Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor from the Canary Islands He is best known for his role in the 2007 film No Country for Old Men for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor portraying the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh He has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón jamón Carne trémula Boca a boca Los Lunes al sol Mar adentro and Skyfall for which he received both a BAFTA and a SAG nomination for Best Supporting Actor Bardem has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award a BAFTA five Goya Awards two European Film Awards a Prize for Best Actor at Cannes and two Volpi Cups at Venice for his work He is the first Spaniard actor to be nominated for an Oscar Best Actor 2000 for Before Night Falls as well as the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award He received his third Academy Award nomination and second Best Actor nomination for the film Biutiful