Sam Rockwell will probably win Best Supporting Actor, but our hearts belong to another

By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, A.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky | February 25, 2018 | 6:00pm

Film Features Film Club

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The 90th Academy Awards are coming up Sunday, March 4th and Film Club is counting down the days leading up to the ceremony with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky will break down a category and give us their picks for who should win, and who will win. First up, they’re looking at the nominees for Best Supporting Actor. They are:

Willem Dafoe as Bobby Hicks – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson as Chief Bill Willoughby – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins as Giles – The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer as J. Paul Getty – All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell as Officer Jason Dixon – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri