Highway To Oscars: What Is Up With Villains And Best Supporting Actor?

2010 will be the third year in a row that Oscars will honor villains for Best Supporting Actor. Assuming Waltz walks away with the prize tomorrow. What’s the fascination with bad guys? I know they can be so evil that it becomes their own charm. So…if Mickey Rourke does well playing Whiplash this summer in IRON MAN 2, will he see win this category at next year’s Oscars?…

Javier Bardem won for No Country For Old Men playing Anton Chigurh, the psychopathic killer with no mercy who kills anybody and anything, even dogs, that’s in his path to get the stolen money.
The year after that, Heath Ledger blew us away by presenting us a Joker more menacing and unpredictable than Nicholson’s portrayal in the 90s. Ledger won Oscar for The Dark Knight posthumously.
This past year, everyone was talking about Christoph Waltz as the Jew Hunter and he’s the favorite to win.
Those 3 individuals have something in common, they all won most of the awards leading up to Oscars, including Golden Globes, BAFTA, and SAG.
So once again I ask,.. what is up with villains and Best Supporting Actor? Why do you think the Oscars like them so much? Why weren’t people talking the same buzz about the good guy characters played by fellow nominees Matt Damon (Invictus) and Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)?