If the Best Supporting Actor race is mostly settled, the 2024 Best Supporting Actress campaign is decidedly not. There are two very likely nominees, Emily Blunt who is searching for her first nomination ever for “Oppenheimer” and Danielle Brooks, who is bringing her Tony Award-nominated turn in the musical version of “The Color Purple” to the big screen. The final three slots “seem” so wide open we could be in for an entertaining campaign if the SAG strike ends with enough time before voting begins (fingers crossed).
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Other potential nominees include Best Actress winner and five-time nominee Julianne Moore (“May December”), Tony Award nominee Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”), two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster (“Nyad”), Oscar winner and four-time nominee Viola Davis (“Air”), two-time Emmy winner Claire Foy (“All of Us Strangers”), European Film Awards winner and potential double nominee Sandra Hüller (“The Zone of Interest”), and a 2009 nominee in this category, Taraji P. Henson (“The Color Purple”).
Also worthy of attention are a very deserving Anne Hathaway (“Eileen”), America Ferrara (“Barbie”), Rosamund Pike (“Saltburn”), Florence Pugh (“Oppenheimer”), and, reportedly, Penelope Cruz (“Ferrari”).
While not as prolific as Best Supporting Actor, this category has seen multiple nominees in the same category twice since 2019 (“The Favourite” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once”). [Updated Nov. 17]
LIKELY
Emily Blunt, “Oppenheimer”
Danielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
ALMOST THERE
Julianne Moore, “May December”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
Jodie Foster, “Nyad”
Viola Davis, “Air”
Claire Foy, “All of Us Strangers”
Sandra Hüller, “The Zone of Interest”
Taraji P. Henson, “The Color Purple”
POSSIBLE
Anne Hathaway, “Eileen”
America Ferrera, “Barbie”
Rusamund Pike, “Saltburn”
Penelope Cruz, “Ferrari”*
Florence Pugh, “Oppenheimer”
LONGSHOTS
Patti LuPone, “Beaut is Afraid”
Vanessa Kirby, “Napoleon”*
Rachel McAdams, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”
Scarlett Johansson, “Asteroid City”
*Has not been screened at publication
