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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. |
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