FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR

Arguably one of the most locked categories of the night is Supporting Actor. Unlike last year, this is the only acting category where the frontrunner has won all major precursors before Oscar night – the Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, SAG and BAFTA.

That is, of course, Mahershala Ali in Green Book. Ali is set to win his second Supporting Actor Oscar in as many years (the first for Moonlight in 2017), this time as a co-lead of his film. In the face of all of the controversies Green Book has came under it’s been Ali that has come out with the least amount of collateral damage. Poised when confronted with aggressive questioning (that weirdly came right to him and not to the film’s white writers and director) and generally regarded as one of the most generous and kind actors working, if Green Book falls in Original Screenplay (that WGA loss…) and Best Picture then this is the clear place to reward the film and for the Academy to feel good about doing so.

If there was an upset to be made it would come in the form of Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, who has charmed this awards season like absolutely no other. It would be one of the biggest upsets ever were it to happen so don’t count on it.

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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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