- Title: USA: Actor James McAvoy reacts to his Golden Globe nod
- Date: 19th December 2007
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 13, 2007) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR JAMES MCAVOY, ON HIS CO-STAR AND FELLOW NOMINEE KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, SAYING: "Who Keira? Yeah we have texted back and forth a couple times just saying well done to each other and all that."
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- Story Text: The World War Two saga "Atonement" earned seven Golden Globe nominations on Thursday (December 13), including a bid for best film drama, to lead the pack of movies vying for a major Hollywood honor in the widely watched awards season.
"Atonement" was joined in the best film drama category by six other films -- "American Gangster," "Eastern Promises,"
"The Great Debaters," "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will be Blood."
In the performance categories, "Atonement" stars James McAvoy and Keira Knightley earned best dramatic actor and actress nominations, respectively, for their portrayals of two lovers torn apart by a family lie and war.
"I got a phone call at about about 10 minutes to 6," James McAvoy told Reuters. He continued, "I don't quite get the phone system and I tried to get the things working and it was just too early and I think I have damaged the phone. I think I broke it. But I suspected that it was one of the people who represent me and that they wouldn't be phoning me at that time in the morning unless ot was for a good reason so I thought hmmm. So I thought that was good and then I went back to sleep."
In the dramatic actor race, McAvoy was joined by George Clooney for "Michael Clayton," Daniel Day-Lewis for "There Will Be Blood," Denzel Washington for "American Gangster" and Viggo Mortensen for "Eastern Promises."
Competing with Knightley as nominees for best dramatic actress were Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," Julie Christie for "Away From Her," Angelina Jolie in "A Mighty Heart" and Jodie Foster for "The Brave One."
"Who Keira? Yeah we have texted back and forth a couple times just saying well done to each other and all that," McAvoy said from the Four Sesaons hotel in Los Angeles, California.
"Atonement" filmmaker Joe Wright was nominated for best director, and 13-year-old Saoirse Ronan earned a supporting actress nod as the sister who betrays Knightley's character. Other nominations came for best screenplay and musical score.
The Golden Globe Awards, presented by the roughly 90 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, help narrow the list of films regarded as leading contenders for the Oscars, the movie industry's highest honors. But unlike the Oscars, which are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Golden Globe film categories are divided into two groups -- for dramas and musicals/comedies.
The Golden Globes are often a key indicator of which films will compete for Oscars, but in a first for the Golden Globes -- given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association -- the best film drama group saw seven nominees instead of the usual five making the Oscar race still murky, experts said.
The 2008 Golden Globe Awards will be held on January 13 in Beverly Hills in a show airing on U.S. television network NBC, but the program could be threatened by the writers strike.
HFPA President Jorge Camara said the group had requested a waiver from the Writers Guild of America to produce the show, and he was "hoping everything will work out."
McAvoy, who is well-known in Britain but less so in the United States, said he hasn't decided yet how the writers strike will affect his decsion to sttend the show.
"You know I am not from here and I have only been here for a couple of weeks and worked once to for two weeks like six months ago so I don' really understand the ins and out. All I know is that writers are people I am affiliated with through the nature of what I do. We need each other actors and writers and I don't know what's gonna' happen. But I wouldn't want to stick my nose in their business because I don't know what's going on really. But I'll find out what's going on before I potentially have to stick my nose in it or whatever but I'll keep note of it I think. In terms of support and all that kind of stuff like I say I am not from this country but I certainly won't be going against the writers. I have no idea darling I have only just found out and to be honest with you it's only in interviews that I have begun to consider. The things I keep thinking is these shows are they always written? They always scripted? Even the Golden Globes? It's very strange because they are never that funny," McAvoy said. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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