Countdown to the Academy Awards: Who will get the Oscar for Best Actor? (With Poll)

[Programming Note: The 82nd Annual Academy Awards telecast is this Sun., March 7 at 8 p.m. and Movies & TV Editor Joe Bardi will be live-blogging the event. Come share your thoughts and help Joe celebrate the movies by mercilessly picking on people much more famous and good-looking than he is.]

Yesterday I covered the race for Best Actress in a Lead Role, picking The Blind Side's Sandra Bullock as the likely winner. (Check out the full list of Oscar hopefuls here.) Today, we turn our attention to the five performers vying for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Which performer will strike up a bromance with Oscar? Check out my breakdown of the race after the break, and then vote for your favorite in our online poll.

And the nominees are:

This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2010.