AwardsWatch - Best Actor

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (July)

Erik Anderson July 22, 2021

As with Best Director, this month’s chart are mostly about how much the winners of the Cannes Film Festival have impacted their respective races, if... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (June)

Erik Anderson June 24, 2021

It’s starting to look like 2001 again… 20 years ago, Denzel Washington won his first lead acting Oscar for Training Day, and his second Oscar... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (May)

Erik Anderson May 5, 2021

When studios packed up 2020 films and shuffled them off to 2021 after the coronavirus closed theaters for the majority of the year, it created... Read More

FINAL 2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR

Erik Anderson April 21, 2021

Best Actor is a race that started in January of 2020, even before the Oscars announced Joaquin Phoenix as the current winner. The Father premiered... Read More

FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR

Erik Anderson March 11, 2021

Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) and Anthony Hopkins (The Father) have all earned the top precursors on their way... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (February)

Erik Anderson February 18, 2021

Even more up in the air than Best Actress, Best Actor has what appears to be a pretty ‘locked’ in four with Riz Ahmed (Sound... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (January)

Erik Anderson January 28, 2021

As of this writing, Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) is the current critics’ award leader in Best Actor. He’s receiving two acting awards from film... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (December)

Erik Anderson December 24, 2020

When the critics awards started last week things took an interesting turn for the top 3 in Best Actor. Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (November)

Erik Anderson November 26, 2020

Is Ben Affleck on the way back to an Oscar nomination? Affleck, who won the Original Screenplay Oscar for 1997’s Good Will Hunting (with Matt... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (October)

Erik Anderson October 21, 2020

UPDATE 10/21: Netflix announced late Wednesday morning that Chadwick Boseman will indeed be submitted and pushed in Best Actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Doing... Read More