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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Doubt

AGE 41 ROLE A Roman Catholic priest in the mid-1960s accused of molesting a boy in his Bronx parish. OSCAR HISTORY He won Best Actor in 2006 for Capote and was nominated for his supporting role in 2007's Charlie Wilson's War. METHOD MAN Writer-director John Patrick Shanley recalls the actor often holed up by himself until it was time to shoot. Costar Meryl Streep ''didn't know what the hell he was gonna do because he was in his room, smoking, looking out the window, looking miserable,'' says Shanley. UP NEXT He voices an obese New Yorker with Asperger's in the claymation film Mary and Max. —Adam Markovitz

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