Javier Bardem has won best supporting actor for his role as hitman Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. Bardem has gained international fame for this role, and his “man bob” hairstyle has become almost as talked about as the film itself. In fact, Javier gave the man-bob a shout out during his acceptance speech:

“Thank you to the Cohen brothers for thinking I could play that role while putting on one of the most horrible haircuts in history.”

Javier looked nothing like the cold-blooded hitman he played in the movie. He was probably one of the best dressed men of the night, and his five o’clock shadow and dimples were spectacular.

Update by Celebitchy: Here’s Bardem’s acceptance speech. This clip also contains the intro by Jennifer Hudson. The winner is announced at about 3:00 minutes in.

It’s amazing how much a bad haircut can affect your self esteem. I had a very bad experience with some bangs last year (I should have known, thick, chunky bangs are not a good look. And they take forever to grow out). Anyway, Javier Bardem is learning what millions of women the world over already know – a bad haircut can leave you feeling depressed and unsexy.

Josh Brolin made a joke about how depressed his co-star Bardem was by a bad haircut, but it sounds like it has a grain of truth:

Josh Brolin claims: “He was depressed during the process…He felt like he wouldn’t have sex for three months. Full-blown depression. I mean, bad.

“(He) didn’t like the way he looked. He’d stay home for hours on end. He wouldn’t go out.

Bardem himself admits that the unusual look had a psychological effect on him.

He says: “You see yourself, you see the haircut. You don’t realise that it’s affecting you in a very delicate way, through your own psyche.

“What happened to me was that after a couple of weeks, I was a little bit – a little bit – strange to myself. There was something that was not familiar. It was like, ‘What am I doing here?’”

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If you check out the mop he’s sporting in the movie, it’s less the hairstyle that’s acting as a contraceptive and more the serial killer demeanor. Even the sexiest of men can’t really pull off a pick up line that goes something like “Hey baby, how about we go back to your place for a little love, before I cut you into tiny pieces with an axe I sharpened just for you? For you, baby.”

Another interesting little tidbit I picked up from the film is that apparently Javier Bardem knew very little English before he took on the Oscar-nominated role of Anton in No Country For Old Men. I haven’t seen this movie yet, but I’m getting more and more interested the more I hear about it. Except it looks violent and scary and I couldn’t even sit through Harry Potter and the three headed dogs without freaking out. At which point my five year old told me “Mum, it’s just a dog.” Somehow I’m not thinking that No Country For Old Men is going to be an appropriate movie to take him to for comfort.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Javier Bardem is shown in a still from No Country For Old Men, thanks to AllMoviePhoto and taken by Richard Foreman for Miramax. He is also shown with his normal hot-looking hair at the SAG Awards on 1/28/08, and National Board of Review Awards on 1/15/08, thanks to PRPhotos.