Oscar Chart Updates: The Acting Races !
Friday, July 22, 2016 at 5:15PM The July Oscar prediction chart updates are complete! You're welcome. Each chart has been updated (but for foreign film but we start building the submission tables now). With the acting charts newly updated you'll see new predictions we're trying on for size (Jessica Sloane for Miss Sloane and Naomie Harris for Moonlight) and significant chart gains for the casts of three pictures (which affects the supporting actor chart most) Love and Friendship, Loving and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
Will they be contenders? Who knows.
Here are some questions TFE is asking its Oscar Crystal Ball. Care to answer them in the comments?
• Which sci-fi picture is more likely to be garner acting praise: Passengers with Jennifer Lawrence or Arrival with Amy Adams? Or neither since sci-fi pictures are rarely regarded, right or wrong, as "actor's pictures"?
• Do you think Love & Friendship can muster up an acting campaign to capitalize on its sleeper arthouse hit status?
• Why is buzz around Martin Scorsese's Silence so quiet and does this mean anything for its formidable male actors?
• Will Fences be seen as just the Viola & Denzel show or will it be a force in Supporting Actor? And can Denzel win a third Oscar, tying Daniel Day Lewis, Walter Brennan, and Jack Nicholson?
• Can Sony Pictures Classics make a critical cause of or controversy 'must-see' event out of Paul Verhoeven & Isabelle Huppert's pairing in Elle?
• When will filmmakers quit wasting Oscar caliber actresses as "concerned wife on phone" and "inquisitive wife at kitchen table"? (Actually this last one is rhetorical. No need to answer lest we all weep.)
NEW CHARTS
INDEX | PIC | DIRECTOR | ACTOR | ACTRESS
SUPPORTING ACTOR | SUPPORTING ACTRESS
SCREENPLAYS | VISUALS | AURALS | ANIMATION & DOCS
Reader Comments (58)
'Let me tell you: Huppert is not happening in a million years.'
It's impossible... i read the book...it's very clear, why no American actress would take on this sort of role. Huppert deserved nominations in the past, but she is no Adjani or Cotillard.
I'm not going into the Streep thing, it would be another 'Oh it's Meryl Streep' nomination.
I've seen Elle last month in France, where it already opened.
You're an expat?
I was in London and I managed to catch Florence Foster Jenkins one of those days. Okay, it's not Sophie's Choice for sure but Meryl's performance was such a delight to behold. The fact that she left in stitches when she opened her mouth to sing is already award-worthy to me. She was funny, tragic, vulnerable and tenacious all at once. Having said that, I'm not sure whether the Academy will bestow her a nomination for a film that's broadly comedic. It will be fun though to see Meryl cheer for Viola (whom I'm sure will win unless Denzel screws it up) at the Oscars.
@Tan
She's a better actress than Adjani and Cotillard. The point is that she picks these extremely unlikable roles. In this case, she twists this victim with a very wicked sense of humor and a desire to hurt that is really hard to watch, while keeping the character very human and NOT styilized. It's a helluva role, and I can't see any other actress being capable to pull it off.
It is not impossible because Huppert is not Adjani or Cotillard. It's impossible because of the nature of the role and the way Huppert never shies away from its darker depths. It's not Hollywood-dark, it's much more complicated.
@3rtful
I am not giving you personal information (do you think I am American?), but I just happened to be on vacation in France and Spain. Saw Julieta, too!
I am not giving you personal information (do you think I am American?), but I just happened to be on vacation in France and Spain. Saw Julieta, too!
I assume everyone here is American unless they say otherwise.
I just watched the trailer to Hacksaw Ridge and I sure hope Andrew Garfield does not split his votes between this one and Silence. Cause he is wonderful!
I can make you feel comfortable Marcos about Garfield. He's not winning either way.
I didn't say "win". I believe he deserves a nomination.