Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Like in the case of Mo'Nique: Can it be anyone else for this year's Golden Globe for best supporting actor?

Christoph Waltz has not only won just about every critics' award out there, his is also a performance in a respectable box-office hit, Quentin Tarantino's World War II revenge fantasy Inglorious Basterds. Although Waltz can't be considered a bona fide movie star at this stage — members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association love their movie stars — his critical reception and his film's popularity should guarantee him the Golden Globe.

If there's to be an upset — and that would be a major upset — it'd be a victory for veteran Christopher Plummer, whose Leo Tolstoy in Michael Hoffman's The Last Station, apart perhaps from a SAG Award nomination, has gone under the radar these last few weeks.

Waltz and Plummer's competitors are Woody Harrelson in The Messenger, Matt Damon in Invictus, and Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones.

Photo: François Duhamel / The Weinstein Co.