Best Supporting Actor 2020: Results

5. Sacha Baron Cohen in The Trial of the Chicago Seven - Cohen delivers a good performance that actually plays on his type in portraying a man who uses irreverence as a kind of weapon.

Best Scene: Taking the stand.

4. Leslie Odom Jr. in One Night in Miami - Odom gives an effective and charismatic turn in portraying Sam Cooke's ease but also his more passionate convictions.

Best Scene: "Change's Gonna Come"

3. Daniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah - Kaluuya gives a powerful and charismatic turn in his realization of Fred Hampton. This is even as while I don't feel the film makes the most of his performance, he makes more than the most of his material while it is there.

Best Scene: "I am a revolutionary"

2. LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah - Stanfield I think actually has even the greater challenge, which is why he's my current 2021 best actor winner, where he needs to create a logic to his character, and make such a lowly man compelling. Stanfield manages to do with both ease. I have to say I so wish Judas was just a bit better, because Stanfield's and Kaluuya's turns are both set into delivering a masterpiece. Unfortunately the film isn't that, but they are both great.

Best Scene: Hot-wiring the car.

1. Paul Raci in Sound of Metal - Good predictions Robert, Psifonian (To the rest, you do get your request, but please specify if you got it correctly on your last prediction as trying to decipher all the flip flops, Doesn't help when Anonymous predictors change their votes for example, on Cohen's post made my head spin) Paul Raci delivers my favorite performance in this lineup, and the one of only two actually supporting ones in the grouping. A performance that is just so vivid, honest and quietly moving every second he is on screen. 

Best Scene: Confronting Ruben.