Reader Poll: Which acting nominee will be back again quickly?
Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 1:46PM by Nathaniel R
One of our recent traditions here at TFE is to guess which of the season's most celebrated actors will be the quickets to be enmeshed in Oscar battles again before you know it? VOTE DAILY (for the next week) on who you think it will be:
Some history of how well your votes have fared over the last two seasons follow...
After the 2022/2023 season (the Everything Everywhere, Banshees of Inisherin year) you voted that the following would be back quickly with this degree of confidence: 1st Cate Blanchett, 2nd place Michelle Williams, 3rd place Paul Mescal, and 4th place Barry Keoghan were your votes. No acting nominees during this Oscar season have returned (yet) though Keoghan surely came closest to date (with Saltburn).
After the 2023/2024 season (the Oppenheimer/Barbie/Poor Things year) your collective guesses for returning nominees in order of confidence were: 1st place Emma Stone, 2nd place tie between Ryan Gosling and Colman Domingo, 4th placer Carey Mulligan and 5th placer Bradley Cooper. Those who voted Colman Domingo (Rustin) were the ones on target as he was the only acting nominee from the 96th Academy Awards that immediately repeated the trick the next season with Sing Sing.
Reader Comments (8)
I love seeing how much and how quickly things changed. If you'd ask even 2 years ago which of this century's Best Actor's winners is most likely to come back for a second win I can't imagine Brody being anywhere near the top. Or how quickly people assumed Mulligan would be back in no time for a second nod after An Education and Blind Side would be the one and only for Bullock.
Erivo, Grande and Domingo all have projects in 2025 that are strong possibilities. But I'm fascinated that if I try not to consider that none of the other nominees strikes as someone bound to be back anytime soon. Even for folks Oscar has taken notice of it took them 8+ years to come back (Chalamet, Norton, Jones).
It's hard to say but I know who i want to come back and that's obviously Demi.
I think it'll be unfair if Erivo and Grande take up 2 slots again next season for part of 2 of Wcked as good as they bother were first time out,spread the wealth.
Erivo and Grande have the second part of WICKED coming up, Colman Domingo plays Michael Jackson's father in that upcoming biopic, and Chalamet's got the MARTY SUPREME picture. Honestly, my bet is Domingo, who might just Zellweger is way to Oscar gold.
After Diane Warren’s honorary Oscar in 2022 and Angela Bassett’s honorary Oscar in 2023, I won’t be too surprised to see Demi Moore receive her consolation prize (aka honorary Oscar) next year.
I have a suspicion Gwyneth Paltrow is going to be on the Demi Moore style comeback train for Marty Supreme,maybe this will be Timothee's Oscar year.
I agree with the consensus: Erivo, Chalamet, Domingo.
I'm intrigued by the rumor that they'll be switching campaigns for the second WICKED film with Ariana going lead and Cynthia going supporting. If that DOES happen, I feel like Cynthia will have an easier time next year?
Colman Domingo is playing Joe Jackson so Colman Domingo.
Wish it was Fiennes. The English Patient happened almost 30 years ago! 30 years!