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“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

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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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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.

Tim Bevan, producer on Tinker and co-chairman of Working Title Films, said: “It’s fantastic news, particularly in respect of the fact that it didn’t do so well in the American awards. For a producer, it’s about as good as it gets.”

“Personally, I think Gary gave the absolute definition of a cinematic performance: he does almost nothing, yet is the most compelling person on the screen. It’s extraordinarily difficult to pull off, and confirms him as one of the finest – if not the finest – actors of his generation.”

Tinker, however, still has to take second place to The Artist, the French silent film that has taken the critical and awards establishment by storm. The Artist has 12 nominations, including best film, best actor for Golden Globe winner Jean Dujardin, best director for Michel Hazanavicius. Bérénice Bejo has also been nominated in the best actress slot, even though the Globes had placed her in the supporting categories.

In reaction, Hazanavicius said: “We are thrilled, delighted and honoured to be recognised by the BAFTA voters. We were perhaps a bit mad to make a black and white silent film in 2011. We certainly hoped to find an audience, but the support we have received from so many people in so many different countries was unexpected, overwhelming and quite wonderful.” Dujardin said: “To be recognized in a category with these other actors, whose work I have admired for a long time, is a true honour.”

Proving that Bafta is not slavishly following the US awards circuit’s lead, Tinker’s 11 nominations were accompanied by four for the Ryan Gosling thriller Drive, another near shut-out at the Globes, which included a best supporting actress for Carey Mulligan. In typically idiosyncractic style, Refn commented: “I am very super cool happy and I love England … Drive on!!”

Neither My Week With Marilyn, the bittersweet romantic comedy about the making of The Prince and the Showgirl, or The Iron Lady, the biopic of Margaret Thatcher, did as well as their longlist positions suggested: the former picked up six nominations (including best actress for Golden Globe winner Michelle Williams) while the latter took four (including Meryl Streep for best actress and Abi Morgan for best original screenplay).

Unlike My Week with Marilyn, however, The Iron Lady could not force its way into an exceptionally strong field for the outstanding British film category, which also included Steve McQueen’s sex-addiction study Shame, Asif Kapadia’s formula one documentary Senna, and Lynne Ramsay’s chilling We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Senna, in many ways, is the surprise package of this category: a non-fiction sports film up against more conventional dramas. Senna’s director Asif Kapadia, said he was delighted over Senna’s recognition by Bafta, which also gave the film nods for best documentary and best editing. “We’re really happy. It’s been such a long slog, for a small team. The producers have been working on it for six years, I’ve been involved for five – and to finish with three nominations is amazing. It’s particularly special to have broken into the best British category; it’s such a strong year, and so many great films didn’t make it.”

Another crop of highly rated British films were to be found in the outstanding British debut category, including Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus, Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur and Richard Ayoade’s Submarine. This section also sees the climax to remarkable story: the inclusion of the micro-budget crime thriller Black Pond, directed by Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley.

Meanwhile, the foreign-language category looks like a fight between Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live in and the Iranian drama A Separation – with the latter in pole position after its Golden Globes triumph.

The Bafta award winners will be announced on 12 February at a ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London.

Original Article by Andrew Pulver for The Guardian

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

DIRECTOR
THE ARTIST – Michel Hazanavicius
DRIVE Nicolas – Winding Refn
HUGO – Martin Scorsese
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – Tomas Alfredson
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN – Lynne Ramsay

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE DESCENDANTS – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
THE HELP – Tate Taylor
THE IDES OF MARCH – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
MONEYBALL – Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan

(For the full list of nominees, please visit BAFTA.ORG)