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Actors and directors will tell you there's little point in comparing good work in wildly different roles and genres. But most of them profess to enjoy the five-week ride between nominations and Oscar night. Amy Adams, a Supporting Actress contender, says the whirl has been "fast and furious but fun. The three...
...those of us watching, this year's Oscar crop is a quiet bunch: very serious and not terribly popular. The absence of a pure audience smash is an X factor that adds to the mystery, the thrill of the gamble. And if you haven't seen all the films, don't worry. We have, and to help guide you through the awards, we're handicapping the races. How did we make our picks? From conversations with Academy insiders and nominees, from our experience of Oscars past and, well, from tea leaves. But use these picks for your Oscar pool...
...THIS FAR: From desperate housewife to desperate transsexual--it's about as big a reach as any actress attempted in 2005. While it's almost an Oscar cliché to have pretty people shed their glamour and get down, dirty and real, her woman-playing-a-man-who's-trying-to-be-a-woman is a new twist...
...MIGHT NOT WIN: The beauty of the role and of his performance is in their complexities and contradictions. Ennis loves his man and betrays his wife. He confounds an audience's sympathies. Even sophisticated Oscar voters might not care to reward such a confused and confusing figure...
WHAT LEDGER IS SAYING: "I think that flattery is just as dangerous or destructive as criticism. I think it's all one thing." He's got the flattery, but will he get the Oscar...