2017 Oscar Predictions: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (July)

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Unlike Best Supporting Actor we are seeing some action here in Best Supporting Actress this month from last month. Even though the #1 and #2 spots stay the same, Moonlight‘s Naomie Harris is inching closer to Manchester by the Sea‘s Michelle Williams for that top spot and in doing so is the first to give us the start of a real race in this category. Laura Dern (Wilson) makes a move from 4th to 3rd, flip-flopping with Rachel Weisz (The Mercy, formerly Deep Water) and Nicole Kidman (Lion) falls hard, losing her top 5 spot.

This month we also lose Katey Sagal (Bleed For This), Julianne Moore (Maggie’s Plan) and Annette Bening (20th Century Women). Bening’s loss here though was her huge gain in Best Actress where now all of her votes lie.  Those losses have paved the way for Kristen Stewart in Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk to now find herself in the top 5, more than doubling her point total in the process.

But, this is still a really open field and most of these films and performances remain to be seen so we’ll be keeping a close eye on Jennifer Aniston (The Yellow Birds), Aunjanue Ellis (The Birth of a Nation) and Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) in the coming months.

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

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Shohreh Aghdashloo – The Promise
Jennifer Aniston – The Yellow Birds
Annette Bening – Rules Don’t Apply
Lily Collins – Rules Don’t Apply
Olivia Colman – The Lobster
Laura Dern – The Founder
Aunjanue Ellis – The Birth of a Nation
Elle Fanning – 20th Century Women
Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women
Allison Janney – Tallulah
Nicole Kidman – How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Jennifer Jason Leigh – LBJ
Laura Linney – Sully
Rooney Mara – Lion
Helen Mirren – Eye in the Sky
Janelle Monáe – Hidden Figures
Janelle Monáe – Moonlight
Katey Sagal – Bleed For This
Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures
Kristen Stewart – Certain Women
Meg Tilly – War Machine

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

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST FILM EDITING
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
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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.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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