1.   One of the few surprises came when Marcia Gay Harden won the best supporting actress award for her acclaimed performance in Pollock.

2.   ...the winner of the best supporting actress award.

3.   As Carrie, Sarah Jessica Parker was comic and moving, and her three supporting actresses were equally appealing.

4.   Best supporting actress is famous as the category where the Academy likes to surprise those who think it too predictably conservative.

5.   But she managed, and, tears or no tears, also managed a best supporting actress Oscar nomination.

6.   By comparison, the supporting actress category seems a little undernourished this year.

7.   Earlier, Mira Sorvino took the best supporting actress statuette and Kevin Spacey won as best supporting actor.

8.   Foster takes the unusual role of supporting actress, playing a strict Catholic nun in the film about teen-agers searching for love and acceptance.

9.   Hillary Rodham Clinton plays the part of the most supportive supporting actress in history.

10.   Her costar, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, deserves the supporting actress Oscar, but Lauren Bacall is a sentimental favorite.