The nominees for this year best supporting actor are...
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, Hal Holbrook for Into the Wild, Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War and Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton.
The winner of the 2008 Andrew Award for best supporting actor is...(cue the music) Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War. (Cue applause).
If you have read my blogs, you know that I have a difficult time in the selection of the supporting roles. That helped my eliminate two nominees right away. Hal Holbrook had such a small role in Into the Wild, and Casey Affleck had such a large role in Jesse James, that I felt neither should be nominated in this category.
That left Javier Bardem, Tom Wilkinson and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Javier Bardem was the winner, but I did not think that role required much at all. It was an intense role, but did not need any range, or subtlety or empathy. Tom Wilkinson was great, and really was the only reason I can think of why Michael Clayton should have been nominated. But the role that Hoffman portrayed in Charlie Wilson's War was just out of this world. Wry, frustrated and accessible, this portrayal of a CIA operative that meets Charlies Wilson is just downright tough to play. At one moment a sidekick, at another an expert and yet another the butt of jokes, this needed super acting ability to play just right...and Hoffman pulls it off.
Philip Seymour Hoffman...best supporting actor for the Andrew Award of 2008.
If anyone else has seen all five supporting roles, tell me what you think.
And just to be clear...posting hyperlinks for the actors is not nearly as much fun as posting hyperlinks for the actresses.
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