2019 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (April) – Amy Adams Still #1 but will Regina King Reign?

Erik Anderson April 18, 2018

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We’re just in the second month of Oscar predictions for next year and Amy Adams is finally winning, right? As much as people probably want to see that happen, and as much as many people feel she’s deserved wins before, her path may not be so simple. Adams got the first of her FIVE nominations in Supporting Actress for Junebug in 2006, her big breakthrough and the only nomination for that film. She followed that up with three more supporting nominations, losing each time. She finally graduated to lead with her first Best Actress nomination in 2014 for American Hustle (a film that went 0-10 at the Oscars). Then came Arrival, a film that earned 8 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. But Adams, who had earned Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice and BAFTA nominations for the role was shockingly snubbed. All of that creates the kind of narrative that works really well with the Academy and her turn in Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic is, by all accounts, a win-worthy performance. And maybe, the Academy likes Adams more in supporting than they do in lead at this point.

For all of that though, I think two-time Emmy winner Regina King will give Adams a run for her money in If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s a rich character and King was unquestionably the right choice for it. The Academy isn’t shy about giving TV stars Oscars, we just saw it happen in this very category. Adams will 100% play the campaign game to the very end and if King can go toe-to-toe with her then we’ll have a great race. Here’s the catch – both films are from Annapurna. Will the burgeoning indie studio choose between the two or give them equal campaigns? It’s an impossible call at this stage but one that will be very interesting to watch play out.

This month, the chart doesn’t change one bit. Same names and placements as last month. It’s weird, but I could see this category panning out exactly like this. Realistically that won’t happen (nor would I be so bold as to claim five locks in April). Looking into the Other Contenders we can dig into Tatiana Maslany in Destroyer, Cynthia Erivo in Widows, Salma Hayek in The Hummingbird Project (if she’s not lead), Carol Kane in The Sisters Brothers, and maybe even Tilda Swinton in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake.

Plus, I know I shouldn’t have to say it but, don’t count out Meryl Streep (evergreen comment). Her role in Mary Poppins Returns is most likely of a cameo level as it was in Suffragette but if it’s any more than that, look out.

Here are my predictions for Best Supporting Actress as of April 18, 2018.

1. Amy Adams – Untitled Dick Cheney biopic

2. Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk

3. Margot Robbie – Mary Queen of Scots

4. Claire Foy – First Man

5. Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased

6. Sissy Spacek – Old Man and the Gun

7. Olivia Colman – The Favourite

8. Vera Farmiga – The Front Runner

9. Laura Dern – JT Leroy

10. Michelle Yeoh – Crazy Rich Asians

OTHER CONTENDERS

Jennifer Aniston – Dumplin’

Annette Bening – Georgetown

Lucy Boynton – Bohemian Rhapsody

Linda Cardellini – Green Book

Zoe Chao – Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cynthia Erivo – Widows

Adèle Exarchopoulos – The White Crow

Eiza González – The Women of Marwen

Denise Gough – Colette

Salma Hayek – The Hummingbird Project

Lena Headey – Fighting with My Family

Carol Kane – The Sisters Brothers

Diane Kruger – The Women of Marwen

Lisa Lu – Crazy Rich Asians

Teresa Mahoney – Peterloo

Tatiana Maslany – Destroyer

Rachel McAdams – Disobedience

Janelle Monáe – The Women of Marwen

Chloë Grace Moretz – Suspiria

Ruth Negga – Ad Astra

Alison Pill – Untitled Dick Cheney biopic

Charlotte Rampling – The Little Stranger

Elena Sofia Ricci – Loro

Emily Rios – If Beale Street Could Talk

Andrea Riseborough – Burden

Julia Roberts – Ben is Back

Saoirse Ronan – The Seagull

Amy Ryan – Beautiful Boy

Léa Seydoux – Kursk

Anna Deavere Smith – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Meryl Streep – Mary Poppins Returns

Tilda Swinton – Suspiria

Holland Taylor – Gloria

Marina de Tavira – Roma

Katherine Waterston – Mid 90s

Jacki Weaver – Widows

Kristen Wiig – Where’d You Go, Bernadette

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Erik Anderson

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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.