Are you ready for the seventh episode in this super-sized Supporting Actress Smackdown season? Up next in 15 days is 1938. [UPDATE 09/16 - THE SMACKDOWN IS NOW PUBLISHED] That was only the third year of the Supporting categories at the Oscars but you can already see some tropes forming. Here's where you can watch the nominated performances/films.
Let's meet the panelists
PLEASE WELCOME...
STEVEN WEBER
Steven Weber is an actor of stage, screen, and film, most recently seen on “Ballers”, “13 Reasons Why”, “Get Shorty” and opposite Fran Drescher in NBC’s “Indebted”. Earlier television roles include NBC's "Wings" and Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip" where he received wide critical praise. His film credits include The Flamingo Kid, Hamburger Hill, Single White Female, The Temp, Jeffrey and Dracula: Dead and Loving It!. His Broadway credits include “The Real Thing,” "The Philanthropist" and "The Producers". He is also a notable audiobook narrator, winning awards for his reading of “Stephen King’s It”, among many others. [Twitter | IMDb]
BRITNEY YOUNG
Britney Young is an actress currently starring in the last season of the hit Netflix show GLOW. She has also appeared on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Better Things and Those Who Can't. She is currently social distancing at her parents house, going through her childhood closet, reading up a storm and binge-watching shows she's seen about a million times already. [Twitter | Instagram | IMDb]
JOANNE ROBINSON
Joanna Robinson is a senior writer for Vanity Fair and hosts several podcasts including the magazine’s shows Little Gold Men and Still Watching. You can find her on Twitter at @jowrotethis or, in the before time, haunting the back row of your local movie theater. [Twitter | Vanity Fair]
CLÁUDIO ALVES
Cláudio is a Portuguese film writer who's been an avid cinephile since his parents decided to take their surprisingly quiet baby to watch the latest Disney picture. After studying Theatre in college, he worked as a costume designer for several small productions and started writing for the Portuguese website Magazine.HD. Since then, he's written for Filmin PT, Photogenie.be, The Film Experience, the Portuguese blog of SundanceTV, and participated in the 2017 Young Critics Workshop at the Ghent Film Festival. Currently he's working as a designer on a show written by a beloved friend and inspired by Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides and the novel on which it's based. He's openly gay and the proud owner of a feline angel by the name of Maggie The Cat. [Twitter]
HOSTED BY...
NATHANIEL ROGERS
Nathaniel is the creator and owner of The Film Experience. He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and a longtime Oscar pundit here at TFE. His writing has also appeared at other publications including Vanity Fair, Vulture, Slate, Towleroad, and Winq.
If you are a working actor, a renowned critic, film historian, a novelist, or an arts professional of some kind, chances are good that he has meant to invite you to a Smackdown panel, or would have if he happened to know you were obsessed with supporting actresses. [Twitter | Contact | Instagram]
NOW PLEASE ENJOY THE 1938 SMACKDOWN