Sentences with phrase «likely supporting actor category»

Not exact matches

Ironically, Cranston was put in the Supporting Actor category for awards consideration and Carell in the Lead Actor category, likely for strategic purposes.

Patricia Arquette («Boyhood «-RRB- and J.K. Simmons («Whiplash «-RRB-, front - runners in the supporting categories, would both be first - time nominees; Felicity Jones («The Theory Of Everything «-RRB- and Rosamund Pike («Gone Girl «-RRB- look likely to pick up Actress nods; and it feels very likely that this year's Best Actor category will be made up entirely of actors who've never been nominated before now (Bradley Cooper's the only really serious contender with a nod already under his belt).

Many pundits have Squibb as a serious threat to win the Best Supporting Actress category, and while the Screen Actors Guild nominations will give us a better idea of how things might shake out, it's safe to pencil Squibb in for a very likely nomination.

Especially with that latter performance, he was able to seamlessly blend comedy and drama, which is the way he's going to one day win that statue, likely in the Best Supporting Actor category that he's gotten a pair of citations in already.

Or they could go with «Whiplash,» a film that hasn't found much of a theatrical audience but will likely be nominated in several other categories, including supporting actor, screenplay and editing.

Apart from Supporting Actor, this is the category in which Moonlight — which is adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney's play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue — is most likely to come away a winner.

But as the Academy looks to reverse the tide of racial myopia, there remain plenty of other diverse options, from Mira Nair's lovely Queen of Katwe, a surprise runner - up for TIFF's People's Choice prize, to Denzel Washington's Fences, which will at the very least be a showcase piece for the actor - director, and especially for Viola Davis, who will be a top Best Actress contender (assuming they don't relegate her to the Supporting category, which is always possible as studios piece together the likeliest winning strategy).