Best Supporting Actor 2023: Results

 5. Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction - Brown gives an entirely good traditional supporting turn, where he provides the right dramatic and comedic chemistry with his onscreen brother. 

Best Scene: Talking to Monk at the reception.

4. Ryan Gosling in Barbie - Gosling gives one of the funniest performances of the year in throwing himself headfirst into Ken's journey in a mix between silliness and a strange kind of earnestness. 

Best Scene: "I'm Just Ken" 

3. Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer - Downey gives an exceptional portrayal of the facade of professionalism slowly giving way to a personal vindictiveness. 

Best Scene: Outburst. 

2. Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon - De Niro gives a surprising and disarming portrayal of evil, where there's an ease and lack of hate, creating a particularly chilling portrait of a man who kills purely for profit. 

Best Scene: Final scene in jail. 

1. Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things - Good predictions Oliver, Luke & Perfectionist. Ruffalo tops this impressive lineup for me which included another very funny performance, but this one just took the laugh rate to the extreme as where Gosling was one of the funniest performances, Ruffalo is THE funniest. Ruffalo gives a convincing portrayal of a smug cad turning into a mad fool, but what's more important is every moment he's onscreen he finds a way to be hilarious in a way that only amplifies that journey. 

Best Scene: Duncan makes one more appearance.