Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2023: Results

10. Casey Affleck in Oppenheimer - Affleck gives a chilling portrayal of soulless incisiveness. 

Best Scene: His scene. 

9. Gary Oldman in Oppenheimer - Oldman does about as much as he can in unraveling the idea of Truman and his relationship to the bomb in a matter of minutes.

Best Scene: His scene, but specifically reacting to Oppenheimer's "I have blood on my hands"

8. Matt Damon in Oppenheimer - Damon provides a wonderful bit of humor in a mostly serious film, and finds the ideal kind of chemistry with Cillian Murphy. 

Best Scene: His testimony ending. 

7. Milo Machado Graner in Anatomy of a Fall - Graner powerfully reveals the truth of a death, through his own struggling to understand it. 

Best Scene: His experiment.  

6. Jonathan Tucker in Palm Trees and Power Lines - Tucker gives an insidious portrayal of a vile man pretending to be the "ideal" man to an unsuspecting teenager. 

Best Scene: A shift suddenly. 

5. David Krumholtz in Oppenheimer - Krumholtz brings such a potent warmth that makes such an impact every time he appears, in his carefully crafted, yet wholly natural portrayal of his character's background.

Best Scene: Stare down. 

4. Holt McCallany in The Iron Claw - McCallany gives a powerfully cruel portrayal built on callousness and a lack of empathy for any signs of "weakness". 

Best Scene: Victory speech.

3. Jason Clarke in Oppenheimer - Clarke is basically giving undiluted performance and it is incredibly striking and penetrating work. 

Best Scene: Cross examination. 

2. Willem Dafoe in Poor Things - Dafoe delivers a brilliant combination of hilarious bluntness with a surprising degree of heart. 

Best Scene: "Cut with kindess"

1. Jamie Bell in All of Us Strangers - Bell effortlessly crafts a repressed man of a certain period and background, and so poignantly unravels that brings such honesty and power to every moment of fantasy. 

Best Scene: "I'm sorry I never came into your room when you were crying"

Overall:

1. Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things
2. Jamie Bell in All of Us Strangers
3. Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer
5. Willem Dafoe in Poor Things
6. Ryan Gosling in Barbie 
7. Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers - 5
8. Jason Clarke in Oppenheimer
9. Holt McCallany in The Iron Claw
10. Ramy Youssef in Poor Things
11. David Krumholtz in Oppenheimer
12. Harris Dickinson in The Iron Claw
13. Jonathan Tucker in Palm Trees and Power Lines
14. Milo Machado Graner in Anatomy of a Fall
15. Matt Damon in Oppenheimer 
16. Ben Whishaw in Passages 
17. Hinata Hiiragi in Monster
18. Jonathan Majors in Creed III - 4.5
19. Tomokazu Miura in Perfect Days
20. Oscar Isaac in Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse
21. John Magaro in Past Lives
22. Samuel Theis in Anatomy of a Fall
23. Ty Mitchell in Killers of the Flower Moon
24. Donnie Yen in John Wick Chapter 4
25. Simon Bennebjerg in The Promised Land
26. Kiefer Sutherland in The Cain Mutiny Court-Martial
27. José Coronado in Close Your Eyes
28. Henry Czerny in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
29. Bradley Cooper in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
30. Gary Oldman in Oppenheimer
31. Christopher Abbott in Poor Things
32. Jeremy Allen White in The Iron Claw
33. Casey Affleck in Oppenheimer
34. Lewis Pullman in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
35. Jung Woo-sung in Cobweb
36. Jason Schwartzman in Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse
37. Benny Safdie in Oppenheimer
38. Michael Cera in Dream Scenario
39. Alden Ehrenreich in Oppenheimer
40. Tom Conti in Oppenheimer 
41. Stanley Simons in The Iron Claw
42. Benny Safdie in Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
43. Josh Hartnett in Oppenheimer 
44. Dane DeHaan in Oppenheimer 
45. Rupert Everett in Napoleon
46. Regé-Jean Page in Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves
47. Matt Johnson in Blackberry
48. Nathan Lane in Beau is Afraid
49. Swann Arlaud in Anatomy of a Fall
50. Jesse Plemons in Killers of the Flower Moon
51. Kingsley Ben-Adir in Barbie 
52. Lewis Pullman in The Starling Girl 
53. Masaki Suda in The Boy and the Heron
54. Antoine Reinartz in Anatomy of a Fall
55. Chukwudi Iwuji in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
56. Scott Adkins in John Wick Chapter 4
57. Matthias Brandt in Afire
58. Gregg Turkington in Fremont
59. Jamie Foxx in They Cloned Tyrone
60. Shea Whigham in Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse
61. Paul Rudd in Teenage Mutant Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
62. Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction 
63. Marshawn Lynch in Bottoms
64. John Standing in The Great Escaper
65. Peter Dinklage in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 
66. Cast of Society of the Snow - 4
67. Louis Cancelmi in Killers of the Flower Moon
68. Kuranosuke Sasaki in Godzilla Minus One
69. Benedict Cumberbatch in Poison
70. Will Catlett in A Thousand and One
71. Hiroyuki Sanada in John Wick Chapter 4
72. Ice Cube in Teenage Mutant Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
73. John Magaro in Showing Up
74. Arliss Howard in The Killer
75. Jude Hill in A Haunting in Venice
76. William Belleau in Killers of the Flower Moon
77. Daniel Kaluuya in Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse
78. Pat Healy in Killers of the Flower Moon
79. Ben Kinglsey in Poison
80. Rhys Ifans in Nyad
81. Michael Ironside in Blackberry
82. Jason Isbell in Killers of the Flower Moon
83. Ian McShane in John Wick Chapter 4
84. Ralph Fiennes in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
85. Jacob Elordi in Saltburn
86. Brian Tyree Henry in Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse
87. Josiah Cross in A Thousand and One
88. Mario Pardo in Close Your Eyes
89. Dave Bautista in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
90. Hugh Grant in Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves
91. Thomas Kretschmann in Infinity Pool
92. Hugh Grant in Wonka
93. Kiefer Sutherland in They Cloned Tyrone
94. John Ortiz in American Fiction
95. Ronnie Del Carmen in Elemental
96. Jake Johnson in Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse
97. Macon Blair in Oppenheimer
98. Jason Schwartzman in Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
99. Ben Kingsley in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
100. Bill Skarsgard in John Wick Chapter 4
101. Josep Maria Pou in Close Your Eyes
102. Joel Frey in The End We Start From
103. Ben Affleck in Air
104. Lance Reddick in The Caine Mutiny-Court Martial
105. Jefferson Hall in Oppenheimer
106. Justice Smith in Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves
107. Clancy Brown in John Wick Chapter 4
108. Scott Shepherd in Killers of the Flower Moon
109. Munetaka Aoki in Godzilla Minus One
110. Jackie Chan in Teenage Mutant Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
111. Tommy Schultz in Killers of the Flower Moon
112. Cory Michael Smith in May December
113. Nikita Yefremov in Tetris
114. Jacob Elordi in Priscilla
115. Tom Riley in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
116. Dev Patel in Poison
117. Jeremy Allen White in Fremont
118. Hidetaka Yoshioka in Godzilla Minus One
119. Steve Witting in Killers of the Flower Moon
120. Forrest Goodluck in How to Blow Up a Pipeline
121. Jimmi Simpson in The Starling Girl
122. Benedict Cumberbatch in The End We Start From
123. Simu Liu in Barbie
124. Judd Hirsch in Showing Up
125. Gustav Lindh in The Promised Land
126. Saul Rubinek in Blackberry
127. Chris Tucker in Air
128. Steve Routman in Killers of the Flower Moon
129. Tokio Emoto in Perfect Days
130. Dev Patel in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
131. Jerrod Carmichael in Poor Things 
132. James Remar in Oppenheimer 
133. Colman Domingo in The Color Purple
134. Cary Elwes in Blackberry
135. Michael Cera in Barbie 
136. David Cross in You Hurt My Feelings
137. Roger Allam in Tetris
138. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Flora and Son
139. Shōhei Hino in The Boy and the Heron
140. Jonathan Majors in Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
141. Jeffrey Wright in Asteroid City
142. Jason Mamoa in Fast X 
143. Alfredo Castro in El Conde
144. Corey Hawkins in The Color Purple
145. Oh Jung-se in Cobweb
146. Tom Davis in Wonka
147. Jason Bateman in Air
148. Sungwon Cho in Blackberry
149. Rich Sommer in Blackberry
150. Chris Messina in Air
151. Michael Keaton in The Flash
152. Jake Weary in How to Blow Up a Pipeline
153. Will Poulter in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 
154. Simon Pegg in Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning
155. Ving Rhames in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning 
156. John Cena in Fast X 
157. Naheem Garcia in The Holdovers
158. Richard E. Grant in Saltburn
159. Nicholas Braun in Dream Scenario
160. Akshay Khanna in Polite Society
161. David Dastmalchin in The Last Voyage of the Demeter
162. Musab Ekici in About Dry Grassses
163. Shaun Thomas in How to Have Sex
164. Paterson Joseph in Wonka
165. Jack O'Connell in Flora and Son
166. Nicholas Galitzine in Bottoms - 3.5
167. Bryan Cranston in Asteroid City
168. Liev Schreiber in Asteroid City
169. Adrien Brody in Asteroid City
170. Edward Norton in Asteroid City
171. Willem Dafoe in Asteroid City
172. Tom Hanks in Asteroid City
     
173. Rupert Friend in Asteroid City
174. Steve Carrell in Asteroid City
175. Matt Dillon in Asteroid City
176. Stephen Park in Asteroid City
177. Ricard Ayoade in The Ratcatcher
178. Rupert Friend in The Ratcatcher
179. Jamie Dornan in A Haunting In Venice
180. Andrew Garman in The Holdovers
181. Gene Jones in Killers of the Flower Moon
182. Esai Morales in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
183. Toby Jones in Tetris
184. Jun Kunimura in The Boy and the Heron
185. Tatanka Means in Killers of the Flower Moon
186. Michael Provost in The Holdovers
187. Ian Dolley in The Holdovers
188. Jim Kaplan in The Holdovers
189. Laurence Fishburne in John Wick Chapter 4
190. Arian Moayed in You Hurt My Feelings
191. Jim Carter in Wonka
192. Richard Kind in Beau is Afraid
193. Mads Mikkelsen in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
194. Okieriete Onaodowan in American Fiction
195. Keith David in American Fiction
196. Brady Hepner in The Holdovers
197. Cary Elwes in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
198. John Rhys Davies in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
199. Kenneth Branagh in Oppenheimer
200. Dylan Arnold in Oppenheimer
201. Shea Whigham in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
202. Nathan Fillion in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
203. David Dastmalchian in Oppenheimer
204. Anthony Boyle in Tetris
205. Riccardo Scamarcio in A Haunting in Venice
206. Rami Malek in Oppenheimer 
207. Bradley Cooper in Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves
208. Matthew Modine in Oppenheimer
209. Glenn Howerton in Fool's Paradise
210. Dylan Baker in Dream Scenario 
211. Adam Brody in American Fiction
212. Jeremy Allen White in Fingernails
213. Ayoub Missioui in The Blue Caftan
214. Liam Cunningham in The last Voyage of the Demeter
215. Charles Parnell in The Killer
216. Shea Whigham in Eileen
217. Shamier Anderson in John Wick Chapter 4
218. Adrien Brody in Fool's Paradise
219. Toby Jones in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
220. Common in Fool's Paradise
221. Ken Watanabe in The Creator
222. John Lithgow in Killers of the Flower Moon 
223. Glynn Turman in Rustin
224. Yuki Yamada in Godzilla Minus One
225. Paul Rhys in Saltburn
226. Jeffrey Wright in Rustin
227. Rowan Atkinson in Wonka
228. Lukas Gage in How to Blow Up a Pipeline 
229. Anthony Shim in Riceboy Sleeps
230. Liev Schreiber in Golda
     
231. Alex Sharp in One Life
232. Ron Livingston in The Flash
233. Oscar Kightley in Next Goal Wins
234. Chris Diamantopoulos in The Boys in the Boat - 3
235. Chris Bridges in Fast X
236. Noah Galvin in Theater Camp
237. Michael Douglas in Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania 
238. Tyrese Gibson in Fast X
239. Aml Ameen in Rustin
240. Antonio Banderas in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
241. Langston Uibel in Afire
242. Enno Trebs in Afire
243. Rupert Grint in A Knock At the Cabin
244. Keegan-Michael Key in Wonka
245. Alan Ritchson in Fast X
246. Aksel Hennie in Sisu
247. Samuel Bottomly in How to have Sex
248. Djimon Hounsou in Rebel Moon - 2.5
249. Bill Murray in Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
250. Sung Kang in Fast X 
251. Marton Csokas in Chevalier
252. Eugenio Mastrandrea in The Equalizer 3
253. Ben Platt in Theater Camp
254. Archie Madekwe in Saltburn
255. Ethann Isidore in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 
256. Scott Eastwood in Fast X
257. Boyd Holbrook in Indiana Jones and the Dial Destiny
258. Connor Swindells in Barbie 
259. Jonathan Groff in A Knock At The Cabin
260. Michael Huisman in Rebel Moon
261. Charlie Hunnam in Rebel Moon
262. Ray Fisher in Rebel Moon
263. Ed Skrein in Rebel Moon 
264. Chris Rock in Rustin - 2
265. Michael Shannon in The Flash
266. Michael Cyril Creighton in American Fiction
267. Will Ferrell in Barbie
268. Mathew Baynton in Wonka
269. Matt Lucas in Wonka
270. Kyle Allen in A Haunting in Venice - 1.5
271. Marc Menchaca in The Creator
272. Brendan Fraser in Killers of the Flower Moon 
273. Taika Waititi in Next Goal Wins - 1

Next: 2023 Lead

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2023: Jonathan Tucker in Palm Trees and Power Lines

Jonathan Tucker did not receive an Oscar nomination, despite being nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, for portraying Tom in Palm Trees and Power Lines. 

Palm Trees and Power Lines follows the grooming of an aimless teenage girl by an older man.

Palm Trees and Power Lines essentially is Red Rocket without any satirical bent and entirely from the teenagers point of view as an older man aggressively pursues her. Tucker's first scene is as he follows the young Lea (Lily McInerny) down the street, where it is an absolutely insidious scene and brilliantly performed by Tucker. Because what Tucker does is be a complete creep while completely putting on the facade of not being a complete creep to the impressionable Lea. Tucker's speaking every word with a sort of ease and bright manner as he invites her into her car, even praising her without hesitation for stating her concerns of stranger danger, despite the fact that he continues to literally stalk her with his car. Although he prods her along as though he is doing some kind of come on by trying to find her like in music as again Tucker's performance is just playing with as little pressure, despite only putting on pressure, and just seeming to be pleasing as possible towards her. Tucker makes it eerily convincing that he would convince her to let him give her a ride. Within the ride itself Tucker is only plying more from her where all Tom is doing is praising her, and speaking towards what he sees as maturity within them. His portrayal is this unpleasant confidence about it as Tucker manages to be very obvious about the trick, but entirely with the relaxed manner that it is easy to see how the trick is unfortunately working on Lea. Right down to his face of quiet frustration when she notes she's only 17, which Tucker's performs as a duplicitous disarming reaction, waiting for Lea to see how concerned he is, therefore assuage the concern by allowing the relationship to continue. 

Lea follows up to meeting Tom again, and she initially approaches it as though she is just dating someone. Tucker's performance continues to be one of the most sinister from 2023, by not at all playing it as sinister. Rather Tucker emphasizes the positive as he always brings warmth to his performance, he always brings this sense of encouragement towards her at every point. Tucker listens, he smiles, he pushes her towards the idea of bettering herself, with a real energy and body language that is geared towards seeming just to be sitting on her every word. Tucker's work is of the worst kind of snake, because his manner really speaks two languages. One being basically the "perfect man" to what Lea believes she needs and more so what she wants to hear. While at the same time Tucker's method always has a certain force, and a certain penetrating stare as though he is constantly analyzing everything about her. When he asks her a question the way he accentuates the wording is to open up the idea to thought, while Tucker eyes denote basically calculating every aspect of her life. Tucker brings in this glint where you see the man seeing his opportunity. Tucker's performance makes it this especially uncomfortable ease then that when basically prodding on Lea towards taking the steps to a sexual relationship, but as this predator waiting for her to make the move, which he's so carefully cultivated. One of the most hideous moments being when they arrive at his home, which naturally is a seedy hotel that he claims is temporary only, Tucker's delivery of "I could just take you home" is so perfectly respectable that it is horrible, because what Tucker shows is a man who knows exactly what he's doing, by again getting Lea to be the one to suggest taking the next step. 

Unfortunately Tom's nature goes beyond even the seduction of a teenage girl, which Tucker makes in itself all too vivid of the process of ingratiating himself, with such hideously believable manner every step of the way. Tom's intentions go beyond and you see the shift, that honestly isn't as much of a shift as a purposeful process where his control goes from that of careful persuasion and that of control. Tucker in the moment of dropping the charm offensive of basically granting Lea any sense of purpose or care. He now wields his power with a particularly disgusting sense of self-satisfaction that Tucker exudes within his work. Eventually it is revealed that Tom is in fact not only planning on exploiting her sexually for himself, but also to prostitute her. Tucker's performance is chilling because we see that everything up until this point has indeed been purposeful manipulation by him in order to control her for his means. Tucker drops enough of the warm, caring act that it becomes more of a perfunctory action of the man who knows all too well he's in control of the situation. His few moments of encouraging her with a "I love you" or "you look so pretty" are delivered not quite halfheartedly, but far from anything close to a real truth. We see his facade crumble, but we also see how it is far too late for Lea to pull herself out of it. Tucker rather shows the man who has essentially gotten to the place he has been building to the entire time, and now Tom believes he holds her in his sway that his effort becomes only just above the bare minimum. Tucker delivers a very effective performance here by essentially letting the viewer see a process of grooming in such a natural, convincing and altogether horrifying detail. 

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2023

And the Nominees Were Not:

 

Holt McCallany in The Iron Claw

Milo Machado Graner in Anatomy of a Fall

Willem Dafoe in Poor Things

Jamie Bell in All of Us Strangers

Jonathan Tucker in Palm Trees and Power Lines

And the Oops! All Oppenheimer lineup:

David Krumholtz in Oppenheimer

 

Jason Clarke in Oppenheimer

 

Matt Damon in Oppenheimer

 

Casey Affleck in Oppenheimer

 

Gary Oldman in Oppenheimer