Despite his starring in as many as 191 flicks like The Sound of Music and A Beautiful Mind, Shakespearean actor Plummer has never won.

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Best supporting actress nominees for drama went to Jennifer Connelly ("A Beautiful Mind"), Cameron Diaz ("Vanilla Sky"), Marisa Tomei ("In The Bedroom") and Kate Winslet ("Iris").

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And even in the major awards, in recent years for every cheesy piece of studio fare (A Beautiful Mind, Chicago) there's a corresponding smaller or edgier winner (American Beauty, Million Dollar Baby).

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At the very bottom of our list is Russell Crowe, whose standing in Hollywood has shrunk since he scored back-to-back consecutive Oscar nods for The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001).

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Its alumni include billionaires Vinod Khosla and David Tepper, former CEOs of Bank of America, General Motors, Sunoco and Xerox as well as Nobel Prize winners (A Beautiful Mind subject John Forbes Nash among others).

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You know, if you can make a movie called, The Beautiful Mind, I think this is another movie, Joel.

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Love, on the other hand, is a state of mind, a clarity of vision that centers on all that is good and beautiful in the subject, warts and all.

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Anne Marie was pretty, extraor-dinarily good looking, really, and tall, with long, long legs that looked about ready to run away from her torso, and lovely, curly black hair always fastened and arranged and piled high on the top of her head, and a smart smile that was so beautiful you didn't mind the way it made you feel so stupid.

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This is a story in which everyday characters (everyone can't have John Nash's beautiful mind) experience mental disorders as part of their lives and manage to cope with them and ultimately prevail.

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