2024 Oscar nominations - who has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor?

The nominations for the 2024 Academy Awards were recently announced, with Oppenheimer leading the way with 13 nominations across all categories, while Poor Things received 11, Killers of the Flower Moon gained 10 and Barbie took eight.

The Oscars ceremony is dedicated to celebrating the best of film each year whether it be from an artistic or technical point of view. It is generally considered to be the most prestigious movie award ceremony in the world and has been running since the first ceremony took place at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929.

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The most coveted awards are for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director though each of the 23 awards given on the night comes with its own degree of prestige.

Each category winner is awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy, officially called the 'Academy Award of Merit' though it is colloquially known now as simply an 'Oscar'.

For the Best Supporting Actor category, there is one major front-runner. Below you'll see the nominees as well as their odds for the victory and some glowing reviews for their performances.

Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer) - 1/9

The odds-on favourite to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is Robert Downey Jr. He has been nominated for two Oscars previously - one for Chaplin (Best Actor) and one for Tropic Thunder (Best Supporting Actor).

Here are some snippets of what critics have had to say about his performance in Oppenheimer, in which he plays Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss.

"What he (Nolan) has put before our eyes definitively deserves to be seen, as does Cillian Murphy's performance in the role of Oppenheimer and the irreconcilable but fantastic Robert Downey Jr. in the role of Lewis Strauss" - Sergio Burstein of the Los Angeles Times.

"Oppenheimer is mythic, massive, and a masterful work from Christopher Nolan. Murphy & Downey Jr. deliver career best performances in what is the most important movie of the decade." - Anthony Gagliardi of The Movie Podcast.

"There’s one element worthy of unreserved praise here, and that’s Robert Downey Jr.’s welcome-home performance — his comeback, if you will, from his comeback, which kidnapped him into Marvel movies for eleven years." - Rob Gonsalves of Rob's Movie Vault.

Ryan Gosling (Barbie) - 9/1

"BARBIE is a cinematic phenomenon that pulls off the rarest of feats: using a doll to make a striking commentary about gender politics. Greta Gerwig levels up as a director and writer with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling delivering career best performances." - John Rocha of The Outlaw Nation.

"Gosling walks away with the film, both through the patriarchy and his hilariously sincere performance. Overall, it’s one hell of an achievement. It’s just not the one we were looking for." - Sarah Manvel of In Their Own League.

"Gerwig’s satire and the comedic chops of Robbie and, especially, Gosling fall into perfect rhythm once Barbie and Ken leave the candy-colored comforts of Barbie Land and Ken discovers the patriarchy." - Adam Kempenaar of Filmspotting.

Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon) - 16/1

"DiCaprio and De Niro carry the film through their impersonations of what they are not, their acting of an act, so to speak: the nice, if rough-edged guy, and the genial businessman, the toast of the town." - London Review of Books.

"As for De Niro, it’s time to start thinking of awarding him another Oscar. The film contains some of his very best work, the actor giving a seemingly effortless, layered portrait of rationalized evil. De Niro’s calm, seemingly sane approach is chilling." - Charles Koplinski of Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam.

Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things) - 18/1

"The performances of (Emma) Stone,(Willem) Dafoe and Ruffalo are outstanding. This is a very strange and funny story which has quite a lot to say about the human condition and conventional morality." - Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope.

"At times the film borders on being a masterpiece with the perfect mix of comedy and drama. Stone, Ruffalo and Dafoe put on masterclasses." - David Griffiths of Subculture Entertainment.

Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction) - 25/1

"Sterling K. Brown steals every scene he’s in as Monk’s wild, partying gay younger brother. He’s the very definition of a Best Supporting Actor." - Scott Phillips of Forbes.