2020 Oscars: Critics Choice + Golden Globe + SAG + BAFTA – Who Got What and Who Missed Out

The Oscars did very little to venture outside of the very solid ground of the four main (and televised) precursors to get an actor to a nomination.

Sometimes an actor with this seemingly safe holy quartet gets can still find themselves locked out of that final step and clinch that Oscar nod as Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips), Amy Adams (Arrival) and Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy) can tell you. But not this year. Every actor who first snagged all four of those precursors translated it into an Oscar nomination. Some got close (poor Taron Egerton) and some came from almost nothing (hi Kathy Bates) to beat out widely predicted top contenders. There was no Marina de Tavira this year.

Here’s who got what on their way to that Oscar nomination this week and who missed out.

BFCA + GG + SAG + BAFTA
Leonardo DiCaprio
Adam Driver
Joaquin Phoenix
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Charlize Theron
Renée Zellweger
Tom Hanks
Al Pacino
Joe Pesci
Brad Pitt
Laura Dern
Margot Robbie (Bombshell)

BFCA + GG + SAG
Cynthia Erivo

BFCA + SAG + BAFTA
Scarlett Johansson (JoJo Rabbit)

BFCA + GG + BAFTA
Saoirse Ronan
Anthony Hopkins

BFCA + GG
Antonio Banderas

BFCA + BAFTA
Florence Pugh

GG + BAFTA
Jonathan Pryce

GG only
Kathy Bates

Best Actor had three who made all precursors: Adam Driver in Marriage Story, Joaquin Phoenix in Joker and Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) had Critics Choice and the Golden Globe. Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) made it in with the Globe and BAFTA. Taron Egerton (Rocketman) had SAG, the Globe (a win) and BAFTA but just missed out. Eddie Murphy (Dolemite Is My Name) had Critics Choice and the Golden Globe; Christian Bale (Ford v Ferrari) had the Globe and SAG.

Three in Best Actress received all precursors: Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story), Charlize Theron (Bombshell) and Renée Zellweger (Judy). Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) had three, missing BAFTA but made it in. Saoirse Ronan (Little Women) had Critics Choice, Globe and BAFTA. Awkwafina (The Farewell) had Critics Choice and the Globe (a win) but missed while Lupita Nyong’o (Us) had Critics Choice and SAG.

A deadlocked category as we had predicted all along, Supporting Actor had four who got all precursors so far: Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Al Pacino and Joe Pesci (both for The Irishman) and Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes) had Critics Choice, the Globe and BAFTA.

Supporting Actress had just two locks with Laura Dern (Marriage Story) and Margot Robbie (Bombshell) getting all four precursors. BAFTA went for Scarlett Johansson in Jojo Rabbit with that and SAG she found her way in. BAFTA gave Robbie a second nomination for Once, something not allowed at the Oscars. Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) missed BAFTA and it seems that’s all it took; she had secured Critics Choice, Globe and SAG noms but was snubbed in favor of Kathy Bates, who only had a Globe nomination.

Here’s who grabbed at least one precursor on the way but didn’t get an Oscar nomination.

Not nominated:

BFCA + GG + SAG
Jennifer Lopez

GG + SAG + BAFTA
Taron Egerton (won GG)

BFCA + GG
Awkwafina (won GG)
Eddie Murphy

BFCA + SAG
Lupita Nyong’o

GG + SAG
Christian Bale

BFCA only
Robert De Niro
Adam Sandler
Willem Dafoe
Zhao Shuzen

SAG only
Nicole Kidman

BAFTA only
Jessie Buckley
Margot Robbie (OUATIH)

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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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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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