16 possible Best Supporting Actress contenders for the 2023 Oscars
Jamie Lee Curtis, Gabrielle Union, Kerry Condon ... it's a strong year for supporting actresses, as this list of scene-stealers can attest
Film News the 2023 Oscars
When the Academy Award nominations are announced on January 24, 2023, there’s a good chance we’ll hear the names of many actors who’ve never been singled out by the Oscars. In the case of industry veterans like Jamie Lee Curtis and Gabrielle Union, that’s been the Academy’s loss—and now there’s a chance to rectify that lack of recognition. And when it comes to newcomers like Stephanie Hsu or Frankie Corio, how could voters pass up the chance to help their star rise?
Those are just four of the talented women in contention for this year’s Supporting Actress Oscar, historically one of this show’s most lively showcase categories. (Just look at its recent winners: Ariana DeBose? Laura Dern? Regina King? Queens, all of them.) As Hollywood indulges in its favorite time of year, and Oscar precursors like this week’s Spirit Awards unveil their own nominees, we’re rounding up our mix of likely and desired contenders. Read on for 16 stars worthy of 2023 Supporting Actress consideration.
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how could voters pass up the chance to help their star rise?
Easily, since they snub great performances frequently.
Not to mention they are easily distracted by showier, shallower performances. Tar, for example. Cate Blanchett was fine, but she’s entering her own personal Meryl Streep era in her career, plying her performances with showy flourishes and indications that scream ACTING and which the academy loves, but for me the better performance was Nina Hoss, whose understated, nuanced and wonderfully impactful performance said so much more with so much less, and seemed to function like a dissertation on the diverging paths of performance, between the subtle and naturalist, and the broad bombast that Blanchett employs.
Meryl Streep gets nominated just for being Meryl Streep by now.
If I’m an Academy member, I don’t care whatsoever about “helping someone’s star rise”. Did they have the best performance? Then they get my vote. Any other consideration is ridiculous.
Don’t be racist
I am fascinated to learn where you see racism in what I said!
I was being facetious
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Hong Chau is just so f*cking good whenever she shows up. I mean, even if she’s in your film for thirty seconds she will *blast* everyone else off the screen. Seriously, put her in everything. – President of the Hong Chau fan club
Nobody from black panther is going to get an oscar. Ever. Its insane, the level of delusion the hype for those movies encourages.
I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first movie (haven’t seen the second), but I think Boseman should have won an Oscar for his role. He really was that good. Best MCU actor by far.
I don’t know how it continues to be talked about like a possibility. The Hollywood Reporter runs an article every Oscar season where they interview a few anonymous voters (The Producer, The Writer, etc.) and down the line every choice they make is political or petty. It’s a running gag how much these voters hate animation, every year there’s another “I let my kid pick it, since it’s a bullshit cartoon that I would never watch” even if it’s for something like Flee or Persepolis.
Two separate actors have won statues for playing the Joker, why is a Marvel property inherently different, in your eyes?
I think this delusion is happening because the first Black Panther was a token nomination for Best Picture, which, ah whatever.
The first Black Panther movie won three Academy Awards: Original Score, Costume Design and Production Design.
Noone cares about those type of awards, and they arent for acting.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s actually insane they’d suggest it as a option. The fact they win any Oscars is beyond me. 99% of the movie plays like a child put it together on paint.
Not to criticize anyone’s performance but knowing who and what kinds of movies the Oscars love to honor, I think Bassett, Chau, Curtis, Li, Kidman and Lynch have the inside track. If Stephanie Hsu and Janelle Monae get nominations, I will be very pleasantly surprised.
Women Talking is the best film I’ve seen this year and it would be a shame if it didn’t bring in at least a couple acting Oscars and some screenplay gold for Polley.
It really is an example how there should be some kind of Best Ensemble award. Foy and Buckley are outstanding for sure, but Judith Ivey and Sheila McCarthy are terrific as well.
I did not love that book – it really bothered me that the perspective as all from a man. I understand the conceit, but feel like the movie is probably better.
for one thing, the narrator is a young woman!
I love Frankie Corio in Aftersun, but it’s kid actor category fraud. She is every bit the lead that Mescal is, and arguably more so, given that she is in more of the movie and it’s from her POV. And without getting into the screen time argument (which is a dumb and flawed metric for judging what is lead or supporting) there are also more scenes that she’s in without Mescal than the other way around.
Deirdre’s last name in Everything Everywhere was Beaubeirdre?! This movie just keeps delivering new excitement!
For me I’m rooting for either Angela Basset or Jamie Lee Curtis.The African Queen and The Scream Queen.
Nicole Kidman was fine in the Northman, but if I have to see that annoying commercial one more time I may just confine myself to streaming movies.
De Leon for me. She stole that movie, as flawed as it might be.
I miss the days when odd and unexpected performances (Geraldine Page in Pope of Greenwich Village and Alfre Woodard in Cross Creek) from little seen films would get supporting actress noms. Now with category fraud and fever pitch campaigns, the category is one of the dullest of the night.
Jamie Lee Curtis for the win
She was great, but Stephanie Tsu deserves the nom from EEAAO if anyone gets one.
I feel like Everything Everywhere All At Once is going to weirdly sweep in a way one might ask “did they really deserve ALL of those?” like, dominating all the acting categories etc. idk it’s just one possible future. Jamie Lee Curtis seems overdue.
“Clockwise from bottom left”? That’s just an odd order to choose to credit things.
I swear to god if they snub Stephanie Tsu like the GGs did I’m gonna riot.