Best Supporting Actor
Traditionally, supporting actors and actresses are extraordinarily underrated in the profession. Really it is hard to have a good movie without a good supporting cast, and for a truely great one it is essential. Luckily there are awards (like the "Mikey's") that reward excellence in this usually unappreciated form of acting.
The 2000 Nominees for Best Actor in a Supporting Role are...
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Although Mr. Cooper was not a major role (duh, he is a supporting actor), I thought he did a wonderful job playing the creepy ex-marine/father very well. He had the homophobic, insecure tendencies mixed very well with the overbearing, former military man who is trying too hard to be a father... and doing a bad job of it. Plus, his appearance in a couple of sceens totally creeped me out.
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| Tom Cruise - (Frank T.J. Mackey, Magnolia)
This was a great role, and Tom Cruise played it to perfection. Frank is the incredibly sexist (but very funny) "teacher" in a self help class on how to control women for sexual conquest, or whatever you want to tame her for (his words, not mine). Not a role I would have pictured Tom Cruise in, but he was wonderful.
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Michael Clarke Duncan usually plays roles like the bouncer (like in Bulworth or A Night at the Roxbury) or just a big strong working man (like in Armageddon)... but in his first real chance to (pardon the pun) flex his acting muscle, he slammed it out of the park. Playing the condemned inmate, John Coffey in the wonderful prison film The Green Mile, Duncan shows that the time he has put in has been worth it... and that he can act better than any bouncer in Hollywood.
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| Haley Joel Osment - (Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense)
I think technically little Haley is billed as the leading role... but, come on, he is a little kid. However, kid or not, he still played a great scared little kid who can see the dead. He even upstaged Bruce Willis (like that is real hard to do).
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American Beauty is © 1999 by Dreamworks. All Rights Reserved.
The Green Mile is © 1999 by Warner Brothers. All Rights Reserved.
Magnolia is © 1999 by New Line Productions. All Rights Reserved.
The Sixth Sense © 1999 by Buena Vista Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
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