Best Supporting Actor

My top choices in the order I would place them on my Academy ballot if I were allowed to vote:

MAX VON SYDOW, Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)


PAUL SCHNEIDER, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford & Lars and the Real Girl


VINCENT CASSEL, Eastern Promises


SAM ROCKWELL, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford


JAVIER BARDEM, No Country for Old Men

Runners-up in alphabetical order:
Timothy Dalton (Hot Fuzz)
Marcus Carl Franklin (I'm Not There.)
Peter Freidman (The Savages)
Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)

Apologies to Philip Seymour Hoffman. While I managed to see The Savages and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, I still haven't seen his supporting performance in Charlie Wilson's War.

Related:
My Best Supporting Actor Picks for 2006
My Best Supporting Actor Picks for 2005
My Best Supporting Actor Picks for 2004