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| | Why Is Jennifer Connelly a Supporting Actress? By Chris Suellentrop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The 1,315 voting members in the Academy's actor's branch determine the nominees for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, and best supporting actress. |
 | | If an actress gets enough votes to qualify in both the supporting and leading categories, she is nominated in the category for which she got more votes. |
 | | Classifying what are actually lead performances into the supporting categories clears the way for best actor and best actress awards to be awarded based on sentiment to people such as Julia Roberts, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Paul Newman. |
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