Yet another year to grouse about Best vs Best Supporting. Jeff Bridges' nom should have been for Best Supporting and Hailee Steinfeld's for Best. It is HER story and SHE is the protagonist. I would bet she has more screentime too if you want to go by that. Christian Bale's is clearly the real main character of The Fighter - in fact I could make an argument that the title is actually referring to him - Dickie mostly acts (in the sense of agency, of activity as opposed to passivity) while Micky mostly reacts. Hm, miraculous that he and David O. Russell didn't kill each other.