Oscars 2024: who might be in the running for next year’s awards?
After the unlikely success of Everything Everywhere All at Once at this year’s Oscars ceremony (a film that wasn’t viewed as a contender pre-release, premiering at the fanboy-led SXSW film festival and seen on paper as too genre to be Academy fodder), it might seem dumber than ever to look ahead to 2024’s race, William Goldman’s famous “nobody knows anything” quote coming to mind.
But as a foolishly unstoppable annual tradition of ours, here are 10 big names that could be either nominees or winners anyway because maybe somebody knows something …
Jonathan Majors
If all had been fair, which at the Oscars of course it historically has been, Jonathan Majors would have been in this season’s best actor race for his moving, magnetic portrayal of the US navy’s first Black aviator in the frustratingly underseen wartime drama Devotion. But the on-the-rise actor (who has had two back-to-back hits already this year with Ant-Man and Creed. The film premiered at Sundance to mostly strong reviews and even the sniffier ones all agreed on one thing, that as a socially withdrawn, psychologically unravelling bodybuilder, Majors is monumental. With the film snapped up by Searchlight, it’s hard to see a 2024 ceremony without him in contention.
