![]() ![]() At 69, Hinds could become the 11th oldest supporting male winner, while a victory for either Smit-McPhee (25) or Plemons (33) would place either of them among the 10 youngest. The record is held by the 2020 bunch, whose ages ranged from 56 to 82 and averaged out to 71. This year’s five nominees have an average age of 49, which is only the 35th highest in the category’s history. ![]() 1971 winner John Mills (“Ryan’s Daughter”) and 2012 nominee Max von Sydow (“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”) were also recognized here for silent roles, but Mills’s character used British Sign Language and von Sydow’s did not sign at all but rather communicated in English via notepad. Kotsur is also the first actor to score a bid in this category for a non-speaking, American Sign Language performance. His “CODA” castmate, Marlee Matlin, is the only other deaf performer to have ever caught the attention of Oscar voters, having won Best Actress for “Children of a Lesser God” in 1987. Kotsur has broken new ground as the first deaf male acting nominee in the academy’s nine-decade history. ![]() The preceding half dozen were Ben Johnson (“The Last Picture Show,” 1972), Robert De Niro (“The Godfather Part II,” 1975), Robards (“Julia,” 1978), Timothy Hutton (“Ordinary People,” 1981), Jack Nicholson (“Terms of Endearment,” 1984), and Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” 2018). Including Kaluuya, seven of the men who have been involved in these head-to-head battles have prevailed. “The Power of the Dog” is the 21st film to receive more than one nomination in this category and the third to do so in as many years after “The Irishman” (2020 Al Pacino and Joe Pesci) and “Judas and the Black Messiah” (2021 Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield). ![]()
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