Originally Posted by PornMD

Wow...you brought up the other role I was going to bring up, and a point I was ironically going to post about on the NCFOM board on IMDb. Javier won the oscar for that role, and I think that role was an example of an oscar-worthy ROLE...i.e. there'd be a good chance that a significant # of actors who played that role could have at least been nominated if not won simply because it was an awesome character and the standout role in an awesome movie.

That said, he did play it to perfection and was very believable so HE was certainly deserving of the oscar as much as the role itself helped him get it. I honestly haven't seen him in anything else but I would guess that he doesn't NORMALLY play those kinds of roles either which made it that much better.