2019 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (June) – Sam Elliott, Adam Driver up; J.K. Simmons, Mahershala Ali debut
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Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) remains atop the Supporting Actor chart for another month with the drug addiction family drama Beautiful Boy and again with newly minted Supporting Actor Oscar winner Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) on his heels at #2 with Dick Cheney biopic Backseat starring as then-president George W. Bush.
After that there is a lot of movement and two new additions to the top 10.
Everything about A Star Is Born keeps getting stronger and Sam Elliott is no different. The never-nominated veteran moves up two spots to #6, inching closer to a possible nomination after more than 50 years in the business.
Two more performances from never-nominated actors are also moving up: Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? moves up one to #3 and Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman) lands in the top 5 for the first time this season.
This drops down Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk) to #5 but holding on, and Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) in Widows.
Joining the top 10 for the first time this season are two previous winners in this category: J.K. Simmons, who won for Whiplash, finds a place with The Front Runner and Moonlight‘s Mahershala Ali could find himself with a second nomination, this time for the period piece Green Book.
Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther) and Kyle Chandler (First Man) fall down to the Next Up section this month.
Here are my 2019 Oscar predictions in Best Supporting Actor for June 20th, 2018.
Green – moves up
Red – moves down
Blue – chart debut
| 1. Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy |
| 2. Sam Rockwell – Backseat |
| 3. Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| 4. Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman |
| 5. Stephan James – If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 6. Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born |
| 7. Daniel Kaluuya – Widows |
| 8. J.K. Simmons – The Front Runner |
| 9. Jeff Bridges – Bad Times at the El Royale |
| 10. Mahershala Ali – Green Book |
| NEXT UP |
| Kyle Chandler – First Man |
| Armie Hammer – On the Basis of Sex |
| Oscar Isaac – At Eternity’s Gate |
| Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther |
| Alex Wolff – Hereditary |
| OTHER CONTENDERS |
| Jon Bernthal – First Man |
| Steve Buscemi – Lean on Pete |
| Steve Carell – Backseat |
| Kyle Chandler – First Man |
| Russell Crowe – Boy Erased |
| Robert Duvall – Widows |
| Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased |
| Robert Forester – What They Had |
| Topher Grace – BlacKkKlansman |
| Jake Gyllenhaal – The Sisters Brothers |
| Lucas Hedges – Mid 90s |
| Tommy Lee Jones – Ad Astra |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda – Mary Poppins Returns |
| Matthew McConaughey – White Boy Rick |
| Liam Neeson – Widows |
| Mark Ruffalo – Newsflash |
| Michael Shannon – What They Had |
| Alexander Skarsgård – The Hummingbird Project |
| Sebastian Stan – Destroyer |
| Corey Stoll – First Man |
| Donald Sutherland – Ad Astra |
| David Tennant – Mary Queen of Scots |
| Courtney B. Vance – Ben is Back |
| Dominic West – Colette |
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