BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Charlie Wilson's War
Age 40 Role Window-smashing CIA agent Gust Avrakotos. Why Tom Hanks Loves Him ''The scene where I meet Philip for the first time, where he bugs the scotch bottle — it was such a blast, I wished I could have filmed it for seven weeks,'' says Hanks. Role Call Hoffman's Chinese-menu approach to résumé management: ''I just sort of look for projects that strike me as interesting, do a little something over here, pick a little something from over there.'' Up Next He plays a theater director in writer-director Charlie Kaufman's fall comedy Synecdoche, New York. Then he'll don a priest's collar for the December drama Doubt. —Benjamin Svetkey