Leto: Frontrunner For Supporting Actor
Jared Leto is the guy to beat for Best Supporting Actor Oscar. That’s the consensus of the Gold Derby experts, who are aware that old-school Academy voters like their queer characters old-school, i.e. feminine and/or dead at the end. In Jean-Marc Vallee‘s “Dallas Buyers Club” Leto plays Rayon, a compassionate if self-destructive draq queen who helps Matthew McConaughey‘s Ron Woodruff distribute non-FDA-approved drugs for fighting HIV. Jeffrey Wells says it carries “a strong echo of Chris Sarandon‘s Leon in ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ (’75) — a performance that was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.” And lost to George Burns in “The Sunshine Boys.”
