Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor at the 85th annual Academy Awards, besting four other former Oscar winners.
Waltz's Oscar win capped off one of the more competitive races in Academy Awards history.
Waltz, who plays a German bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino's Spaghetti Western homage, had previously won Best Supporting Actor awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) and BAFTA. Pairing with Tarantino has been a bingo for Waltz; he also won Best Supporting Actor for "Inglourious Basterds," Tarantino's revisionist World War II drama, at the 2010 Oscars ceremony.
The ever-charming Waltz thanked his fellow "Django" stars while accepting the award.
As mentioned, all nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category were previous Oscar winners. Waltz's Oscar win made losers of Alan Arkin ("Argo"; won previously for "Little Miss Sunshine"), Robert De Niro ("Silver Linings Playbook"; won previously for "The Godfather Part II" and "Raging Bull"), Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln"; previously for "The Fugitive") and Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master"; won previously for "Capote").
Last year, Christopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for "Beginners."
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