Just as I did last year, I waited an entire two weeks from the previous ceremony before pontificating on the next Oscars. There is my impossibly early look at the six major categories for the 96th Academy Awards and it begins with Supporting Actor.
Let’s be clear that many of the 15 names I mention today will probably not be on the radar screen a little less than a year from now. Release dates will get pushed back and make some hopefuls ineligible. Some pictures will simply fizzle out. Roles will be smaller than anticipated or even bigger and perhaps contend in the lead derby.
With the four acting races and director, I’ll give you my five current picks with ten other possibilities. When it gets to Picture later this week, I’ll project my ten and list fifteen others.
In 2022, when I made my super duper early picks in Supporting Actor, it yielded none of the eventual contenders. Like I said… it’s early. Some of the names I said last time around were Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things, Glynn Turman in Rustin, and Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon. All three of those movies were pushed to 2023 and that’s why they materialize again.
Best Supporting Actress will be posted tomorrow. This is my snapshot of Supporting Actor.
TODD’S MARCH 2023 OSCAR PREDICTIONS: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Corey Hawkins, The Color Purple
Samuel L. Jackson, The Piano Lesson
Josh O’Connor, Challengers
Jesse Plemons, Killers of the Flower Moon
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Other Possibilities:
Ben Affleck, Air
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Book of Clarence
Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer
Matthew Goode, Freud’s Last Stand
Stephen Graham, Blitz
Richard E. Grant, Saltburn
Tahar Rahim, Napoleon
Glynn Turman, Rustin
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