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...like Mirren, has won every major award so far. But his long and monotonous acceptance speeches and lack of star power could work against him.Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, “Little Miss Sunshine”; Jackie Earle Haley, “Little Children”; Djimon Hounsou, “Blood Diamond”; Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”; Mark Wahlberg, “The Departed”Murphy has a lock on the Oscar. But even though his performance as Jimmy Early garnered more critical acclaim than he’s gotten...
...acute malice she lends to Scandal. But Dame Helen has it. GONG LI For all-stops-out scheming, China's foremost dragon lady should have been cited for Curse of the Golden Flower. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR ALAN ARKIN, Little Miss Sunshine JACKIE EARLE HALEY, Little Children DJIMON HOUNSOU, Blood Diamond EDDIE MURPHY, Dreamgirls MARK WAHLBERG, The Departed EDDIE MURPHY There's nothing like revitalized talent for Oscar bait. Murphy shows some of his early-career thunder in a serious role. JACKIE EARLE HALEY A kid actor who was out of the biz for a decade, he's poignant...
...Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls Mark Wahlberg, The Departed...
...Arkin got a prize for playing the nattering alterkocker (though he's the same age, 72, as Dench). Hounsou may be tiring of playing the iconic African, but Hollywood obviously hasn't wearied of seeing him do it. From a rich rogue's gallery of featured players, Wahlberg was chosen over Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen and Jack Nicholson. (The Academy must have agreed with some critics than Jack didn't support the movie so much as he subverted it.) Haley, out of the business for a decade, has a feel-good story, and is swell and creepy as the paroled...
...persuasively slip into the character of Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler from Zimbabwe who's on the trail of a rock the size of Kilimanjaro. Blood Diamond, the fitfully engrossing drama from director Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai), links Danny with the diamond's discoverer, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou, ever noble), whose family has been seized in the brutal 1990s Sierra Leone civil war and sent to a refugee camp...