Not if you actually sat through The Evening Star . Maybe a sensible choice is Kristen Scott Thomas in The English Patient . Here me chuckle at the prospects. Nah, it'll never happen. A further problem in the Best Actor category.
Cruise is the front-runner.
Harrelson a close second. Ralph Feinnes could muscle his way in there, too. But, see, the Golden Globers threw you a curve with Geoffrey Rush winning for Shine . He was way good in it, but I bet when the Oscar snoozies sat down with their stack of tapes and had to choose between foreign tear-jerkers, most everyone was gonna pop in The English Patient . But now the Foreign Press has commanded that you pay him some mind, and he could sneak in the back door and pull a Daniel Day-Lewis and win the whole shebang.