2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (June)
Julianne Moore rises on the news of Netflix grabbing the Todd Haynes-directed May December out of Cannes and new entries in the Top 10 this month from Jodie Foster (Nyad) and Lashana Lynch (Bob Marley: One Love).
With The Piano Lesson having very recently begun production as the WGA strike hit, it’s probably not very likely the film will be turned around in time for a 2023 release and Netflix already has their hands full with tons of titles that are finished and ready to go. With that, Danielle Deadwyler drops down. I still feel strongly about Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, such a scene stealer in 2019’s Dolemite is My Name, feels right to break though for the upcoming Alexander Payne film The Holdovers.
Category placement will always plague predictions and even though Killers of the Flower Moon has been seen and reviewed, there is still a chance Lily Gladstone could end up being pushed for either. Prevailing thought remains supporting but only time will tell.
Here are my 2024 Oscar predictions in Supporting Actress for June 2023.
- Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) – lead or supporting?
- Taraji P. Henson – The Color Purple (Warner Bros)
- Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple (Warner Bros)
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers (Focus Features)
- Julianne Moore – May December (Netflix)
- Viola Davis – Air (Amazon Studios)
- Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
- Rosamund Pike – Saltburn (Amazon Studios)
- Jodie Foster – Nyad (Netflix)
- Lashana Lynch – Bob Marley: One Love (Paramount Pictures)
Other contenders and/or possible 2024 releases:
- Uzo Aduba – The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Searchlight Pictures)
- Jodi Balfour – Freud’s Last Session (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Kathy Burke – Blitz (Apple Original Films)
- Tantoo Cardinal – Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures)
- Gemma Chan – The Actor (NEON)
- Jessica Chastain – Mother’s Instinct (NEON) – lead or supporting?
- Olivia Colman – Wonka (Warner Bros)
- Jodie Comer – The Bikeriders (20th Century Studios)
- Juliet Cowan – Back to Black (Focus Features)
- Penélope Cruz – Ferrari (STX Entertainment)
- Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson (Netflix)
- Anna Diop – The Book of Clarence (Sony Pictures)
- Aunjanue Ellis – The Nickel Boys (MGM)
- Aunjanue Ellis – The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Searchlight Pictures) – lead or supporting?
- Beanie Feldstein – Drive-Away Dolls (Searchlight Pictures)
- America Ferrera – Dumb Money (Sony Pictures)
- America Ferrera – Barbie (Warner Bros)
- Claire Foy – Strangers (Searchlight Pictures)
- Anne Hathaway – Eileen (NEON)
- Anne Hathaway – Mother’s Instinct (NEON) – lead or supporting?
- Sally Hawkins – Wonka (Warner Bros)
- Stephanie Hsu – Joy Ride (Lionsgate)
- Lily James – The Iron Claw (A24)
- Kaimana – Next Goal Wins (Searchlight Pictures)
- Erin Kellyman – Blitz (Apple Original Films)
- Vanessa Kirby – Napoleon (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures)
- Sanaa Lathan – The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Searchlight Pictures)
- Patti LuPone – Beau Is Afraid (A24)
- Lesley Manville – Back to Black (Focus Features)
- Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)
- Melissa McCarthy – The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney)
- Audra McDonald – Rustin (Netflix)
- Carey Mulligan – Maestro (Netflix) – lead or supporting?
- Carey Mulligan – Saltburn (Amazon Studios)
- Carey Mulligan – Spaceman (Netflix)
- Annie Murphy – Fingernails (Apple Original Films)
- Niousha Noor – The Persian Version (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Catherine O’Hara – Pain Hustlers (Netflix)
- Allison Oliver – Saltburn (Amazon Studios)
- Carrie Preston – The Holdovers (Focus Features)
- CCH Pounder – Rustin (Netflix)
- Florence Pugh – Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
- Margaret Qualley – Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
- Renate Reinsve – A Different Man (A24)
- Isabella Rossellini – La Chimera (NEON)
- Isabella Rossellini – Spaceman (Netflix)
- Sarah Silverman – Maestro (Netflix)
- Jurnee Smollett – The Burial (Amazon Studios)
- Hayley Squires – Blitz (Apple Original Films)
- Tilda Swinton – The Killer (Netflix)
- Kristen Stewart – Love Lies Bleeding (A24)
- Maura Tierney – The Iron Claw (A24)
- Geraldine Viswanathan – Drive-Away Dolls (Searchlight Pictures)
- Shailene Woodley – Dumb Money (Sony Pictures)
- Shailene Woodley – Ferrari (STX Entertainment)
- Alfre Woodward – The Book of Clarence (Sony Pictures)
Without U.S. distribution: Patricia Arquette – Gonzo Girl (TBD), Eileen Atkins – Wicked Little Letters (TBD), Melissa Barrera – The Collaboration (TBD), Mary J. Blige – Rob Peace (TBD), Helena Bonham Carter – One Life (TBD), Connie Britton – Winner (TBD), Jessie Buckley – Wicked Little Letters (TBD), Marion Cotillard – Lee (TBD), Elsie Fisher – Memory (TBD), Gemma Jones – Wicked Little Letters (TBD), Deborah Mailman – The New Boy (TBD) – Cannes, Maria Mashkova – Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (TBD), Viktoria Miroshnichenko – Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (TBD), Kathryn Newton – Winner (TBD), Lena Olin – One Life (TBD), Andrea Riseborough – Lee (TBD), Isabella Rossellini – Conclave (TBD), Joanna Scanlan – Wicked Little Letters (TBD), Katherine Waterston – The End We Start From (TBD), Merritt Wever – Memory (TBD)
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