2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (October)
What if they put on the 97th Oscars just to trap Josh Hartnett in the Dolby Theatre?
Here are my 2025 Oscar predictions in Best Actor for October.
- Adrien Brody – The Brutalist (A24)
- Ralph Fiennes – Conclave (Focus Features)
- Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
- Colman Domingo – Sing Sing (A24)
- Paul Mescal – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
- Daniel Craig – Queer (A24)
- Glen Powell – Hit Man (Netflix)
- Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
- Sebastian Stan – A Different Man (A24)
- Josh Hartnett – Trap (Warner Bros)
Next up: Kingsley Ben-Adir – Bob Marley: One Love (Paramount Pictures), Ethan Herisse – Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM), Tom Hanks – Here (Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures), Jharrel Jerome – Unstoppable (Amazon MGM), Gabriel LaBelle – Saturday Night (Sony Pictures), Cillian Murphy – Small Things Like These (Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions), Joaquin Phoenix – Joker: Folie à Deux (Warner Bros), Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment), John David Washington – The Piano Lesson (Netflix), Robbie Williams – Better Man (Paramount Pictures)
Other contenders: Austin Butler – The Bikeriders (Focus Features), Timothée Chalamet – Dune Part Two (Warner Bros), Adam Driver – Megalopolis (Lionsgate), Andrew Garfield – We Live in Time (A24), Richard Gere – Oh, Canada (Kino Lorber), André Holland – Exhibiting Forgiveness (Roadside Attractions), Anthony Hopkins – One Life (Bleecker Street), Barry Keoghan – Bird (MUBI), Jesse Plemons – Kinds of Kindness (Searchlight Pictures), Jason Schwartzman – Between Two Temples (Sony Pictures Classics), Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu (Focus Features), Michael Shannon – The End (NEON)
Is he even eligible?: Nicholas Hoult – Juror #2 (Warner Bros)
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