If Mr. Plummer’s name is not announced Sunday night, you will hear the loudest gasp since another veteran front-runner — Lauren Bacall — lost to upstart Juliette Binoche in the 1996 race.
Plummer has even more momentum than Bacall did 16 years ago because she did not sweep the preliminary awards ceremonies that year.
I wish there was a way that one of my all-time favorites Max Von Sydow could win an Oscar, too, but he was in a bum movie (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”) that many people could not bring themselves to see.
Don’t worry, Christopher Plummer should and will win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
With more than eight decades behind him, it’s about damn time Captain Von Trapp got some love from the Academy, as most agree his recently-outed father dying of cancer is a career-best performance for the Canadian.