Welcome to the supporting actor race for 2024. With the fall film festival season now in the distance and a few potential contenders still to debut on the horizon, it’s time for our first look at the battle for Best Supporting Actor.
It’s shaping up to be a fun race this season with no clear early frontrunner to emerge as yet. The one contender to emerge from the festivals was Guy Pearce in the much-loved The Brutalist. Once A24 picked up distribution and set a December release date, Pearce jumped to the head of the pack here. Without getting into spoilers, Peace plays a deeply unlikeable character and it’s always hard to know how the Academy will respond to such a role. But Pearce does it so damn well in a career-best turn that should at least see him net his first Oscar nomination.
The very first screening of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II has just occurred with a mix of film critics and film influencers present. Of course, the latter have nothing but praise for the film while the critics were almost uniformly positive. Unsurprisingly, there was unanimous acclaim for Denzel Washington’s scene-stealing supporting performance, so he could very well be heading for his third Oscar and join the likes of triple winners Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman, Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR PREDICTIONS:
1. Guy Pearce – The Brutalist (A24)
2. Denzel Washington – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
3. Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
4. Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing (A24)
5. Stanley Tucci – Conclave (Focus Features)
IN CONTENTION
Yury Borisov – Anora (NEON)
Harris Dickinson – Babygirl (A24)
Mark Eydelshteyn – Anora (NEON)
Ray Fisher – The Piano Lesson (Netflix)
John Lithgow – Conclave (Focus Features)
John Magaro – September 5 (Paramount Pictures)
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
Adam Pearson – A Different Man (A24)
Joseph Quinn – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment)
Discover more from Filmotomy
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
