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How many Oscars does Jeremy Strong have and how many times has he been nominated for an Academy Award?

Strong is up for Best Supporting Actor at Sunday’s Oscars, for his turn as Roy Cohn in the Donald Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’.

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Update: Mar 2nd, 2025 08:21 EST

At this weekend’s Oscars, Jeremy Strong will go up against his former screen sibling for Best Supporting Actor, as the 46-year-old ex-Succession star vies for the first Academy Award of his career.

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Strong has earned a maiden Oscars nomination for his performance as Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, a biopic that chronicles the early years of Donald Trump’s real-estate career.

Directed by Ali Abassi and starring Sebastian Stan as Trump, the controversial film focuses on the U.S. president’s relationship with Cohn, his one-time attorney and mentor.

Strong “filled with amazement” at first Oscars nomination

In a statement released after his Oscars nod was announced in January, Strong described the nomination as the “realization of a lifelong dream”.

“I remember spending the night on cold metal bleachers outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in 1993 with my father to watch the actors and actresses arrive at the 65th Academy Awards,” he said.

“I remember being unable to sleep because of how exciting it was to be close to that world. I have not lost that feeling of excitement; I feel it every time I go to set or drive onto a lot or begin rehearsals.

“I have devoted my life to the attempt to do genuine work that would be worthy of this honor. I am filled with amazement and flooded with emotion and with deep gratitude to my peers in the Academy.”

Jeremy Strong (Best Supporting Actor nominee for THE APPRENTICE) attends the 97th Oscars Nominees Dinner at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

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Who are the 2025 Best Supporting Actor nominees? The full list:

Yura Borisov, Anora

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Can Strong upset Oscars odds?

Were Strong to claim Best Supporting Actor on Sunday, he would leave himself one step away from securing ‘EGOT’ status as a winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony - the U.S.’s foursome of major TV, music, film and Broadway theatre awards, respectively.

Strong’s role as Kendall Roy on Succession earned him Outstanding Lead Actor honors at the 2020 Emmys, before he was named Best Actor in a Play at last year’s Tonys, for his performance in the show An Enemy of the People.

In the race for this year’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar, however, Strong is expected to lose out to former Succession colleague Kieran Culkin, who played Kendall’s brother, Roman Roy, during the hit series’ four-season run.

Culkin is the overwhelming favorite to claim the Oscar, for his turn opposite Jesse Eisenberg in the comedy-drama A Real Pain. The bookmakers have handed Culkin comfortably the shortest odds of victory, while critics are describing the statuette as “basically his to lose” and “all but guaranteed” to go to the 42-year-old.

Together with The Brutalist’s Guy Pearce, Strong is the bookies’ outsider for the Oscar, with Anora’s Yura Borisov and A Complete Unknown’s Edward Norton both ahead of the pair in the betting.

Watch the trailer for The Apprentice:

2025 Academy Awards: What time, where, how to watch?

The 97th Academy Awards are to be held at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre today, Sunday, March 2, with the ceremony due to start at 7:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. PT.

The Oscars are to air live in the United States on ABC. If you’re in the U.S., you can stream ABC on the online platform fubo, which offers new users a free introductory trial.