Alan Alda, "The Aviator"
Career nominations: 1

The perennial "Mr. Nice Guy" picks up his first Oscar nomination, for a rare villainous turn as Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster, the nemesis of Howard Hughes, in Martin Scorsese's biopic. Alda, 68, came to fame as the acerbic "Hawkeye" Pierce on the CBS series "MASH."

(Reuters)