Kieran Culkin is all but guaranteed to win Best Supporting Actor at the 2025Oscarsfor his performance inA Real Pain , and when he does , it ’ll discontinue an Oscars bar that live all the way back to 2011 . Culkin appears alongside author - director Jesse Eisenberg inthe cast ofA Real Pain . They trifle David and Benji , two Judaic American cousins who embark on a tour of Holocaust sites in Poland to honour their later grandmother .

Culkin ’s hilarious and grievous act as Benji has earned him Best Supporting Actor prize left and correct , including a nomination at the Oscars . Culkin ’s Oscar nominating address has been met with criticism of family fraud , since he ’s more of a carbon monoxide gas - lead with Eisenberg than a true supporting histrion . But in nastiness of these criticism — andin malice of stiff challenger from Guy Pearce , Edward Norton , and Culkin’sSuccessionco - star Jeremy Strong — Culkin is still the frontrunner to take home the award , and it ’ll break a long - standing stripe .

Kieran Culkin Will Be The First Best Supporting Actor Winner Not From A Best Picture Nominee Since 2011

Christopher Plummer Was The Last Best Supporting Actor Winner For A Non-Best Picture Nominee

If and when Culkin win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor , he ’ll be the first mortal to win the honour for a movie that was n’t nominated for Best Picture since way back in 2011 . At the 84th Academy Awards , Christopher Plummer come through Best Supporting Actor for his routine alongside Ewan McGregor and Mélanie Laurent in the Mike Mills dramaBeginners , which was n’t nominated for Best Picture(or any other honour , for that matter ) . Every Best Supporting Actor success since then has been from a Best Picture candidate .

The last three Best Supporting Actor winners — Robert Downey , Jr. , Ke Huy Quan , and Troy Kotsur — were all from moving picture that win Best Picture .

The last three Best Supporting Actor winner — Robert Downey , Jr. , Ke Huy Quan , and Troy Kotsur — were all from movies that won Best Picture . Every other winner since Plummer’sBeginnersvictory , from Mahershala Ali forMoonlightto Sam Rockwell forThree Billboards Outside Ebbing , Missouri , has been for a movie put up for Best Picture . SinceA Real Painwasn’t nominated for Best Picture , Culkin will repeat Plummer ’s specific feat .

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Kieran Culkin’s Precursor Sweep Ensures He’ll Win The Best Supporting Actor Oscar Despite A Real Pain’s Best Picture Snub

Culkin Has Swept Awards Season

DespiteA Real Pain ’s Best Picture snub , Culkin is pretty much ensure to win Best Supporting Actor . He ’s won in that category at almost all the precursor awards ceremonies . Culkin ’s late win at the SAG Awardshas pretty much substantiate that the race is over and the Oscar is his . There have been plenty of surprises at theOscarsin the past , so there ’s a very slim chance that the award could go to someone else , but at this point , there ’s no understanding to play against Culkin .

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