Willem Dafoe says he thought he knew Florida well enough before he started shooting "The Florida Project," but he had a lot to learn. (Oct. 6) AP
Willem Dafoe didn’t take home a Screen Actors Guild Award Sunday night, but as it often goes with those garnering lots of love during awards season, another honor could be just a day away.
The nominations for the 90th annual Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday. Dafoe, who was nominated for a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for his role as a hotel manager in "The Florida Project," is expected to be among the Oscar nominees. GoldDerby.com, a website that tracks the Oscars contenders, has Dafoe with the second best odds to earn a Best Supporting Actor nod, behind only Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”).
It was Rockwell who walked away with the supporting actor trophy Sunday night at the SAG Awards. He also took the Golden Globe for the similar category on Jan. 7.
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Come the March 4 Oscars ceremony — which airs at 7 p.m. on ABC and is hosted by Jimmy Kimmel — it’ll likely be Rockwell again as the favorite for Best Supporting Actor.
Oscar nominations for the major categories will be announced via livestream on Oscar.com, beginning at the strangely specific time of 7:38 a.m.
Dafoe, who attended Appleton East High School and later the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has earned recognition from several other groups this year for “The Florida Project,” including nominations from the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and nominations or wins from several regional critics groups.
If the 62-year-old actor does earn an Oscar nomination Tuesday, it’ll be his third. He previously was nominated for “Shadow of the Vampire” in 2001 and “Platoon” in 1987, both in the Best Supporting Actor category.
While it’s Dafoe getting much of the attention from “The Florida Project,” the Sean Baker-directed drama was named by the American Film Institute as one of the 10 “culturally and artistically significant” movies of 2017, alongside the likes of “Lady Bird,” “Get Out,” “Three Billboards,” “The Shape of Water” and “Wonder Woman.”
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