Oscar nominees for best supporting actor

The only downside to Ke Huy Quan being a near-sure winner in the best supporting actor category is that you won’t be able to tell much about the other nominees. And this category is full of interesting performances and actors at all kinds of stages of his career.

They will all be celebrated during the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, live on ABC starting at 8 pm New York (0000 GMT). And there’s still time to catch up on their performances leading up to the ceremony.

Here are some facts about this year’s nominees.

BRIAN TYREEHENRY

While filming “Causeway,” Jennifer Lawrence would sometimes end a scene with Brian Tyree Henry and say, “You’re going to be nominated for an Oscar,” and then walk away.

Henry was a little taken aback at the time, but Lawrence (a four-time Oscar nominee and winner) was right.

“She was relentless in reminding me that this was possible. I really owe her a debt of gratitude,” Henry told The Associated Press. “She really believed it.”

Henry plays a grieving mechanic in the film, opposite Lawrence’s soldier recovering from a traumatic brain injury. Henry’s character deals with the trauma of a car accident that killed his nephew. The nomination, he said, feels like it’s beyond him.

“Every single person who participated in the making of this film deserves recognition, it wasn’t just me,” he said. “I hope what this does is open people’s imaginations about what they want to see me do and then I can show up and give them that.”

Age: 40

Judd Hirsch

With a 42-year gap between his Oscar nominations, Judd Hirsch is having a bit of déjà vu.

“The first (for “Ordinary People” or “Gente como uno”) is because I did a scene with a 19 or 20-year-old boy, the second (for “The Fabelmans” or “Los Fabelmans”) is because I did a scene with a 19 or 20 year old guy,” Hirsch said. The biggest difference is that with that first nomination, he didn’t want to win: he was up against his co-star Timothy Hutton in the category (who won).

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“This time, it’s different,” he said. “I don’t have to apologize.”

With his brief role as the eccentric Uncle Boris in the Steven Spielberg film, he realized at a certain point that he wasn’t playing a character so much as more of a memory.

“It’s his memory from when he was young, not like Steven now,” he said. “I had memories from when he was young and they all turned out to be slight exaggerations… I thought, that’s interesting.”

Age: 87

BRENDAN GLEESON

Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and Martin McDonagh have dreamed of working together again ever since they made “In Bruges” and finally got their chance with “The Banshees of Inisherin”.

“It seems like we went back to the room and said, ‘This is going to be good, isn’t it?’” Gleeson told the AP.

In “Banshees,” Gleeson’s character Colm’s abrupt plea for solitude comes because he’s tired of “nonsense chatter.” Feeling that time is slipping away, he wants to dedicate himself to writing music. His discord has symbolism; the irish civil war is raging on the continent. But it reflects more the struggle of an artist, perhaps a serious artist, to balance work with the demands of social convention.

Farrell, who is also nominated in the best actor category, said he understands himself more through Gleeson.

“I think we’re all basically romantics,” Gleeson said. “We are not blind either. We know the other side of the coin.”

Age: 67

barry keoghan

Even if you haven’t seen “The Banshees of Inisherin,” there’s a good chance you’ve watched the heartbreaking viral clip of Barry Keoghan as Dominic asking Kerry Condon’s character Siobhán if she ever wanted to “fall in love.” from a boy like me.” When she politely declines, he sighs, “Well, there goes that dream. I’d better go over there and do whatever it was I was going to do over there.”

The role, Keoghan told Vanity Fair in an interview, “was a chance to show that I can look sinister with a little bit of naivety, with a little bit of pure soul and honesty. I really wanted to address that. I really wanted to push it forward and bring people into that world where I can make you feel as well, rather than make you hate me and be sinister and have absolutely evil behavior.”

Age: 30

KE HUY QUAN

Ke Huy Quan tends to get carried away with emotion whenever he contemplates his sudden change of fate. Since “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was released in theaters, Quan, 51, who a lifetime ago was the child star of “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”), in the role of Short Round, and also as Data in “Goonies,” has been “overwhelmed with emotions every day,” he says.

After being one of the most recognizable faces of the 1980s, Quan, discouraged by the lack of roles and opportunities, decided to give up acting when he was 20 years old. At 49, he gave acting one last shot, and two weeks later he landed the role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”

“Most of the time, all I wanted was just a job,” Quan said. “Just a chance to perform, to show people what I can do. This movie, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ has given me so much more than I could have asked for.”

“There are so many people who doubt themselves, who have dreams they have given up on or never thought would come true,” Quan added. “I hope my story inspires those people.”

Age: 51