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Wherein the significance of a person's role (typically in a feature film) is downgraded. This is typically done when an actor or actress has been met with praise for their role, but have some industry shortcoming (e.g. acting newcomer, young, first-time nominee, lots of competition in one category, etc.) that would prevent them from receiving awards. So, in order to increase their chances at winning gold, they are entered into the awards races in (what are for some reason seen as) lesser categories in the supporting roles. It can also be done so a work can win more awards by splitting the leads into separate categories. In the case of the Oscars, the Academy has a rule against the same actor being nominated twice in the same category for two different works; if someone appeared in two well-received films in the same year, they will almost invariably be nominated once for Best Leading Actor/Actress and once for Best Supporting. May be due to a character being a Supporting Protagonist. Compare Billing Displacement and Protagonist Title Fallacy. Related to Oscar Bait. |
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Jacob Tremblay's performance in Room received a SAG nomination in the Supporting Actor category, despite the fact that the film is told from his character's perspective, and he has notably more screen time in the film than Brie Larson, who swept the Best Actress race that year. Ironically, some have speculated that if he had been submitted in Lead Actor, he could have been Oscar nominated, because that category was less competitive than Supporting Actor. | |
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Lisa Chappell winning for McLeod's Daughters in 2002, despite having been acting in New Zealand since 1987. | |
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Brokeback Mountain gives a lot of screen time to both Heath Ledger's and Jake Gyllenhaal's characters, as the film covers their romance and how their lives drift off in parallel fashion during their years apart. As such, one could argue that the two characters are equally important to the story as protagonists (with Ledger's performance perhaps getting just a bit more emphasis). However, Gyllenhaal was put in the Supporting category all through the awards season (despite him actually having more spoken dialogue in the film). In fact, it was Gyllenhaal's Supporting nomination that led to the creation of the Screen Time Central website. | |
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At the Golden Globes in 2013, Connie Britton was nominated for Best Actress In A TV Drama for Nashville while Hayden Panettiere received a Best Supporting Actress nomination (as she would the following year as wellnote and in other awards as well, like the Critic's Choice Awards in 2016) - since Britton and Panettiere play the show's main characters, this was clearly done to keep from cancelling each other out. | |
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Unlike the film version of Amadeus where both leads were nominated together, it varies with the stage show, as the role of Mozart has been nominated as lead at the Tonys and supporting at the Oliviers. The correct placement for the part onstage is a bit more unclear, given that while Mozart is by far the second largest and most central role, it is also undeniably secondary to Salieri, who remains onstage for the entire show, even when he's not present for some Mozart centric scenes. When transitioning the story from stage to screen, playwright Peter Shaffer made many alterations, with one of them being Mozart and Salieri now being roughly equal leads. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Behind the Laughter", satirizing the Jethro Tull Grammy fiasco, the family's cheesy pop song "Simpsons Christmas Boogie" somehow manages to win the Grammy for "Best Hardcore Thrash Metal", much to Ozzy Osbourne's disgust. | |
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In The Master, while Joaquin Phoenix is the clear protagonist, Philip Seymour Hoffman has a dominant presence and is the titular character, and a case could be argued that they were actually co-leads, given how the film's central conflict comes from the dynamics of their relationship and how there are several scenes where the viewer sees things from Hoffman's perspective. However, to get both actors nominated, Hoffman was put in the Supporting Actor category. | |
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While she didn't win, Kate Bell was nominated in 2010 for a guest spot on Home and Away despite having had regular roles in Blue Water High, another Australian series, in 2005 and 2008. This one was probably a Consolation Award. | |
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Cleopatra is famously one of the many pairings of then-married stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, portraying Cleopatra and Marc Antony, respectively. Naturally, they headlined the production, and it is remembered as their film. Rex Harrison, on screen for one hour of a five-hour film, played Julius Caesar. He was the only nominee between the three. And it was for Best Actor. | |
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One of the strangest examples of all time happened with Judas and the Black Messiah, which starred Lakeith Stanfield as Bill O'Neal, a petty crook turned FBI informant who gets in deep with the Chicago Black Panther Party in order to spy on its leader, Fred Hampton, played by Daniel Kaluuya. It's difficult to say what really happened here. Both men played the title character (O'Neal the Judas while Hampton was the Black Messiah). Both men had roughly equal screentime, with Stanfield perhaps leading there by a hair. Both were protagonists. Both had their own arc and character growth. Kaluuya was a slightly bigger star, having made a name for himself a couple of years earlier with Get Out (2017), but Stanfield had headlined other films himself. Kaluuya took top billing, but both men had their names above the title. Kaluuya, who was considered the showier performance and the main draw, was campaigned for Best Supporting Actor, due to his far greater likelihood of winning, which paid off, while Stanfield was campaigned for Best Actor, but was expected to be snubbed. Possibly, enough voters nominated Kaluuya for Lead and Stanfield for Supporting to allow Stanfield to break into the fifth supporting slot, while the majority of votes for Kaluuya were for supporting, and those voters may not have nominated Stanfield at all. | |
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Another issue is when a screenplay nomination goes to the credited screenwriters, which, because of the arbitrary nature of the Writers Guild rules and appeals process, may not always reflect who actually wrote the screenplay. The Original Screenplay award for Coming Home went to Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt, but Dowd just wrote an early unused version of the screenplay (she's officially credited with "story"), while significant input into the story and dialogue had been given by director Hal Ashby, stars Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, and even cinematographer Haskell Wexler. | |
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Jason Miller was nominated in supporting for The Exorcist, even though he's pretty equal to lead nominee Ellen Burstyn in terms of focus, and his character is the true protagonist and title character. | |
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Variation: Eric Jacobson was nominated for Outstanding Character Voiceover Performance in 2019 for his performance in Sesame Street: Once Upon a Pickle despite being a puppeteer (for which no such Emmy category exists). Up until that point, the nominations for that category were strictly animation voice actorsnote for the record, the other nominees that year were Kevin Michael Richardson for F is for Family, Alex Borstein and Seth MacFarlane for Family Guy and Hank Azaria for The Simpsons; MacFarlane would win the category. | |
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In a decision that left many people scratching their heads, The Martian won the 2015 Golden Globe in the category "Best Motion Picture: Musical or Comedy." (As anyone who has seen the film knows, it has light-hearted moments but overall remains a serious adventure drama, and contains much disco but no diegetic singing.) This happened again in 2017 when Get Out (2017) (a horror film dealing with racism, albeit one quite heavy on the Black Comedy) was nominated in the same category. In 2023, May December was nominated for Best Musical or Comedy, and while the film does contain a scant few laughs, it's ultimately a serious drama focusing on the very heavy themes of statutory rape, grooming, and exploitation, leading to much questioning as to why it was submitted in that category. |
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For Big Little Lies, Shailene Woodley was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress, along with Laura Dern, although her character had more time than Dern's, had more storylines, and was considered a lead character. Dern ended up winning the Emmy. This is also strange considering that Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, who were also billed as leads, were nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress. It may have been done to limit the amount of lead characters in the category so no one could get cancelled out. | |
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1940's The Philadelphia Story won James Stewart his only Oscar, for Best Actor. He was billed third, and his character was the third of a Love Triangle, with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant the main couple. Stewart's nomination here, and win, was broadly considered, even by Stewart himself, to be an attempt to make up for his loss the previous year for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, where he is the clear lead. | |
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Perhaps the iffiest Writing call was O Brother, Where Art Thou? as an "Adapted Screenplay" for supposedly being based on The Odyssey. Its writers admitted that they'd never read the Odyssey and any similarities were due to Popcultural Osmosis. | |
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In another very iffy case, Gangs of New York was submitted for, and ultimately nominated for, Best Original Screenplay, despite its very credits admitting it was based off the eponymously titled non-fiction novel by Herbert Asbury. On what grounds could it be considered "original", then? Well, according to writer Jay Cocks, "This is a world we conjured out of whole cloth, out of a whole lot of unassimilated historical research.� He said that Asbury’s book, which Cocks and Martin Scorsese discovered in the late ‘70s, served primarily as an introduction to the history of the draft riots depicted in the film, and that he borrowed only a few particularly pungent gang names (including the Dead Rabbits and the Plug Uglies), the sketchy outlines of two key characters (Bill the Butcher and Monk Mc Ginn), and Asbury’s “great title� from the book. The rest, he says, was original, with guidance from about 50 historical sources. It's hard to tell how seriously to take that claim. | |
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Joel Madden winning for The Voice Australia in 2013, despite being the lead singer of Good Charlotte since 1996. | |
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Nebraska! featured Bruce Dern and Will Forte as Father/Son deuteragonists, but Dern was the one to receive a Best Actor nomination and while Forte wasn't nominated, he was submitted as a supporting actor - invoked, though, as the producers didn't want to split the votes between the two. | |
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Alan Kim was campaigned and nominated as a supporting actor at Bafta for his work in Minari while Steven Yeun earned a leading Oscar nod among other nominations for playing his father and Yeri Han was submitted though mostly snubbed in lead for playing his mother. While Yeun and Han's submissions make sense, Kim being put in supporting is questionable since he plays the true main character of the Ensemble Cast. | |
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Writing example: if it's based on a previous work, the Academy only considers it for Adapted Screenplay. Sequels are almost always considered adapted because they're based on existing characters (Toy Story 3, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm). | |
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Aileen Quinn won the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress in Annie (1982) despite playing the titular Annie. | |
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In 2023, May December was nominated for Best Musical or Comedy, and while the film does contain a scant few laughs, it's ultimately a serious drama focusing on the very heavy themes of statutory rape, grooming, and exploitation, leading to much questioning as to why it was submitted in that category. | |
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Game of Thrones: In a show with a large Cast Herd and Three Lines, Some Waiting, this is perhaps inevitable. Peter Dinklage was the show's top-billed actor for every season except the first (when that spot was filled by Sean Bean playing a Decoy Protagonist). Despite this, every Primetime Emmy nomination he ever received — and he was nominated for every season there was — was for Best Supporting Actor. Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke were nominated for Best Lead Actor and Best Lead Actress during the final season... but their previous nominations (his in Season 6, hers in 3, 5 and 6) were for Supporting, which arguably fits this trope as well. |
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Similarly, the cast of Modern Family agreed to never submit to Leads. This resulted in numerous instances of all four lead actors nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actor category at the same time, and both lead actresses nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category. (Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet each won twice for Supporting Actor, and Julie Bowen won twice for Supporting Actress.) | |
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Jennifer Hudson, who played Effie White in the 2006 film version of Dreamgirls, won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for that role, which is seen as a lead on stage and had earned Jennifer Holliday a Tony for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Ironically, Hudson was not mentioned in the promotional material until after the movie was released. | |
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Firass Dirani winning for Underbelly: The Golden Mile in 2011, despite previously starring in Power Rangers Mystic Force. Similarly, the previous year Anna Hutchison had been shortlisted for Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities despite her role in Power Rangers Jungle Fury. | |
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This happened again in 2017 when Get Out (2017) (a horror film dealing with racism, albeit one quite heavy on the Black Comedy) was nominated in the same category. | |
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True Detective was pushed, and nominated, in Best Drama Series at the Emmys rather than Best Miniseries, in spite of the fact that similarly constructed Seasonal Anthologies such as American Horror Story and Fargo were nominated as miniseries. Presumably, this was done so HBO wouldn't have to compete with itself with the TV movie The Normal Heart. Enough flak came out of this that the Emmys restructured their rules by clearly defining what constituted anthology or limited series and both are now ineligible for the Drama category. | |
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Robert Alda and Isabel Bigley each won a Tony award for playing Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown in the original production of Guys and Dolls. Despite Sky and Sarah being a couple in the show, being billed after Vivian Blaine (Miss Adelaide) put Isabel Bigley in the "Best Featured Actress" category, whereas Robert Alda was "Best Actor." | |
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Justin Moore notoriously won the Academy of Country Music's Best New Artist award in 2014, months after the release of his third album. And it's not like his previous albums were obscure flops, either — the first two both went gold and produced a combined three #1 hits. | |
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For ER's first season, all six actors were nominated for Emmys. However, Julianna Margulies was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, despite having just as much screen time and as many storylines as Sherry Stringfield, who was nominated for Lead. Presumably, this was to avoid the two of them canceling each other out, as probably happened to Anthony Edwards and George Clooney (both up for Lead Actor), and Noah Wyle and Eriq LaSalle (both up for Supporting Actor). It paid off, and she won. It wouldn't be until the third season that Margulies was nominated for Lead Actress for the first time, as she had essentially taken over as the central female figure of the series once Stringfield exited (after the eighth episode of Season 3). Incidentally, the two of them were both nominated for Lead Actress that year, losing to Gillian Anderson for The X-Files. One could also argue that Noah Wyle was a co-lead, especially in seasons 3 and 4, but was only ever nominated in Supporting, while Laura Innes was easily one of the more prominent leading characters starting with Season 4 (until being Demoted to Extra years after ER's actors stopped being nominated) but was only ever nominated for Support. | |
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Green Book portrays the relationship between Dr. Don Shirley and his driver Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga as they travel through the 1960s Deep South. Despite sharing similar screen time, Viggo Mortensen was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, while Mahershala Ali was nominated for (and ultimately won) the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. | |
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Another controversial Writing example was Whiplash, with the Oscars classifying it as an Adapted Screenplay due to Damien Chazelle's short film of the same name having premiered one year prior. However, the short film was made based on scenes from the feature film's screenplay as a way of attracting investors, and as such was not the basis for the film. The announcement that the film would be treated as an adaptation came as a surprise to Chazelle, who had expected it to compete for Original Screenplay. | |
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The Favourite is a film about three women, at least two of whom could be considered leads. When awards season came around, it was decided to submit Olivia Colman in the Lead Actress categories while Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone had to settle for Supporting Actress. All three received Oscar nominations in those respective categories. In terms of screen time, Stone appeared in 48% of the film (and much of it is from her perspective), Colman in 42%, and Weisz in 36%. Colman likely got priority because she played Queen Anne, whose life is ultimately the main subject and setting of the story. This ended up working out as Weisz and Stone both lost Supporting Actress to Regina King, while Colman pulled off an upset victory over the heavily-favored Glenn Close for the Oscar. | |
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The film adaptation of August: Osage County was criticized by some for an egregious case of this, with Meryl Streep being pushed in the Lead category and Julia Roberts for Supporting, despite the fact that the two characters had previously competed against each other in Lead at the Tonys when it was a play on Broadway. | |
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Despite the film's title, All About Eve is really about Bette Davis' Margo Channing character, with the titular Eve Harrington, played by Anne Baxter, having significantly less screen-time, with only a few key scenes told from her perspective. Baxter could have been submitted under Best Supporting Actress, but she campaigned for a Best Actress nomination instead since she believed she wouldn't have a shot in that category again (and she would ultimately be correct). Since both Davis and Baxter received Best Actress nominations (still the only time the category has seen two nominees for the same film), the vote was split. That, along with additional competition from Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard), is usually cited as the reason why Judy Holliday from Born Yesterday won the Oscar, one of the most famous upsets in the award's history. In later years, Baxter came to regret not conceding to a Supporting Actress nomination, and Davis agreed. For what it's worth, the film did have two nominations in that category (for Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter's performances), but they aren't as well-remembered, and it's usually agreed that Baxter would easily have won the category had she been nominated. | |
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1941's The Devil and Miss Jones starred Charles Coburn as a corporate executive who decides to see how working conditions are on the bottom rung of his department store, and hires himself under an alias as salesperson. He's the lead character under any definition of the term. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. | |
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Friends invoked this when the Ensemble Cast decided that they would only ever submit their work for Supporting. David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, arguably the four most prominent of the six leads (the other two were primarily comic relief), each competed for Supporting categories. This changed with season eight, when the actors decided to all submit in lead instead. Perry, Aniston and Matt Le Blanc all went on to receive nominations, and Aniston won. (The sixth cast member, Lisa Kudrow, also won Supporting in '98. Cox was never nominated.) | |
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