2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (September)
Pearce appears. Norton rises. Magaro surprises. Washington stays king.
Here are my 2025 Oscar predictions in Supporting Actor for August.
- Denzel Washington – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
- Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
- Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing (A24)
- Guy Pearce – The Brutalist (A24)
- Stanley Tucci – Conclave (Focus Features)
- Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
- Samuel L. Jackson – The Piano Lesson (Netflix)
- John Magaro – September 5 (Paramount Pictures)
- John Lithgow – Conclave (Focus Features)
- Drew Starkey – Queer (A24)
Next up: Yury Borisov – Anora (NEON), Austin Butler – Dune Part II (Warner Bros), Harris Dickinson – Babygirl (A24), Harris Dickinson – Blitz (Apple Original Films), Mark Eydelshteyn – Anora (NEON), Mike Faist – Challengers (Amazon MGM), Stephen Graham – Blitz (Apple Original Films), Mark Hamill – The Life of Chuck (TBA), Fred Hechinger – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures), Brian Tyree Henry – The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM), Cooper Hoffman – Saturday Night (Sony Pictures), Adam Pearson – A Different Man (A24), Josh O’Connor – Challengers (Amazon MGM), Joseph Quinn – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures), Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment), John Turturro – The Room Next Door (Sony Pictures Classics), Brandon Wilson – Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM)
Other contenders: Jonathan Bailey – Wicked Part I (Universal Pictures), Antonio Banderas – Babygirl (A24), Yuri Borisov – Anora (NEON), Nicholas Braun – Saturday Night (Sony Pictures), Willem Dafoe – Kinds of Kindness (Searchlight Pictures), Willem Dafoe – Saturday Night (Sony Pictures), Giancarlo Esposito – Megalopolis (Lionsgate), Tom Hardy – The Bikeriders (Focus Features), Chris Hemsworth – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros), Hamish Linklater – Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM), George MacKay – The End (NEON), Scoot McNairy – Nightbitch (Searchlight Pictures), Dylan O’Brien – Saturday Night (Sony Pictures), Jesse Plemons – Civil War (A24), Paul Raci – Sing Sing (A24), Cory Michael Smith – Saturday Night (Sony Pictures)
Lead or Supporting?: Mike Faist – Challengers (Amazon MGM), Tom Hiddleston – The Life of Chuck (TBA), Barry Keoghan – Bird (MUBI), Josh O’Connor – Challengers (Amazon MGM), Jesse Plemons – Kinds of Kindness (Searchlight Pictures), Brandon Wilson – Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM)
2024 or 2025?: Demián Bichir – Without Blood (Fremantle), Anders Danielsen Lie – The Summer Book (TBA), Mark Hamill – The Life of Chuck (TBA), Tom Hiddleston – The Life of Chuck (TBA)
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