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Hal Holbrook has spent 55 years in movies and TV, and yet, he had to wait until he was nearly 82 to earn an Academy Award nomination. Though it's doubtful he'll break through for his second acting nomination in two years - following a supporting nod for his heartbreaking work in Sean Penn's Into the Wild - Holbrook is getting rave reviews for his work in That Evening Sun.

It isn't beyond comprehension that he could wind up in that category; Peter O'Toole made a charge with Venus a couple years ago...but he's Peter O'Toole. Last year, Richard Jenkins bucked the odds to wind up in that category, and there's little doubt That Evening Sun would need a similar kind of grass roots campaign to vault Holbrook into a category that will almost certainly containg Day-Lewis, Freeman, and/or Clooney.

But there is room among the five. Colin Firth is an option for A Single Man. Another seasoned vet, Christopher Plummer, is generating some talk for The Last Station, so it's not impossible.

From this new trailer, it looks like a damn good performance, and because the trailer does a great job explaining the film, there's no need for me to be redundant.

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