10 Supporting Film Characters That Completely Stole The Spotlight

2. Dickie Eklund (Christian Bale) - The Fighter

Christian Bale once again showed his commitment to performing a role by shedding a tonne of weight to play crack addicted former boxer Eklund in David.O.Russell's stunning and provocative boxing movie featuring Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo.

Bale picked up the Best Supporting Actor gong at the Oscars for his performance, and rightly so: he had plenty to dig into for Dickie, who was a complex, disturbing and haunted character who wants his brother to succeed for partly selfish reasons. Eklund, who went the distance with Sugar Ray Leonard in the highlight of his career, has delusions of grandeur and glory, believing himself to be, along with his brother, the pride of his home town, though others only see him as a washed up junkie, which of course, he actually is.

Bale performs the role with extreme authenticity and strength, somehow winning us over despite his character's unreliability and manic antics plaguing his brothers attempts at breaking out of Lowell's crack-addled streets in a typically inspiring rags to riches tale.