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Winners Circle

What do the four Academy Award-winning actors plan for an encore? Here’s the rundown on the newly crowned lead and supporting performers:

Hilary Swank will next be seen as a supporting player in the supernatural thriller “The Gift,” which is in the final stages of principal photography in Georgia. Cate Blanchett plays the lead in the film directed by Sam Raimi. Swank’s next lead role will be in the period drama “The Affair of the Necklace,” which is based on a real-life 18th century Frenchwoman who goes in search of her royal heritage. (That may explain her Oscar ensemble of French silk couture gown and 17th century diamond necklace, which originally belonged to one of Queen Victoria’s daughters.)

Kevin Spacey, who now has two Oscars (the first was a best supporting actor award for “The Usual Suspects”), will next be seen in the dark comedy “Big Kahuna” with Danny DeVito and Peter Facinelli. The Lions Gate film opens on April 28. After that he’ll be seen as Haley Joel Osment’s teacher in Warner Bros.’ “Pay It Forward,” an uplifting tale about how the good deeds of one child affect the lives of many. Helen Hunt, also a member of the Oscar club, co-stars as Osment’s mother in her first post-award performance.

Angelina Jolie will be back on the big screen in June in the Touchstone Pictures’ action film “Gone in Sixty Seconds,” which is from action producer extraordinaire Jerry Bruckheimer (“Armageddon,” “Con Air,” “The Rock”). Jolie co-stars with Nicolas Cage and Giovanni Ribisi, who play sibling car thieves. Currently she’s shooting another thriller, “Dancing in the Dark,” with hunky co-stars Antonio Banderas and Viggo Mortensen.

Michael Caine has several films in the hopper, but the most likely to hit theaters first is “Quills,” an erotic comedy-drama based on the life of the Marquis de Sade, who is played by Geoffrey Rush. Caine plays a doctor in the mental institution to which De Sade is committed. Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix co-star. Fox Searchlight plans a fall release for the film. In the action-comedy “Miss Congeniality” Caine plays a gentleman who mentors a tough FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) on how to be, well, congenial.

Also, “Voice of the Oscars” Peter Coyote is on-screen as a slick lawyer in “Erin Brockovich” and will next be seen in the small antiwar drama “The Basket,” which will open in May. “The Basket” co-stars Karen Allen and is set in the Pacific Northwest in 1918.