85th Oscar Supporting Actor Updates (2012-2013 Award Season) (5/18/11)

New updates for the 85th Oscar Supporting Actor race, with previous ranking shown in parenthesis after each entry.

1. Chiwetel Ejiofor in Savannah (Predicted Winner) (previous rank 5)
2. Armie Hammer in J. Edgar (if not released in 2011) (previous rank 1)
3. Evan Ross in Macbett: The Caribbean Macbeth (previous rank 2)
4. Thomas Horn in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (previous rank 4)
5. Robert De Niro in Selma (previous rank 7)

Alternates:
6. Danny Glover in Macbett: The Caribbean Macbeth (previously ranked 3)
7. Lenny Kravitz in Selma (previously ranked 8)
8. Christoph Waltz in Carnage (if not released in 2011) (previously ranked 9)
9. Irrfan Khan in Life Of Pi (previously listed as lead actor rank 7)
10. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Dark Knight Rises (previously ranked 10)
11. Al Pacino in Hands Of Stone (previously ranked 11)
12. James McAvoy in Cloud Atlas (previously ranked 13)
13. Tobey Maguire in The Great Gatsby (previously ranked 15)
14. James Franco in Lovelace (previously ranked 16)
15. Tom Courtenay in Quartet (previously ranked 17)
16. Tom Hanks in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (previously ranked 18)
17. Chen Chan in The Grandmasters (previously ranked 19)
18. Louis Gossett Jr. in Buttermilk Sky (previously ranked 12)
19. Ian McKellan in Cloud Atlas (previously ranked 20)
20. Blair Underwood in Macbett: The Caribbean Macbeth (previously ranked 21)
21. Javier Bardem in Untitled Terrence Malick Project (previously ranked 14)
22. Hugh Jackman in Selma (previously ranked 22)
23. Tom Edgerton in The Great Gatsby (New)
24. Wendell Pierce in To Hell And Back (previously listed as lead actor rank 15)
25. Robert De Nire in Another Bullshit Night In Suck City (previously ranked 23)
26. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Lincoln (New)
27. Anthony Mackie in World War Z (New)
28. Shia LaBeouf in The Wettest County In The World (New)
29. Ben Kingsley in Vivaldi (previously ranked 24)
30. Omar Gooding in To Hell And Back (previously ranked 26)
31. James Marsden in The Dead Circus (previously listed as lead actor rank 25)
32. Tobey Maguire in Life Of Pi (New)
33. Hiroyuki Sanada in 47 Ronin (previously ranked 29)
34. Freddy Rodriguez in 5lbs of Pressure (previously ranked 30)
35. Tom Cruise in Rock Of Ages (New)
36. Harry Lennix in Macbett: The Caribbean Macbeth (previously ranked 31)
37. Aaron Johnson in Anna Karenina (previously ranked 33)
38. Michael C. Hall in Dead Circus (previously ranked 25)
39. Adil Hussain in Life Of Pi (previously ranked 27)
40. Ayush Mahesh Khedekar in Against Itself (previously ranked 34)
41. Paul Giamatti in Cosmopolis (previously ranked 35)
42. Andy Garcia in Hemingway & Fuentes (previously ranked 36)
43. Forest Whitaker in Mississippi Wild (previously ranked 28)
44. Jeffrey Wright in Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (previously ranked 38)
45. Denzel Washington in Safe House (previously ranked 32)
46. Aubrey Graham in Arbitrage (previously ranked 39)
47. Tim Robbins in Keeper Of The Pinstripes (New)
48. Bobb’e J. Thompson in At The End Of The Tunnel (previously ranked 41)
49. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln (New)
50. Mickey Rourke in The Blind Bastard Club (New)


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