Oscar Predictions: Best Supporting Actor - Can Ke Huy Quan be this season's Troy Kotsur and Paul Raci?

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LAST UPDATED: 10 November , 2022

Oscars 2023 Predictions: Best Supporting Actor

THE GOOD NURSE, Eddie Redmayne, 2022. ph: JoJo Whilden / © Netflix /Courtesy Everett Collection ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection

CATEGORY COMMENT: This year's work by Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang, the Sweet and delightfully awkward husband from The Daniels' whimsical multiverse comedy "Everything Everywhere All at Once" is becoming a firm favorite for Best Supporting Actor.

Quan, 51, is best known for playing Harrison Ford's little sidekick Short Round in " Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and Data in Richard Donner's "The Goonies" (1985). After attending USC film school, he quit acting in the late 1990s. As with Quan's A24 counterpart, Brendan Fraser of "The Whale", there is an outpouring of support and of aspiration to see the Vietnamese-born actor succeed.

For three years, two men have been nominated for the same film in the category best actor in a supporting role — Al Pacino and Joe Pesci ("The Irishman"), Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield ("Judas and the Black Messiah") and Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee ("The Power of the Dog").

This year, a few contestants might repeat the same show, including "The Banshees of Inisherin" with Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan. Gleeson has been a respected actor for decades and has yet to be recognized by the Academy. Keoghan, starring in another one-scene wonder in "The Batman," is one of the most trendiest of the scene, and it could serve as her entry into the Hollywood big leagues.

Other possibilities include "The Fabelmans" with Judd Hirsch and Paul Dano (as great as The Riddler in "The Batman") possibly leading the charge, with possible voice-hijacking from co-stars David Lynch and Seth Rogen.

Among the long shots are "Empire of Light" with Toby Jones and Micheal Ward, "Armageddon Time" with Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong and "Thirteen Lives" with Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen.

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