Almost
a lock for a Supporting Actor nod in the Oscar race has to be Jesper Christensen as Dieter Vogel the Surgeon of Birkenau.
Not exact matches
Seem
Locked: Picture - Argo, Adapted Screenplay - Argo,
Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway, Editing - Argo, Foreign Language Film - Amour, Best
Actor (perhaps)- Daniel Day - Lewis, Costumes - Anna Karenina, Sound - Les Miserables, Visual Effects - Life of Pi, Documentary — Searching
for Sugar Man, Makeup - Les Miserables, Song - Skyfall.
Whiplash: A
lock for Best
Supporting Actor for JK Simmons, who has been one of our best supporting actors
Supporting Actor for JK Simmons, who has been one of our best
supporting actors
supporting actors for years.
Assuming it has a nice shelf life in theaters (and it should), «Jenkins» is already a
lock for a slew of Golden Globe nominations including Best Picture — Musical or Comedy, Best Actress — Musical or Comedy (Streep), Best
Actor — Musical or Comedy (Grant) and Best
Supporting Actor — Musical or Comedy (Helberg).
Unlike «Big Short» it has two acting nominations: one
for Leonardo DiCaprio, the biggest
lock of the night in the Best
Actor race, and the other
for Tom Hardy in Best
Supporting Actor.
Prediction: While Denzel Washington is
locked in a dead heat
for Best
Actor, his Fences costar Viola Davis might be the surest thing of the night — in part because she's great, in part because the character is great, and in part because it's a leading performance in a
supporting category.
Nightcrawler, is being predicted to snag a large haul of nominations in the form of Best
Actor,
Supporting Actor,
Supporting Actress, Screenplay and First Feature, with most Gold Rush Gang members
locking in votes
for all or most of these.
hollywoodnews.com: Pete Hammond (Deadline Hollywood) and I agree that there are two Oscar
locks for nominations as Best
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale («The Fighter») and Geoffrey Rush («The King's Speech»).
As the buzz
for Netflix's first foray into feature film, Beasts of No Nation, hits festival after festival and the Oscar buzz gets louder and louder could we see Best
Supporting Actor contender (and virtual
lock) Idris Elba be joined on Oscar nomination morning by his co-star Abraham Attah in Lead?
By Tom O'Neil hollywoodnews.com: Pete Hammond (Deadline Hollywood) and I agree that there are two Oscar
locks for nominations as Best
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale («The Fighter») and Geoffrey Rush («The King's Speech»).
The person that stands the most to gain from all of this, of course, is Hammer, who is pretty much a
lock for a Best
Supporting Actor nomination after just barely missing out last year
for his incredible work in «The Social Network.»