolutely. I thought he was spectacular.

should have been nominated for 9 1/2 weeks and barfly too.

Rourke had a very lax and overly care-free attitude regarding his role and the movie-making process during filming and De Niro with his heavily focused and rigid professionalism did not care for it one bit so was very cold and indifferent towards Rourke on a personal level during the shoot. Rourke was clearly embittered by this which led to him taking jabs at De Niro in interviews occasionally for some years after, saying things like De Niro probably would have just been a random actor on you'd see on channel 800 had it not been for Martin Scorsese and that Jean-Claude Van Damme was something like "a thousand" or "a million times the actor De Niro is" during the documented wrap for Double Team.

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Does anyone happen to know what caused the bad blood between Rourke and DeNiro while they were doing their scenes together?
Harry
: Well yeah, there was like an 8% chance.
Perry
: Eight? Who taught you math!

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