Are these the Oscars or the Razzies? Bless Jolie for her charity work, and for keeping Brad happy, but if there was a problem with Clint Eastwood's movie about personal heroism and civic corruption in Depression-era L.A., it was casting Jolie as the single working mom on a crusade to find out what happened to her missing son. Playing ordinary simply isn't in the actress' range. She seems to know that her monumental beauty is a handicap here, so she goes bigger in her movements. A stream of tears stains her Kabuki makeup; her sighs come with shrugs worthy of Atlas. Underplaying would have suited the role but it might not have caught the attention of the Academy members. They often go for Big over Good. Odds of winning: 40 to 1