Earlier this year I wrote a piece about the Oscar winners that I have seen on the London stage. I counted up a dozen, 11 I had seen in London and one more (Jeremy Irons) in Stratford-on-Avon.

Since writing those words I have found another theatre programme: “Antigone” at the Barbican, a production I saw in March 2015. It starred Juliette Binoche, who won Best Supporting Actress for “The English Patient” (1996). That takes me to a round dozen performers I have seen in London, and 13 including Jeremy Irons.

Once again I have been thinking of the Oscar winners I could have seen at some point, all listed in that earlier piece: Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Eddie Redmayne, Olivia Colman, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Hopkins. It’s possible that I saw Tilda in a college production but I have no evidence of that. I have also gone through my theatre programmes to see if there’s anyone who might win an Oscar in the future. Here are 11 names that leapt out at me, all accomplished performers, but not as yet honoured by the Academy: Jonathan Pryce, Harriet Walter, Joely Richardson, Miranda Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Fiona Shaw, Steven Berkoff, Patrick Stewart, Frances Barber, Jane Lapotaire, Juliet Stephenson. There’s still time for all of them, but sadly not for Helen McCrory, Alan Rickman or Corin Redgrave, all of whom I saw performing here in London at some point between 1986 and 2005, and all no longer with us.