This tiny, homuncular supporting player won an Oscar for playing a man in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), one of her earliest films. (And cer tainly her best to date, incidentally.) The problem with accomplishing such a feat: How does one top it? If that's impossible, it's no fault of Hunt's; she's been highly effective-albeit used mainly for novelty value-in such films as Popeye (1980), Dune (1984), Silverado (1985), and Kindergarten Cop (1990). Other credits include The Bostonians (1984) and Eleni (1985). She raised eyebrows with a superb characterization of Alice B. Toklas in Waiting for the Moon (1987), an otherwise ponderous and uninteresting film. She recently played the Lotte Lenya-inspired villainess in If Looks Could Kill (1991). Other recent credits include Rain Without Thunder, Twenty Bucks, Younger and Younger (1993); Ready to Wear/Pràt-êPorter (1994), and Pocahontas (1995, voice only); she also starred in the shortlived science-fiction TV series "Space Rangers" (1992).