BAFTA Longlist, Critics Choice, Golden Globes, SAG: Who’s Got What?
With today kicking off the first day of Oscar nomination voting for the 96th Academy Awards it’s probably a good time to see where the acting races stand in terms of who has earned what precursor so far and how, if at all, it might tell us who we’ll see on January 23 when the nominations are announced.
At the moment we have the BAFTA longlists (noms are out January 18), Critics Choice (winners announced on January 14), Golden Globes (winners announced last week) and the Screen Actors Guild, who just announced nominations this week – with a few big surprises – and whose winners will be revealed on February 24. So let’s who’s got what.
Only the Best Actor race features five men who have earned all four so far, but in the cases of CCA and GG, those are both fields of six and in the case of the Globes it’s really 12 as they split drama and comedy. SAG sticks with five, as BAFTA and the Oscars do. The SAG snub of Leonardo DiCaprio for Killers of the Flower Moon threw an interesting wrench into the proceedings as they favored Bradley Cooper (Maestro), Colman Domingo (Rustin), Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Golden Globe winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) and Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) instead.
BEST ACTOR
Best Actress has a solid four top contenders in Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Margot Robbie (Barbie) and Emma Stone (Poor Things). They’ve hit all four but right behind them with three are Annette Bening (Nyad), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) and Greta Lee (Past Lives).
BEST ACTRESS
Supporting Actor is the category with the fewest number of contenders to hit everywhere as we saw SAG skip out on Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things) in favor of his own co-star Willem Dafoe. Charles Melton (May December) seemed to be on the fast track for an Oscar nomination but stumbled hard at the two main industry lineups, SAG and even the BAFTA longlist. Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction) is making a play here as a SAG and Critics Choice nominee. Only Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon), Golden Globe winner Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer) and Ryan Gosling (Barbie) have hit all four.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
It probably comes a surprise that Jodie Foster (Nyad), even as a two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner, has hit everywhere so far. Even her film’s lead, Annette Bening, can’t say that. Foster hasn’t been Oscar-nominated since 1994’s Nell, BAFTA-nominated since 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs and Nyad is her first ever Critics Choice nomination. She’s had better luck with the Globes, most notably with her surprise supporting actress win for 2020’s The Mauritanian. She is joined by Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) and Golden Globe winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers). Julianne Moore (May December) missed the SAG cut in favor of Penélope Cruz (Ferrari) and America Ferrera (Barbie) and Rosamund Pike (Saltburn) are also sniffing around for the final spot.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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