Who will take that fifth spot for best actor? Steve Carell or Matt Damon??

[TonboneParticipant Joined: Jun 15th, 2011 Topics: 37 Posts: 600 View Predictions]

#209161

It is pretty clear now that Bryan Cranston, Leonardo Dicaprio, Michael Fassbender, and Eddie Redmayne are locks for nominations for best actor tomorrow but since that fifth slo changed at  the Globes and SAGs I think Johnny Depp and Will Smith will both be snubbed. We know that almost every year at least one actor from the Golden Globes comedy category gets nominated for best actor at the Oscars. So since Matt Damon won that category at the Globes will be he nominated in the fifth spot tomorrow or Steve Carell for the Big Short which is getting Oscar buzz for best picture??

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[TeprocParticipant Joined: Sep 16th, 2011 Topics: 5 Posts: 528 View Predictions]

#209163

It’s pretty clear to me that Damon is in. It does bother me that I don’t have Carrell in my predictions, but I don’t see who he’ll replace here. I guess Damon missing SAG is more relevant because his movie had already been seen… still think he gets in though, he’ the whole movie.

Eddie Redmayne has to be vulnerable here though, so if both make it in I’m guessing he’ll be the one out. 

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[babypookParticipant Joined: Nov 4th, 2010 Topics: 107 Posts: 14496 View Predictions]

#209164

I agree that Damon is in. I also dont believe that Bryan Cranston is a “lock”. Depp, Smith, and a veteran such as Ian Mckellen could ‘surprise’.

Sometimes, or perhaps more often than not, an actor/pic/director etc can suddenly gain momentum at the 11th hour that catches us all by surprise.

What I love about this year is that, anything can happen. (rubs 4-leaf clover)

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[BenitoDeliciasParticipant Joined: Nov 3rd, 2010 Topics: 9 Posts: 3871 View Predictions]

#209165

I went with Depp.

And yeah at times I wanted to take out Eddie Redmayne just for fun. I think it’s a possibility that The Danish Girl crashes hard tomorrow and with Vikander’s confusing campaigns, she might aswell end up in supporting for Ex Machina instead and The Danish girl is left with a costume or production design nod or whatever. But if you really want to be right, the smart thing to do is to predict them both exactly where they are. 

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[Jason TravisParticipant Joined: May 20th, 2011 Topics: 89 Posts: 1745 View Predictions]

#209166

Carell all the way! I dropped Damon just because I think in terms of performance and passion, voters will find Carell more impressive. Plus The Big Short is going to play really well on screeners. 

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[FilmatelistParticipant Joined: Nov 19th, 2011 Topics: 7 Posts: 293 View Predictions]

#209167

I put McKellen.  Neither an obvious nor popular choice, but there you go. 

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[TerenceFletcherParticipant Joined: Oct 10th, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 384 View Predictions]

#209168

I actually dropped Bryan Cranston in order to put both Matt Damon and Steve Carell in. I know this may be dumb, but I just went out on a limb. I noticed that the last two years, all five Best Actor nominees were from films with at least five nominations. I know it’s a short time to analyze but it seems like a going trend. I think The Martian and The Big Short will both clear five nominations but Trumbo will come nowhere close, therefore I dropped Cranston.

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[CheshireParticipant Joined: Nov 16th, 2012 Topics: 7 Posts: 757 View Predictions]

#209169

Damon, he is the movie.

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[Tyler The Awesome GuyParticipant Joined: Nov 19th, 2011 Topics: 355 Posts: 6695 View Predictions]

#209170

Michael Caine will get in.

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