Best supporting actor must be Heath Ledger... & only him... must give him an Oscar or he'll put a Scar on the judges' faces...

That doesn't make sense. Lazarus is a movie character. Heath Ledger an actor.

I'm personally really torn between the two. They both gave incredible performances.

... Er... that's... mmm.... Yeah. lol.

Trophic Thunder was not a war movie. 8)

Hahahaha that has to be the best line of the movie!

Depp was nominated in a lead role. Downey is for a supporting role.

Typical for someone to say something like this. You, "Ledger wasn't that great in the Dark Knight," cliche ass hipster.

ME TOO! I have the "poster" as my desktop. It makes me laugh every damn day.

Is there a supporting supporting actor role? In that case, can I nominate Tom Cruise as well? Him and Downey Jr. were the only things that amde that movie any good at all.

He really needs to get nominated. It would be great for Comedies at the Oscars.

I definitely want Ledger to win, but Downey Jr. absolutely deserves a nomination.

"I'm a lead farmer, mutherf*cker!!!"

Smart move.

awesome.

Yes this is truly a tear breaker

How absolutely rad would it be if he actually got nominated (let alone won). It's well deserved, I must say!

Lazarus > Ledger.

There. I said it.

Lead farmer, motherfucker!

Sweet.

if johnny depp can be nominated for captain jack sparrow Downey sure as hell can be nominated for Kirk Lazarus

I badly want to see Satan's Alley.

this is just asking for trouble. the universe will surely implode if the oscar-nominated dude playing the oscar-winning dude disguised as another dude in a war movie about the making of a vietnam movie wins an oscar.

Downey Jr. has had a tremendous year and it would be nice to see him get an nomination. Ledger seems like a shoe in and definitely deserving of the nomination. However, the man I really want to see get a nom is Brendan Gleeson for In Bruges, he doesn't have to win, but he was fantastic in that movie.

"Every day that I wake up I thank my father for being an abusive alcoholic telling I was nothing and that he was going to kill me..."


ROFL

i didn't see what the big deal was with the performance. hilarious, but not oscar material.

Well, really, though, it wasn't Dreamworks who did the editing of those spots... :-P

or you know, we could give it to him because he's dead.

Not what I was saying at all. Ledger deserves it hands down and will win it handily, therefore it doesn't matter who the other nominees are.

Kevin Kline won for "A Fish Called Wanda."

aint nothin but a thang

Obviously Downey deserves the nomination. But his name's not Heath Ledger, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

Why does this "for your consideration" stuff even matter? It's not like it's American Idol where we can vote for who wins. Does this stuff actually have any impact on the Academy's decision?

Diane Keaton won for "Annie Hall." Clark Gable won for "It Happened One Night," as did Claudette Colbert. Jimmy Stewart's only Oscar was for "The Philadelphia Story." And there was Rex Harrison in "My Fair Lady," which is technically a musical rather than a comedy, but it's a comic performance. Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou," Richard Dreyfuss in "The Goodbye Girl," Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump," that weirdo Roberto Begnini in "Life is Beautiful," which is kind of tragicomic, Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday," Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost" (again not wholly a comedy but a comedy performance), Cher in "Moonstruck," Helen Hunt in "As Good as it Gets," and I guess you could argue whether "Shakespeare in Love" is a comedy and Gwyneth Paltrow belongs here too. Short version -- yeah. People win for comedies.

Will he go dressed up as Lazarus?

you dont normaly see a nominee for someone in a comedy.specialy not a farce.thats like larry the cable guy gettin an award for delta farce, so if they do pull it off..maan,that'd be amazing.the movie was funny as hell and downey jr was hilarious so i wish them the best of luck.

The most important thing: He didn't go full retard.

No, you can't vote, but members of the academy do, and there's a ton of them...probably 75% of them are just people working for a living, except their jobs are writers, and directors and producers and even though it seems like everyone in the Academy should already know who they're voting for, remember they're just people, and advertising never hurts.

Plus it's all crap anyway, the big academy awards are paid for, which is why people like the Weinsteins have been involved with like 20 movies that have won awards, and Scorcese won his when Lucas and Spielberg were presenting for a movie that's not even close to being the best film he's had nominated for best picture, etc...

i think robert downey jr was the only one that did a great job in this movie but the academy wont even recognize him because its a comedy movie.

boo this man!

I certainly wasn't joking or saying something just to see the massive overreaction sure to follow, courtesy of the Dark Knight truthers...

Has anyone ever won an award for a comedy? Anyone know?

Marisa Tomei "My Cousin Vinnie", Mira Sorvino "Mighty Aphrodite", Kevin kline "A Fish Called Wanda", Jack Palance "City Slickers", Judy Dench "Shakespeare in Love" just to name a few. For a comedy, the Supporting Actor/Actress category is your best chance for winning.

exactly why he should be nominated

Alan Arkin won for Little Miss Sunshine, and there have been lots of other nominations for actors in comedies (Sideways, Juno etc.) Anyway while Ledger was good and so was downey I really want PSH to win for doubt. Will it happen probably not , but it should

So? The point is that if Depp can get an Oscar nomination for his role as a silly pirate then why can't Downey Jr get a nomination for playing a black man? Just because one role was supporting and one role was lead doesn't make a difference...it's about the performance given by the actor.

The dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude was def funny...

This upsets me. Downey was so much better in Zodiac and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Forgive me for my rudeness and quickness to judge. : )

Ledger does NOT deserve the oscar. Same as Javier B last year, great performances but fairly one dimensional and NOT Oscar worthy. Sorry.

creepy how well he played that role. i had to keep tellin myself that it wasnt a real black person lol

"just because its a theme song dont make it not true"