Oscar Nominee: Sean Penn

Age: 43

Starsign: Leo

Loved-up with: wife Robin Wright Penn

Career high: Possibly now — he's starring in 21 Grams as well as Mystic River

Career low: It has to be the disastrous vanity-fest that was 1986's Shanghai Surprise alongside his then-wife Madonna

Nominated for playing? Jimmy Marcus in Mystic River.

Chances of winning? Excellent. Sean's been nominated for an Oscar three times already, and he could definitely get it now. One thing working against him, however, with the notoriously conservative Academy could be his outspoken politics.

Says: "I can never get ahead of the game because of the movies I do."

Not to be confused with: Sean Coombs, Sean Ryder or Penny Lancaster