The slew of supporting actor candidates in “Chicago 7” have agreed to compete together, including the cast’s arguable leads, Sacha Baron Cohen as Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, who in the movie tussles with Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne’s more moderate anti-war activist Tom Hayden. Now Baron Cohen will likely get the slot that might have otherwise gone to Jeremy Strong (Yippie Jerry Rubin), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Bobby Seale), Mark Rylance (defense lawyer William Kunstler), or Frank Langella (Judge Julius Hoffman).
Netflix And these two films are going to be front and center in the influential SAG Ensemble race, along with two Netflix contenders starring Chadwick Boseman: the late actor has two shots at winning a posthumous award, for his supporting role as an heroic soldier killed in Vietnam in Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” and for his lead role in George C. Wolfe’s August Wilson adaptation, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (Netflix), in which he faces off against the mighty Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. Which means that the Supporting Actor category is going to be crowded, indeed. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
