the best actress drama nominee feels that the accolade comes near the end of a long road she has taken with the film. "It's such a teeny, tiny movie, and it felt like I worked so hard to get it made, distributed and seen that it means so much," she said.
Brother Jake heard the news and rushed to her home in Los Angeles, where she is staying while fiance Peter Sarsgaard is out working. The news comes at a time when Gyllenhaal has her hands full. "I have a new baby, I'm nursing, answering the phone and trying to put on makeup for TV interviews, wondering if I can nurse her before I get down the hill," she said in mock exasperation. "My brother is trying to get me to eat."
Source: Hollywoodreporter.com
Maggie has been nominated in the "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama" category. Her competitors are:
Penélope Cruz for "Volver"
Judi Dench for "Notes on a scandal"
Helen Mirren for "The Queen"
and Kate Winslet for "Little children".
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TBL, what can we add to that?!!
Your explanation why Maggie should win sounds perfectly reasonable to me..! Have not seen any of these movies myself either.
Am keeping fingers crossed for Maggie (and doesn't that brother of hers sound oh so sweet..?).
It's a good moment to be biased, Tbl, the race to the Oscars imo starts here with the prestigious Golden Globes, and I hope at heart this race concludes in an Oscar nomination. I think it would be in all fairness to Maggie, and since she wasn't lucky with "Secretary", this time she could equal his brother gettin a nomination. Of course the real importance of Maggie's acting is delivered in "Sherrybaby" -I need to watch it badly, although here in Spain the film doesn't have any official release date yet
From an ad in Premiere magazine, some more praise for Maggie in Sherrybaby.
"One of the most authentic and moving journeys the movies have offered this year! Maggie Gyllenhaal is such a miracle of an actress...Your heart opens up and bleeds for her. Emotionally arresting!" (Entertainment Weekly)
"Extraordinary! There's no actor vanity in this." (The NYTimes)
"You can't take your eyes off her." (NY Daily News)
"This was a fantastic film...Gyllenhaal is to me, probably the most BRAVE, RAW, POWERFUL actress of her generation." (Aisha Tyler, Guest Critic, Ebert & Roeper)
this is good news.not that awards really mean anything but i'm glad maggie is getting the recognition she deserves.don't see her getting the GG though.She has huge competition from Helen Mirren
"This was a fantastic film...Gyllenhaal is to me, probably the most BRAVE, RAW, POWERFUL actress of her generation." (Aisha Tyler, Guest Critic, Ebert & Roeper)
I'll second these accolades, Penny Lane, thanks for the source, and gr77, I'm afraid that Helen Mirren will win the Golden Globe. The Queen Elizabeth II is a powerful historic character in a film by prestigious Stephen Frears. That will be pretty difficult to beat.
i think the oscars were always a joke.i foolishly get emotionally involved everytime there's a film or actor that i adore but if we look at the history of the academy's decisions..well, they're quite ridiculous.
but not just the oscars.i don't like the idea of awards in general,especially in art.how can we compare films,performances,etc and chose just one whiner in a given year?
Almost everyone I know watch the Oscar ceremony just for the dressing parade on the red carpet and the jokes the host tells. I find some of the winners speeches annoying. The overall atmosphere is too frivolous for my taste.
I have read that Queen likes "The Queen" and invited them to her palace
Oh, Jake. Always looking out for your sister. :-*
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