2023 AMARA Lead vs. supporting thread - place your votes

The Artifice Girl
David Girard
Tatum Matthews
Sinda Nichols
Franklin Ritch

The Covenant
Dar Salim

The Promised Land
Amanda Collin

Samdra Hüller - The Zone of Interest
Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos - Passages
Julianne Mooee and Charles Melton - May December

I'm not at all sure myself of where I place them.

Girard - Despite having the same number of lines and screen time as anyone else(?), his character always comes off as secondary to Nichols for me - he exists for her development, if that makes sense. I have him as supporting.
Matthews - pretty much absent for the first act, a key part of the second, dominates the third. I think the third act puts her into lead, but it isn't 100% clear.
Nichols - She's secondary to Ritch in act 1, but the cops take more of a center stage in act 2. It's very, very borderline for me, but I lean towards supporting.
Ritch - He's essentially the lead of act 1, but his importance begins to wane in act 2 before he pretty much disappears from the story in act 3. I tend to think of him as lead, but dang is that a tough call.

Marin Ireland in Birth/Rebirth, I guess Anne Hathaway in Eileen, but no one else comes to mind that hasn't already been mentioned. Gladstone is the only really divisive pick this year in terms of placement.

I would say Foster is definitively supporting because that is her function to the story, and yet she is still more of a leading character in her film than Gladstone is in theirs, because Killers deliberately marginalizes Mollie to emphasize Ernest. If you think Gladstone is lead based on screentime, you have to consider De Niro as lead as well because he only has nine minutes less screentime than Gladstone does. If you think Gladstone is lead based on plot importance, again, De Niro has just as much importance to the overall story as Mollie does because he is the one who is driving the actions of the story even if we never see the film from his perspective, and he dominates the scenes he's in that has everyone else act in reaction to him.

Gladstone's supporting. The role of Mollie Kyle should be a lead one, but Scorsese and DiCaprio made a creative choice to focus on the killers more than the Osage. If defenders of this decision stand by that, then they have to consider Gladstone as a supporting character, or at least consider De Niro a co-lead alongside them. But if you think Gladstone is lead, then Jodie Foster should also be lead by that metric.

The List

David Girard - The Artifice Girl
Tatum Matthews - The Artifice Girl
Sinda Nichols - The Artifice Girl
Franklin Ritch - The Artifice Girl
Marin Ireland - Birth/Rebirth
Glenn Howerton - Blackberry
Jason Clarke - The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Dar Salim - The Covenant
Anne Hathaway - Eileen
George Mackay - Femme
Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Charles Melton - May December
Julianne Moore - May December
Cate Blanchett - The New Boy
Jodie Foster - Nyad
Adele Exarchopoulos - Passages
Ben Whishaw - Passages
Amanda Collin - The Promised Land
Juliette Binoche - The Taste of Things
Sandra Huller - The Zone of Interest

Jason Clarke - The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial - LEAD (I think... can't quite remember tbh )
Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers - LEAD
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon - SUPPORTING
Charles Melton - May December - SUPPORTING
Julianne Moore - May December - SUPPORTING
Cate Blanchett - The New Boy - SUPPORTING
Jodie Foster - Nyad - SUPPORTING
Amanda Collin - The Promised Land - SUPPORTING
Juliette Binoche - The Taste of Things - SUPPORTING
Sandra Huller - The Zone of Interest - SUPPORTING

David Girard - The Artifice Girl - SUPPORTING
Tatum Matthews - The Artifice Girl - LEAD
Sinda Nichols - The Artifice Girl - SUPPORTING
Franklin Ritch - The Artifice Girl - LEAD
Marin Ireland - Birth/Rebirth - LEAD
Glenn Howerton - Blackberry - LEAD
Anne Hathaway - Eileen - SUPPORTING
Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers - LEAD
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon - SUPPORTING
Charles Melton - May December - SUPPORTING
Julianne Moore - May December - SUPPORTING
Jodie Foster - Nyad - SUPPORTING
Adele Exarchopoulos - Passages - SUPPORTING
Ben Whishaw - Passages - SUPPORTING
Amanda Collin - The Promised Land - SUPPORTING
Juliette Binoche - The Taste of Things - SUPPORTING
Sandra Huller - The Zone of Interest - SUPPORTING

LEAD
Marin Ireland - Birth/Rebirth
Jason Clarke - The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
George Mackay - Femme
Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers

SUPPORTING
Glenn Howerton - Blackberry
Dar Salim - The Covenant
Anne Hathaway - Eileen
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Charles Melton - May December
Julianne Moore - May December
Cate Blanchett - The New Boy
Jodie Foster - Nyad
Adele Exarchopoulos - Passages
Ben Whishaw - Passages
Amanda Collin - The Promised Land
Sandra Huller - The Zone of Interest
Juliette Binoche - The Taste of Things

Glenn Howerton - Blackberry

Could someone argue to me your placement for Howerton in supporting? The film follows his actions in the company along with Baruchel's every step of the way, it consistently portrays it as a partnership, we see what Howerton is doing from his perspective (without Baruchel around), he even has personal moments that technically are related only to his character, aka those related to his hockey obsession. We see the actions of both men in creating the rise and fall of Blackberry, not just Baruchel's character.

I know he's borderline but remember feeling Baruchel was more lead. Don't have an argument for it, but he doesn't come close to top 7 in my lineups so if it comes down to one vote I don't mind changing.

Same with Binoche. Benoît Magimel was the MVP of Taste of Things.