Who should be nominated for Best Supporting Actor?

How can this be???

The nominations are out. Only in Hollywood can this happen! How can a film be nominated for Best Picture when it has no actors nominated for any category?

It seems that the length of the film has counted against the actors. They may have been on screen for an hour or more, but because we effectively have two films in one here, they may have only been on screen for about 30% of the film.

So, there's only one thing for it. When this poll finishes on the day of the Oscars, we will declare The Tolkien Forum award for Best Supporting Actor.

Here's the gong

The Tolkien Forum Award for Best Supporting Actor (artist's impression).

I think Andy Serkis should be.

I wish I could vote for more than one actor, e.g. Christopher Lee, IanMcKellen, Miranda Otto...

But I'll have to go with Brad Douriff, his performance as Grima Wormtongue was brilliant! *two very enthusiastic thumbs up*

Douriff was brilliant, but again, his comparatively small screentime would exclude him from serious nomination, again exacerbated by the length of The Two Towers, which makes his appearance, percentage-wise, seem even less!

If the Oscars matched bums on seats, then most of the academy's choices wouldn't get a look in, but I suppose that's what they're there for.