Gwyneth Paltrow Tells Us What's On Her Mind

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been on a hiatus until recently, concentrating on raising her two kids (Apple and Moses) with Coldplay's Chris Martin. She was at Sundance recently to promote The Good Night, and spoke with Entertainment Weekly:

Her Brother's Movie
I asked, "Can I please be in The Good Night? Jake kept resisting. He thought, "It's my first film, and I don't want it to be associated with you." Slowly he realized, "My sister's a really good actress and if she wants to be in the film, I might as well."

Having It All
I hadn't worked in a long time. I was really committed to being home. Then I finally agreed to do this movie Iron Man (a comic book adaptation with Robert Downey, Jr.). I reached a place where I thought, "It's okay that I have a passion for something besides my family." I love making films. If I do one thing that makes me fulfilled, then I'm a more interesting woman for my children.

Those Pesky Rags
You want to be an actor. You don't want to be in whatever tabloid. To me, those worlds seem mutually exclusive. And I fully understand that for whatever reason I'm one of those people where there's an interest, if you will, in my personal life. But I do think people are kind of bored. I've got a couple kids, a husband, I've just been at home.

Her Best-Pic Pick
I was really killed by Babel, I loved it so much. Especially the two women, Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi.

Photo from IMDB.

And the Nominees Are...

The celebrity world woke with collective bated breath this morning as the nominees for the Oscars were announced.

Interestingly enough, Dreamgirls, although they had eight nomination, was not included for Best Picture, though Jennifer Hudson is in the running for Best Supporting Actress.

Some nominee highlights:

Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond), Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), Peter O'Toole (Venus), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland).

Best Actress - Kate Winslet (Little Children), Penelope Cruz (Volver), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada).

Best Supporting Actress - Adriana Barraza (Babel), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls).

Best Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine), Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond), Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls) and Mark Wahlberg (The Departed).

Best Director - Martin Scorsese (The Departed), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), Clint Eastwood (Letters From Iwo Jima), Stephen Frears (The Queen) and Paul Greengrass (United 93).

Best Picture - Babel, The Departed, The Queen, Letters from Iwo Jima and Little Miss Sunshine.

Complete list of nominees can be found here.