2017 Oscar Predictions: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (July)

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The top 5 in Best Supporting Actor this month mirrors last month with even very little movement in point totals. Summer is definitely a stagnant time for Oscar predictions and looking at this chart explains why. Of the 11 performances on the chart only three have been seen and/or reviewed (Armie Hammer, The Birth of a Nation; John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane and Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins) so we have little to go on other than ‘on paper’ possibilities. We have trailers for Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Sully and Denial but some films, like Fences and Moonlight have barely finished principal photography.

Timothy Spall (Denial) is the only new entry this month, at #11, where he replaces Silence‘s Adam Driver. Liam Neeson (also from Silence) has a stranglehold on the #1 spot yet again and to prove just how sluggish the predictions are in this category are, John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane) is still here. Aaron Eckhart (Sully) breaks from his three-way tie in 6th place last month to own that spot to himself this month and Andre Holland splits from his Moonlight co-star Mahershala Ali to move ahead.

Here are the July Oscar predictions for Best Supporting Actor from The Gold Rush Gang:

OTHER CONTENDERS
Riz Ahmed – Una
Tadanobu Asano – Silence
Warren Beatty – Rules Don’t Apply
Steve Carell – Café Society
Kevin Costner – Hidden Figures
Adam Driver – Silence
Aaron Eckhart – Bleed for This
Alden Ehrenreich – Rules Don’t Apply
Colin Farell – The Lobster
Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea
Garrett Hedlund – Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Jack Huston – The Yellow Birds
Edward Norton – Collateral Beauty
Jack O’Connell – HHhH
Edgar Ramirez – Gold
Jeremy Renner – Arrival
Peter Sarsgaard – Jackie
Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals
J.K. Simmons – La La Land
Chris Tucker – Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
David Wenham – Lion

Follow the updated Gold Rush Gang predictions in other Oscar categories here:

BEST PICTURE
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST FILM EDITING
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
BEST SOUND EDITING
BEST SOUND MIXING
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE