Forum Oscar Poll Results – June 2015: Carol Leads the Way, Joy Close Behind
The results of the Forum Oscar Polls for June are up and The Weinstein Company‘s Carol leads every category this month; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay top spots are all held by the film but some by slim margins. Best Picture and Best Director are a close race between Carol and 20th Century Fox‘s Joy and that film’s lead actress Jennifer Lawrence is 2nd behind Blanchett at the moment, where she’s been since the beginning of the race. That’s largely because Joy is still currently an unknown quantity (we don’t even have a single production still) whereas Carol has been seen and recognized, most notably with Rooney Mara’s Best Actress win at the Cannes Film Festival this summer. But watch out, Joy‘s trailer is dropping in just over a week so next month’s numbers could fluctuate wildly.
In the Best Actor category, Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl) and Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) still continue to dominate, and also in a very tight race. But Michael Fassbender, upon the release of the full-length Steve Jobs trailer, shoots up to #3. As is with the Gold Rush Gang, Jake Gyllenhaal splits his votes between his summer boxing flick Southpaw and his as of yet undated fall (winter?) dramedy Demolition. However, unlike the Gold Rush Gang, Tom Hiddleston’s Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light is merely in 8th place with the forums. Do they know something we don’t or is the GRG ahead of the curve?
Check out those results and more below and join the forum discussion and vote for your choices!
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BEST PICTURE
01. Carol (93%; 64 votes)
02. Joy (87%; 60 votes)
03. The Revenant (84%; 58 votes)
03. Suffragette (84%; 58 votes)
05. Bridge of Spies (81%; 56 votes)
06. The Danish Girl (80%; 55 votes)
07. Inside Out (70%; 48 votes)
08. The Hateful Eight (67%; 46 votes)
09. Steve Jobs (61%; 42 votes)
10. Youth (41%; 28 votes)
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BEST DIRECTOR
01. Todd Haynes — Carol (85%; 53 votes)
02. David O. Russell — Joy (81%; 50 votes)
03. Alejandro González Iñárritu — The Revenant (69%; 43 votes)
04. Steven Spielberg — Bridge of Spies (58%; 36 votes)
05. Sarah Gavron — Suffragette (37%; 23 votes)
05. Tom Hooper — The Danish Girl (37%; 23 votes)
07. Danny Boyle — Steve Jobs (31%; 19 votes)
08. Quentin Tarantino — The Hateful Eight (26%; 16 votes)
09. Paolo Sorrentino — Youth (19%; 12 votes)
10. Cary Fukunaga — Beasts of No Nation (15%; 9 votes)
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BEST ACTOR
01. Eddie Redmayne — The Danish Girl (89%; 101 votes)
02. Leonardo DiCaprio — The Revenant (87%; 98 votes)
03. Michael Fassbender — Steve Jobs (72%; 81 votes)
04. Michael Caine — Youth (59%; 67 votes)
05. Jake Gyllenhaal — Southpaw (35%; 40 votes)
06. Tom Hanks — Bridge of Spies (29%; 33 votes)
07. Jake Gyllenhaal — Demolition (28%; 32 votes)
08. Tom Hiddleston — I Saw the Light (24%; 27 votes)
09. Bradley Cooper — Adam Jones (11%; 12 votes)
10. Bryan Cranston — Trumbo (8%; 9 votes)
10. Johnny Depp — Black Mass (8%; 9 votes)
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BEST ACTRESS
01. Cate Blanchett — Carol (93%; 150 votes)
02. Jennifer Lawrence — Joy (81%; 130 votes)
03. Carey Mulligan — Suffragette (80%; 129 votes)
04. Saoirse Ronan — Brooklyn (57%; 92 votes)
05. Julianne Moore — Freeheld (37%; 60 votes)
06. Meryl Streep — Ricki and the Flash (24%; 39 votes)
07. Charlotte Rampling — 45 Years (18%; 29 votes)
08. Rooney Mara — Carol (13%; 21 votes)
08. Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl (13%; 21 votes)
10. Sandra Bullock — Our Brand Is Crisis (12%; 20 votes)
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Tom Hardy — The Revenant (79%; 62 votes)
02. Robert De Niro — Joy (77%; 60 votes)
03. Samuel L. Jackson — The Hateful Eight (74%; 58 votes)
04. Benicio Del Toro — Sicario (53%; 41 votes)
05. Harvey Keitel — Youth (49%; 38 votes)
06. Seth Rogen — Steve Jobs (32%; 25 votes)
07. Idris Elba — Beasts of No Nation (26%; 20 votes)
08. Mark Rylance — Bridge of Spies (16%; 12 votes)
09. Jude Law — Genius (12%; 9 votes)
10. Alan Alda — Bridge of Spies (10%; 8 votes)
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Rooney Mara — Carol (84%; 104 votes)
02. Alicia Vikander — The Danish Girl (54%; 67 votes)
03. Helena Bonham Carter — Suffragette (50%; 62 votes)
04. Diane Ladd — Joy (39%; 48 votes)
05. Kate Winslet — Steve Jobs (33%; 41 votes)
06. Ellen Page — Freeheld (32%; 40 votes)
07. Jane Fonda — Youth (31%; 38 votes)
08. Naomi Watts — Demolition (24%; 30 votes)
09. Marion Cotillard — Macbeth (23%; 28 votes)
10. Jennifer Jason Leigh — The Hateful Eight (19%; 24 votes)
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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
01. Carol (95%; 38 votes)
02. The Danish Girl (78%; 31 votes)
03. Steve Jobs (75%; 30 votes)
04. The Revenant (68%; 27 votes)
05. Bridge of Spies (58%; 23 votes)
06. Brooklyn (40%; 16 votes)
07. Our Brand Is Crisis (20%; 8 votes)
08. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (13%; 5 votes)
08. Other (13%; 5 votes)
10. The Big Short (8%; 3 votes)
10. Genius (8%; 3 votes)
10. Macbeth (8%; 3 votes)
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
01. Joy (97%; 32 votes)
02. Inside Out (94%; 31 votes)
02. Suffragette (94%; 31 votes)
04. The Hateful Eight (91%; 30 votes)
05. Youth (42%; 14 votes)
06. Bridge of Spies (30%; 10 votes)
07. Trainwreck (27%; 9 votes)
08. Demolition (15%; 5 votes)
09. Adam Jones (6%; 2 votes)
10. Sicario (3%; 1 vote)
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