Nominations voting is from January 11-16, 2024, with official Oscar nominations introduced January 23, 2024. Remaining voting is February 22-27, 2024. And at last, the 96th Oscars telecast shall be broadcast on Sunday, March 10 and air dwell on ABC at 8:00 p.m. ET/ 5:00 p.m. PT. We replace predictions by awards season, so hold checking IndieWire for all our 2024 Oscar picks.
The State of the Race
Whereas there are not any Best Supporting Actor contenders from the primary half of the 12 months that appear set to dominate this coming awards season the entire means by, like this 12 months’s winner Ke Huy Quan (“Every thing In all places All at As soon as”), loads of performances have been deemed standouts amongst spectacular ensembles.
The most important present instance could be the reward Ryan Gosling is receiving for his comedic flip as Ken within the highly-anticipated Warner Bros. launch “Barbie,” however flip again the clock a bit, and actors like Noah Galvin (“Theater Camp”), Chris Messina (“Air”), and Glenn Howerton (“Blackberry”) all garnered a wave of reward from filmgoers popping out of premieres at Sundance and SXSW.
But when one had been to position bets on the three actors that already appear destined for a nomination, though there are dozens of performances audiences haven’t seen but, it will be Robert De Niro for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” John Magaro for “Previous Lives,” and Charles Melton for “Could December.” Whereas the previous is a two-time Oscar winner excelling at a uniquely antagonistic function, the latter pair symbolize two totally different sorts of breakouts the Academy likes to honor.
Magaro had just lately been a longshot awards contender for his function within the 2020 Kelly Reichardt movie “First Cow,” so those that had been rooting for him then are actually ecstatic to see him get an excellent greater showcase with “Previous Lives,” which the vast majority of critics contemplate to be the very best movie of the 12 months to this point. In the meantime, “Riverdale” star Melton has not been getting ready to awards rivalry in the identical means, however was the speak of Cannes after the buzzy “Could December” premiere, the place people noticed a distinct aspect of his appearing capabilities holding his personal between Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman — each Finest Actress winners.
Nonetheless to come back are movies like “Challengers,” “The Bikeriders,” “Saltburn,” and “The Iron Claw,” which appear to be they may provide multiple viable Finest Supporting Actor candidate, partly as a result of it isn’t totally clear but what number of performances in them shall be thought-about leads.
The extra identified portions are movies like “Poor Issues,” which has a trailer that closely hints at Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, and Ramy Youssef all orbiting lead Emma Stone. “The Coloration Purple” already has quite a lot of issues going for it — the unique movie adaptation obtained 11 Oscar nominations, and the Broadway musical adaptation was a serious Tony winner — however Colman Domingo is particularly one to look at right here as a celebrated flip as Mister might bolster his Lead Actor marketing campaign for “Rustin,” and vice versa. Lastly, Samuel L. Jackson was simply nominated for a Tony enjoying the identical function he shall be enjoying in “The Piano Lesson.” The Academy has given Oscars to the 2 August Wilson movie variations Denzel Washington has produced to this point, and Jackson has been nominated on this class earlier than, so the 2024 Oscars might very nicely be the 12 months the prolific actor lastly wins a aggressive award.
Contenders are listed in alphabetical order, beneath. No actor shall be deemed a frontrunner till I’ve seen the movie.
Frontrunners:
Robert De Niro (“Killers of the Flower Moon”)
Noah Galvin (“Theater Camp”)
John Magaro (“Previous Lives”)
Chris Messina (“Air”)
Jesse Plemons (“Killers of the Flower Moon”)
Contenders:
Ben Affleck (“Air”)
Matt Bomer (“Maestro”)
Willem Dafoe (“Poor Issues”)
Matt Damon (“Oppenheimer”)
Colman Domingo (“The Coloration Purple”)
Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”)
Ryan Gosling (“Barbie”)
Samuel L. Jackson (“The Piano Lesson”)
Charles Melton (“Could December”)
Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Issues”)
Lengthy Photographs:
Jason Bateman (“Air”)
Austin Butler (“Dune: Half Two”)
Raul Castillo (“Cassandro”)
Jacob Elordi (“Priscilla”)
Corey Hawkins (“The Coloration Purple”)
Glenn Howerton (“BlackBerry”)
Nathan Lane (“Beau is Afraid”)
Jude Legislation (“Firebrand”)
Will Pullen (“A Little Prayer”)
Ramy Youssef (“Poor Issues”)
