Not exact matches
Even with campaigns in full swing for The Big Sick and Get Out, among others, the acting
categories (with the exception of
Supporting Actress) are
looking very... white.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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...
Festival fave «Metro Manila» snared Best Film and Best Director, while the other
categories spread the love around with James McAvoy earning Best Actor for «Filth,» Ben Mendelsohn winning Best
Supporting Actor for «Starred Up» with Imogen Poots getting a new decoration for the fireplace with her prize for Best
Supporting Actress for «The
Look Of Love.»
Metcalf is an underdog against I, Tonya's Allison Janney in the
Supporting Actress category, and the movie's screenplay
looks to be drawing dead in a two - horse race between Get Out and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
The battle in the
supporting acting
categories looks equally fierce, with singer turned
actress Mary J. Blige nominated in the outstanding female
supporting actress category for her role in Dee Rees» Mudbound.
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.
We've already run down the ebbs and flows of the Best
Supporting Actor
category, and today we'll be taking a
look back and how the race played out for Best
Supporting Actress.
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).