2024 Oscars Best Supporting Actress nominees: 1 past contender versus 4 rookies

Matthew Stewart
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The 2024 Oscar nominees for Best Supporting Actress are Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”), Danielle Brooks (“The Color Purple”), America Ferrera (“Barbie”), Jodie Foster (“Nyad”), and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”). Our odds currently indicate that Randolph (3/1) will emerge victorious, followed in order of likelihood by Blunt (4/1), Brooks (4/1), Ferrera (9/2), and Foster (9/2).

The only one of these five actresses with any previous Oscar bids to her name is Foster, who is also this year’s oldest nominee by two full decades. Before she bagged two lead trophies for “The Accused” (1989) and “The Silence of the Lambs” (1992), she broke through at age 14 with a supporting mention for “Taxi Driver” (1977), becoming the seventh youngest Oscar-nominated performer at the time. Since 47 years separate her first and second featured notices, she now holds the record for longest span between consecutive bids in a single acting category.

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As the potential eighth recipient of three or more acting Oscars, Foster would be only the second woman to score a supporting victory after pulling off multiple lead wins, following Ingrid Bergman (lead: “Gaslight,” 1945 and “Anastasia,” 1957; supporting: “Murder on the Orient Express,” 1975). She does not, however, benefit from the fact that the last 28 supporting actress champs were first-time Oscar winners.

Blunt’s nomination makes this the 33rd featured female lineup in a row to include at least one actress born outside of the United States. Including her, four English nominees have emerged within the last five years, with the others being Florence Pugh (“Little Women,” 2020), Olivia Colman (“The Father,” 2021), and Judi Dench (“Belfast,” 2022). The last such actress to win here was Tilda Swinton (“Michael Clayton”) in 2008.

The inclusion of Brooks, Ferrera, and Randolph makes this the category’s third consecutive lineup to contain three women of color, with Ferrera making history as the first person of Honduran descent ever nominated for an acting Oscar at all. She is this category’s fifth Hispanic contender and would be its third such winner, following Mercedes Ruehl (Cuban; “The Fisher King,” 1992) and Ariana DeBose (Puerto Rican; “West Side Story,” 2022).

Together, Brooks and Randolph raise the all-time total of unique Black supporting actress nominees to 26 and are the sixth (and youngest) pair of Black women to compete against each other here, directly following DeBose and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“King Richard”). Either would also follow DeBose as this category’s 10th Black winner.

Brooks’s nomination for playing Sofia in the new “Color Purple” musical comes 38 years after Oprah Winfrey earned a supporting bid for embodying that character in the original screen adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel of the same name. As it happens, the only similar case confined to this category occurred when DeBose picked up her “West Side Story” bid, as her Anita had already brought Rita Moreno a win in 1962.

The most recent victors in this category are Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” 2023), DeBose, Youn Yuh-jung (“Minari,” 2021), and Laura Dern (“Marriage Story,” 2020). This year’s winner will be revealed during the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, airing March 10 on ABC.

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