Maggie Gyllenhaal, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for “Crazy Heart,” is really just happy to be nominated. “I’m going to enjoy all of it,” she told me the other night at a USA Network/Vanity Fair party held in the thick of the big snowstorm. All the USA Network TV shows were being celebrated–”Characters Approved.” There [...]

Calling all designers – Maggie Gyllenhaal is not committed for Oscar night. The Best Supporting Actress nominee for “Crazy Heart” has yet to choose her dress for the March 7 award ceremony. “I don’t know what I’m wearing to the Oscars, but I’m enjoying thinking about it a lot,” she told StyleList at the USA [...]

When we caught up with Maggie Gyllenhaal last night at the Character Approved celebration hosted by USA Network, we wondered if the studio was making her go overboard to promote Crazy Heart, because she’s nominated for an Oscar for her role in it. “Crazy Heart, you know, wasn’t going to come out now, and they [...]

“The release of this movie was tied completely to the awards season,” Maggie Gyllenhaal told indieWIRE regarding Scott Cooper’s “Crazy Heart,” for which she has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. “And I could feel it so strongly. For example, when Jeff Bridges won the Golden Globe, all of a sudden [...]

And she goes where there’s work. Maggie Gyllenhaal is refreshingly balanced. Sure, she might have to travel to film on location, but it doesn’t sound like she’d have it any other way if it keeps her life normal. The quirky actress says that her and her husband aren’t exactly like Brad and Angelina, and she [...]

Entertainment Industries Council (EIC) has on Thursday, February 18, announced the nominees of the 14th Annual Prism Awards, unraveling that Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. will be competing in the same category. The “Crazy Heart” beauty and the leading man of “The Soloist” are both nominated for Performance in a Feature Film. Both of [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal has been a Spirit Awards darling (“Secretary,” “Happy Endings”), a Golden Globe nominee (“Sherrybaby,” “Secretary”) and a superhero’s girlfriend (“Batman Begins”). But the 32-year-old actress had never been an Oscar nominee – and didn’t think her turn in “Crazy Heart” as Jean Craddock, a single mother and journalist who falls for an alcoholic [...]

NEW YORK — When the nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were announced Feb. 2, there was one bona fide surprise acting nomination: Maggie Gyllenhaal for best supporting actress in writer-director Scott Cooper’s “Crazy Heart.” In the tradition of Laura Linney in “The Savages” or Marcia Gay Harden in “Mystic River,” Ms. Gyllenhaal, with [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal says her brother Jake gave her advice on dealing with this year’s Oscar ceremony. The star has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in movie Crazy Heart. “I hope this isn’t too much of a downer, but the one thing he did say to me, before I was nominated actually, [...]

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 [...]