Players' Club: The Supporting Actor Nominees

These go-to guys, including Javier Bardem and Casey Affleck, helped carry their films, but only carried home the Oscar. By Suzy Byrne

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CASEY AFFLECK

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Oscar History: This is his first nomination.
2008 Scorecard: Affleck won a National Board of Review award, and has been nominated four other times.
Before He Hit Oscar: Growing up, the Cambridge, Mass., native was a bit of a hellion in his neighborhood – he threw firecrackers off the library roof.
First Response: "It's really nice that people respond to the movie and the performances in the movie," Affleck, 32, told AOL. "I've been in a lot of movies where that's not the case, so it's a nice change."