BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: HAL HOLBROOK
Into the Wild
Age 82 Role Ron Franz, a lonely widower who befriends wanderer Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch). Never Too Late Holbrook never expected to get a part as rich as Franz so late in his career. ''Eighty-two years old and you get a job like this?'' he says. ''It's a miracle.'' Not-So-Shallow Hal Wild writer-director Sean Penn was floored by the actor's vulnerability in a scene in which Franz and McCandless say goodbye. ''I wrote it with as much sensitivity as I could, but I wrote it with the imagination of a 47-year-old prick,'' Penn says. ''Hal took it way beyond what I could understand.'' Up Next He continues to perform his long-running one-man stage show, Mark Twain Tonight! —Josh Rottenberg