Winner of one of the best actor award at Cannes, he was extensively thought of a certain factor for an Oscar nomination till the Actor awards (beforehand the SAG awards) nominations had been introduced final week and Moura, together with each different performer in a movie not within the English language, was ignored. Since actors are the most important voting block amongst Academy Awards voters, that wasn’t a fantastic signal. It is true that Globes members (who’re worldwide journalists) usually tend to embrace a efficiency not in English, however nonetheless: that win places Moura firmly again within the operating.
Getty Photographs3 and 4. Supporting actor and actress: Shaking up the races
Some years, one performer simply swoops up each main predictor award en path to the Oscars, the way in which Kieran Culkin did final 12 months as supporting actor in A Actual Ache – Golden Globe, Bafta, SAG award and Oscar, he received all of them. This isn’t a kind of years. The Globes’ supporting classes are, in reality, much like the Oscars as a result of they aren’t separated into drama and comedy. And this 12 months’s Globes blew each supporting races large open.
There was no actual consensus about supporting actor entering into, with Benicio del Toro thought of barely extra more likely to triumph for One Battle After One other over Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein. Del Toro had a number of critics’ teams awards and Elordi the Critics’ Alternative. Stellan Skarsgård’s Globes win for the Norwegian movie Sentimental Worth provides a brand new twist. As with Moura, the worldwide Globe voters might have been a fan of a non-English-language efficiency. However Skarsgård now has “winner” written throughout him and momentum transferring ahead.
Simply 4 days earlier than the Globes, the awards website Gold Derby wrote that Amy Madigan “jumps to No 1 in finest supporting actress odds” for the horror movie Weapons, after her wins on the Critics’ Alternative Awards and with the New York and Los Angeles movie critics teams. And after Teyana Taylor’s Globes win for One Battle After One other, a cheeky however correct publish on Vulture‘s dwell weblog learn, “RIP to Amy Madigan being the Oscar frontrunner (2025-26)”. These swerves make the supporting races the least predictable of the 12 months.
Getty Photographs5. Greatest image: One Battle v Hamnet?
Paul Thomas Anderson provides acceptance speeches which are modest, good, beneficiant and quick, which is helpful, as a result of he has been successful rather a lot. After its Globes victory in one of the best musical or comedy class, One Battle After One other remains to be the Oscar frontrunner for finest image. And Anderson’s wins for each director and screenplay (not like the Oscars, the Globes do not separate the screenwriting class into authentic and tailored) is such an indication of power that One Battle is the most secure Oscar wager of all.




