Oscar Season 2024–2025; Final Predictions; Crowded Best Supporting Actress Race ENDS With Few Certainties And Several Dark Horses Lurking

On this episode of ACADEMY ANONYMOUS:

• A “Perfect” LOCK - Saldana reaps reward for years of work in mainstream Hollywood fare with demanding, delicate dance in “Emilia Perez”
• A VULNERABLE kind of “Perfect” - Ariana Grande hits everywhere so far, but is her turn in “Wicked” on par with the dramatic performances her fellow musicians gave in order to find Oscar success?
• Three Is A Crowd:  vote-splitting between too many musical performances.
• Two Of A Kind: the Gomez-Grande parallels that hurt both
• Selena Gomez bid undone by a Screen Actors Guild snub
• Isabella Rossellini cashes in her “WAY PAST DUE” ticket with Best Picture contender “Conclave”
• Felicity Jones fights for veteran’s spot, but is “The Brutalist” running time hurting her chances?
• Jamie Lee-Curtis “afterglow” nomination NOT IMPOSSIBLE - but far from sure-thing going it alone.
• “SAG Remembers” - Danielle Deadwyler campaign marches on after Actors Guild refuses to forget egregious snub for “Till”
• Monica Barbaro sings her way into the category with scene-stealing performance as Joan Baez in “A Complete Unknown”
• Margaret Qualley - “nepo-baby” & coattail nominee OR rising starlet building bridges with the right indie/international/art-house cinema insiders (Lanthimos, Denis, Tarantino, Coen).