Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2018: Results

10. Russell Hornsby in The Hate U Give - Hornsby gives a very strong performance realizing the intense determination of his character based around both his past hardships and his genuine love for his family.

Best Scene: How to behave when pulled over.

9. Peter Bogdonavich in The Other Side of the Wind - Bogdonavich's performance, 40 years in its making, is a surprisingly nuanced portrayal of the vulnerable ego of a man who built his own legacy by imitating his mentor.

Best Scene: Trying to tell Hanneford the truth.

8. Brian Tyree Henry in If Beale Street Could Talk - Henry gives the highlight of his banner year in his moving portrayal of essentially memory both those of a loving friendship and a harrowing traumatic experience.

Best Scene: His scene.

7. Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience - Nivola disappears into his role as one of the pillars of a Jewish community and gives a particularly powerful portrayal of a man coming to terms with his beliefs and how they relate to his friendship and his marriage.

Best Scene: "Choose"

6. Linus Roache in Mandy - Roache gives an amazing turn capturing both the hilarity and the horror of a wannabe prophet with severe delusions and pathetic desperation.

Best Scene:  Presenting himself.

5. Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite - Hoult once again is given a meaty role and once again makes the most of it in his masterful portrayal of a vicious wit and ambition.

Best Scene: Abigail's Offer.

4. Russell Crowe in Boy Erased - Crowe gives one of his best performances in his nuanced portrayal of a father failing then slowly learning to understand his homosexual son.

Best Scene: Ford Dealership.

3. Tom Waits in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Waits delivers a wonderful one man show that creates such an empathetic journey in one man's search for gold.

Best Scene: "You Didn't Hit Nothin' Important"

2. Steven Yeun in Burning - Yeun gives a masterful portrayal of an egotistical detachment that creates a most unnerving sort of possible evil.

Best Scene: Burning Greenhouses. 

1. Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale - Good prediction Michael McCarthy, and AnonymousBridges takes the top spot overall for me as he delivers one of his best performances. This is giving a thoroughly engaging turn in giving so much life to every facet of his character from the various levels of the facade he puts on, the camaraderie he finds, and most of all his absolutely heartbreaking depiction of a man with dementia.

Best Scene: Describing his memory loss.

Overall Ranking:

1. Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale
2. Steven Yeun in Burning
3. Tom Waits in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
4. Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? 
5. Lewis Pullman in Bad Times At the El Royale
6. Russell Crowe in Boy Erased
7. Tim Blake Nelson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
8. Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite
9. Linus Roache in Mandy
10. Lily Franky in Shoplifters
11. Bill Heck in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - 4.5
12. Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience
13. Jonathan Pryce in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
14. Harry Melling in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 
15. Jonjo O'Neill in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 
16. Grainger Hines in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
17. Brian Tyree Henry in If Beale Street Could Talk
18. Peter Bogdonavich in The Other Side of the Wind
19. Daniel Kaluuya in Widows 
20. Chris Hemsworth in Avengers: Infinity War 
21. Robert Forster in What They Had
22. Anton Yelchin in Thoroughbreds
23. Russell Hornsby in The Hate You Give 
24. Josh Brolin in Avenges: Infinity War
25. Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther
26. Jesse Plemons in Game Night - 4
27. Mark Rylance in Ready Player One
28. Riz Ahmed in The Sisters Brothers 
29. Kairi Jō in Shoplifters
30. Sam Elliott in A Star is Born 
31. Dolph Lundgren in Creed II
32. Florian Munteanu in Creed II
33. Josh Brolin in Deadpool 2
34. Josh Hamilton in Eighth Grade
35. James Smith in The Favourite
36. Brian Tyree Henry in Widows
37. Gabriel Byrne in Hereditary 
38. Liev Schreiber in Isle of Dogs
39. Sylvester Stallone in Creed II 
40. Tom Waits in The Old Man and the Gun
41. Sean Harris in Mission Impossible: Fallout
42. Armie Hammer in Sorry to Bother You 
43. Wyatt Russell in Overlord
44. Cameron Mitchell in The Other Side of the Wind
45. Richard Brake in Mandy 
46. Topher Grace in Blackkklansman 
47. Dave Bautista in Hotel Artemis
48. Ron Livingston in Tully 
49. Ben Whishaw in Mary Poppins Returns
50. Robert Downey Jr. in Avengers: Infinity War
51. Adam Driver in Blackkklansman
52. Jake Johnson in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
53. Christian Slater in The Wife 
54. Matthew McConaughey in White Boy Rick 
55. Ed Helms in Chappaquiddick
56. Benedict Cumberbatch in Avengers: Infinity War
57. Harry Belafonte in Blackkklansman
58. Paul Bettany in Avengers: Infinity War
59. Joel Edgerton in Boy Erased - 3.5 
60. Sebastian Stan in Destroyer
61. Jake Gyllenhaal in Wild Life
62. Tom Holland in Avengers: Infinity War
63. Kyle Chandler in Game Night
64. Joe Alwyn in The Favourite
65. Sterling K. Brown in Black Panther
66. Mads Mikkelsen in At Eternity's Gate 
67. Bruno Ganz in The House That Jack Built
68. Jon Hamm in Bad Times At the El Royale
69. Steve Buscemi in Nancy 
70. Edoardo Pesce in Dogman
71. Masaharu Fukuyama  in Mirai
72. Michael Shannon in What They Had 
73. Bradley Cooper in Avengers: Infinity War
74. Bruce Dern in Chappaquiddick
75. F. Murray Abraham in Isle of Dogs
76. Lin Manuel Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns 
77. Henry Cavill in Mission Impossible: Fallout
78. Julian Dennison in Deadpool 2
79. Brendan Gleeson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
80. Norman Foster in The Other Side of the Wind 
81. Edward Norton in Isle of Dogs
82. Jeff Goldblum in Isle of Dogs
83. Bill Murray in Isle of Dogs
84. Bob Balaban in Isle of Dogs
85. Chelcie Ross in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
86. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in Avengers: Infinity War 
87. Andrew Dice Clay in A Star is Born 
88. Jude Law in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
89. Cedric the Entertainer in First Reformed
90. Anthony Welsh in Journeyman
91. Jason Clarke in First Man 
92. Brian Tyree Henry in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse 
93. Ben Mendelsohn in Ready Player One 
94. Bill Camp in Wild Life
95. Jasper Paakkonen in Blackkklansman
96. Paul Stewart in The Other Side of the Wind
97. Stephen Root in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 
98. Colin Farrell in Widows 
99. Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins Returns
100. Corey Hawkins in Blackkklansman
101. Stephen Dillane in The Outlaw King
102. Nicolas Cage in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
103. James Franco in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 
104. Steven Yeun in Sorry to Bother You 
105. Simon Pegg in Mission Impossible: Fallout
106. Rob Delaney in Deadpool 2
107. Gregory Sierra in The Other Side of the Wind
108. Ned Dennehy in Mandy
109. Saul Rubinek in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
110. Noah Jupe in A Quiet Place
111. Paul Sparks in Thoroughbreds 
112. Joe Alwyn in Boy Erased 
113. Willie Watson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 
114. Mark Ruffalo in Avenges: Infinity War
115. Rupert Friend in At Eternity's Gate 
116. T.J. Miller in Deadpool 2 
117. Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Outlaw King
118. Colman Domingo in If Beale Street Could Talk 
119. Flea in Boy Erased 
120. Michael Beach in If Beale Street Could Talk  
121. Trevante Rhodes in Bird Box
122. Michael Douglas in Ant-Man and the Wasp 
123. J.K. Simmons in The Front Runner 
124. Jeff Goldblum in Hotel Artemis
125. Bill Duke in Mandy - 3
126. Rory Cochrane in White Boy Rick
127. Jeffrey Donovan in Sicario: Day of the Soldado
128. Tom Hiddleston in Avengers: Infinity War
129. Ving Rhames in Mission Impossible: Fallout
130. Tamuera Morrison in Aquaman 
131. Blake Jenner in American Animals
132. John Leguizamo in Nancy
133. Chris Evans in Avengers: Infinity War
134. Roland Møller in Papillon
135. Corey Stoll in First Man 
136. Winston Duke in Black Panther
137. Benedict Wong in Avengers: Infinity War
138. Dave Chappelle in A Star is Born 
139. Liev Schreiber in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse 
140. Kevin J. O'Connor in Widows 
141. Tom Hollander in A Private War
142. Dave Bautista in Avengers: Infinity War
143. Ted Danson in Hearts Beat Loud 
144. Steve Buscemi in Lean on Pete
145. Alfred Molina in The Front Runner
146. Edmond O'Brien in The Other Side of the Wind 
147. Lamorne Morris in Game Night 
148. Udo Kier in American Animals 
149. John Magaro in Overlord
150. Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
151. John Mulaney in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse 
152. Steve Zahn in Lean on Pete
153. Tom Hollander in Bird Box
154. Ryan Eggold in Blackkklansman
155. Pedro Pascal in If Beale Street Could Talk 
156. Mahershala Ali Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
157. Allan Corduner in Disobedience
158. Lukas Haas in Widows
159. Danny Glover in Sorry to Bother You
160. Pilou Asbaek in Overlord
161. Brad Bird in Incredibles 2
162. Liam Neeson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs  
163. Travis Fimmel in Lean on Pete 
164. Sebastian Koch in Never Look Away
165. Chris Hemsworth in Bad Times At the El Royale
166. Tom Hollander in Bohemian Rhapsody
167. Alec Baldwin in Mission Impossible: Fallout
168. Harvey Keitel in Isle of Dogs
169. Paul Walter Hauser in Blackkklansman
170. Liam Neeson in Widows
171. Sebastian Stan in Avengers: Infinity War 
172. Jamie Dornan in A Private War
173. David Krumholtz in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
174. Mark Gatiss in The Favourite
175. Woody Harrelson in Solo 
176. John Malkovich in Bird Box
177. Wood Harris in Creed II 
178. Yorick van Wageningen in Papillon
179. Clancy Brown in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs   
180. Algee Smith in The Hate U Give 
181. Chadwick Boseman in Avengers: Infinity War
182. Russell Hornsby in Creed II
183. Jon Øigarden in 22 July
184. Bruce Dern in White Boy Rick
185. Xavier Dolan in Boy Erased 
186. Garrett Dillahunt in Widows 
187. Alec Baldwin in Blackkklansman
188. Brian Tyree Henry in White Boy Rick
189. Billy Howle in Outlaw King
190. Joseph Mazzello in Bohemian Rhapsody
191. Stellan Skarsgard in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
192. Sam Rockwell in Vice
193. David Kross in Sorry to Bother You 
194. Kyle Chandler in First Man
195. James LeGros in Support the Girls 
196. Danny Glover in The Old Man and the Gun
197. Gwilym Lee in Bohemian Rhapsody
198. Terry Crews in Sorry to Bother You
199. Forrest Whittaker in Black Panther
200. Billy Magnussen in Game Night
201. Walton Goggins in Ant-Man and the Wasp
202. Tyler Perry in Vice 
203. Courtney B. Vance in Ben is Back
204. Patton Oswalt in Sorry to Bother You 
205. Wayne Knight in Blindspotting
206. Colin Firth in Mary Poppins Returns
207. Mandy Patinkin in Life Itself 
208. Laurence Fishburne in Ant-Man and the Wasp
209. Jonah Hill in Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot
210. Bob Odenkirk in Incredibles 2 
211. Ben Kingsley in Operation Finale
212. Don Cheadle in Avengers: Infinity War
213. Donald Glover in Solo
214. Clancy Brown in Chappaquiddick 
215. Jack Lowden in Mary Queen of Scots
216. John Cena in Bumblebee
217. Stacy Keach in Gotti
218. Benedict Wong in Annihilation -  2.5
219. Robert Duvall in Widows 
220. Willem Dafoe in Aquaman 
221. Will Patton in Halloween
222. Jude Law in Vox Lux
223. Joe Alwyn in Mary Queen of Scots
224. Nick Kroll in Operation Finale 
225. Timothy Hutton in Beautiful Boy 
226. Gen Hoshino in Mirai
227. Anthony Mackie in Avengers: Infinity War 
228. Jake Gyllenhaal in The Sisters Brothers
229. Henry Golding in A Simple Favor
230. Dan Fogler in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
231. Yahya Abdul-Manteen II in Aquaman 
232. Jim Gaffigan in Chappaquiddick
233. Jack Black in Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot
234. Stanley Tucci in A Private War
235. Xavier Dolan in Bad Times At The El Royale
236. Ben Falcone in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
237. Bob Random in The Other Side of the Wind  
238. Daniel Kaluuya in Black Panther 
239. Ezra Miller in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
240. Mark Duplass in Tully
241. Jared Abrahamson in American Animals
242. Common in The Hate U Give
243. John Ortiz in Bumblebee
244. Ben Hardy in Bohemian Rhapsody
245. Paul Bettany in Solo
246. Dimitar Marinov in Green Book 
247. Andy Serkis in Black Panther
248. Chris Pratt in Avengers: Infinity War 
249. Patrick Wilson in Aquaman
250. Oscar Issac in At Eternity's Gate
251. Martin Freeman in Black Panther
252. Rufus Jones in Stan & Ollie
253. Dolph Lundgren in Aquaman
254. Dave Franco in If Beale Street Could Talk
255. Anthony Mackie in The Hate You Give  
256. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in Sicario: Day of the Soldado 
257. Mamoudou Athie in The Front Runner
258. Aidan Gillen in Bohemian Rhapsody
259. K.J. Apa in The Hate U Give 
260. Antonio Banderas in Life Itself
261. Jorge Lendeborg Jr. in Bumblebee 
262. Danny Huston in Stan & Ollie - 2
263. James Cromwell in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 
264. Joe Alwyn in Operation Finale
265. Riz Ahmed in Venom
266. Steve Carell in Vice  
267. Ted Levine in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
268. Guy Pearce in Mary Queen of Scots
269. Jimmy O. Yang in Crazy Rich Asians
270. David Gyasi in Annihilation
271. Toby Jones in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
272. Michael Pena in Ant-Man and the Wasp
273. Justin Theroux in Mute
274. Ken Jeong in Crazy Rich Asians - 1.5
275. Jefferson Hall in Halloween
276. Alex Monner in Life Itself 
277. Allen Leech in Bohemian Rhapsody 
278. Haluk Bilginer in Halloween 
279. Benedict Hardie in Upgrade
280. Rafi Gavron in A Star is Born 
281. Harrison Gilbertson in Upgrade
282. David Tennant in Mary Queen of Scots
283. Charlie Day in Hotel Artemis
284. Max Irons in The Wife
285. Oscar Isaac in Life Itself
286. Harry Lloyd in The Wife
287. Oscar Isaac in Annihilation
288. Shea Whigham in Vice - 1
289. Spencer LoFranco in Gotti 
290. Jesse Plemons in Vice 
291. Mike Myers in Bohemian Rhapsody 
292. Justice Smith in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom 
293. Toby Kebbell in Destroyer
294. Rafe Spall in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

Next: 2018 Lead

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2018: Linus Roache in Mandy

Linus Roache did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Jeremiah Sand in Mandy.

Mandy is the psychedelic revenge fairy tale about lumberjack Red (Nicolas Cage) seeking justice after a cult steals his girlfriend, fittingly named Mandy (Andrea Riseborough).

Linus Roache, who is perhaps best known for his quietly respectable turn as Thomas Wayne in Batman Begins, unleashes a complete 180 in his portrayal of Jeremiah Sand the cult leader, of a handful of people, with obviously more than a few delusions in his head. Roache initially appears in the film as his cult rides along in their mystery van passing by Mandy to whom Jeremiah takes a keen interest in. Roache's performance is initially as what you'd expect from the cult leader in his casual lean looking off into the distance as though lives with this greater perspective on the world. His physical performance having this burden in the way he leans as though he is posing for a renaissance painting of Christ being taken off the cross, though Jeremiah would probably consider this to be a self-portrait. When he first speaks to one of his disciples, requesting the addition of Mandy to his disciples, Roache speaks in an excessively calm, spiritual tone, as though he is a new age healer. Roache exuding the theoretical zen state of a man who just is simply beyond the normal human, or at least that's what he'd tell you. Of course this setup makes Roache's break down of this absolutely hilarious as whines in a decidedly more earthly fashion, and his performance is more akin to a spoiled teenager than a messiah. The lack of eloquence in Roache's shift is comic gold, just as it is effective in revealing the hollowness of his act.

Sand steals away Mandy, by naturally making a blood sacrifice of one of his followers to a group of demonic bikers, as one does, who kidnap her for him. Of course before meeting her he naturally has her sufficiently drugged up before "witnessing him". Roache is quite simply amazing in this scene in every thing he does is absolutely brilliant here. This is in his whole presence he concocts up with his posture, and pose of a man so cocksure (pun intended), in his place of his delusion of grandeur in his moment. Nearly every delivery, Roache infuses such an overload of confidence through his way of milking every nonsense phrase in his own personal testament towards his own greatness. Now I write nearly, because my favorite element of Roache's work is how he doesn't really make Sand even that good at being a z-rate cult leader. He brings these little cracks in his portrayal of this that again illustrate his true nature, but also are quite simply funny. In this moment initially when he plays a song, written and sung by Sand himself of course, about himself to Mandy by prefacing that it's like the Carpenters but better. In that moment, Roache shifts nicely just for a second from a man selling himself as a demi-god, to briefly just trying to sell his single, which is simply wonderful. Roache though is a magnificent mess in the moment, that by the time he decides to show us, and Mandy his full Roache, that what becomes so laughable is the sheer unearned confidence that Roache infuses into the moment of *ahem* exposure.

Jeremiah's show doesn't impress Mandy, even when under the influence, leaving again Roache to reveal just the spoiled brat. This is brilliantly portrayed though by Roache as the intensity he brings in the sense of pathetic desperation as she laughs him, becomes frightening even if pathetic, as he reveals the danger of breaking his delusion.  The viciousness then he brings is this horrible mix of trying to have moments of his false spiritualism with just the outrage of a weak boy. Roache capture the sheer horror of the moment as he enacts his vengeance on Mandy and Red for the "slight" in his snide delivery, and in his eyes that seem mesmerized by the cruel punishment he is delving out. In the moment he expresses almost this jubilation whiel trying to recapture his "glory" in the moment, and Roache makes it a terrifying moment of Jeremiah lusting to recreate his ego by his terrible act. Of course after that Jeremiah essentially becomes the "final boss" that Cage's Red makes track down once he destroys his series of henchmen. Thankfully though we get one more magnificent scene with Linus Roache's performance. This being when Red slowly confronts him. This beginning with Jeremiah trying to take control by espousing his nonsense that Roache unleashes as a zealot in fear, trying hard to hold onto his face. When this obviously does not work as Red begins to physically assault him, Roache is amazing he melts to Jeremiah at his most "normal" as he begs for his life just like any man would, well weak man, only to become a bit more pathetic as he offers a sexual favor in return. It's a fantastic moment though as there is no surface ego, or even the petulance of the brat, just a very scared fool. When that too doesn't appear to work, Roache's final desperate attempt to return to the egomaniac is glorious as he is able to express such venom while attempting, and failing, to reach some mental upper hand. Mandy is a film with an utterly insane tone, and I don't think any performer rides this madness better than Linus Roache. His portrayal of Jeremiah is simply incredible as he wholly convincing in creating the cult villain the film needs, doing so with all the appropriate pomp and circumstance, while also managing to just being extremely entertaining in revealing the many cracks within this facade.

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2018

And the Nominees Were Not:

Tom Waits in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Tim Blake Nelson in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Alessandro Nivola in Disobedience

Russell Hornsby in The Hate U Give

Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite

Peter Bogdanovich in The Other Side of the Wind

Predict those five or these five:

Jeff Bridges in Bad Times At the El Royale

Lewis Pullman in Bad Times At the El Royale

Linus Roache in Mandy

Steven Yeun in Burning

Brian Tyree Henry in If Beale Street Could Talk

Russell Crowe in Boy Erased 

Or Both, and for Prediction purposes:

Waits from Scruggs

Bridges from Bad Times