Oscar Update: Best Supporting Actor / Oscar Experts: Erik Anderson-Awards Watch / Greece Picks Apples

 OSCAR UPDATE: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Here are my latest Oscar nomination predictions for Best Supporting Actor updated since I last posted this category on  Oct. 5th.  A performer's past position is indicated to the right in parentheses.  TFF #47 performers are indicated in Bold.

1) Sasha Baron Cohen/The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2)

2) Chadwick Boseman/Da 5 Bloods (1)

3) Leslie Odom Jr./One Night in Miami (11)

4) Bill Murray/On the Rocks (8)

5) Mark Rylance/The Trial of the Chicago 7 (7)

6) David Stratharin/Nomadland (4)

7) Eddie Redmayne/The Trial of the Chicago 7 (9)

8) Daniel Kaluuya/Judas and the Black Messiah (-)

9) Frank Langella/The Trial of the Chicago 7 (10)

10) Charles Dance/Mank (-)

OSCAR EXPERTS PREDICT: ERIK ANDERSON-AWARDS WATCH

Erik Anderson of Awards Watch has this current take on the Oscars.  Here are the films that he views as the biggest players (TFF #47 films in Bold.

Mank (10): Best Picture, Director (Fincher), Supporting Actor (Dance), Supporting Actress (Seyfried), Original Screenplay, Film Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, Costumes, Score, Sound

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (8): Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Cohen), Supporting Actor (Rylance), Original Screenplay, Film Editing, Cinematography, Score, Song

News of the World (8): Best Picture, Actor (Hanks), Supporting Actress (Zengel), Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (7): Best Picture, Director (Wolfe), Actor (Boseman). Actress (Davis), Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Makeup

Nomadland (6): Best Picture, Director (Zhao), Actress (McDormand), Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Cinematography

The Father (6): Best Picture, Director (Zeller), Actor (Hopkins), Supporting Actress (Colman), Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing

Da 5 Bloods (5): Best Picture, Director (Lee), Actor (Lindo), Supporting Actor (Boseman), Score

Hillbilly Elegy (5): Best Picture, Director (Howard), Actress (Adams), Supporting Actress (Close), Makeup

Minari (5): Best Picture, Actor (Yeun), Supporting Actress (Yuh-jung), Original Screenplay, Score

One Night in Miami (4): Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Odom Jr.), Adapted Screenplay, Song

Ammonite (2): Actress (Winslet), Costumes

GREECE PICKS APPLES

Indiewire reports that Greece has officially selected Christos Nikou's Apples as its contestant for the Best International Feature Oscar.  The film was one of the 29 features announced by the Telluride Film Festival as being selected to its 47th edition.

The description of the film from IMDb:

"Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities."

The complete story of the selection is linked here from Indiewire.

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