Best Actor: Tyler Okonma

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Saturday, 7 February 2026

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2025: Results

5. William H. Macy in Train Dreams - Macy delivers an impressive transformative turn that represents his film's time and place with such poignancy.

Best Scene: Reflection on the trees.

4. Tyler Okonma in Marty Supreme - Okonma delivers such a wonderfully charismatic performance that sings through his chemistry with Chalamet.

Best Scene: The hustle.

3. Russell Crowe in Nuremberg - Crowe elevates every bit of his film he can in presenting the evil of a man who believes himself above traditional moralities.

Best Scene: Tale of his uncle.

2. Jacobi Jupe in Hamnet - Jupe gives a heartbreaking and endearing performance as he manages to deliver a child's earnestness with an adult's emotional conviction.

Best Scene: Cheating death.

1. Jack O'Connell in Sinners - O'Connell delivers a truly great villainous turn where he manages to be truly menacing, rather funny, quite charismatic, wonderfully musical and even finds a bit of pathos in his vampire.

Best Scene: First attempt at entrance.

Overall Ranking:

Sean Penn in One Battle After Another
Jack O'Connell in Sinners
Jacobi Jupe in Hamnet - 5
Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another
Russell Crowe in Nuremberg
Ralph Fiennes in 28 Years Later
Tyler Okonma in Marty Supreme
William H. Macy in Train Dreams
John Leguizamo in Bob Trevino Likes It
Delroy Lindo in Sinners
James Raterman in One Battle After Another
Lee Sung-min in No Other Choice - 4.5
Danny Huston in The Naked Gun
Charlie Plummer in The Long Walk
David Bradley in Frankenstein
Lewis Pullman in The Testament of Ann Lee
Peter Mullan in I Swear
Kevin O'Leary in Marty Supreme
Kenny Rasmussen in The Plague
Abel Ferrara in Marty Supreme
Géza Röhrig in Marty Supreme
Aidan Delbis in Bugonia
Josh Brolin in Wake Up Dead Man
Joe Alwyn in Hamnet
Noah Jupe in Hamnet
Jeffrey Wright in Highest 2 Lowest
Tom Waits in Father Mother Sister Brother
Alexander Skarsgård in Pillion
Daniel Craig in Wake Up Dead Man
Andrew Scott in Blue Moon
Ryusei Yokohama in Kokuho
Conan O'Brien in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Leo Woodall in Nuremberg
Will Patton in Train Dreams
Jay Lycurgo in Steve
Tom Burke in Black Bag
Pedro Pascal in Freaky Tales
Lewis Pullman in Thunderbolts
Nicholas Hoult in Superman
Tut Nyuot in The Long Walk
Christoph Waltz in Frankenstein
Carlos Francisco in The Secret Agent
Patrick Kennedy in Blue Moon
David Strathairn in The Luckiest Man in America
Alden Ehrenreich in Weapons
Nathaniel Arcand in Train Dreams
Tony Goldwyn in One Battle After Another
Ratso Sloman in Marty Supreme
David Harbour in Thunderbolts
Josh Brolin in Weapons
John Hoogenakker in One Battle After Another
Liev Schreiber in Caught Stealing
Bobby Cannavale in Blue Moon
Chris Evans in The Materialists
Ben Foster in Christy
Andrew Garfield in After The Hunt
Jonah Wren Phillips in Bring Her Back
Garrett Wareing in The Long Walk
Cha Seung-won in No Other Choice
Joseph Quinn in Fantastic Four: The First Steps - 4
Rupert Evans in Truth & Treason
Akira Emoto in Rental Family
Vincent D'Onofrio in Caught Stealing
Douglas Hodge in Pillion
Kaiony Venâncio in The Secret Agent
John Carroll Lynch in Sorry Baby
Joshua Odjick in The Long Walk
Cary Christopher in Weapons
Rolf Saxon in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
David Strathairn in Zootopia 2
Kevin Durand in The Naked Gun
Ben Mendelsohn in Freaky Tales
Edi Gathegi in Superman
Christian Slater in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Peter Dinklage in Roofman
Luke Manley in Marty Supreme
Nick Nolte in Die My Love
Park Hee-soon in No Other Choice
Koto Kawaguchi in Marty Supreme
Tramell Tillman in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Paul Walter Hauser in The Naked Gun
Robert Aramayo in Palestine 36
Skyler Gisondo in Superman
Chad L. Coleman in Christy
Tom Hanks in Freaky Tales
Aaron Taylor-Johnson in 28 Years Later
Luciano Chirolli in The Secret Agent
Jim Downey in One Battle After Another
Omar Benson Miller in Sinners
Paul Rudd in Friendship
Joel Edgerton in The Plague
Patrick Warburton in Zootopia 2
John Catsimadtidis in Marty Supreme
Christopher McDonald in Happy Gilmore 2
Paul Grimstad in One Battle After Another
Kayo Martin in The Plague
Benedict Wong in Weapons
Ralph Colucci in Marty Supreme
Bill Kelly in Christy
ASAP Rocky in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Michael Cera in The Phoenician Scheme
Eric Schweig in One Battle After Another
Ebon Moss-Bachrach in Fantastic Four: The First Steps
Andy Samberg in Zootopia 2
Ryan Bader in The Smashing Machine
Penn Jillette in Marty Supreme
Mark Hamill in The Life of Chuck
George Gervin in Marty Supreme
Gabriel Spahiu in Kontinental '25
Daryl McCormack in Wake Up Dead Man
Jon Bernthal in The Accountant 2
Paul Schneider in Train Dreams
Bas Rutten in The Smashing Machine
Robério Diógenes in The Secret Agent
Ahn Hyo-seop in KPop Demon Hunters
Luke Ayres in Steve
Joshua J Parker in Steve
Araloyin Oshunremi in Steve
Tut Nyuot in Steve
Richard E. Grant in Nuremberg
Kevin Tighe in One Battle After Another
Jay Ellis in Freaky Tales
Yul Vazquez in The Lost Bus
Chris Cooper in The History of Sound
Lee Byung-hun in KPop Demon Hunters
Takehiro Hira in Rental Family
Pico Iyer in Marty Supreme
Roney Villela in The Secret Agent
Șerban Pavlu in Kontinental '25
John Diehl in Train Dreams
D.W. Moffett in One Battle After Another
Edvin Ryding in 28 Years Later
Anthony Carrigan in Superman
Wyatt Russell in Thunderbolts
Nathan Fillion in Superman
Tom Hiddleston in The Life of Chuck
Lukas Gage in Companion
Lars Mikkelsen in Frankenstein
H. Jon Benjamin in Familiar Touch
Timothy Olyphant in Havoc
Dennis Quaid in Sovereign
Benjamin Pajak in The Life of Chuck
Christian Convery in The Monkey
Jeffrey Wright in The Phoenician Scheme
Steven Yeun in Mickey 17
Simon Delaney in Blue Moon
Soya Kurokawa in Kokuho
Fisher Stevens in Song Sung Blue
Cosmo Jarvis in Warfare
Joseph Quinn in Warfare
Jason Schwartzman in Mountainhead
Pruitt Taylor Vince in Superman
Min Tanaka in Kokuho
Ken Watanabe in Kokuho
Hudson Hensley in Song Sung Blue
Shamier Anderson in The Luckiest Man in America
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Phoenician Scheme
Carl Lumbly in The Life of Chuck
Bryan Hibbard in Christy
Adonis Tanța in Kontinental ’25
Harrison Ford in Captain America: Brave New World
Chiwetel Ejiofor in The Life of Chuck
Jesper Christensen in Sentimental Value
Pedro Pascal in The Materialists
Amr Waked in Urchin
Adam Driver in Father Mother Sister Brother
Harris Dickinson in Urchin
John Magaro in The Mastermind
Griffin Dunne in Caught Stealing
Aubry Dullin in Nouvelle Vague
Ralph Ineson in Fantastic Four: The First Steps
Laurence Fishburne in The Amateur
LaKeith Stanfield in Roofman
Udo Kier in The Secret Agent
Sam Worthington in Relay
Bill Camp in The Mastermind
Bruno Dreyfürst in Nouvelle Vague
Øyvind Hesjedal Loven in Sentimental Value
Daniel Dae Kim in KPop Demon Hunters
Bill Lee in Eephus
Akemnji Ndifornyen in The Ballad of Wallis Island
Jim Belushi in Song Sung Blue
Stephen Lang in Avatar: Fire and Ash
Stavros Halkias in Bugonia - 3.5
Tim Blake Nelson in The Testament of Ann Lee
Tom Hanks in The Phoenician Scheme
Bryan Cranston in The Phoenician Scheme
Emory Cohen in Roofman
Ted Williams in Marty Supreme
Charles Melton in Warfare
Louis Cancelmi in Sorry Baby
Riz Ahmed in The Phoenician Scheme
David Cale in The Testament of Ann Lee
Michael Gandolfini in Warfare
Will Poulter in Warfare
Pierce Brosnan in Black Bag
Jeremy Irons in Palestine 36
Christopher Abbott in The Testament of Ann Lee
Mathieur Almaric in The Phoenician Scheme
Saul Williams in Sinners
Daniel Zolghadri in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Simon Pegg in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Michael Stuhlbarg in The Amateur
Regé-Jean Page in Black Bag
Richard Ayoade in The Phoenician Scheme
Kamel El Basha in Palestine 36
Ving Rhames in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Yao in Sinners
Harry Shearer in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Pedro Pascal in Eddington
John Douglas Thompson in Highest 2 Lowest
Michael Shannon in Nuremberg
Walton Goggins in The Luckiest Man in America
Harvey Guillén in Companion
Rob Reiner in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Javier Bardem in F1
Ke Huy Quan in Zootopia 2
Holt McCallany in The Amateur
Ben Mendelsohn in Roofman
Forest Whitaker in Havoc
Austin Butler in Eddington
Ethan Slater in Wicked For Good
Sebastian Stan in Thunderbolts
Carl Lumbly in Captain America: Brave New World
Henry Czerny in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Austin Abrams in Weapons
Paul Walter Hauser in Fantastic Four: The First Steps
John Slattery in Nuremberg
Liam Cunningham in Palestine 36
David Wilmot in Hamnet
Colman Domingo in The Running Man
Tracy Letts in House of Dynamite
Tobias Menzies in F1
Michael Imperioli in Song Sung Blue
Lucas Hedges in Sorry Baby
Anders Danielsen Lie in Sentimental Value
Ramy Youssef in Mountainhead
Jonathan Bailey in Wicked For Good
Hadis Pakbaten in It Was Just An Accident
Matt Smith in Caught Stealing
Mark Hamill in The Long Walk
Keith William Richards in Eephus
Frederick Wiseman in Eephus
Russell J. Gannon in Eephus
Charles Dance in Frankenstein
Jason Clarke in House of Dynamite
Alex Jennings in Ballad of a Small Player
Josh Brolin in The Running Man
Chiwetel Ejiofor in Eleanor the Great
Matthew Maher in Relay
Stephen Graham in Deliver Me From Nowhere
Thomas Haden Church in Wake Up Dead Man
Italo Martins in The Secret Agent
Igor de Araújo in The Secret Agent
Gabriel Leon in The Secret Agent
Ken Jeong in KPop Demon Hunters
Ebrahim Azizi in It Was Just An Accident
Paul Walter Hauser in Deliver Me From Nowhere
Jeff Bridges in Tron Ares
Daniel Zolghadri in Lurker
Josh O'Connor in The History of Sound
Jeremy Renner in Wake Up Dead Man
David Dastmalchian in Dust Bunny
Stephen Lang in Sisu: Road to Revenge
Jeff Goldblum in Wicked For Good - 3
Tim Blake Nelson in Captain America: Brave New World
Buddy Guy in Sinners
Billy Crudup in Jay Kelly
Jacob Batalon in Novocaine
Daniel Ezra in The Running Man
Manuel Gracia-Rulfo in Jurassic World Rebirth
Giancarlo Esposito in Captain America: Brave New World
Colin Hanks in Nuremberg
Andrew Scott in Wake Up Dead Man
Cosmo Jarvis in The Alto Knights
Esai Morales in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Rupert Friend in Companion
Steve Carell in Mountainhead
Billy Howle in Palestine 36
Luka Sabbat in Father Mother Sister Brother
Benny Safdie in Happy Gilmore 2
Chris Addison in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Mark O'Brien in Nuremberg
Chris Evans in Honey Don't
Lee Pace in The Running Man
Jared Harris in House of Dynamite
Anthony Ramos in House of Dynamite
Idris Elba in House of Dynamite
Jim Broadbent in Jay Kelly
Cliff Curtis in Avatar: Fire and Ash
David Thewlis in Avatar: Fire and Ash
Cory Michael Smith in Mountainhead
Tom Bateman in Hedda - 2.5
Ben Wang in The Long Walk
Adam Sandler in Jay Kelly
Bradley Cooper in Is This Thing On?
Dean Winters in Highest 2 Lowest
Michael Stuhlbarg in After The Hunt
Mark Ruffalo in Mickey 17
Rupert Friend in Jurassic World Rebirth
Holt McCallany in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Danny Ramirez in Captain America: Brave New World
Colin O'Brien in The Monkey
Bad Bunny in Caught Stealing
Beck Bennett in Superman
Bad Bunny in Happy Gilmore 2
Jeremy Strong in Deliver Me From Nowhere
French Stewart in Bob Trevino Like It
Robert Morgan in The Accountant 2
Nick Offerman in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Nick Offerman in The Life of Chuck
Haley Joel Osment in Happy Gilmore 2
Andy Samberg in The Roses
Michael Cera in The Running Man
Brendan Cowell in Avatar: Fire and Ash
Will Pullen in A Little Prayer
Ray Nicholson in Novocaine - 2
Britain Dalton in Avatar: Fire and Ash
Bruno Bichir in Kiss of the Spider Woman
Gabriel Basso in House of Dynamite
Samuel Bottomley in Anemone
Jemaine Clement in Avatar: Fire And Ash
Evan Peters in Tron: Ares
Jack Champion in Avatar: Fire and Ash
Charlie Day in Honey Don't - 1.5
Asap Rocky in Highest 2 Lowest
The Golfers in Happy Gilmore 2
Ben Stiller in Happy Gilmore 2 - 1

Next: 2025 Alternate Lead.

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2025: Tyler Okonma & Abel Ferrara in Marty Supreme

Tyler Okonma did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Wally in Marty Supreme.

Marty Supreme has an unusual collection of performers, per the Safdie way, where while there are some professional actors the distinct faces seems more so the focus of director Josh Safdie than their professional resume when it comes to the supporting cast. A tricky approach yet one that can pay such unique dividends. One such example is Tyler Okonma, evidently better known as Tyler the creator, who had some acting roles though usually random television appearances and cameo style of appearances. But his work here you’d think he was just as reliable a character actor as any as we find him as Wally, a taxi driver and fellow ping player with Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet). Who we find as his close confidants where Okonma more than holds his own against the more established cinematic presence of Chalamet. In fact I love the matching though slightly more subdued energy that Okonma brings in his reaction to Chalamet, essentially offering Wally as the version of Marty if Marty were a bit more down to earth. The sense of friendship and a history of that friendship in their quick interaction in their first scene together really speaks to years of some ball busting and general friendly rivalry in their games. Wally comes back into play as Marty is in need of cash and Wally isn’t only Marty’s playing partner, he’s also his table hustling partner. Where again Okonma in just a few line deliveries, even when just over the phone, manages to convey a mix of frustration, friendship and intrigue as Wally’s willing to go along with Marty but also is a bit tempered in his expectations.

We get a great banter scene when he meets Marty up at a dingy hotel and Okonma beautifully plays lower energy against Chalamet’s heightened. I especially admire his hilarious and down to earth delivery of “that’s how you get a bladder infection” after Marty claims his particular ability to restrain himself in a certain very private respect. Okonma really plays up to every down and vice versa with Chalamet, where they have excellent chemistry and you just sense these two truly go way back. An element only further amplified where each plays their parts at a bowling alley where they enact their hustle. Okonma’s so much fun in playing up his sad sack part as a seemingly injured man. Okonma brings the right lost quality to every bit and just plays up the pleasantly sorrowful man who just wants money to get home. Where you can see how he might endear himself to the patrons enough to bet on his behalf in order to show Marty playing the part of the racist jerk heel who will take a man’s last few dollars just for the sake of it.

Leading to their successful hustle where both are magnificent in their jubilant singing and dancing around Wally’s nearly empty gas taxi cab, and each capture a sense of friendship but also the sense of the specific victory of their plan. Although there are a few exceptions as Marty asks for more money and again in just a brief exchange Okonma’s delivery of asking Marty not to screw him over is with knowledge of a man who does like Marty but knows he can only trust Marty up until a point. The trouble with Marty rears its head as those hustled find the two together, and the two make a rapid egress that leaves Okonma’s taxi damaged. A quick scene but important in the anger with attachment in Okonma’s voice where it is with the connection specifically for taking care of his family. It’s not pure hatred though, as even in his anger Okonma still conveys a bit of kid gloves he does give his friend. Something emphasized by his last brief scene in the tennis table hall where after it all Wally couldn’t be more cheerful in calling out Marty’s name. As much as I love Marty Supreme I would not have minded more Wally because Okonma picks up the part so perfectly so quickly. He doesn’t have a ton of screentime but in that screentime he fully breathes life into the part, particularly in that chemistry with Chalamet. Okonma doesn’t waste a second and if the film had been just the adventures of Wally and Marty, there’s no question Okonma could’ve carried that as well.

Abel Ferrara did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Ezra Mishkin in Marty Supreme.

Speaking of memorable faces there are few people with less memorable faces than off-beat director Abel Ferrara who pops into the film as a random dingy hotel denizen who has a dog that’s quite beloved to him. Casting a director weirdly seems always a wise decision as the great examples of it you do get such an idiosyncratic presence, which is certainly the case for Ferrara, who you probably could’ve shot just hanging around the set and that would’ve been interesting footage. As you have his particular way of the always non happy grin, that more than a slight daze in his eyes and of course his way of talking right through his teeth. Making every moment he does have onscreen just kind of interesting on its own. But Ferrara’s performance is more than visual casting, which is a lot because he seems like just the guy you’d see in this particular time and place in a way that enlivens those details. Ferrara’s performance though is on point regardless as we get his immediate pain when Marty accidentally drops a bathtub on him while he’s washing his tub, Ferrara doing some great pain acting, by not only doing the direct visceral reaction but even managing to convey his hurriedness as he tries to hire Marty to take his dog to the vet, bringing appreciation and concern within the pain so naturally. Of course Marty being as he is the dog runs away yet he and his “not” girlfriend Rachel (Odessa A’Zion) try to get money from Ferrara Mishkin. Ferrara’s vocal work in the phone call scene alone is just so great in its idiosyncrasy, where he’s very funny in his particularly direct and earthy way of being baffled by her overpriced request, though finding nuance even when describing that his dog cost him nothing, which Ferrara plays pretty brilliantly as you sense the facade of it a bit as Mishkin does care about his dog despite the front. As we see as he’s willing to meet to get his dog as Rachel attempts a con, where Ferrara’s performance manages to be combination of hilarious and genuinely menacing with particularly his delivery of “Fuck this” as he quickly sees through the scheme. Where Ferrara brings this natural dangerousness as he goes about casually stabbing someone and Ferrara makes it unnerving in the convincing ease of this guy’s willingness to stab essentially. Which extends as he kidnaps the pregnant Rachel and honestly his threat of taking a hammer to her stomach, to get Marty to come along, is bone chilling because the casual way Ferrara says it sells it completely as something Mishkin would totally do. Leading to a literal gunfight to get his dog back where I love how much genuine concern there is in Ferrara's voice as he calls for his dog. It's a wonderful bit of work because everything about Ferrara suggests a whole world and history that we get just a memorable glimpse of here.

Then there’s one more performer who I won’t include his picture or name for the sake of certain readers but he didn’t receive an Oscar nomination either for portraying Milton Rockwell. But it would be disingenuous of me to review performances of Emil Jannings and Robert Blake but skip this one. As the performer in question also is not a professional actor, though heavily featured on “reality” pitch show Shark Tank, which I’ve seen a few episodes via being in company with fans of the show. Playing the role of a horrible rich guy which maybe isn’t the biggest stretch but downplaying someone as “playing themselves” is something I always bristle at. As easier said than done. For me this was a curious casting that worked for me wholly, maybe because my exposure was only as the guy offering the most parasitic deals on potential entrepreneurs. As much of it is playing right into the same type and use of what we see in Shark Tank, which let’s be honest is also a performance, essentially where he delivers a tone not of a mentor, or really even a teacher, rather a patronizing dictator of his business acumen that you should just listen to and that’s that. Honestly if you cast a more seasoned actor you probably would get more hidden depths to this guy, but weirdly I think it works maybe better in presenting Rockwell as a particularly hideous force. For example, even when he’s bringing up his dead son, the emotion behind it isn’t sorrow more of this like this annoyed repetition of a man who had his property stolen. And that isn’t an emotionless performance, rather he does play different levels of annoyance towards Marty who doesn’t listen to him, and builds from scene to scene showing a growing intensity of distaste for Marty. Leading to Marty begging for a second chance from the man by submitting to a fixed tennis match which Rockwell only allows if Marty will succumb to a literal paddling. Where the performance of gratification of each hit has such intense smarmy that is pretty remarkable, something extends to the watching of Marty’s humiliation in the fixed match, where the performer's smile is filled with such a vile pleasure. Playing towards the notes with variation but instead of a way to make you like Rockwell, you see even more how horrible he is, which may or may not have been the intention however it works. And simply put, since the performer, during the climactic match that Marty refuses to throw, evidently came up with the line "I was born in 1601. I'm a vampire. I've been around forever. I've met many Marty Mausers over the centuries. Some of them crossed me, some of them weren't straight. They weren't honest. And those are the ones that are still here. You go out and win that game, you're gonna be here forever too. And you'll never be happy. You will never be happy." I must say the casting wholly worked for me. That line is great, but the matter of fact delivery of it works as this man either being one or at least believing himself to be a representation of this force of control and exploitation that makes dictations on the world as he sees fit.

Saturday, 31 January 2026

Alternate Best Supporting Actor 2025

And the Nominees Were Not:

Russell Crowe in Nuremberg

Jacobi Jupe in Hamnet

Jack O'Connell in Sinners

Tyler Okonma in Marty Supreme

William H. Macy in Train Dreams

Best Actor