I'll grant that Chris Cooper would have been up against some tough contenders, but I'd still back him over Tom Cruise and Haley Joel Osment. (Admittedly, this is how I feel now; I'm not sure how I would have felt back then, or how I'll feel tomorrow, for that matter.) And, okay, I didn't take the competition into consideration when I said that Cooper should have won. (Now that I think about it, in fact, I'd have to say that the best supporting actor of that year wasn't Cooper, or any of the nominated actors; it was Jason Robards, Jr., as the dying father in Magnolia. And that's all I have to say about that.)