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  2002 Best Supporting Actor/Actress Picks
Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress races at this years Academy Awards are just loaded with talent.
Reilly was actually in 3 of the 5 nominees for Best Picture this year, and he was fabulous in the films that I have seen him in.
One of the best performances that will have you bouncing in your seat comes from her and I am ecstatic to see her be nominated.
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 Encyclopedia: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is a list of all actors nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (which presents a list sorted by year), sorted by actor.
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses.
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Academy-Award-for-Best-Supporting-Actor   (501 words)

  
 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses.
The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actor in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor   (694 words)

  
 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor
See the Best Supporting Actress section for seven actresses who have duplicated the feat.) In 1944, Barry Fitzgerald received simultaneous nominations in lead and supporting categories - for the same role (something that the Academy would prevent in future years by not allowing a double nomination for the same performance).
Puerto Rican-born Jose Ferrer was nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Joan of Arc (1948).
A win for Sofia Coppola for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation (2003) made her part of the second family of three-generation Oscar winners (her father is a five-time winner and her grandfather, Carmine Coppola, won for musical score on The Godfather Part II (1974)).
www.filmsite.org /bestsuppactor.html   (3075 words)

  
 Zap2it - TV news - Golden Satellites Shine on '24,' 'Bernie Mac'
Victor Garber from "Alias" won best supporting actor in a drama and Debra Messing won for best actress in a comedy for "Will and Grace" while Eric Roberts took best actor in a comedy for "Less Than Perfect" and "Everybody Loves Raymond's" Doris Roberts won best supporting actress in a comedy.
Best actress in a TV drama went to C.C.H. Pounder of "The Shield" who said, "The great reward for people like myself is to get the job.
It won for best motion picture made for TV, best actress in a supporting role in a movie or miniseries for Helen Mirren and best actor in a movie or miniseries for TV for the co-writer and star William H. Macy.
tv.zap2it.com /news/tvnewsdaily.html?29626   (686 words)

  
 Walter Brennan - Best Supporting Actor: MovieActors.com
Walter Brennan, Best Supporting Actor 1936 and 38 and 40: MovieActors.com
This famous character actor was born in Massachusetts.
He is the only actor to win three academy awards for best supporting actor.
www.movieactors.com /winsm/sm36.htm   (231 words)

  
 In best supporting actor, anything goes - More Oscar news - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unlike, lead actor — where you need to pay a certain amount of dues in the industry or your role has to be in an ultra serious film best supporting actor offers chances for a range of different performances.
These long-in-the-tooth actors seem to receive their Academy Awards not only for the terrific films they were nominated for, but for a lifetime of good work.
One of the hard parts about the supporting actor category is that some of the nominees seem like co-leads (this year, that would be all four others), while some really do seem like smaller, supporting roles.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6936481   (1283 words)

  
 Academy Awards Best Actor
The Best Actor award should actually be titled "the best performance by an actor in a leading role." The same rules that govern the Best Actor category apply to the Best Actress category.
Mexican-born Anthony Quinn was nominated twice as Best Actor for Wild is the Wind (1957) and Zorba the Greek (1964).
Laurence Olivier, Best Actor for Hamlet (1948), and Vivien Leigh, Best Actress for
www.filmsite.org /bestactor.html   (3846 words)

  
 2005 Calvins: Best Supporting Actor
There is perhaps nothing harder for an actor than making an unredeemable character likeable enough that we grow to forgive his despicable behavior.
Sarsgaard in particular is the breakout actor of the bunch.
The fact that a kid whose voice hasn't changed yet is able to hold his own with one of the finest actors of this generation is more than enough reason to justify his lofty placement.
www.boxofficeprophets.com /column/index.cfm?columnID=8797   (1256 words)

  
 Reel.com: Best Supporting Actor
One of the world's finest actors with a long resume of exceptional performances, Finney is even more overdue for a win than Jeff Bridges.
Supporting performances are almost irrelevant in Erin — this is Julia's show.
In a role that could easily have descended into campy caricature, Dafoe plays Nosferatu star Max Schreck as the ultimate Method actor haunted by his hunger and a barely remembered humanity.
www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/awards/oscars/2001/supactor   (568 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actor/Actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jim Broadbent (left) is up for Best Supporting Actor for "Iris." The film garnered three acting noms, with co-star Judi Dench (at right) up for Best Actress and Kate Winslet for Best Supporting Actress.
She is a nominee at the upcoming SAG Awards, in the Best Actress category.
She was named Best Actress for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for "California Suite" (1978).
hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1355597   (1407 words)

  
 CinePad Oscar Handicap -- Best Supporting Actor
This is another irresistible scenario: Once on top of the world, Burt's movie career slid into the dumps in the '80s and '90s.
He's been doing terrific supporting work (in Striptease, a bad movie, and in Citizen Ruth, a good movie nobody saw), but Boogie Nights finally offered him the "comeback" he needed -- and the Academy (a whole pavilion/auditorium full of huge but shaky egoes) loves a comeback.
Bacon factor: Computed with the invaluable assistance of the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, the "Bacon factor" has never been shown to have statistical significance in choosing the Oscars.
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 Guardian | Best supporting actor/actress
The Benin-born former fashion model is one of the first two Africans to be nominated for an Oscar (the other is South Africa's Charlize Theron), for his role as an initially menacing fl painter who befriends an Irish family in New York.
The movie got a middling-to-bad reception, the part isn't splashy, and Watanabe is a near-unknown in Hollywood, but the nomination acknowledges the integrity that the Japanese actor brought to Tom Cruise's silly adventure in warriorland.
A redoubtable character actor now stepping into her share of the limelight, Clarkson has had quite a run of late (much-praised appearances in Far from Heaven, All the Real Girls, and Bafta original-screenplay winner The Station Agent), and must count as a dark horse for her flinty portrait of a terminally-ill mother.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4862435-110760,00.html   (388 words)

  
 MotheringDotCommune Forums - Morgan Freeman best SUPPORTING actor????
I know either shared the movie with another 'just as strong' male actor or were 'lesser' roles in general in the films.
My recollection, though I can't find any support for this anywhere, is that it is largely up to the studios who submit potential nominees to the Academy.
No film wants to have to actors from the same piece against each other if they can help it (think Cold Mountain last year) so they will make a choice as to which to promote for Lead and which for Supporting.
www.mothering.com /discussions/printthread.php?t=255946   (844 words)

  
 Reel Classics: Article: All About Oscar - Academy Award Trivia and Statistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ingrid Bergman (3: 2 Best Actress, 1 Best Supporting Actress)
Best Actor 1931: Wallace Beery in THE CHAMP and Fredric March in DR. JEKYLL AND MR.
Supporting actors and actresses received plaques instead of traditional statuettes until the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.
www.reelclassics.com /Articles/General/oscar-trivia-article.htm   (3159 words)

  
 Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although his role choices have sometimes left a bit to be desired and his mercurial nature makes him a virtual pariah at the Oscars, whenever he commits to a role as he previously did with Dead Man Walking and I Am Sam, Penn has few peers.
Consistently compelling performances (he was easily the best player in Pearl Harbour and wowed TV audiences in the cable mini-series, Nuremberg) are sadly countered by a nasty divorce from actress wife Kim Basinger, complete with allegations of domestic violence.
As the inscrutable samurai warrior leader in Tom Cruise's otherwise self-absorbed The Last Samurai, Ken Watanabe is, to my mind, the best performer of the lot, but the statistics simply don't favour a non-American actor in a largely non-English-speaking role.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20040219T200000-0500_55997_OBS_BEST_ACTOR___BEST_SUPPORTING_ACTOR.asp   (604 words)

  
 HSX : Movies : Award
Actor Chris Cooper already bagged a series of awards for his performance in Adaptation.
Writers and critics from Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle all gave him the Best Supporting award.
Veteran actor and Oscar-winner Paul Newman gets his first supporting nomination for Road to Perdition, while Christopher Walken's work in Catch Me if You Can could earn him a second supporting statue 24 years after winning for The Deer Hunter.
movies.hsx.com /special/awardoption3/sup_actor.htm   (360 words)

  
 Oscar Best Supporting Actor & Actress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With only three weeks to go until the 76th Academy Awards, we’re coming down to the wire as we all wait with bated breath to see who will bring home the gold on February 29.
Last nominated in 1996 as a Best Director for “Dean Man Walking”,which coincidentally starred Sean Penn, his “Mystic River” co-star and fellow nominee, Robbins gives a “movingly tragic” performance as a murder suspect and psychologically tortured victim of child abuse.
Undisputably the best performance of his career, Baldwin may be the best bet in town.
www.moviesharkdeblore.com /oscar_best_supporting_actor_actress.htm   (885 words)

  
 Are you looking for Best Actor? This page provides new information on Best Actor!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 2003 Best Supporting Actor/Actress Picks
He gives incredible depth to a character that is an emotionally charged center of one of the biggest films of this year.
One thing Oscar voters do from year to year is they reward actors a year or so behind their time.
Gay Harden’s role is that of a strong support figure who is tormented by her husband’s (the favorite to win Supporting Actor Robbins) mysterious behavior.
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 Best Supporting Actor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One thing that can be said about Bridges is he's an actor who gives 100 percent and more, to each and every one of his roles.
With a Golden Globe award already under his belt for Best Supporting Actor for Traffic, odds are Benicio Del Toro might be making room in his house for an Oscar.
At age 64, Albert Finney is the oldest nominee in the Best Supporting Actor category.
www.tribute.ca /tribute/0301/best_supporting_actor.htm   (740 words)

  
 Are you looking for Actor Best Time? This page provides new information on Actor Best Time!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The first time that two African-American actors were nominated for Best Actor in the same...
The Gazzas (Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress)
actor of his generation when he gave what may have been his best performance in the controversial Last Tango in Paris.
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 Best Supporting Actor, 2000
As of early March, Bridges hasn't won anything, and in fact the support he's received from the Globes nominators and others was hardly foreseen when The Contender premiered and his buzz was nil.
His career as a character actor has been fairly long and mostly distinguished—let's not talk about Body of Evidence—and he more than fit the bill for Big Gestures in a Showcase Part that supporting categories tend to thirst for.
The British Academy Award, Golden Globe, New York Film Critics citation, and other trophies he's reaped in over his distinguished competition lend considerable weight to the impression that the force of his performance is weighing in more heavily for voters than the longer résumés of his chief rivals.
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 Best Supporting Actor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ben Kingsley previously won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as Gandhi.
He gives his Gandalf just the right measure of smarts, empathy, power and grandeur all sprinkled with a dollop of humor and tempered with the knowledge that McKellen seems to be having a grand old time doing what he's doing.
Jon Voight has been a two-time Oscar nominee (Midnight Cowboy, Runaway Train) and one-time winner (Coming Home), but for a while there it seemed he was best known as the father of Angelina Jolie.
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 Best Supporting Actor: 2005
His precursor track record so far has been stellar, and now that Crash has become a serious contender for Best Picture we'll probably be seeing a lot more of Dillon in the weeks to come.
This is the type of brief, bizzare, brilliant comeback that I think voters will eat up with a spoon.
A big hit with the critics, but unfortunately Oscar is an entirely different ball park.
www.everythingoscar.com /supportingactor   (229 words)

  
 Cinematical
Does no one subscribe to my line of thought that: Don Cheadle will win Best Actor allowing Fox to get the Best Supporting Oscar, the one he actually deserves.
And again with Haden Church, "as a show of faith towards the second half of his career." It's a bit scary that you'd vote for someone because of their "career".
This is the problem with the Oscars and many other industry awards--they're so mired in politics and don't focus on the art as they should, and it's sad that we and the actors themselves have to rely on such a broken system to determine artistic worth.
www.cinematical.com /2005/02/23/oscar-predictions-best-supporting-actor   (632 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actor
First up, and these are in no order except importance determined by a hamster race held earlier today, is Robert Forster.
Now I keep hearing he was quite the actor in his day (I think it was a Tuesday), but I’m not so sure.
(I’m not sure, Mick Jagger was pretty good in that...) Hopkins is one of those actors that it’s hard to peg down which movies he’s done that can be considered truly bad.
www.ohthehumanity.com /column/oscars/bsactor.html   (781 words)

  
 2001. FiLM BiTCH AWARDS
For topping her previous best twice in one year.
For being the only actor for the role.
For the best performance in the well acted film.
www.thefilmexperience.net /Awards/2001/01awardspg1.html   (834 words)

  
 Playbill News: Aida, Lion King, Constant Star, Floyd Collins, Tin Box Win South FL Carbonell Awards
The show was a critical hit, but a box office dud in Florida, according to the Sept. 15 Carbonell nominations announcement.
One award was announced in September: The world premiere engagement of Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics was excused from the Best New Work category to encourage consideration among other new shows.
Winners in the non-resident category were The Lion King and Aida actors Jeremy Kushnier and Paulette Ivory, and Lion King director Julie Taymor.
www.playbill.com /news/article/82711.html   (1219 words)

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