2026 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (July)
Not much movement outside of dropping Stephen Graham (those black and white flashbacks in the trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere say very small part to me) and moving Takehiro Hira (Rental Family) up.
Here are my 2026 Oscar nomination predictions in Supporting Actor for July.
| 1. Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value (NEON) |
| 2. Jeremy Strong – Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (20th Century Studios) |
| 3. Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly (Netflix) |
| 4. Sean Penn – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros) |
| 5. Paul Mescal – Hamnet (Focus Features) |
| 6. Andrew Garfield – After the Hunt (Amazon MGM) |
| 7. Takehiro Hira – Rental Family (Searchlight Pictures) |
| 8. Miles Caton – Sinners (Warner Bros) |
| 9. Delroy Lindo – Sinners (Warner Bros) |
| 10. Andrew Scott – Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics) – Berlin winner |
| 11. Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros) |
| 12. Bradley Cooper – Is This Thing On? (Searchlight Pictures) |
| 13. Josh O’Connor – Wake Up Dead Man (Netflix) |
| 14. Stephen Graham – Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (20th Century Studios) |
| 15. Stavros Halkias – Bugonia (Focus Features) |
| 16. Jonathan Bailey – Wicked For Good (Universal Pictures) |
| 17. Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein (Netflix) |
| 18. William H. Macy – Train Dreams (Netflix) |
| 19. Jack O’Connell – Sinners (Warner Bros) |
| 20. Mark Hamill – The Life of Chuck (NEON) |
Next up: Russell Crowe – Nuremberg (Sony Pictures Classics), Akira Emoto – Rental Family (Searchlight Pictures), Ben Foster – Untitled Christy Martin biopic (TBD), Tom Hiddleston – The Life of Chuck* (NEON), Conan O’Brien – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24), Dylan O’Brien* – Twinless (Roadside Attractions), Josh O’Connor – The History of Sound (MUBI), Robert Pattinson – Die My Love (MUBI), Michael Shannon – Nuremberg (Sony Pictures Classics), Christoph Waltz – Frankenstein (Netflix), Jeffrey Wright – Highest 2 Lowest (Apple Original Films/A24)
Other contenders: Christopher Abbott – Ann Lee (TBD), A$AP Rocky – Highest 2 Lowest (Apple Original Films/A24), Murray Bartlett* – At the Sea (TBD), Sean Bean – Anemone (Focus Features), Adam Driver – Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (MUBI), Idris Elba* – A House of Dynamite (Netflix), Brendan Fraser – Pressure (Focus Features), Woody Harrelson – Ella McKay (20th Century Studios), Lewis Pullman – Ann Lee (TBD), Matt Smith – Caught Stealing (A24), Michael Stuhlbarg – After the Hunt (Amazon MGM)
*Lead or supporting? Murray Bartlett – At the Sea (TBD), Idris Elba – A House of Dynamite (Netflix), Tom Hiddleston – The Life of Chuck (NEON), Dylan O’Brien – Twinless (Roadside Attractions)
2025 or 2026?: Mamoudou Athie – The Drama (A24)
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