The 46-year-old won a best supporting actor Academy Award in 2004 for Mystic River.

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Actor Peter Dinklage poses in the press room with his Golden Globe award for best supporting actor.

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Garfield, 27, was recently nominated for a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor for his role in The Social Network, about the Facebook website.

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Ledger has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the Joker, having been awarded a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.

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He won an Academy Award in 1997 for best supporting actor in the film "Jerry Maguire" and starred in this year's "Red Tails, " about the Tuskegee Airmen.

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Morgan Freeman finally won his first Academy Award at the age of 67, taking the best supporting actor trophy for Million Dollar Baby.

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The former collected an award for best actor, while the latter received the prize for best supporting actress.

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Quentin Tarantino picked up the original screenplay award for "Django Unchained, " and Christoph Waltz was named best supporting actor for playing a loquacious bounty hunter in Tarantino's slave-revenge thriller.

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