Frontrunner Friday: Who’s On Top in the 2018 Oscar Race?
Best Supporting Actor
| SUPPORTING ACTOR | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Greg Howard | Evan Kost | Jason Osiason | Kenneth Polishchuk | Denizcan Sürücü | Richard Anthony | Şükrü Söğüt | Matt Dinn | TOTAL POINTS |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 98 |
| 2 | Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 92 |
| 3 | Richard Jenkins - The Shape of Water | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 74 |
| 4 | Christopher Plummer - All the Money in the World | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 64 |
| 5 | Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri | 6 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 62 |
| 6 | Michael Stuhlbarg - Call Me By Your Name | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 48 |
| 7 | Armie Hammer - Call Me By Your Name | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 47 |
| 8 | Michael Shannon - The Shape of Water | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 21 | |
| 9 | Mark Rylance - Dunkirk | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 18 | |
| 10 | Steve Carell - Battle of the Sexes | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 14 | ||
| 11 | Sebastian Stan - I, Tonya | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | |||||||
| 12 | Bob Odenkirk - The Post | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Ben Mendelsohn - Darkest Hour | ||||||||||||
| Idris Elba - Molly’s Game | ||||||||||||
| Jacob Tremblay - Wonder | ||||||||||||
| Jason Mitchell - Mudbound | ||||||||||||
| Patrick Stewart - Logan | ||||||||||||
| Ray Romano - The Big Sick |
Best Supporting Actress
| SUPPORTING ACTRESS | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Greg Howard | Evan Kost | Jason Osiason | Kenneth Polishchuk | Denizcan Sürücü | Richard Anthony | Şükrü Söğüt | Matt Dinn | TOTAL POINTS |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allison Janney - I, Tonya | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 99 |
| 2 | Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 91 |
| 3 | Octavia Spencer - The Shape of Water | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 75 |
| 4 | Holly Hunter - The Big Sick | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 68 |
| 5 | Mary J. Blige - Mudbound | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 58 |
| 6 | Hong Chau - Downsizing | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 48 |
| 7 | Lesley Manville - Phantom Thread | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 39 |
| 8 | Tiffany Haddish - Girls Trip | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 30 |
| 9 | Catherine Keener - Get Out | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 19 | |
| 10 | Kristin Scott Thomas - Darkest Hour | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 18 | ||
| 11 | Tatiana Maslany - Stronger | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 12 | Melissa Leo - Novitiate | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Bria Vinaite - The Florida Project |
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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.
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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