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Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however,...
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| 2008 | Michael Shannon |
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Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American stage and film actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Revolutionary Road.
Shannon was born in Lexington, Kentucky, a grandson of...
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Revolutionary Road | ||
| 2008 | Josh Brolin |
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Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. He has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985, and won acting awards for his roles in the films No Country for Old Men and Milk.
Brolin was born in Los Angeles,...
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Frost/Nixon | ||
| 2008 | Robert Downey Jr. |
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Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor, film producer, and musician. Downey made his screen debut at the age of five when he appeared in one of his father's films, and has worked consistently in film and television ever...
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Tropic Thunder | ||
| 2008 | Heath Ledger |
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Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His...
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The Dark Knight | ||
| 2008 | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
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Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an American stage and film actor and director.
Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year began appearing in films. His work in a diverse range of supporting films roles brought...
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Doubt | ||
| 2007 | Hal Holbrook |
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Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. (born February 17, 1925) is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known...
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Into the Wild | ||
| 2007 | Casey Affleck |
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Casey Affleck (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He has acted in films such as Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Gone Baby Gone. He has been nominated for the Academy Award...
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | ||
| 2007 | Tom Wilkinson |
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Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Wilkinson OBE (born 12 December 1948) is an English actor.
Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Wilkinson, Sr., a farmer. At the age of four, he moved with his family to Canada, where they lived for...
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Michael Clayton | ||
| 2007 | Javier Bardem |
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Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is a Spanish actor. He had garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne tremula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro.
Bardem has been awarded an Academy Award, a...
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No Country for Old Men | ||
| 2007 | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
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Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an American stage and film actor and director.
Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year began appearing in films. His work in a diverse range of supporting films roles brought...
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Charlie Wilson's War | ||
| 2006 | Jackie Earle Haley |
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Jackie Earle Haley (born Jack E. Haley; July 14, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears , pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children and most recently as...
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Little Children | ||
| 2006 | Djimon Hounsou |
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Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is a Beninese actor and model. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
Djimon Hounsou (pronounced [dʒimɔ̃ hũsu]) was born in Cotonou, Benin, the son of Albertine and Pierre Hounsou,...
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Blood Diamond | ||
| 2006 | Eddie Murphy |
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Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, comedian and singer. He is the second-highest grossing actor in motion picture history. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live...
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Dreamgirls | ||
| 2006 | Mark Wahlberg |
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Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor, rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the...
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The Departed | ||
| 2006 | Alan Arkin |
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Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, and musician. He is best-known for starring in such films as: Catch-22; The In-Laws; Edward Scissorhands; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; Glengarry Glen Ross;...
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Little Miss Sunshine | ||
| 2005 | George Clooney |
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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Clooney has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and director behind commercially riskier projects, as...
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Syriana | ||
| 2005 | Matt Dillon |
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Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teenage idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as a mature actor in the decades following, culminating...
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Crash | ||
| 2005 | William Hurt |
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William M. Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor. He won both the Academy and BAFTA Awards for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time, Inc., and...
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A History of Violence | ||
| 2005 | Jake Gyllenhaal |
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Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal (pronounced /ˈdʒɪlənhɑːl/; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten. He has appeared in diverse roles since...
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Brokeback Mountain | ||
| 2005 | Paul Giamatti |
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Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an American actor and comedian. Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The...
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Cinderella Man | ||
| 2004 | Alan Alda |
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Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though...
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The Aviator | ||
| 2004 | Clive Owen |
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Clive Owen (born 3 October 1964) is an English actor and has been working for nearly two and a half decades. He won a Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his appearance in the 2004 film, Closer.
The fourth of five...
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Closer | ||
| 2004 | Morgan Freeman |
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Morgan Porterfield Freeman, Jr. (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice.
Freeman received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street...
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Million Dollar Baby | ||
| 2004 | Thomas Haden Church |
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Thomas Haden Church (born Thomas R. McMillen; June 17, 1960) is an American actor. After co-starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings, Church became well known for his film roles, including his Academy Award-nominated performance in Sideways and his role...
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Sideways | ||
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx |
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Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. For his work in the film Ray, Foxx won the Academy Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA...
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Collateral | ||
| 2003 | Benicio del Toro |
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Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967), better known as Benicio del Toro, is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. His awards include the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and British Academy...
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21 Grams | ||
| 2003 | Alec Baldwin |
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Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an American film and television actor. He has appeared in films such as Beetlejuice and The Hunt for Red October, in addition to the Martin Scorsese films The Aviator and The Departed.
He was...
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The Cooler | ||
| 2003 | Tim Robbins |
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Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Nuke in Bull Durham,...
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Mystic River | ||
| 2003 | Ken Watanabe |
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Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima...
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The Last Samurai | ||
| 2003 | Djimon Hounsou |
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Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is a Beninese actor and model. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
Djimon Hounsou (pronounced [dʒimɔ̃ hũsu]) was born in Cotonou, Benin, the son of Albertine and Pierre Hounsou,...
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In America | ||
| 2002 | Christopher Walken |
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Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an American Academy Award-winning actor of stage and screen. He has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, including Annie Hall, The Deer Hunter, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill...
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Catch Me If You Can | ||
| 2002 | Ed Harris |
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Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, writer and director, known for his performances in Appaloosa, Creepshow, The Rock, The Right Stuff, Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Apollo 13, Pollock, A...
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The Hours | ||
| 2002 | Paul Newman |
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Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 — September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin...
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Road to Perdition | ||
| 2002 | John C. Reilly |
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John Christopher Reilly (born May 24, 1965) is an American actor. Debuting in Casualties of War in 1989, he is one of several actors whose careers were launched by Brian De Palma. To date, he has appeared in more than fifty film productions,...
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Chicago | ||
| 2002 | Chris Cooper |
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Christopher Cooper may refer to:
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Adaptation | ||
| 2001 | Ian McKellen |
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Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939), is an English actor of stage and screen. He has received a Tony Award and two Academy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | ||
| 2001 | Ethan Hawke |
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Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer and film director. He made his feature film debut in 1985, opposite River Phoenix in the movie Explorers, before making a supporting appearance in the 1989 drama Dead Poets...
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Training Day | ||
| 2001 | Jon Voight |
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Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American film and television actor. He came to prominence at the end of the 1960s, with a performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he...
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Ali | ||
| 2001 | Ben Kingsley |
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Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has won four major motion picture acting awards, receiving Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards throughout his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas...
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Sexy Beast | ||
| 2001 | Jim Broadbent |
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James "Jim" Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English theatre, film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in Iris, Moulin Rouge!, Topsy-Turvy, and Bridget Jones' Diary. His most recent appearance was in Harry Potter and the...
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Iris | ||
| 2000 | Jeff Bridges |
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Jeffrey Leon "Jeff" Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor and musician. His most notable films include The Last Picture Show, Tron, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, The Contender, and Iron...
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The Contender | ||
| 2000 | Benicio del Toro |
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Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967), better known as Benicio del Toro, is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. His awards include the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and British Academy...
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Traffic | ||
| 2000 | Joaquin Phoenix |
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Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (pronounced /hwɑːˈkiːn ˈfiːnɪks/; born October 28, 1974), formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is a film actor, musician, and occasional rapper. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he lived for the first 4 years of his...
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Gladiator | ||
| 2000 | Willem Dafoe |
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William "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American film and stage actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He is best known for his roles in To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, The Last Temptation of...
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Shadow of the Vampire | ||
| 2000 | Albert Finney |
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Albert Finney, Jr. (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor. Hailed as a "second Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s. Although his early fame was later tempered by long absences from major...
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Erin Brockovich | ||
| 1999 | Haley Joel Osment |
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Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing the title character’s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole...
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The Sixth Sense | ||
| 1999 | Michael Clarke Duncan |
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Michael Clarke Duncan (born December 10, 1957) is an American actor, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
Duncan was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew...
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The Green Mile | ||
| 1999 | Michael Caine |
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Sir Michael Caine, CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Jr.; 14 March 1933) is an English film actor. Caine has appeared in more than 100 films, and is one of only two actors to have been nominated for an Academy Award for acting (leading or...
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The Cider House Rules | ||
| 1999 | Jude Law |
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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor, film producer and director.
He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989. After starring in films directed by Andrew...
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The Talented Mr. Ripley | ||
| 1999 | Tom Cruise |
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (pronounced /ˈtɒməs ˈkruːz ˈmeɪpɒθər/; born July 3, 1962), better known by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He...
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Magnolia | ||
| 1998 | Billy Bob Thornton |
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Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, director, musician, playwright and screenwriter. His rise to fame began in the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film Sling Blade, for which he won an Oscar for...
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A Simple Plan | ||
| 1998 | James Coburn |
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James Harrison Coburn, Jr. (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor who appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances in his 45-year career. Perhaps best remembered for his natural...
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Affliction | ||
| 1998 | Geoffrey Rush |
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Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. He moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria. He is one of 20 (as of June 2009) people to have won the "Triple...
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Shakespeare in Love | ||
| 1998 | Robert Duvall |
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Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.
He began his career appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small to...
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A Civil Action | ||
| 1998 | Ed Harris |
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Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, writer and director, known for his performances in Appaloosa, Creepshow, The Rock, The Right Stuff, Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Apollo 13, Pollock, A...
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The Truman Show | ||
| 1997 | Robin Williams |
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Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian.
Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
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Good Will Hunting | ||
| 1997 | Anthony Hopkins |
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh film, stage and television actor. Considered to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991's...
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Amistad | ||
| 1997 | Burt Reynolds |
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Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. (born February 11, 1936) is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Paul "Wrecking" Crewe in The Longest Yard, Coach Nate Scarborough in the 2005 remake of The Longest...
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Boogie Nights | ||
| 1997 | Greg Kinnear |
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Greg Kinnear (born June 17, 1963) is an American actor and television personality, who first rose to stardom as the first host of E!'s Talk Soup. He has appeared in a number of motion pictures. Kinnear has been nominated for an Academy Award for his...
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As Good as It Gets | ||
| 1997 | Robert Forster |
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Robert Forster (born Robert Wallace Foster, Jr.; July 13, 1941) is an American actor.
Forster was born in Dearborn, Michigan. He is in the process of completing his Associates of Arts degree in Graphic Design at the Henry Ford Community College,...
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Jackie Brown | ||
