Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis on the set of Netflix’s The Pope It’s so early in the Best Actor race that no potential top contender has even been seen yet. Only Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood comes close as it is set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next week. That isn’t to say …
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Like Best Actress, there are a few previous winners in this category looking for seconds. Namely, Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman for Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood for Sony/Columbia. These are bound to be two dynamic performances that take up a lot of oxygen this year. For De Niro, working …
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Ethan Hawke and Rami Malek rise but could Michael B. Jordan knock them out? Some big moves this month from actors in films large and small including a previously nominated indie fave and two performances from certified box office hits. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) has been an underdog contender in Best Actor for months. For some he’s been top 5 …
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Adam Driver in BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features) The top 4 of Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy) and Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born) stay locked in place from last month but previous top 5 contender Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman) makes a big move back into the fold. Driver was a staple …
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Mahershala Ali in Green Book (Universal) Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali not only holds onto his #1 spot, he’s starting to look like a lock. Along with the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award win last month, Green Book just won another Audience Award, from the Mill Valley Film Festival, this week. He is looking very good for a …
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From left: Claire Foy, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet and John David Washington are among a slew of actors hoping their multiple performances in 2018 increase their awards chances Sometimes an actor can knock a single performance out of the park so definitively that an Oscar nomination or even a win can seem inevitable. Sometimes merely the role and the casting …
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Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight) Previous…Best Actress Next…Supporting Actress
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Big moves and debuts for August but Timothée Chalamet remains at #1 With the announcement of the lineups of the Venice and Toronto film festivals, we start to push outside of the Oscar prediction guessing game and into more solid, definable territory. Plus, the information we have about those two fests give us clues as to what will show up …
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Credit: Barry Wetcher / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures © 2018 Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures have debuted the first official film stills from CREED II. Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent …
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No change this month for Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet in Beautiful Boy and Oscar winner Sam Rockwell in Backseat. These two will be lockstep in the #1 and #2 spots for at least another month, if not more. Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman) keeps moving up, taking over the #3 spot, switching places with Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) …
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