When the nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were announced on February 2, there was one bonafide surprise acting nomination: Maggie Gyllenhaal in writer-director Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart for Best Supporting Actress. In the tradition of Laura Linney in The Savages or Marcia Gay Harden in Mystic River, Gyllenhaal, with virtually no precursor support [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal admits she wasn?t that impressed when younger brother Jake casually decided to follow in her footsteps and become an actor ? especially when he scored the title role in the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko and looked set to be the star of the siblings. His sister – who, as a teenager, used [...]

Added scans from the March issue of Filmink – thanks a lot to Filmink for providing us with these scans!

Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, was born in New York, the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screen­writer Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal. She made her film debut in 1992, in her ­father’s ­Waterland, and a decade later won a Golden Globe nomination for her role in Secretary. In 2007, she was nominated again for SherryBaby. Her new film, Crazy Heart, [...]

2 videos of a very happy, cute, beautiful Maggie talking about her Tuesday morning when she got the news of her Oscar nomination.

Added some cute candids of Maggie giving her hubby Peter Sarsgaard an necklace on Tuesday (February 2nd).

Maggie Gyllenhaal was drunk the first time she met Jeff Bridges. The actress – who has been nominated for an Oscar for her role in ‘Crazy Heart’ alongside the actor – admitted she was not in the best state when she met him. She said: “I met him at the premiere for ‘Mona Lisa Smile’ [...]

No one was surprised when Jeff Bridges was nominated for a best actor Academy Award Tuesday for his performance as a down-and-out country singer in “Crazy Heart,” the film based on the book by Rhode Island College English Prof. Thomas Cobb. Bridges has already won the best actor awards from the Golden Globes, the Screen [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal is in Los Angeles, and it’s been a whirlwind so far for the supporting actress nominee, up for playing a single mother in Crazy Heart. She never saw this coming. “Because I didn’t get any other nominations, I was so surprised,” she says. “I was completely shocked and so excited. I love the [...]