The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Parker Posey and Steve Zahn receive the two final picks from a deep supporting cast.
In the discussion (13)
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- Dave Chappelle is the first supporting-role candidate.
- Parker Posey is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
- Greg Kinnear is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
- Heather Burns is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
- Steve Zon is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
- Dabney Coleman is praised as a supporting-role candidate.
- Jean Stapleton is presented as a supporting-role candidate.
- Heather Burns is praised in her first film role as an early version of the durable rom-com best-friend performer.
- Jean Stapleton's cybersex busy-signal joke is identified as an improvised line.
- Parker Posey receives one final pick for making a large impact in limited time and embodying the glamorous 1990s book-editor fantasy.
- Posey's sleeping-pill advice at the publishing party is singled out as a perfectly timed supporting moment.
- Steve Zon receives the other final pick for his sad, unlucky-in-love bookstore employee and the contrast with his role in That Thing You Do.
- The panel speculates that Hanks and Ephron's working relationship may have helped connect Steve Zon to the earlier Hanks-directed film, but does not establish the casting chain as fact.