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?
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)
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.
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