Oscars 2022: Best Actor Predictions

Everything has to go right for any actor to land a coveted leading man Oscar slot. So it makes sense that this year’s award season is packed with returning Oscar perennials.Trying for another win are Denzel Washington, who returns to Shakespeare in the powerful title role in Joel Coen’s New York Film Festival opener “The Tragedy of Macbeth” (AppleTV+), and Javier Bardem (“No Country for Old Men”) as charismatic Desi Arnaz, the bonga-banging, philandering husband of Lucille Ball, in Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos” (Amazon Studios), set during one intensely dramatic week in the life of the hugely successful “I Love Lucy” show.Shooting for a long overdue Oscar win after two acting nods is Will Smith as a driven father and coach to tennis prodigies Serena and Venus Williams in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s sports heart-tugging Best Picture contender “King Richard” (Warner Bros./HBO Max...