86th Oscar Supporting Actress Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (12/9/2013)

If you want to boost the Oscar ratings and have the whole country break down in tears, then there’s really only one person who can win the Supporting Actress award. Just don’t do something foolish like giving it out at the beginning of the ceremony: Make us wait for it!

When Oprah Winfrey, the goddess of television, teams up with Harvey Weinstein, the god of Oscar campaigning, then you can be pretty sure where this race will be heading come March. I suspect that there will be tons of critics groups trying to draw attention to the other (entirely worthy) competitors before then, but at the end of the day the motion picture business is, in fact, a business. And no one knows how to work the business like Harvey and Oprah!

1. Oprah Winfrey in Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Predicting Winner)

2. Lupita Nyong’o in 12 Years A Slave

3. Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle

4. Julia Roberts in August: Osage County

5. June Squibb in Nebraska

Alternates:

6. Octavia Spencer in Fruitvale Station

7. Sally Hawkins in Blue Jasmine

8. Lea Seydoux in Blue Is The Warmest Color

9. Margo Martindale in August: Osage County

10. Naomie Harris in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

11. Sarah Paulson in 12 Years A Slave

12. Carey Mulligan in Inside Llewyn Davis

13. Melissa Leo in Prisoners

14. Emily Watson in The Book Thief

15. Jennifer Garner in Dallas Buyers Club

16. Scarlett Johansson in Her

17. Margot Robbie in The Wolf Of Wall Street

18. Melonie Diaz in Fruitvale Station

19. Amy Adams in Her

20. Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond The Pines

21. Cameron Diaz in The Counselor

22. Isla Fisher in The Great Gatsby

23. Juliette Lewis in August: Osage County

24. Julianne Nicholson in August: Osage County

25. Allison Janney in The Way Way Back

26. Toni Collette in The Way Way Back

27. Alfre Woodard in 12 Years A Slave

28. Kristin Scott Thomas in Only God Forgives

29. Viola Davis in Prisoners

30. Kristen Wiig in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

31. Reem Abdullah in Wadjda

32. Emma Watson in The Bling Ring

33. Penelope Cruz in The Counselor

34. Kristin Scott Thomas in The Invisible Woman

35. Adepero Oduye in 12 Years A Slave

36. Scarlett Johansson in Don Jon

37. Elizabeth Debicki in The Great Gatsby

38. Maria Bello in Prisoners

39. Kaitlyn Dever in Short Term 12

40. Yolonda Ross in Go For Sisters

41. Joanna Scanlan in The Invisible Woman

42. Julianne Moore in Don Jon

43. Mickey Sumner in Frances Ha

44. Zoe Saldana in Out Of The Furnace

45. Vanessa Redgrave in Unfinished Song

46. Jodie Foster in Elysium

47. Angela McEwan in Nebraska

48. Angela Bassett in Black Nativity

49. Nicole Kidman in Stoker

50. Rooney Mara in Her

As always, check the Tracker Pages in the upper right hand corner of this blog for the most updated predictions in all categories!

See Supporting Actress predictions for other years HERE.

Or check out the Lead Actor, Lead Actress and Supporting Actor predictions.

See predictions for other categories at the 86th Oscars HERE.

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