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Tommy Lee Jones, nominated for Best Actor for his performance in In the Valley of Elah, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for 1993’s The Fugitive. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy The Fugitive at Amazon.) (Technorati tags: Academy Award countdown, Oscar countdown, Tommy Lee Jones, Fugitive)

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Laura Linney, nominated for Best Actress for her performance in The Savages, has been nominated twice before, including for Best Actress in 2000’s You Can Count on Me. (Click the DVD for a quote from her character.) (Buy You Can Count on Me at Amazon.) (Read my review of You Can Count on Me.) (Technorati … more…

Ronald Harwood, nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, won an Oscar for this adapted screenplay for 2002’s The Pianist. (Click the DVD for a quote from his script.) (Buy The Pianist at Amazon.) (Read my review of The Pianist.) (Read my review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.) … more…

Casey Affleck, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, has never been nominated for an Oscar before, but he did share an MTV Movie Award for Best Onscreen Team for 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy … more…

Tom Wilkinson, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Michael Clayton, was previously nominated for Best Actor for his role in 2001’s In the Bedroom. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy In the Bedroom at Amazon.) (Read my review of In the Bedroom.) (Read my review of Michael Clayton.) … more…

Philip Seymour Hoffman, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Charlie Wilson’s War, won an Oscar for Best Actor in 2005’s Capote. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy Capote at Amazon.) (Read my review of Capote.) (Read my review of Charlie Wilson’s War.) (Technorati tags: Academy Award countdown, Oscar … more…

Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Atonement, has never been nominated for an Oscar before. (Click the DVD for a quote from her character.) (Atonement is estimated to be released on Region 1 DVD in March.) (Buy a Region 2 DVD of Atonement at Amazon UK.) (Read my review of … more…

Tony Gilroy, nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Michael Clayton, has never been nominated for an Oscar before, but he was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy. (Click the DVD for a quote from his script.) (Buy The Bourne Supremacy at Amazon.) (Read my … more…

Daniel Day-Lewis, nominated for Best Actor for his performance in There Will Be Blood, won an Oscar for Best Actor for 1989’s My Left Foot. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy My Left Foot at Amazon.) (Read my review of There Will Be Blood.) (Technorati tags: Academy Award countdown, Oscar countdown, … more…