The supporting cast, mostly young actors playing high school students, are generally adequate; Max Riemelt, who also starred in Napola (Elite für den Führer) under the direction of Dennis Gansel, stands out among his colleagues as Marco, while Frederick Lau has been nominated in the Best
Supporting Actor category at the upcoming German Film Awards for his performance as Tim (along with the film itself for Best Film and Best Editing).
James McAvoy lost out in the best
supporting actor category at the Baftas Dame Helen Mirren might have won the best actress Bafta, but her fellow Brits lost out in the best supporting actor and actress titles.
Not exact matches
History has shown the best
actor, actress, and
supporting actor winners tend to forecast which nominees in those
categories will also emerge as winners
at the Oscars, so make sure you tune in for the late - January ceremony.
The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director
category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best
Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle
at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.
In what I'm pretty sure is a first, the Best
Supporting Actor category is the first acting
category ever in which all five nominees already have
at least one acting Oscar on their mantle.
We'll be looking
at a couple of different major
categories each day over the next four days, and we're kicking things off with the Best
Supporting Actor and Best
Supporting Actress
categories.
Voting is open until December 12
at 11:59 p.m.
Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Actor, Best Actress, Best
Supporting Actor, Best
Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).
Shakespeare is a tough sell for The Oscars for sure, but
at least I hope, really hope that when it comes to Fassbender's and Cotillard's turns, Academy members will recognize them
at least through a nomination in Best
Actor and Best
Supporting Actress
categories respectively.
As a matter of record, I updated my predictions
at the Gold Derby website late Monday night to put Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill into the Best
Actor and Best
Supporting Actor categories, respectively; to add Scorsese to my Best Director predictions; and to move Terence Winter's screenplay into the second spot, right behind «12 Years a Slave.»
Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey and Lupita Nyong» o, last year's Oscar winners in the leading actress,
supporting actor and
supporting actress
categories, will return to present
at this year's Oscars, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today.
Nightcrawler did surprisingly well
at the nomination stage, with four, including one for Rene Russo's
supporting role; outdoing them with five was Whiplash, with nods not just for JK Simmons as best
supporting actor, but also in the directing, original screenplay, editing and sound
categories.
Why a person is nominated for a
supporting actor or actress Oscar often has a lot to do with riding coattails, which probably explains why it takes so long for awards prognosticators to pin down the nominees in these two
categories: It's all about waiting to see which films catch fire
at the box office — or on the blogosphere, where most Oscar campaigns seem to be launched nowadays.
Not only did «Moonlight's» Mahershala Ali and «Fences»» Viola Davis earn Oscars for their
supporting roles — the first time two African American
actors won in both
supporting categories in the same year — Ruth Negga was nominated for her lead role in «Loving» and Denzel Washington earned his seventh acting nomination plus a shot
at best picture as one of the producers of «Fences.»
Over that past few days we've been taking an early look
at the 2013 Oscar race, running down the contenders in a number of
categories including Best
Supporting Actor and Actress, Best
Actor and Best Actress, and Best Animated Feature, Screenplay, and technological
category quick picks.
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and
actor John Krasinski («The Office») follow
at 8:38 ET to reveal these
categories:
actor, actress,
supporting actor,
supporting actress, directing, editing, foreign language film, original score, picture, production design, visual effects, adapted screenplay and original screenplay.
Over that past few days we've been taking an early look
at the 2013 Oscar race, running down the contenders in a number of
categories including Best
Supporting Actor and Actress, Best
Actor and Best...
In the last two years, wins in key
categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenpla
at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars:
At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenpla
At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best
actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best
supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best
supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.
In
at least one
category, usually the
supporting actor or actress role, there is more often than not a huge surprise when it comes to the winner.
Of the 2017 winners — Emma Stone for best actress, Denzel Washington for best
actor, Viola Davis for
supporting actress, and Mahershala Ali for
supporting actor — only Washington wouldn't go on to win his respective
category at the Oscars, losing to Casey Affleck.
Canadian nominees include Christopher Plummer for best
supporting actor, who filled in
at the last minute when Kevin Spacey was ousted from Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World following sexual misconduct allegations; Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 received nominations in many technical
categories, including cinematography, effects and sound; and the animated film The Breadwinner, a Canadian co-production based on the novel by Deborah Ellis, is up for best animated feature.
At this point, Mudbound, so deserving of many
category nominations from Best Picture to Screenplay to
Supporting Actor and Actress to Song, seems like the longest of long shots.
Gaspard Ulliel's mesmerizing turn
at Yves Saint Laurent in Saint Laurent earned him the Best
Actor prize and the
supporting categories were won by Kristen Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria (which also won Original Screenplay and a place in the top 5 films of the year) and Oscar Isaac for Ex Machina.
(International
actors don't even get
supporting categories, which
at least means Hailee Steinfeld was correctly classified for once.)
The explosion of Michael Shannon as a contender has taken most people by surprise and the he's already been a surprise Oscar nominee in the
Supporting Actor category (for Revolutionary Road) so he might be someone to look
at to miss as well.
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).
Sylvester Stallone took home Best
Supporting Actor, a win that further complicates that category not only because Stallone missed nominations at SAG and BAFTA, but also because his win elicited one of only two standing ovations for the night (the other being for DiCaprio after his win), indicating a strong sense of supporting from Hollywood for the legen
Supporting Actor, a win that further complicates that
category not only because Stallone missed nominations
at SAG and BAFTA, but also because his win elicited one of only two standing ovations for the night (the other being for DiCaprio after his win), indicating a strong sense of
supporting from Hollywood for the legen
supporting from Hollywood for the legendary star.
At 5:38:30 a.m. PT / 8: 38:30 a.m. ET, nominees were announced in the remaining 13
categories: Picture, Director,
Actor, Actress,
Supporting Actor,
Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Original Song, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature, Foreign Language Film and Documentary Short Subject.