THR got some first reactions from the newly announced nominees of this year’s Oscar race. Here’s Mr. Oldman’s reaction:

“I’m in Berlin; we have the premiere of Tinker Tailor over here tonight. I was in the middle of an interview with a German newspaper when I found out [about the nomination]. My manager walked in with tears in his eyes. I personally was not expecting anything. It was a normal work day. If you took the temperature of the last month, from some of the critics and award nominations, we’ve been absent from those. This was my very last interview for press for Tinker Tailor. Ironic, isn’t it? Now it’s a whole new round of them.” – SOURCE

Here are some more articles and interviews:
- L.A. TIMES
- The Wall Street Journal
- Metro

A VERY BIG, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. OLDMAN FOR HIS ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATION FOR BEST ACTOR!!!!

Gary and Colin Firth make an appearance on the French news show, Le Grand Journal, earlier this week. You can watch their appearance here.

Earlier this week, while making his rounds on various American television talk shows to promote Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Colin Firth offers some high praise for Mr. Oldman. During his appearances on Ellen and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Mr. Firth talks about how he thinks Mr. Oldman should be on his seventh Oscar win by now, how he thinks Mr. Oldman is one of the masterful actors of our generation, and even compares Mr. Oldman to a … water buffalo?!

View these two hilarious interviews here:

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Best Performances: Gary Oldman In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
By Lynn Hirschberg
Photographs by Mario Sorrenti

Best Performances: Gary Oldman
In Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
By Lynn Hirschberg
Photographs by Mario Sorrenti
February 2012

Lynn Hirschberg: After living in America for 20 years, was it difficult to be very, very British in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
Gary Oldman: The weird thing is, I had to do a bit of voice work to get my English accent back. I’ve not really lost my accent completely, but it is now a cross-pollination. It came back quickly. The weather of England is in me—I will never lose those clouds and gray skies.

You’ve said the key to playing Smiley is the eyeglasses.
Yes—Smiley and his glasses go together like Bond and his Aston Martin. I saw Smiley as a wise owl, and my search for the right spectacles was important. He’s getting on—he’s in his mid-50s, he’s forced to retire, and his wife has left him—but he still wants to tiptoe toward the new world. It’s the seventies, and he cheers himself up by wearing these glasses. He thinks they may help him get his wife back.

Brad Pitt says that you die better on film than any other actor. What’s the key to a great death scene?
Practice. I’ve died more than anyone. I’ve been hanged, blown to smithereens, decapitated, and had my genitals cut out. I think the worst death was in Hannibal, where I was eaten by wild boars. My favorite death was in State of Grace. I kind of fold. That was quite lovely.

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Here’s a great article by the Guardian about the 2012 Baftas:

Baftas 2012 shortlist: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy comes in from the cold
After being snubbed by the Golden Globes, Tomas Alfredson’s spy thriller is nominated for 11 Baftas, including a best actor nod for Gary Oldman – just one nomination behind The Artist

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has come roaring back into the awards race after being completely shut out at the Golden Globes. The spy thriller starring Gary Oldman has been nominated for 11 Bafta awards, including a best actor nod for Oldman, best director for Tomas Alfredson, best film, and outstanding British film. Oldman, who spent the evening of the Globes ceremony modelling clothes at a catwalk show in Milan, will have no such need to make a point to the Baftas: he is a strong favourite to take the award.


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A BIG congratulations to Mr. Oldman and the whole cast and crew of TTSS for the BAFTA nominations. Here are the categories:

LEADING ACTOR
BRAD PITT – Moneyball
GARY OLDMAN – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
GEORGE CLOONEY – The Descendants
JEAN DUJARDIN – The Artist
MICHAEL FASSBENDER – Shame

BEST FILM
THE ARTIST – Thomas Langmann
THE DESCENDANTS – Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
DRIVE – Marc Platt, Adam Siegel
THE HELP – Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN – Simon Curtis, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Adrian Hodges
SENNA – Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Manish Pandey
SHAME – Steve McQueen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Abi Morgan
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – _Tomas Alfredson, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo,
Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN – Lynne Ramsay, Luc Roeg, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno, Rory Stewart Kinnear

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