Almost exclusively newcomers have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, such as Ciarán Hinds, Troy Kotsur, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Only Oscar winner JK Simmons has been in the race before.
Same with the women
There is a similar distribution among women. Only Judi Dench has experienced Best Supporting Actress, with her eight nominations and a win in 1999 for her minor role in Shakespeare in Love (6 minutes of acting). Ariana DeBose, Jessie Buckley, Kirsten Dunst and Aunjanue Ellis are all Oscar nominees.
In Best Actress, only Kirsten Stewart (big contender for her role as/in Diana) not previously invited to the ball. She will compete against three former winners (Olivia Colman, Penélope Cruz and Nicole Kidman) and the twice unsuccessfully nominated Jessica Chastain.
Campion makes history
Met The Power of the Dog Jane Campion is the first woman to be nominated twice for a directorial Oscar. Of The Piano made in 1993 she chanced on the golden statue. However, she lost to Spielbergs Schindler’s List† She did win the award for Best Original Script at the time.
The directorial award has so far gone to a woman twice: in 2009 to Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker and last year to Chloé Zhao for Nomadland.
Most versatile nominee
British actor/director Kenneth Branagh is officially the most versatile contender in Oscar history with his Best Original Screenplay nomination. With his autobiographical Belfast In addition to the script, he also has a chance to win Best Picture and Best Director, while for previous films he also had nominations in the categories for actor, supporting role, adapted script and short feature film. With his record number of nominations in seven different categories, he overtook Walt Disney and George Clooney. Unlike the two, however, the Northern Irish filmmaker has never won the award.
The Belfast trailer:
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