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Friday
Sep222017

Oscar Chart Updates: Actor & Supp Actor

All sorts of things could yet throw the Best Supporting and Best Lead Actor races into confusion. In a  somewhat uncommon development the former is much more crowded than the latter. The shallow pool of viable Lead Actors is very good news for candidates like Timothée Chalamet (someone Oscar might normally resist due to his age) and Jake Gyllenhaal (someone Oscar has resisted for reasons inexplicable to us).

What do you make of the Supporting Actor race in particular? They way it looks now it could be made up almost entirely of character actors with worthy careers who have never won an Oscar and that's a very exciting thing. More exciting if you happen to be a fan of either Michael Stuhlbarg, Sam Rockwell, Richard Jenkins, or Willem Dafoe. I doubt that all four of them will make it all the way to the shortlist but the buzz is currently in their favor.

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Reader Comments (52)

Curious why no mention at all of Harry Dean Stanton as even a dark horse possibility for Lucky. There seems to be quick an affection for the performance among his peers and it would be a lovely career/posthumous tribute to a much loved & respected actor. I would love to see him nominated.

October 11, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterTroy

@Troy

Posthumous nods aren't a given despite producing two winners in the past.

October 11, 2017 | Unregistered Commenter/3rtful
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