Critics’ Choice + Golden Globe + SAG + BAFTA – here’s who’s got ’em

With the BAFTA nominations just announced this week, we now have the list of actors nominated for all four major precursors: Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA. Being a combination of industry and critics’ groups, the combination of these four are about as secure as you can be as an actor in the hunt for an Oscar nomination. But don’t get too comfortable, history is littered with high-profile performances and actors who have gotten the sought after quadrants only to be left at the alter. Last year, Amy Adams hit all four and was in a film with Best Picture and Best Director nominations and got snubbed. Oscar winners Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson and Marion Cotillard have all been snubbed, too.

Best Actress looks the closest to solid right now, with four actresses securing all precursors. Sitting right on the outside are Meryl Streep, Judi Dench and Jessica Chastain. Best Actor has three solid contenders and two open spots. Those fighting for it are Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and James Franco.

The supporting categories are really open. Only two performers in each category have locked in the four. That means there are three slots completely up for grabs and over a dozen possibilities to fill them.

Last year, 13 performances hit this mark. This year, only 11 did. Here they are.

ACTOR

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour (GG winner – Drama)

ACTRESS

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (GG winner – Drama)
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird (GG winner – Comedy)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Allison Janney – I, Tonya (GG winner)
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (GG winner)

Last year, we got Oscar nominees from outside this group in Lucas Hedges, Ruth Negga, Denzel Washington, Isabelle Huppert, Meryl Streep, Viggo Mortensen and Octavia Spencer from there. The last 6 years had at least one acting contender that got in with no GG/SAG/BAFTA nomination. In fact, there are only four years (2001, 2002, 2006, 2010) without a nominee of a GG+SAG+BAFTA snubbed performance. Meaning, we might find at least one potential nominee in the Critics Choice Only section. Then there’s always Michael Shannon, who leapfrogged over his co-star in Nocturnal Animals (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who actually won the Golden Globe) to end up Oscar-nominated. Can he do it again?

Here’s how the rest of this season’s contenders break down and where we might find the nominees to fill out the four acting categories.

GG+SAG+BAFTA

None

CRITICS CHOICE+SAG+BAFTA

None

CRITICS CHOICE+GG+SAG

Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Hong Chau – Downsizing
James Franco – The Disaster Artist (Golden Globe winner – Comedy)
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water

CRITICS CHOICE+GG+BAFTA

Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread

SAG+BAFTA

Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

GG+SAG

Judi Dench – Victoria and Abdul
Steve Carell – Battle of the Sexes (Lead at GG, Supporting at SAG)
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.

CRITICS CHOICE+SAG

Holly Hunter – The Big Sick

GG+BAFTA

Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World

CRITICS CHOICE+GG

Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game
Armie Hammer – Call Me By Your Name
Tom Hanks – The Post
Meryl Streep – The Post

CRITICS CHOICE only

Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip
Jake Gyllenhaal – Stronger
Patrick Stewart – Logan
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me By Your Name

BAFTA only

Annette Bening – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Jamie Bell – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread

Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour

Golden Globe only

Ansel Elgort – Baby Driver
Helen Mirren – The Leisure Seeker
Emma Stone – Battle of the Sexes
Michelle Williams – All the Money in the World

SAG only

None

Here is the list of performers who found themselves with an Oscar nomination with ANY precursors at all since 2003:

2003
Shohreh Aghdashloo – House of Sand and Fog (Best Actor nominee)
Djimon Hounsou – In America (Best Actress nominee)

2004
Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby (Best Picture, Best Director winner)

2005
William Hurt – A History of Violence (LAFCA and NYFCC winner)

2007
Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah (previous winner)
Laura Linney – The Savages (previous nominee)

2008
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

2009
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart (Best Actor winner)

2011
Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Best Picture nominee)

2012
Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook (previous nominee, Best Picture nominee, coattail)

2013
Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street (previous nominee, Best Picture nominee, coattail)

2014
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper (previous nominee, Best Picture nominee)
Laura Dern – Wild (previous nominee, coattail)

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