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.