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Sean Penn
I AM SAM
Method man Sean Penn might well deserve Best Actor for his intensely melodramedic performance as Sam Dawson, a mentally retarded man fighting with the courts for custody of his own child — but even the Academy has started to sniff at Oscar-fishing this overt. This is Penn's third nomination in this category, and he'll be shut out again.

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