NEXT Armie Hammer — Call Me By Your Name Michael Stuhlbarg — Call Me By Your Name Steve Carell — Battle of the Sexes Michael Shannon — The Shape of
Water Mark Rylance — Dunkirk
Strongest challengers: Jason Mitchell, Mudbound Michael Shannon, The Shape of
Water Mark Rylance, Dunkirk
Not exact matches
Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Florida Project: Willem Dafoe Call Me by Your Name: Armie Hammer The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected): Dustin Hoffman Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Sam Rockwell Dunkirk:
Mark Rylance The Shape of
Water: Michael Shannon
Oscar - winner
Mark Rylance plays a British civilian whose yacht is requisitioned to cross the English Channel to rescue soldiers at Dunkirk 26 miles away — and scoops up others out of the
water en route, including a shell - shocked Navy officer (five - time Nolan actor Cillian Murphy).
Another story — set on the
water — focuses on Mr. Dawson (
Mark Rylance), a civilian who takes up his country's flag and captains his small boat over to Dunkirk as part of a nationwide rescue mission.
In the running: Idris Elba — Molly's Game, Richard Jenkins — The Shape of
Water, Jason Mitchell — Mudbound,
Mark Rylance — Dunkirk, Michael Shannon — The Shape of
Water
Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been
watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner
Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.
2... * Opening the door for a package, Molly's Game... * Blood streaks on Giles's (Richard Jenkins's) sketch pad, The Shape of
Water... * Star Wars: The Last Jedi's bleeding plain... * Bobby's traffic advisory to the flamingos, The Florida Project... * Good fathers: Rob Morgan, Mudbound; Tracy Letts, Lady Bird; Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me by Your Name;
Mark Rylance, Dunkirk; Kenneth Cranham, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool; Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri... * Movies that keep things in perfect scale: Mudbound, Lady Bird, Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, The Post... * Bridges, rivers, streets, fields, woods around Kingston, NY — Super Dark Times... * «Are we still going to prom together?»