Oscars 2023: Watch scenes from the Best Supporting Actor nominees

Watch scenes before the performances nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category at the 95th Annual Academy Awards, as well as interviews with the stars at the links below.

The Oscars will be awarded on March 12.

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Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, who previously starred together in Martin McDonagh’s “In Bruges,” return in “The Banshees of Inisherin” as two men on a windswept Irish island whose friendship falls apart.

In this scene, Colm (Gleeson) himself tries to explain to Pádraic (Farrell) why he is ending their friendship – something Pádraic is reluctant to let happen:

In this scene, Colm goes to confession and opens up slightly to the priest (David Pearse) about his desperation:

Gleeson spoke on “Sunday Morning” about acting in a story where tragedy and comedy coexist, where the humor springs from sources of pain. Was it difficult to keep a straight face? “No,” he said. “What’s hard is if you get a Martin McDonagh script, you’ll laugh out loud, that’s guaranteed. You’ll laugh out loud, and it’s one of the best experiences you’ll ever have in your life, especially if there’s a role is offered to you.

“However, when you come to do it, and because it is based on a kind of reality that is undeniable and usually contains more than a pinch of tragedy, you have to say goodbye to humor.”

Gleeson’s credits include ‘The General’, ‘The Tailor of Panama’, ‘Gangs of New York’, ‘Calvary’, ‘Paddington 2’, ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ and the Harry Potter series (as ‘Madeye’ Moody) . He has won an Emmy for playing Winston Churchill in “Into the Storm” and earned one of five Golden Globe nominations for playing former President Donald Trump in “The Comey Rule.”

“The Banshees of Inisherin” is his first Academy Award nomination.

“The Banshees of Inisherin” plays in theaters, available on demand and home video, and continues to stream HBO max

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Brian Tyree Henry, “Cause Way”

Brian Tyree Henry (“Atlanta,” “This Is Us,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse”) received his first Academy Award nomination for his role in “Causeway.” He plays James, a man in New Orleans suffering from the trauma of his cousin’s death, who befriends a soldier (Jennifer Lawrence) recovering from trauma and injury sustained during her tour in Afghanistan.

In this scene, James reveals to Lynsey (Jennifer Lawrence) the circumstances of his cousin’s death (caution, explicit language):

Henry told The Hollywood Reporter that he was drawn to move beyond James’ grief and how he navigated at a loss: “What I didn’t know was the connection that would pop out with Jennifer. We honestly found out what the movie really was … between takes. Really talking, calling names, really being together and realizing that’s the essence of who James and Lynsey are.”

Developing the characters beyond what was in the script pages, he and Lawrence were left adrift a bit when filming was halted midway through due to the pandemic. “We would check in on each other,” he said. “But there was always this feeling that something was unfinished. So we called each other and said, ‘Let’s bust this s*** open.’ We had many in-depth discussions about what we had all been through and what losses we had suffered.

“The craziest thing was when we went back to New Orleans to finish it, everything was different. New Orleans was different, we were different. I think that was something we had to add to it, how after that we wanted to find a connection again so sitting in isolation for a long time and sitting with our own thoughts.”

“Elevated Road” is in theaters now and streaming on Apple TV+.

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Judd Hirsch, “The Fablemans”

Beloved for his work on TV (“Taxi,” “Dear John”) and Broadway, Judd Hirsch earned his first Academy Award nomination in 1981, for his performance as a psychiatrist helping Timothy Hutton in Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People.” In “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical tale of a boy’s growing love for filmmaking, Hirsch plays young Sammy’s eccentric uncle Boris.

“So Steven Spielberg calls me up and says, ‘I need someone, like this part of the man who made me a director’ — it’s old uncle, great uncle,” Hirsch told “Sunday Morning.” “So I go, ‘OK, no background, nothing, nothing, nothing.’ He’s not going to describe this man and he expects me to be like him?”

With a blank canvas, Hirsch thought back to his days as a kid on the Coney Island boardwalk. “Okay, let me bring my experience. The only one I had was Coney Island.”

Hirsch, who earned his second Oscar nomination, said, “The pride I felt to be in this movie was greater than I’ve ever had in any other movie. I had to bring it, be him, all alone.”

“The Fables” is in theaters now and available on demand and home video.

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Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Irish actor Barry Keoghan, whose film credits include “’71”, “Killing of a Sacred Deer”, “Chernobyl”, “Dunkirk”, “Eternals” and “The Batman” (as Joker), won the BAFTA Award for his performance as Dominic, the battered son of the local police officer, in “The Banshees of Inisherin.”

Keoghan said of Dominic that he thinks he’s “the smartest person on the island” – which wouldn’t be the impression an outsider gets from Dominic’s stilted, unguarded dialogue. In this scene, Dominic and Pádraic (Colin Farrell) debate Pádraic’s “evil” trick of forcing someone off the island:

In this scene, Dominic asks Siobhán (Kerry Condon) if she could reciprocate a romantic interest:

This is Keoghan’s first Academy Award nomination.

In an interview with Britain’s GQ, Keoghan described how watching nature documentaries influenced his acting – fascinated, he said, by “how animals can say so much without saying anything”.

“The Banshees of Inisherin” plays in theaters, available on demand and home video, and continues to stream HBO max

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Ke Huy Quan, “Everything and everywhere at once”

Ke Huy Quan found fame early on when he played opposite Harrison Ford in ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ as a child. He followed that with a starring role in ‘The Goonies’. But then Hollywood lost interest in Quan’s acting talent, so he switched to working behind the camera as a stunt coordinator.

His acting dreams were revived with the release, in 2018, of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’. “I saw it three times in the theater; I cried every time,” Quan told “Sunday Morning.” “But one of the reasons I cried was because I wanted to be with them.”

He got a second chance with ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, a multiverse action comedy about second chances. He plays Waymond Wang, a laundromat owner in a universe, whose alternate incarnations of Waymonds help guide his wife Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) through successive realities to fulfill her dreams and mend her relationship with her daughter.

In this scene, Waymond transforms into an alternate universe and introduces his unsuspecting wife to an “alternative life path.” She will discover many others:

In this scene, Waymond urges Evelyn to “be nice” as a way to move forward in life and in their relationship. From The Daniels’ script: “Abstract and delicate shots of Waymond across the multiverse: he’s ecstatic, overwhelmed, crying as he laughs, bored. Evelyn sees a whole, complete picture of her for the first time since she first fell in love. her husband, maybe someday.”

Ke Huy Quan won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance. This is his first Academy Award nomination.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is in theaters now, and available on demand and home videoand stream on show time

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