Pity that Leonardo Di Carpio did not get a Best Supporting
Actor nomination though: he was simply quite amazing as the * baddie * as far as I am concerned.
Not exact matches
Bradley Cooper, one of the relative (
though not huge) surprises in their place, is now the first
actor since Renée Zellweger in 2003 to score a
nomination in three consecutive years.
Though he captured numerous year - end critics prizes, Brooks was denied an Oscar
nomination in the Best Supporting
Actor category.
The second Hanks film this Fall isn't one that's going to get him
nominations (
though a Critics Choice Best
Actor in an Action Movie nod could be a possibility).
Fortunately, he managed to enlist Robert Redford as his leading man, and
though the veteran
actor hasn't delivered a noteworthy performance in several years, it would be crazy to think that he won't earn an Oscar
nomination for his work here.
Snub: Mandy Patinkin (pictured right), «Homeland» Supporting
Actor - Drama
Though «Homeland» returned to the Best Drama race, Patinkin was passed over after getting
nominations for the last two years.
In the past, certain
actors racked up
nomination after
nomination simply off of goodwill from the Television Academy even
though the average voter had never seen their show.
Early reviews have been almost unanimously positive, with Denzel Washington singled out for his amazing performance, and
though he may be considered a bit of a dark horse with so much stiff competition this year, I wouldn't be surprised if the Academy rewarded the
actor with his first
nomination since 2002's «Training Day.»
Though Michael Keaton is hot off his Best
Actor win for «Birdman,» early reviews have singled out Mark Ruffalo as the cast member most likely to earn a
nomination come January.
Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing: Hacksaw Ridge
Though it also earned a Best
Actor nomination for its lead actor, Andrew Garfield, and as well as nominations for Best Picture and Best Director for Mel Gibson, it wasn't fated to be Hacksaw Ridge's n
Actor nomination for its lead
actor, Andrew Garfield, and as well as nominations for Best Picture and Best Director for Mel Gibson, it wasn't fated to be Hacksaw Ridge's n
actor, Andrew Garfield, and as well as
nominations for Best Picture and Best Director for Mel Gibson, it wasn't fated to be Hacksaw Ridge's night.
Though there is a stronger correlation than in the Best Director category, those
actors who win the Spirit Award but not the Oscar for best acting historically may not receive Academy
nominations at all.
Kaluuya, a British
actor who will next be seen in Black Panther, has been a favorite this season, picking up various awards over the course of this long and winding season —
though an eventual Oscar
nomination did not always seem certain.
Though it nabbed Critics» Choice and Golden Globe
nominations for its two lead
actors, — Emma Stone and Steve Carrell (Carrell also snuck into the SAGs Best
Actor category)-- those categories are going to be way more stacked by the time the Oscars are announced.
The Best Supporting
Actor bracket is where the fun is,
though: «Three Billboards» is the first film since 1992's «Bugsy» to score two
nominations in the category.
Though there's a lot of great talent on display in Rob Marshall's big screen adaptation, many of the
actors are wasted, including Meryl Streep, whose performance is so mediocre that it makes her recent Oscar
nomination look like a complete joke.
Lead
actor Michael Stuhlbarg did garner a nomination for Best Actor th
actor Michael Stuhlbarg did garner a
nomination for Best
Actor th
Actor though.
The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best
Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the
Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st
nomination for Meryl Streep (
though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner coming into today noms and which had seven
nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.
Though he has three Oscar
nominations to his name, two for co-writing Before Sunset and Before Midnight, and one for Best Supporting
Actor in Antoine Fuqua's Training Day, I'm still unsure about how Hollywood and the world perceives his abilities.
Its high - profile star, Robin Williams, also failed to earn a
nomination,
though Arian Moayed was nominated in the featured
actor category.
It now has some competition,
though, in La La Land, another critical and festival darling that scored 12 Critics» Choice
nominations, more than any other film, including key categories like best picture, best director, best
actor, and best actress.