Best Supporting Actor this year is a very strong category. Its front runner may be the performance of the year. That performance of course is of course Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh, one of film's greatest villains ever rivaling even Darth Vaider and Hannibal Lector.
Javier Bardem has been the front runner from early on and he is, like his character, virtually unstoppable when it comes to winning this race.
Is it possible that someone could give him a run for the prize? Well it's always possible, but certainly not probable.
Three other strong contenders should be:
Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton
Casey Affleck in the Assassination of Jesse James...
The final spot is a dogfight between two previous Oscar winners who had multiple award worthy performances in '07.
Tommy Lee Jones was critically acclaimed for his grieving father in In the Valley of Elah, but that film's box office receipts never gave him a chance in the Actor category. Therefore he may be rewarded in the Supporting category for both In the Valley and his seen it all police sheriff in No Country for Old Men.
Meanwhile Philip Seymour Hoffman has had an incredible year, truly proving that he is Hollywood's greatest character actor. Hoffman was sensational in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. He charmed critics in The Savages. However, he really blew them out of the water in Charlie Wilson's War.
I believe that PSH will get the final spot over Tommy Lee. But it won't really matter because Javier Bardem can't be caught both in his film and in this race.
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