85th Oscar Supporting Actor Updates 4/7/11

EDITORS NOTE: These predictions were made in April 2011 and reflect what my thinking was at that time.  I have updated my predictions since then, but leave these on the blog for a historical record. For the most updated list of predictions, go to the Tracker Pages in the upper right hand corner of this blog.

Lots of new additions and changed rankings to the 85th Supporting Actor Race. Here are todays rankings, with previous rankings shown in parenthesis after each entry.

1. Armie Hammer in J. Edgar (Predicted Winner) (if not released in 2011) (previous ranking 5)
2. Evan Ross in Macbett (The Caribbean Macbeth) (previous ranking 3)
3. Danny Glover in Macbett (The Caribbean Macbeth) (previous ranking 4)
4. Thomas Horn in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (New)
5. Chiwetel Ejiofor in Savannah (New)

Alternates:
6. Sural Sharma in Life Of Pi (previous ranking 1)
7. Robert De Niro in Selma (previous ranking 2)
8. Lenny Kravitz in Selma (previous ranking 16)
9. Christoph Waltz in Carnage (moved from lead 7
10. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Dark Knight Rises (previous ranking 6)
11. Al Pacino in Hands Of Stone (New)
12. Louis Gossett Jr. in Buttermilk Sky (New)
13. James McAvoy in Cloud Atlas (New)
14. Javier Bardem in Untitled Terrence Malick Project (New)
15. Tobey Maguire in The Great Gatsby (New)
16. James Franco in Lovelace (New)
17. Tom Courtenay in Quartet (previous ranking 7)
18. Tom Hanks in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (moved from lead 19)
19. Chen Chan in The Grandmasters (New)
20. Ian McKellen in Cloud Atlas (New)
21. Blair Underwood in Macbett (The Caribbean Macbeth) (previous ranking 12)
22. Hugh Jackman in Selma (previous ranking 17)
23. Robert De Niro in Another Bullshit Night In Suck City (moved from lead 9)
24. Ben Kingsley in Vivaldi (New)
25. Michael C. Hall in Dead Circus (New)
26. Omar Gooding in To Hell And Back (New)
27. Adil Hussain in Life Of Pi (previous ranking 11)
28. Forest Whitaker in Mississippi Wild (previous ranking 10)
29. Hiroyuki Sanada in 47 Ronin (previous ranking 9)
30. Freddy Rodriguez in 5lbs of Pressure (New)
31. Harry Lennix in Macbett (The Caribbean Macbeth) (previous ranking 13)
32. Denzel Washington in Safe House (previous ranking 14)
33. Aaron Johnson in Anna Karenina (New)
34. Ayush Mahesh Khedekar in Against Itself (New)
35. Paul Giamatti in Cosmopolis (New)
36. Andy Garcia in Hemingway & Fuentes (New)
37. Forest Whitaker in A Single Shot (previous ranking 18)
38. Jeffrey Wright in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (New)
39. Aubrey Graham in Arbitrage (New)
40. Thomas Dekker in Cinema Verite (New)
41. Bobb’e J. Thompson in At The End Of The Tunnel (New)
42. Tuffy Questell in Selma (previous ranking 15)
43. Sam Rockwell in Cogan’s Trade (New)
44. Dominic Cooper in A Girl And A Gun (New)
45. Paddy Considine in Birdsong (New)
46. Jackie Earle Haley in Dark Shadows (New)
47. Max Von Sydow in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (New)
48. John Goodman in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (New)
49. Terrence Howard in A Single Shot (New)
50. Bernard Hill in All Quiet On The Western Front (New)

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See Supporting Actor predictions for other years HERE.
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