Potential 2020 Oscar Nomination Stats: SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Each year of Oscar nominations brings with it the possibility of breaking records, making history, extending history, moving people around in all-time rankings or just some fun statistics to carry us through. In this four-part series, I’ll detail some possible stats that could arise with the 2020 Oscar nominations in all four acting categories. Previously: Best Actor, Best Actress and Supporting Actor. Next up, Supporting Actress.

If Kathy Bates is nominated:

-She’ll be the first actress nominated with just a Golden Globe in this category.

If Annette Bening is nominated:

-She’ll be the first actress nominated here with just a Golden Globe in this category (so far).

-With 5 Oscar nominations, she’ll be the current living third most nominated actress without a win after Glenn Close (7) and Amy Adams (6).

If Cho Yeo-jeong is nominated:

-She’ll be the third actress nominated in this category for a full foreign language performance after 1973’s Valentina Cortese and 2018’s Marina de Tavira.

-She’ll be the first actress nominated for a full no Western World / European language (Korean).

If Penélope Cruz is nominated:

-She’ll be the 5th actress nominated twice for a full foreign language performance after Sophia Loren, Liv Ullmann, Isabelle Adjani and Marion Cotillard.

-She’ll be the first actress nominated for two full Spanish language roles.

-She’ll be the most nominated Spanish performer at 4.

If Laura Dern is nominated:

-She’ll tie her mother Diane Ladd with 3 Oscar nominations.

If Scarlett Johansson is nominated:

-She’ll be the second Danish citizen (key word: citizen) to be nominated after Viggo Mortensen.

-She’ll be the seventh main Avenger to get an Oscar nom after Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo and Brie Larson.

-We’ll have all the 1980 decade with female acting nominees in every year (Johansson was born in 1984). The current list is: 1980 – Michelle Williams; 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Natalie Portman, Rinko Kikuchi, Jennifer Hudson; 1982 – Anna Paquin, Anne Hathaway, Ruth Negga; 1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, Lupita Nyong’o, Felicity Jones; 1985 – Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Anna Kendrick, Rooney Mara; 1986 – Lady Gaga; 1987 – Ellen Page; 1988 – Emma Stone, Alicia Vikander; 1989 – Brie Larson.

If Nicole Kidman is nominated:

-She’ll break her own record as the second most nominated Australian performer after Cate Blanchett.

If Jennifer Lopez is nominated:

-She’ll be the third Hispanic actress nominated in this category after Susan Kohner and Rosie Perez

-She’ll be the 4th American Latina citizen after Susan Kohner, Rita Moreno and Rosie Perez.

If Park So-dam is nominated:

-She’ll be the third actress nominated in this category for a full non-English language performance after 1973’s Valentina Cortese and 2018’s Marina de Tavira.

-She’ll be the first actress nominated for a full no Western World / European language (Korean).

If Florence Pugh is nominated:

-She’ll be the first British performer born from Oxford.

If Margot Robbie is nominated:

-She’ll be the third Australian actress nominated twice here after Judy Davis and Jacki Weaver.

-For a Tarantino’s film, she’ll be the second female actor nominated after 1994’s Uma Thurman.

If Zhao Shuzhen is nominated:

-She’ll be the third actress nominated in this category for a full non-English language performance after 1973’s Valentina Cortese and 2018’s Marina de Tavira.

-She’ll be the first actress nominated for a full no Western World / European language (Mandarin Chinese).

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Erik Anderson

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.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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