As the deposed pirate captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp does not so much walk as sashay into a scene, and he wears more eyeshadow than Tammy Faye Bakker.

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Jack Nicholson will almost certainly be nominated here too, but he's not going to walk home with the prize this year.

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