Most Likely Best Actress for Globe, Drama (polls) Who Might Benefit in
the Supporting Actress Category at the Globes (choose five)(polls)
With critics heralding her turn in «12 Years a Slave» as the movie's breakout performance, Nyong» o is already being called a lock in
the supporting actress category at the Oscars.
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.
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.
The
actress has four nominations already, but all in the
supporting category, and without winning, so she's one of the most overdue
actresses at work right now.
Magnolia will be trumpeting newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez in the best
actress category and Mya Taylor, who Baker met
at a LGBT center just as she was transitioning, for best
supporting actress.
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.
DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Script and
Supporting Actress Oscar - Winner Arrives on DVD Precious deservedly landed a couple of Oscars
at this year's Academy Awards, in the Best
Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique) and Adapted Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher)
categories.
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.
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.
Especially when it comes to the Best
Supporting Actress race, you can almost always look
at it as a thin potential lineup, but to me, that does the
category a disservice.
The most recent example was Kate Winslet for The Reader who was named
supporting at the Globes (and won in that
category and in the lead
actress category).
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...
Carol brings up another key issue in the best -
actress predicament:
category fraud, the term for what happens when a performer in a lead role campaigns for a
supporting Oscar (often
at the insistence of the film's marketing team), theoretically increasing their chances of ultimately winning a statuette.
Last year, the
supporting -
actress category at the Globes matched up five - for - five with the Oscars later in the season, so maybe Lesley Manville not getting a nomination for Phantom Thread and The Big Sick's Holly Hunter being overlooked should tell us something.
BEST
SUPPORTING ACTRESS I don't know why I'm resisting the very alluring pull of Penelope Cruz in this
category — it's certainly a terrific performance in a terrific and undervalued (by the Academy,
at least) film — but the voices in my head have been telling me «no» all season.
Skarsgård's Big Little Lies co-star Laura Dern also took home her second big win of the season, winning Best
Supporting Actress in a limited series following her victory in the same
category at the Globes
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.
But for Paramount, she would have a better chance
at a win if she were considered in
Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead
category for her work in
But for Paramount, she would have a better chance
at a win if she were considered in
Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead
category for her work in Black Swan.
While maybe not quite as tight as this
category was in 2007,
at which time we guessed correctly that Tilda Swinton would take the trophy from the likes of Cate Blanchett, Amy Ryan, and Ruby Dee practically by default, once again Best
Supporting Actress is giving Oscar prognosticators everywhere the fear of — gasp!
For the 13th time
at least one
category resulted in a tie when Viola Davis (Fences) and Naomie Harris (Moonlight) tied in the Best
Supporting Actress category.
Sean C.:
Supporting Actress is still relatively open, but Sony already has
at least one strong contender in this
category (Miranda Richardson), one of those «English ladies» AMPAS likes; — RRB -, maybe even two (Jackie Weaver).
A look
at «
category fraud» as it relates to the campaigns for Rooney Mara and Alicia Vikander to be considered
supporting actresses in Carol and The Danish Girl.
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.
Now, its best and possibly only shots
at becoming an Oscar nominee are Winfrey slipping into the not terribly deep
Supporting Actress category and maybe snagging a slot in Best Original Song.
This should come as a shock to no one,
at least to close watchers of the yearly Oscar race: Steinfeld, who just received a BAFTA nomination for Leading
Actress, may have shown up in the
supporting category when the SAG nominations were announced last month, but that's where Keisha - Castle Hughes (The Whale Rider) and Kate Winslet (The Reader) also appeared prior to subsequently securing Best
Actress Oscar nominations for the same performances.
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).
Best
Actress is getting quite solid, with Streep now
at 10 votes, making it the only
category with just one name lacking complete
support.
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.