And started working in film
as supporting actor and minor roles that most people even couldn't notice.
Things get interesting when you realize this year's Best
Supporting Actor race is still pretty much wide open.
As such, take comfort in that, as he's not only gotten his first nomination, he's going to take home the Best
Supporting Actor prize too.
Rest of Cast: Trouble with the Curve has a cast roster full of bland characters,
with supporting actors as simplified as those with smaller roles.
There are a ton of
other supporting actors in the film who provide great humor and tension to the entire production.
Character actors are
supporting actors who are usually skilled at playing interesting or unusual characters, but not usually the lead roles in a film.
But that year's Best
Supporting Actor field included some magnificent work — some of which never even got nominated.
Bottom line: it's pretty hard to win either supporting actress or
supporting actor along with Best Picture in the era of the expanded ballot.
With the size of their roles unknown, they each find themselves on both the Best Actor and Best
Supporting Actor charts.
In light of this frustrating trend, it is telling that one of the year's standout performers has forged a distinctive career as an
expert supporting actor.
When news broke that his Best
Supporting Actor nomination was the only nomination Creed received, he had more than a few understandably mixed feelings.
Also to note, no women of color were nominated in the Best Actress category, as well as no men of color in the Best
Supporting Actor category.
For those pieces of equipment to shine, however, commercial kitchens also require a strong battery
of supporting actors.
As
with Supporting Actor this month, Supporting Actress is the same top 5 as last month with just a few tweaks in placement.
It's kind of ironic how the two unknown leads deliver better performances than the majority of the well
known supporting actors.
The guy won his first Best
Supporting Actor Oscar for Traffic, another film about the drug trade, and he seems primed to be a major factor in that race again this year.
Among the repeat winners were Laurie Metcalf winning her second Supporting Actress prize for Lady Bird, Timothee Chalamet winning his second Best Actor award in a row, and Willem Dafoe winning
Supporting Actor for The Florida Project, which made him three - for - three with NBR, NYFCC, and LAFCA.
Foxx received five nominations for Outstanding Actor for his work in Django Unchained (2012), The Soloist (2009), Dreamgirls (2006), Ray (2004) and Breakin» All the Rules (2004); three nominations for
Outstanding Supporting Actor for Collateral, Ali, and Any Given Sunday (1999).
Hugh Grant was named Hollywood
Supporting Actor at the Hollywood Film Awards last night for his work in Florence Foster Jenkins.
Best Film
Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali, Moonlight Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water Simon Helberg, Florence Foster Jenkins Dev Patel, Lion Aaron Taylor Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
After all of the noble talk on the red carpet, the audience heard only the occasional mention from men of the «strong, intelligent and righteous women» in their lives (as noted by Best
Supporting Actor winner Sam Rockwell).
Braugher nabbed three consecutive Emmy nominations for
Supporting Actor from 2014 - 2016 and the series won two Golden Globes in its freshman season, one for best comedy series and one for best actor in a comedy series (Samberg).
Cream of the crop: Gary Oldman posed with (L - R) Best
Supporting Actor Sam Rockwell, Best Actress Frances McDormand and Best Supporting Actress Allison Janney in the press room
Robert Downey Jr. kicked off the evening, presenting the
Hollywood Supporting Actor Award award to his The Judge co-star Robert Duvall.
Bolstering things are strong
supporting actors like Sean Be (ee) an (Game of Thrones), Nikki Amuka - Bird (Luther), Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black), James D'Arcy (Agent Carter), Kick Gurry (Edge of Tomorrow) and Gugu Mbatha - Raw (Belle)- plus a host of other performers hidden behind makeup and / or CGI to create the strange alien characters.