..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Kim Voynar
..Michael Wilmington

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xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress
xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

BEST ACTOR
Actor - Film		Comment
Sean Penn - Milk	G	A truly remarkable performance from an actor who has given us so many.
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon	G	Magic. And could overcome.
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler	G	The great story of the season.
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor		The Academy Actors Branch likes actors, not just stars.
Brad Pitt - Benjamin Button	G	A big movie... a good, but dry performance... but who else's boat can get enough speed to overtake him?
Benicio Del Toro - Che		A performance up there with Penn's... but in a 4.5 hour movie that will have to overcome DVD flipping factor
Will Smith - Seven Pounds		A performance of secrets... tough
Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road	G	He's still Leo, even if he seems like a young man in his dad's suit
Josh Brolin - W.		A great, but undervalued performance
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire		Would be the big shocker

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Actor - Film		Comment
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight	G	Yes, he is still the front-runner. No, he will not draw a single rating point unless Michelle Williams agrees to accept while in King Kong's palm.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt		Really a lead, so a lock
Michael Sheen - Frost/Nixon		Really a lead, so a lock
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road		The insane voice of sanity in a very dry fillm
Josh Brolin - Milk		He gets a ton out of an underwritten character
Liev Schreiber - Defiance		Great work by one of Broadway's best
Eddie Marsan - Happy-Go-Lucky		If a movie star did it, he would be a lock
James Franco - Milk		Could move up... people are digging him

December 11, 2008
- by David Poland

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