Taken from NTL entertainment news,
4:41pm Monday, 07th January 2002

Helen Mirren has been honoured by America’s National Society of Film Critics. She was named best supporting actress for her role in Robert Altman’s film Gosford Park.

Altman was named best director, and the film’s writer Julian Fellowes won the best screenplay award.

David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive was named best picture of 2001 by the group of 52 newspaper and magazine film critics.

Gosford Park came second in the best picture voting, with The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring third, www.thisislondon.co.uk reports.

And in other news…..Could it be there may be a supporting actor nod for our Boy? Read on:-

Much as in the male supporting category, likely candidates for supporting actress have yet to emerge. Marisa Tomei has received good notices for her performance in In the Bedroom, which would give her another shot at supporting (her one Oscar came for supporting in My Cousin Vinny).

But Tomei doesn’t clock much screen time, and she is up against the unstoppable Kate Winslet, who took a nod for her performance as the young, pre-Alzheimer’s Iris Murdoch in Iris from the L.A. critics. In turn, Winslet has stiff competition from a fellow Brit, Helen Mirren, who got the supporting nod the New York Film Critics Circle for her work in Gosford Park. Though many sources are relishing Maggie Smith’s performance as a snooty dame and Richard E. Grant’s as a naughty manservant, Mirren has managed to stand out as awards-worthy from a cast chock-a-block with knights, dames, and other Oscar bait (Emily Watson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon, Jeremy Northam, Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, and so on).

For everyone else not living in Scotland (and therefore not being able to receive the chat show programme, “Elaine”) according to Kirsten REG has apparently appeared on it just recently. Does anyone out there have a video of this appearence or should we all start bothering the BBC for a copy of it?

And finally, Nikki tells me that Richard attended an award show in December for “Interior Designer of the Year”, won by Amanada Rose and Andrew Martin at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.