2021 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (December)

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With five critics groups announcing winners last week (and two on tap for Monday but after this will have posted), only two contenders have earned wins so far: Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) and Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm). They both move up this month.

Frontrunner Amanda Seyfried (Mank) has showed up on some nomination lists and even landed a runner-up mention from Los Angeles, but has yet to claim a win herself. Olivia Colman (The Father) has oddly found herself left off nearly all nomination lists that have heartily welcomed her film and co-star Anthony Hopkins. What to make of that…

Making her debut on the chart this month, at #9, is Candice Bergen in Let Them All Talk from HBO Max. A previous Oscar nominee and multi-Emmy winner, Bergen is a classic supporting scene-stealer in the Steven Soderbergh-directed comedy and has earned some of the best notices of her career.

Here are my ranked 2021 Oscar predictions in Supporting Actress for December.

Green – moves up; Red – moves down; Blue – new entry this month

1. Amanda Seyfried – Mank (Netflix)

2. Olivia Colman – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)

3. Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (A24)

4. Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)

5. Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman (Netflix)

6. Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios)

7. Saoirse Ronan – Ammonite (Neon)

8. Helena Zengel – News of the World (Universal Pictures)

9. Candice Bergen – Let Them All Talk (HBO Max)

10. Jodie Foster – The Mauritanian (STX Entertainment)


Other Contenders: Toni Collette – I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix), Olivia Cooke – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios), Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros), Priyanka Chopra Jones – The White Tiger (Netflix), Natasha Lyonne – The United States vs Billie Holiday (Paramount), Lesley Manville – Let Him Go (Focus Features), Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Paramount Pictures), Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features), Charlene Swankie – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures), Marisa Tomei – The King of Staten Island (Universal Pictures)

Image of Candice Bergen courtesy of HBO Max

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.

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