2017-2018 Acting Precursor Breakdown: BFCA – GG – SAG – BAFTA – Oscar

Here is the list of every contender to receive a Critics’ Choice (BFCA), Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and/or BAFTA nomination for the 2017-2018 awards season on the way to Oscar nominations.

11 people achieved all four precursors and, unlike last year with Amy Adams (Arrival), every one of them earned an Oscar nomination. Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) is the first person to get an Oscar nomination with just SAG and BAFTA since Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) 11 years ago. Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) is the first actress to get in with just BAFTA

Here’s the breakdown:

BFCA + GG + SAG + BAFTA

Nominated:
Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird

BFCA + GG + SAG

Nominated:
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound

Not nominated:
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Hong Chau – Downsizing

BFCA + GG + BAFTA

Nominated:
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

BFCA + GG

Nominated:
Meryl Streep – The Post

Not nominated:
Tom Hanks – The Post
Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game
Armie Hammer – Call Me By Your Name

BFCA + SAG

Not nominated:
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick

GG + SAG

Nominated:
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Not nominated:
Judi Dench – Victoria & Abdul
Steve Carell – Battle of the Sexes (*GG in lead)

GG + BAFTA
Nominated:
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World

SAG + BAFTA
Nominated:
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

BFCA only

Not nominated:
Jake Gyllenhaal – Stronger
Patrick Stewart – Logan
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name
Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip

GG only

Not nominated:
Ansel Elgort – Baby Driver
Hugh Jackman – The Greatest Showman
Helen Mirren – The Leisure Seeker
Emma Stone – Battle of the Sexes
Michelle Williams – All the Money in the World

BAFTA only

Nominated:
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread

Not nominated:
Jamie Bell – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Annette Bening – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

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