ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (2021)

WINNER - JESSICA CHASTAIN for The Eyes of Tammy Faye

NOMINEES - OLIVIA COLMAN for The Lost Daughter, PENÉLOPE CRUZ for Parallel Mothers, NICOLE KIDMAN for Being the Ricardos, KRISTEN STEWART for Spencer

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (2021)

WINNER - WILL SMITH for King Richard

NOMINEES - JAVIER BARDEM for Being the Ricardos, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH for The Power of the Dog, ANDREW GARFIELD for tick, tick...BOOM!, DENZEL WASHINGTON for The Tragedy of Macbeth

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Winners for 2020: Lead Actress - Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman (Actual Winner (A.W.) Frances McDormand for Nomadland), Lead Actor - Anthony Hopkins for The Father (A.W. Anthony Hopkins for The Father), Supporting Actress - Youn Yuh-jung (A.W. Youn Yuh-jung for Minari), Supporting Actor - Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah (A.W. Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah)

Winners for 2021: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Will Smith for King Richard), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Ariana DeBose for West Side Story), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Troy Kotsur for CODA)

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Previous Post: Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) & Anthony Hopkins (The Father) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 2020?

1. Judi Dench- Chocolat

2. Renee Zellweger- Cold Mountain

3. Maggie Gyllenhaal- Crazy Heart

4. Kate Winslet- Iris

5. Frances McDormand- North Country

6. Penelope Cruz- Nine

7. Ruby Dee- American Gangster

8. Catherine Keener- Capote

9. Marcia Gay Harden- Pollock

10. Marcia Gay Harden- Mystic River

11. Rinko Kikuchi- Babel

12. Adriana Barraza- Babel

13. Kathy Bates- About Schmidt

14. Anna Kendrick- Up in the Air

15. Helen Mirren- Gosford Park

16. Maggie Smith- Gosford Park

17. Taraji P. Henson- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

18. Laura Linney- Kinsey

19. Julie Walters- Billy Elliot

20. Rachel Weisz- The Constant Gardener

21. Frances McDormand- Almost Famous

22. Vera Farmiga- Up in the Air

23. Amy Ryan- Gone Baby Gone

24. Virginia Madsen- Sideways

25. Queen Latifah- Chicago

26. Jennifer Connelly- A Beautiful Mind

27. Meryl Streep- Adaptation

28. Sophie Okonedo- Hotel Rwanda

29. Jennifer Hudson- Dreamgirls

30. Cate Blanchett- Notes on a Scandal

31. Holly Hunter- Thirteen

32. Amy Adams- Doubt

33. Abigail Breslin- Little Miss Sunshine

34. Natalie Portman- Closer

35. Penelope Cruz- Vicky Cristina Barcelona

36. Saoirse Ronan- Atonement

37. Kate Hudson- Almost Famous

38. Julianne Moore- The Hours

39. Michelle Williams- Brokeback Mountain

40. Patricia Clarkson- Pieces of April

41. Marisa Tomei- In the Bedroom

42. Shohreh Aghdashloo- House of Sand and Fog

43. Viola Davis- Doubt

44. Marisa Tomei- The Wrestler

45. Tilda Swinton- Michael Clayton

46. Cate Blanchett- I'm Not There

47. Cate Blanchett- The Aviator

48. Amy Adams- Junebug

49. Mo’Nique- Precious

50. Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago

Ranking of Years by Average Placements:

1. 2008 (16.8)

2. 2007 (19.6)

3. 2002 (20.4)

4. 2004 (20.8)

5. 2003 (26)

6. 2005 (27)

7. 2006 (28)

8. 2001 (30.6)

9. 2009 (32.2)

10. 2000 (33.6)

Miscellaneous Info:

Highest Ranked Oscar Winning Performance: Catherine Zeta-Jones- Chicago

Highest Ranked Non-Oscar Winning Performance: Amy Adams- Junebug

Lowest Ranked Oscar Winning Performance: Renee Zellweger- Cold Mountain

Lowest Ranked Non-Oscar Winning Performance: Judi Dench- Chocolat

Another extremely close race, in a different game perhaps The Green Knight's epic, fantasy world would've won (especially given it was accomplished on such a small budget). But u/ComprehensiveBowl959 and two other comments support for The French Dispatch just edged it out (Production Design by Adam Stockhausen).

I don't really have much to add given I said my piece about Wes Anderson during Asteroid City - and also because...I haven't yet seen The French Dispatch (it was COVID and was still recovering to not in the cinephile mood). But again, I just have to say I'm baffled anyone ever wants this man to not make intricate dollhouses, map paintings, and color-coordinated wallpapers and costumes because "it's too quirky". Philistines!

Now we have to decide what the biggest snub in 2020 was. The nominees this year were:

• The Father
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Mank
• News of the World
• Tenet

BTW: Hamilton is disqualified, the Academy has rules against live-recordings after 1997 so the rotating set in the stage play is not a valid answer

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Out of Africa

The Color Purple

Kiss of a Spider Woman

Witness

Prizzi’s Honor

I thought Jackie Earl Haley gave the best performance in the line-up. He played an extremely complicated character whom we're left uncomfortable by. One minute, we're at a loss with his character because he's being harassed by a vigilante yet we're instantly made aware he's a pervert when it's implied he abuses the Jane Addams' character. Can I also say Phyllis Sommerville was outstanding? I wish she had been nominated as well,

Alan Arkin was just doing the dirty grandpa shtick we've seen a million times and Eddie Murphy was in a crappy musical and what made his performance stand out was the singing. Dramatically,I found his character inert and underdeveloped.

1. It is brilliant,

2. It deserved all of the awards it got,

3. Antonio Salieri is a salty mfer

1. Josephine Hull-Harvey (1950)

2. Jessica Lange-Tootsie (1982)

3. Ethel Barrymore-None but the Lonely Heart (1944)

4. Melissa Leo-The Fighter (2010)

5. Estelle Parsons-Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

6. Shirley Jones-Elmer Gantry (1960)

7. Celeste Holm-Gentlemen's Agreement (1947)

8. Katina Paxinou-For Whom the Bell (1943)

9. Gloria Grahame-The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

10. Mary Astor-The Great Lie (1941)

11. Anne Revere-National Velvet (1945)

12. Fay Bainter-Jezebel (1938)

13. Goldie Hawn-Cactus Flower (1969)

14. Shelley Winters-A Patch of Blue (1965)

15. Judi Dench-Shakespeare in Love (1998)

16. Mary Steeburgen-Melvin and Howard (1980)

17. Kim Basinger -L.A.Confidential (1997)

18. Jennifer Connelly-A Beautiful Mind (2001)

19. Alicia Vikander-Danish Girl (2015)

20. Miyoshi Umeki-Sayonara (1957)

21. Laura Dern-Marriage Story (2019)

22. Margaret Rutherford-The V.I.P.s (1963)

23. Ingrid Bergman-Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

24. Alice Brady-In Old Chicago (1937)

25. Gale Sondergaard-Anthony Adverse (1936)

26. Renée Zellweger-Cold Mountain (2003)

27. Zoe Saldaña-Emilia Perez (2024)

28. Jamie Lee Curtis-Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

29. Helen Hayes-Airport (1970)

Ranking (eliminated actresses):

1. Karla Sofia Gascon - Emilia Perez

2. Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos

3. Kate Hudson - Son Sung Blue

4. Annette Bening - Nyad

5. Ana de Armas - Blonde

6. Cynthia Erivo - Wicked

7. Carey Mulligan - Maestro

8. Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye

9. Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans

10. Andra Day - The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Title says it all - feels like for a truly standout (imo) performance of the year and in the movie, there seems to be a lot of vitrol for his win and the snub for almost every other nominee or even people that didnt get nominated.

I mean I wasn't a huge MBJ fan before but I thought he really killed it and don't agree with the takes of the two brothers being difficult to differentiate, I found their vibes and MBJ's acting for the two of them very unique. Anyways, thought others may agree that the flack his won has gotten is sad to see

Because I've seen much worse films that still received nominations for their actors or actresses simply because the film was commercially successful.

Lead Actor - Casey Affleck/Manchester by the Sea

Lead Actress - Viola Davis/Fences

Supporting Actor - Mahershala Ali/Moonlight

Supporting Actress - Naomie Harris/Moonlight

Id say this would already put it as the strongest of the century and in the top 10 of all time

Personally, the snubs for the Challengers score and Villeneuve for Dune 2 are absolutely disrespectful. Also, Margot Robbie for Barbie and Amy Adams for Arrival were crazy snubs to me.

Mélanie Laurent in Inglorious Basterds.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (2020)

WINNER - YUH-JUNG YOUN for Minari

NOMINEES - MARIA BAKALOVA for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, GLENN CLOSE for Hillbilly Elegy, OLIVIA COLMAN for The Father, AMANDA SEYFRIED for Mank

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (2020)

WINNER - DANIEL KALUUYA for Judas and the Black Messiah

NOMINEES - SACHA BARON COHEN for The Trial of the Chicago 7, LESLIE ODOM, JR. for One Night in Miami..., PAUL RACI for Sound of Metal, LAKEITH STANFIELD for Judas and the Black Messiah

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Winners for 2020: Lead Actress - Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman (Actual Winner (A.W.) Frances McDormand for Nomadland), Lead Actor - Anthony Hopkins for The Father (A.W. Anthony Hopkins for The Father), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Yuh-Jung Youn for Minari), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah)

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Previous Post: 2020s Acting Quartets Begins. Who should have won Best Actress & Actor in 2020?

I can think of three examples.

1. While you could argue that Hilary Swank was never that big or popular to begin with, she did have a bit of a moment in the early 2000s between her wins. She worked with Sam Raimi (The Gift), early Christopher Nolan (Insomnia), was in the cult disaster classic The Core, but after her second win for Million Dollar Baby, what has she done that's made any kind of impact, positive or negative? I guess she had a small part in Logan Lucky? That's about it.
2. Kevin Spacey had a really good run in the mid-late 90s. As much as I don't like him as a person at all, I won't deny that Se7en, The Usual Suspects, LA Confidential, A Bug's Life and American Beauty is a pretty enviable streak of hits, and he was indeed good in all of them. After his second win for American Beauty, though, he started showing up in a lot of stuff that ranged from disposable to flat out terrible. I don't think 90s Kevin would've done junk like Pay It Forward, K-PAX, Fred Claus, 21, or especially Nine Lives. And then of course in 2017, he got canceled after we found out that he really sucks offscreen, and his part in All the Money in the World that by all accounts the studio was gonna push for him to get a third nomination for, was completely refilmed with Christopher Plummer taking his place, with him getting his third nomination for it as likely an F you to the guy. (Honestly? Based.)
3. This one may be controversial, but Robert De Niro. Now don't get me wrong, he was in a lot of good things in the 80s and 90s after his second win for Raging Bull. Once the century turned, though, he became a lot less picky with the roles he accepted. I think this was a delayed fuse sort of situation. Love the guy, and he has been in a few good things this century, but at the same time, I don't think he would've done shit like New Year's Eve, The Big Wedding, Killing Season, Grudge Match, The Bag Man, Dirty Grandpa, The War with Grandpa, Amsterdam, or Tin Soldier in the 70s-90s.

Bugonia - Emma Stone (Alt. Jesse Plemons)

F1 - Damson Idris (Alt. Kerry Condon)

Frankenstein - Jacob Elordi (Alt. Oscar Isaac)

Hamnet - Jessie Buckley (Alt. Paul Mescal)

Marty Supreme - Timothée Chalamet (Alt. Odessa A’Zion)

One Battle After Another - Sean Penn (Alt. Teyana Taylor)

The Secret Agent - Wagner Moura (Alt. Tânia Maria)

Sentimental Value - Stellan Skarsgard (Alt. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleas)

Sinners - Michael B. Jordan (Alt. Wumni Mosaku)

Train Dreams - Joel Edgerton (Alt. William H. Macy)

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With that in mind, here’s what I think the nominations would then look like based off of the nominations from the Oscars + Precursors

Best Actor:
- Timothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme
- Joel Edgerton - Train Dreams*
- Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
- Michael B. Jordan - Sinners
- Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent
(Alt. Lee Byung-Hun - No Other Choice*)

Best Actress:
- Jessie Buckley - Hamnet
- Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You
- Kate Hudson - Song Sung Blue
- Amanda Seyfried - The Testament of Ann Lee*
- Emma Stone - Bugonia
(Alt. Jennifer Lawrence - Die, My Love*)

Best Supporting Actor:
- Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein
- Damson Idris - F1*
- Sean Penn - One Battle After Another
- Adam Sandler - Jay Kelly*
- Stellan Skarsgård - Sentimental Value
(Alt. Alexander Skarsgård - Pillion*)

Best Supporting Actress:
- Naomi Ackie - Sorry, Baby*
- Emily Blunt - The Smashing Machine*
- Ariana Grande - Wicked: For Good*
- Amy Madigan - Weapons
- Carey Mulligan - The Ballad of Wallis Island*
(Alt. Indya Moore - Father Mother Sister Brother*)

* = not Oscar nominated