Alec, perhaps you need a little refresher... You comment that, "Cooper's been around for a long time; he's even had plum leading roles in movies like Lone Star, and arguably should have won an Oscar for his supporting turn in American Beauty, which wasn't even nominated." Yes he was good, but still that's one heck of a hard argument to make. Let me remind who else put in supporting turns that year: Tom Cruise in Magnolia and Haley Joel Osment in the Sixth Sense headline the nominees, and I still maintain that John Malkovich's performance in Being John Malkovich beats all of those named above. Are you really going to tell me you'd take Cooper in American Beauty over any of those other three I named?