15 Early Predictions For 2018 Oscars
12. John Hurt Receives A Posthumous Best Supporting Actor Nomination
John Hurt sadly passed away at the beginning of the year, but he has four movies in post-production awaiting release, the most Oscar-friendly of which is Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, a Winston Churchill biopic starring Gary Oldman.
Hurt will play Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who preceded Churchill and was an instrumental component of Churchill's war cabinet for a time.
Needless to say, if the role's big enough, this could give Focus Features an easy opportunity to mount a Best Supporting Actor campaign for Hurt. Sure, it could end up driven mainly by sentiment, but would be a nice recognition of the man's contributions to cinema nonetheless, especially as his last nomination was in 1981 for The Elephant Man.
He won't win, but the nomination will be the win, really.