As 2024 winds down, awards season heats up. Some of these performances are already garnering awards attention, while others deserve it and unfortunately may get overlooked. But the Oscar nominations are still a month away, so you never know! In alphabetical order, here are my picks for the best performances of 2024:
LEAD PERFORMANCE
Kingsley Ben-Adir – “Bob Marley: One Love”
Gabriel Byrne – “Dance First”
Timothee Chalamet – “A Complete Unknown”
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – “Hard Truths”
Jessica Lange – “The Great Lillian Hall”
Ian McKellen – “The Critic”
Demi Moore – “The Substance”
Cillian Murphy – “Small Things Like These”
Dennis Quaid – “Reagan”
Daisy Ridley – “Young Woman and the Sea”
Tilda Swinton – “Problemista”
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Leonie Benesch – “September 5”
Tom Hardy – “The Bikeriders”
Lashana Lynch – “Bob Marley: One Love”
John Magaro – “September 5”
Penelope Ann Miller – “Reagan”
Edward Norton – “A Complete Unknown”
Adam Pearson – “A Different Man”
Margaret Qualley – “The Substance”
Zoe Saldana – “Emilia Perez”
Peter Sarsgaard – “September 5″
Kerry Washington – “The Six Triple Eight”
YOUTH PERFORMANCE
Jedaiah Bannerman – “The Kitchen”
Cailey Fleming – “IF”
Phoebe-Rae Taylor – “Out of My Mind”
Izaac Wang – “Didi”
Zoe Ziegler – “Janet Planet”
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Cristiana Dell’Anna – “Cabrini”
Ryan Destiny – “The Fire Inside”
Karla Sofia Gascon – “Emilia Perez”
Bridgette Lundy-Paine – “I Saw the TV Glow”
Julio Torres – “Problemista”
VOICE PERFORMANCE
Maya Hawke – “Inside Out 2”
Brian Tyree Henry – “Transformers One”
Bill Nighy – “The Wild Robot”
Sarah Snook – “Memoir of a Snail”
Jason Sudeikis – “HITPIG!”