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Here I'll put some english (web)articles... no german articles... I don't wanna translate them all =)
by CNN.com 2003
Women of Oscar: Kidman, Lane
With the rush for Oscar gold in full force, CNN anchor Daryn Kagan sat down with Academy Award nominees Nicole Kidman and Diane Lane after Monday's Oscar luncheon in Beverly Hills, California.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: It's just two girlfriends hanging out poolside. Year of the woman, so many great roles for women.
NICOLE KIDMAN, ACTRESS: I know. Isn't that good?
KAGAN: Yes.
KIDMAN: Really good, actually ... . In the Golden Globes, when I was -- I said I want to say not just in film, as well in television. I mean, you see these women like Edie Falco, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall. They're all doing such good work, it's covering all mediums and that's really exciting.
KAGAN: So on one hand, it brings everybody together. That makes Oscars fun. But then it turns into a competition.
KIDMAN: Well, it sort of is a competition, but at the same time, it's -- I think the nomination is it. And you know, Julianne and Renee and Salma and all of us, we just had our photo taken together on a couch, and we were all laughing. And we all kind of, I think, have our heads screwed on the right way and realize what it is and want to support each other.
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KAGAN: Is it the singular year, or are we turning a corner for women and their roles?
KIDMAN: I hope that it continues, you know, because as I said, we're interesting. Keep writing for us, because we are, we're interesting and we're fun. Girls are fun.
KAGAN: Yes, we are. Finally, I just have to ask you about picking out the dress.
KIDMAN: I've already picked it, and I'm simple.
KAGAN: We will look forward to that. ...We'll
see you on Oscar night.
by teletext.com
Kidman: 'I would never gamble on myself'
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It's Nicole Kidman's year. She's been nominated for an Oscar for The Hours, won a Golden Globe, a Bafta and a Silver Berlin Bear as well as bagged and been up for various other gongs.
Last year was just as glittering - she was also nominated for an Academy Award for Moulin Rouge! and Bafta for The Others. Okay, so it's been Kidman's couple of years.
But it appears the lady doesn't think she's as to die for as everyone else.
The actress may look the picture of poise and confidence but she admits she has doubts about her talents.
"I believe you should always have a healthy amount of fear and respect for what you do. And not to take it for granted that you can walk in there and it's going to be at your fingerprints. You get taught that at drama school and sometimes you can actually lose that along the way. So I always like to be tough on myself, really tough."
Kidman hopes her chances of winning the Best Actress Oscar for The Hours aren't influenced by the parties she attends and film's PR campaign.
"I don't know if that really comes into play," she says. "You hope that it doesn't. In terms of this coinciding with the release of our film, that has been one of those things. We were lucky to get the nominations as it's generated a lot of interest. It would normally be an uphill battle.
She won't comment on her chances at scooping this year's Best Actress Academy Award.
"I would never gamble on myself," she says. "I really don't know. There is a strong category of women nominated this year and I think it is actually lovely to be nominated. Two years in a row and that is pretty much wow. I know I keep saying that word. I need to come up with a better word."
The star acknowledges that The Hours' screenplay writer David Hare and director Stephen Daldry played an important part in her Oscar nomination.
"If you are given great words, you are almost there," she says. "You obviously need a great director too. There is an enormous amount of preparation and work that goes into the lead-up to a role. Then once you are in it, there is also a huge amount of dedication during that time period."
Kidman admits she gets nervous about all the attention she receives at glamorous Awards ceremonies.
"I always have a glass of champagne when I am getting ready to try to put a dampener on the stress," she laughs. "There is way too much emphasis now on what you are wearing and also the speeches. It's like you get critiqued for your film and speech. It is a lot of fun when you actually get there and you are around your colleagues."
by thesun.co.uk
Nicole's shock at Cruise call 
TOM CRUISE was the first person to congratulate his ex-wife NICOLE KIDMAN on her Oscar triumph.
Tom called the moment Nicole switched on her mobile phone at the Governor’s Ball — the official Academy Awards aftershow bash.
The Aussie beauty, who scooped the best actress gong for The Hours, was stunned and close to tears as she heard his voice.
Ecstatic Tom, now dating PENELOPE CRUZ, called from the set of his new movie 'The Last Samurai' in New Zealand.
He was on speakerphone with fellow cast members as he told Nicole: "Congratulations on your amazing achievement. You are wonderful in this film and fully deserve the award. Have a fantastic evening."
He added that he had 24 bottles of champagne on ice to celebrate the result.
Nicole’s role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours was her first job after splitting from Tom. She said: "At that particular time, acting in The Hours saved my life."
But Nicole admitted she forgot to thank her dad while collecting the award.
She said: "I’ve absolutely no recollection of what I said up there. All my life I’ve felt I wanted to make my mother proud of me, I think I’ve disappointed her at times."
She’s been in shock for about an hour. "It was lovely to have the generations with me at the ceremony — my mum, my daughter. I left my dad out! I didn’t mean to."
"My daughter kept saying: ‘I knew you would win, I knew you would.’"
"I love what I do. When I was a kid sitting at home wearing a dressing gown I’d watch the Oscars on telly and think, ‘Wow, that would be amazing to be at.’"
But Nicole admitted she was torn at whether or not to attend the event because of the war in Iraq.
She said: "I did grapple with the idea of whether I should come. There are far more serious things in the world, but art is important, it is part of our lives."
"It is a tribute and we are aware of what is going on in the world. We try to have dignity and respect for that."
(it was posted in a forum)
BEST Actress winner Nicole Kidman topped off a night of Oscars partying with a late supper of soft drink and chips with her daughter Isabella.
After first telling friends she wanted a quiet night, Kidman hit the Hollywood party circuit with her red carpet dates, her parents Janelle and Anthony, for celebrations that lasted until 3.30am.
The 35-year-old had said she would go straight to bed after the ceremony to prepare for a return to New York, where she is filming Birth.
But Kidman, dressed in a black Jean Paul Gaultier gown, joined revellers at the Governor's Ball, next to the Oscar ceremony, before moving to the Paramount Studio and Vanity Fair parties -- and ending the night with the late-night, fast-food feast.
"It was wonderful, joyous last night," Nicole's mother, Janelle, said.
"The adrenalin's just starting to decrease now. I didn't feel tired at all; my husband and I even had a little bit of a dance," Mrs Kidman said, almost 24 hours after the ceremony.
She admitted the family wasn't entirely confident Nicole would win "but it was a night of surprises, wasn't it?"
"It was just like Robin Williams said it would be on the tape, where everything slows down," she said. "And I wasn't even getting the award."
"When she was up there I was saying 'Don't forget your father', which of course she did but he didn't mind."
As the Kidmans celebrated, Russell Crowe paid tribute to his friend's strength, talent and dedication, even comparing her to Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn.
"It was one of those years when you know every actress nominated will sooner or later be an Oscar winner," Crowe said. "Nicole's dedication, brilliance, resilience and generosity has been lauded, applauded and finally handsomely rewarded."
"I couldn't be happier for her, her family, her pets, everyone. It (the Oscar) won't be her last -- she's the next (Katharine) Hepburn."
by fashion.telegraph.co.uk
Red ringlets or straight and strawberry blonde, Nicole's hair deserves an Oscar
Bryony Gordon speaks to the man behind Nicole Kidman's versatile hairstyles
"I'm so sorry I missed your call," says hairdresser Kerry Warn, from New York, in his upper-crust Australian accent. "It's just that I'm on set with Nicole and we are very, very busy. I have a moment now, but I may have to cut you off - Nicole is in rehearsals and as soon as she's finished, I have to do her hair."
It is not easy to get hold of Warn. Not only is he John Frieda's international creative consultant, but he is also Nicole Kidman's personal hairdresser.
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This is no small feat. Kidman changes her hairstyle as often as the gossip columns change their minds about who she is dating. For this year's Golden Globes and Baftas ceremonies, she wore her strawberry blonde hair in a sleek, straight chignon; at the Screen Actors Guild Awards earlier this month, she opted for a loosely pinned, wavy bob, while at last month's Berlin Film Festival, her face was framed by tight red ringlets. With the touch of a hairdryer button, she can switch from looking as if she has stepped straight from the canvas of a pre-Raphaelite painting to exuding perfectly groomed Edwardian elegance.
Warn will tend Kidman's hair for this Sunday's Oscars ceremony - she has been nominated for Best Actress for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours - although they haven't yet settled on a particular style.
"We never decide until the day before, when she has chosen what she'll wear - the dress inspires the hairstyle. If she chooses a romantic gown, we usually go for soft curls, but at the Golden Globes, she wore a stunning dress, so I decided to keep it simple."
"The same goes for the Baftas, when she wore a very uncomplicated white Ungaro creation and those wonderfully detailed red earrings. I said to her: 'Nicole, you don't really need hair - it'll only hide the jewellery.' So we decided to tie it back."
"I think a lot of women who have naturally curly hair don't suit straight hair," says Mark Hill, who has coiffed Oscar-night hair for Michelle Pfeiffer, Kate Hudson, Goldie Hawn and Sandra Bullock, "but Nicole can look sexy either way. And she plays around with the curls - she can do mad, spiralling corkscrews or soft, cascading curls."
The medium to fine texture of her hair also allows her to make it look short without actually cutting it, says Hill. "And because she's naturally a strawberry blonde, she can go either way with colour - she looked wonderful as a fiery redhead in Moulin Rouge, but she looks just as beautiful with soft, blonde hair in The Others."
Warn says that it isn't just Kidman's physical versatility that makes her perfect to work with - her willingness to try out new styles also helps. "She's game for anything," he laughs. "Although she wouldn't go as far as chopping it all off for Birth, the film we're working on now. Even with such a gamine look, she looks fantastically sexy."
So how does Warn create her look? "Which one of which 100?" he chuckles. "When we're doing it curly, I apply John Frieda Frizz Ease Serum to give her hair a natural curl, but also to make it last - the Oscars is a long evening. Then, I use a diffuser and a curling iron to soften and loosen the hair and prevent it from looking too solid."
For the straight, tied-back style he created for the Golden Globes and the Baftas, "I cheat - I make it appear bobbed by pulling it back and letting the top layers fall down around the face. Then I use a serum and a natural bristle brush to smooth it out. Straightening irons help to lock everything in place and protect the hair from any humidity, and I finish by putting on some John Frieda Pure Blonde Wax to make sure it's really smooth."
But for those women feeling downhearted by the ease with which Kidman maintains beautiful locks, Warn has some comforting words - her hair isn't always perfectly coiffed. "Nicole's just like any normal woman - when she's not working, she likes just to scrape her hair back into a ponytail and go."
Nicole could do it again next year
Nicole Kidman has one Oscar and this time next year she could have two.
The Australian actress has three quality films - Cold Mountain, The Human Stain and Dogville - coming out late this year and any one of the three could score her another invite to the Academy Awards.
And with an equally impressive slate of films scheduled to be released in 2004, Kidman realistically has a shot at winning three consecutive Oscars.
"I love what I do and that means you do drama, you do comedy, you look to be diverse as an actress," Kidman told reporters after claiming her first Oscar yesterday for The Hours.
Kidman woke up in Los Angeles yesterday the new queen of Hollywood.
A photo of the smiling actress, holding her Oscar, was on the front page of the Los Angeles Times.
The photo shared space on the LA broadsheet with two grim photos of the war in Iraq.
The workaholic Kidman has no plans to rest after her Oscar win. She spent yesterday with her family in Los Angeles and, according to her Beverly Hills publicist, Kidman will fly back to New York "first thing" today to continue shooting her latest project, Birth.
Kidman has signed on or is in negotiations to star in at least four other films, including playing the big screen version of suburban house wife and witch Samantha Stephens in Bewitched. However, Kidman indicated yesterday she would only do it "if they get the script right".
Kidman's best chance for a lead actress Oscar next year is for the US civil war epic, Cold Mountain, due for release in late 2003, perfect timing for an Oscar run.
"My next big film is Cold Mountain which, in terms of my focus and passion, that's where I'm at the moment, thinking about that," Kidman said.
It has all the Oscar ingredients: it's a big budget epic; a great cast with Oscar pedigree (Renee Zellweger and Jude Law); Oscar winning director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient); Australia's Oscar winning cinematographer John Seale (The English Patient); and the film is backed by Hollywood's king of Oscar campaigns, Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein.
Weinstein poured tens of millions of dollars into marketing Chicago for this year's Oscars and will likely do the same for Cold Mountain.
The Human Stain, which teams Kidman with another Oscar winner, Anthony Hopkins, is also a Miramax film aimed at the Oscars.
Dogville, a bizarre film shot exclusively inside a studio with few props and an emphasis on light, sound, and music to create a dramatic atmosphere, is directed by Denmark's Lars von Trier.
Kidman laughed when she spoke about the movie at the post Oscar press conference.
"The next film I have coming out is Lars Von Trier's film so get ready," Kidman warned.
Post-Oscar Interview
NIC: I'm a little giddy.
I have no recollection of what I said but yeah it's a sort of a very intense, wonderful experience. Now I'm shy. The wrong time to get shy, right?
REPORTER: Hi Nicole, you mentioned in your acceptance speech that you...
NIC: What did I say?
REPORTER: Well you said that you talked to Russel Crowe and he said, "don't cry" but you did anyway. But you also said you wanted to make your mom proud. How does it feel to make you mom proud? Did you talk to her about it? What was her reaction to your winning?
NIC: Yeah she's... I suppose that's one of.. You know. I don't know why but in my life it's been one of the driving forces to make her proud of me and I think I disappointed her at times so it was wonderful to stand up on a stage and to have her being in the audience and also I suppose to have you know the generations of you mother and your daughter and to see, just to see their faces there. But I left my dad out and I didn't mean to so I'm adding him now.
It was a collective thing you know, mother and father.
REPORTER: What did your mother say to you?
NIC: Well she said she's been in shock for about an hour and she just came out of it too. So. And my daughter said, "I knew, I knew you'd win". And I said, "I didn't". So...
I don't have my glasses on so forgive me if I'm not looking you in the eye but I mean to. I'm blind as bat.
REPORTER: I'm here. Hello.
NIC: I can see a shape.
REPORTER: Any way you said in "The Hours" when you were doing press for it that you'd be thrilled to be nominated for anything, supporting actress, actress, whatever they decided. Have you been dreaming about, you know since you started as a kid as an actor, getting an Oscar? And will it change the way you look at your career? You are gonna be doing "Bewitched", is that the right thing for ...
NIC: If they get the script right.
REPORTER: an Academy Award winning Best Actress to be doing? I mean, will it change your career?
NIC: I, I , I think of this in terms of "I love what I do" you know and that means you do Drama, you do Comedy, you do... You look to be diverse as an actress. I have a wonderful woman that I work with, Susan Batson (?)... and I go back and I do classes in terms of acting classes and I love to support that next generation of actors who are coming up and that's very, very important to me. So, but in terms to just looking to be diverse that's what I look for, so I, in the next film I have coming out is a Lars Von Tier film so get ready. No, I'm sorry (nervous laugh) Sorry. But then you know obviously my next big film is "Could Mountain" which I've already have… in terms of my focus and my passion that's where I'm at, at the moment. Is thinking about that.
REPORTER: It was the Oscar a life's dream sort of a, you know one...
NIC: It's one of those things when you sit in your living room as a kid with your dressing gown on. Do you say "dressing gown" in America? Pajamas. And you watch the television and you think "Wow! That would be amazing to be involved in that. To be a part of that. But you never think of that as a reality and then... but you know as a kid that you have a passion and you feel it inside you and just to have the chance to artistically express yourself is such a great opportunity and I'm very, very grateful for it. And then to receive something like this because of what you do just makes you feel, you know, very appreciated.
REPORTER: I wanted to say since you also mentioned Isabella in your speech up there that you wanted her to be proud of you and...
NIC: And... (says Connor's nickname) who's only 8 though. I mean Connor, sorry that's his nickname.
REPORTER: Connor and Isabella.
NIC: Yeah he will kill me if he sees that.
REPORTER: What do you want them to take away from this experience that you can pass on to them? And secondly, since you have won the Golden Globe as well was there some kind of self-assureness between then and now?
NIC: No I don't think. I think constantly in a state of... I mean, I'm in the middle of doing a film at the moment so I kind of stepped out for like 48 hours and I'm going back and I have to go straight back into character and straight back into the film but... I mean I don't think there's any sort of confidence in relation to winning an award. You... I don't have that confidence about even the next role that I do , I mean just because I won this now. I still go back thinking "Oh Gosh I'm gonna get fired". You have to have, I think you have to operate from a sense of everything is new and you're starting again. And in terms an award, of creating a new role, in terms of you life you know. I suppose it comes down to not taking anything for granted. So.
REPORTER: (Question about a movie)
NIC: It’s called "Birth". Ant it's with a director called Jonathan Glazer he directed "Sexy Beast" and I saw Ben Kinsley tonight so... He have had a fantastic performance in that film
REPORTER: There's been rumors that you were...
NIC: Oh oh (nervous laugh) What now? No joking.
REPORTER: Rumors that you weren't gonna come tonight and then...
NIC: Oh...
REPORTER: (finishes the question probably about the war.)
NIC: Of course I think you wouldn't be in you right mind if you didn't (...) of the idea "Do I come? Is this a frivolity or is there something more important here?" And sure there's an essence of frivolity when there's are far more serious things in the World that are happening but at the same time, as I said, art is an important part, I suppose, of our lives and I'm very proud to have dedicated my life to being an actor and so in the same sense of that you say this is honoring and artistic matter is not as much a celebration but is a tribute in that sense. Bur still saying, "we are aware of what's going on in the World". And trying to have some sort of dignity and respect for that as well.
REPORTER: (question about “The Hours”)
NIC: I just feel very privileged to acting for me in that particular time in my life. It saved my life. I came along and I was so fortunate to get the chance to play Virginia at that particular time of my life because I needed it. It wasn't some thing, unless you're an actor, oh I don't know, people can understand that, it is something where you say " thank god I had the chance to express my self through this character at this time and, and, and also I think receiving her at that time w as very important to me and being able to read and understand her voice and what she said and I suppose that comes back to just why I think arts is important in the World in terms of singular voices and collective voices speaking to you and speaking to generations that come after you. And Virginia had a huge impact in my life.
REPORTER: How did you change into Virginia Woolf completely...
NIC: I don't know. I have no idea. People ask you how do you act. I used to say to Stanley Kubrick " How do you come up with that idea?" and he would say " I don't know" and I think that's is the most honest answer. It's not like I have some technique or something that I know exactly what... I suppose that's why I don't have an enormous amount of confidence when I go back into something its because its so intangible you're not quite sure how you do it and you're not quite sure how you're gonna do it again so that’s... In terms of Virginia I think it's timing, I think it's something that you cannot put your fingers on.
REPORTER: (something about the nose)
NIC: The nose was something that Anne Roth and Stephen Daldry suggested and I was like "yeah let's go" I like anything that says "let's change who I am" or change that's... you use your body, you use your voice, you use your psychic as your tools.
Where's the nose? It was actually a different nose every day but I was given a silver nose by the producers when we wrapped. I have that
REPORTER: (question about London)
NIC: I seem to do very well with English directors. I'm working with an English director now and Stephen, Mendes who gave me the chance to play 5 different character on stage which got me the opportunity to do Moulin Rouge and then got me the opportunity to play Virginia because Stephen Daldry came and saw that production so in terms of the British I do very well.
Nicole destined for greatness
A few weeks ago one of Hollywood's grand old studios, Paramount, threw a small party in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
There was no red carpet, no press or photographers, just a few Paramount executives, agents and actors coming together to celebrate The Hours' nine Academy Awards nominations.
One of the guests was A.C. Lyles, an 84-year-old who still has an office on the Paramount lot. It's actually the studio's best office, Fred Astaire's old digs.
Lyles has worked at Paramount for more than 70 years, beginning as a teenage office boy then emerging as one of the studio's leading producers and later a studio executive.
His closest friends were James Cagney, Ronald Reagan and Joan Crawford, and he guided the careers of some of Hollywood's other leading men and women. Let's just say he knows what it takes to be a star.
Until the party at the Polo Lounge, Lyles had never met Nicole Kidman.
"Nicole was standing with her agent and her agent introduced me to Nicole," Lyles told AAP.
"Her agent said: 'Nicole, this is Mr Paramount' or something like that."
"Nicole said: 'Oh come over and talk to me.'"
"I guess we talked for 20 minutes and I was very impressed because she put her face right up directly to me. Never once did her eyes wander over my shoulder, or to the side to look at who was walking by, who was leaving."
"She wanted to know all about the history of Paramount and she wanted to know about the different actors and who was the most popular and she was genuinely interested."
"Never once did she refer to anything she has done or her chances of an Academy Award."
"I was completely taken with her."
Not only is Lyles a 70-year Hollywood veteran but he is also one of the 5,816 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He is too much of a gentleman to reveal how he voted at this year's Oscars, but speaking to Lyles provides a glimpse of why Kidman is Hollywood's new darling and why the Academy crowned the 35-year-old Australian with the best actress Oscar.
"Olivia de Havilland had so much class, so much appeal and was so genuine and I think Ms Kidman is like Olivia," Lyles said.
"She is so elegant and at the same time is very human with a delicious sense of humour. Oh, a great sense of humour."
"You can tell she loves to laugh and laughs well."
Lyles, however, says the majority of Academy members vote purely on the actor's performance, not on beauty, personality or past roles.
"I have been a voting member of the Academy for 50 years and I think we vote for the performance, for the integrity of the role," Lyles said.
"Even sometimes you can have a personal friend in a category and you vote for someone else because they, for whatever reason, did a better job."
"A lot people had to vote for Nicole to win and a lot of those people would never have met her, therefore they don't know about her personal charm, what they see is on the screen."
Kidman's journey to Hollywood began 29 years ago, when as a six-year-old she made her acting debut in a nativity play in her home town of Sydney.
As a 10-year-old she joined a drama school and four years later scored her first professional role in the TV movie, Bush Christmas. She followed that up with her infamous kids adventure film, BMX Bandits.
The gangly, 178cm tall actress' breakthrough year was 1989 in the feature film thriller, Dead Calm, and the TV mini-series, Bangkok Hilton.
Hollywood leading man Tom Cruise, at the height of his career after a string of big box office action films, spotted Kidman in Dead Calm and auditioned her for the female lead in his 1990 race car movie Days of Thunder.
Cruise and Kidman fell in love and they married on Christmas eve, 1990.
The marriage lasted just under 10 years and despite a number of big-budget roles - Batman Forever (1995), The Peacemaker (1997) and Practical Magic (1998) - and critically-acclaimed performances in Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995) and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady (1996), Kidman largely lived in the shadow of her more famous husband.
"For such a long time she was thought of as Mrs Tom Cruise, but now she is really carving her own identity in Hollywood," the New York-based author of Inside Oscar and Inside Oscar II, Damien Bona, said.
"She has clearly emerged from the shadow of Tom Cruise."
Bona believes Kidman still has to prove herself at the box office before she is in the same league as Julia Roberts.
"When you win best actress you are temporarily the queen of Hollywood," he said.
"But when you look at Nicole's films, she really hasn't quite proved herself to be a big box office pull, except probably The Others."
"For many years she has been considered more of a celebrity than an actress but I think with three or four big films coming out this year, especially (Civil War epic) Cold Mountain, she is really poised to go to the next step."
History shows an Oscar does not guarantee permanent status among Hollywood's elite, with Bona pointing to American actress Holly Hunter, who won an Academy Award in 1993 for The Piano.
"How Nicole manages her career in the next few years will be very interesting," Bona said.
"She should be careful of going down the same path as say, Holly Hunter, who after her Oscar win probably didn't pick the best roles, she went for films that were of interest to her but not necessarily the best choices for her career."
"But from what I hear, Nicole is very savvy when it comes to her career. She knows what she wants."
Lyles agreed.
"She has a lot ahead of her and she's going to get the best roles there is to offer," Lyles said."
"I hope her selection turns out to be fruitful."
Kidman's next few roles are diverse and appear to be safe choices.
There's Cold Mountain, directed by Oscar winner Anthony Minghella (The English Patient), the cinematographer is Australia's Oscar winning John Seale (The English Patient) and Kidman's co-stars are Renee Zellweger and Jude Law, with whom she has been romantically linked - although both Kidman and Law strongly deny the speculation.
Another film likely to put Kidman in the Oscar spotlight is The Human Stain, which teams her with another Academy Award winner, Anthony Hopkins.
Dogville, directed by Denmark's controversial Lars von Trier, will be released later this year and also on the horizon for Kidman is the big budget epic, Alexander the Great, directed by Baz Luhrmann and co-starring Leonard Di Caprio.
An hour after Kidman won the Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours, she explained to reporters what inspired her as an actress.
"I love what I do and that means you do drama, you do comedy, you look to be diverse as an actress," she said.
Lyles said Academy voters respect a chameleon like Kidman who can sing and dance in a film like Moulin Rouge and then back that performance up with a brilliant dramatic role in The Hours.
"The thing that is interesting about her is she just didn't come to light in one type of role," Lyles said.
"She has shown a variety of temperaments, a variety of personalities, a variety of wardrobe, she was the beautiful lady, well-dressed, to the dowdy woman who was dressed dowdily and looks dowdy."
"They are the same type of roles Bette Davis had and look at Olivia de Havilland and it's the same way with Nicole Kidman."
"Actually when you think of Nicole you say 'Hey, this young lady can do any type of part'. I can't think of anything she couldn't do."
Lyles said he was not surprised when his fellow Academy members rewarded Kidman for her performance in The Hours.
"This was a very unique part for her," Lyles said.
"I think if the Academy voters had not seen anything else she has done and just saw The Hours I think she would have got the same vote."
"She was just so good in that picture. There's one scene when she's at the railroad and when I was watching I just went, 'My gosh, look at that gal'"
"It was a long scene and there was an extreme close-up and you believed every word that she said."
"I have seen just about every movie that she has done but I have never caught her acting."
"She is that person, that character, she isn't herself. I just don't see her acting, she is just so natural."
Lyles, who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said he believed Kidman would become one of Hollywood's greats.
"Her career is just starting," Lyles said.
"She is going to do great things. With her young age, her beauty, boy she has a bright future."
"At the moment she is at the top of her career but she's not at the apex of her career yet."
"The sun is shining on her, but when she gets to the top of the mountain it's going to be brighter."
"Everybody used to bow to Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland and James Cagney and she will reach those peaks."
"I just wished she was contracted exclusively to Paramount."
by people.com
Her Finest Hour
Only when young Isabella Cruise leaned over her mother's bare shoulder from the second row and whispered during the Academy Awards show, "You're going to win," did terror creep up on Nicole Kidman.
Until then, Kidman had convinced herself that she would go home Oscarless for her role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours. Over dinner the night before she had reassured her mother and father that she "really wouldn't feel badly," and Kidman had made peace with the outcome, PEOPLE reports in its latest cover story.
But sitting in her silk Jean Paul Gaultier gown in the front row midway through the March 23 ceremony, she started to feel sick. "My mother looked over at me and said, 'Your shoulders are hunched. You look completely terrified. You should just relax a bit,' " recalls Kidman, 35, giggling at the memory over a cup of black coffee at the Manhattan hotel that's subbing for home while her new Greenwich Village apartment undergoes renovations.
"I'm like, 'Mum, I can't!' My stomach suddenly went into knots and I got a wave of absolute fear. Ed Harris was sitting next to me and said, 'You don't look good. What's wrong?' I said, 'I'm feeling nauseous. Maybe I ate a bad shrimp.' I looked around and I suddenly realized the impact of being there and thought about if I had to get up onstage. Part of my fear was that I didn't want to disappoint Bella."
Bella, at 10, just old enough to be sporting her first pair of high heels, turned out to have her feet on the ground. When Best Actress presenter Denzel Washington read out Kidman's name, "I just went blank," she says. "Everything I had thought in my head that I might say was gone. Gone. I couldn't think of anyone's names. Nothing. It was terrifying, and my hands started to shake."
Kidman still recalls little of her time onstage, when she tearfully spoke of her desire to make her mother and daughter proud. But she remembers her family's private celebration when she and her parents returned to their hotel at 2 a.m. after a whirlwind of parties. Kidman then woke up a sleeping Bella, and "we came back and ate french fries and drank champagne," Kidman says. "Bella was drinking juice. She loved it."
Finally, at about 4:30 a.m., "I ripped my dress off because I was so exhausted and fell fast asleep," she says. "I woke up the next morning and right next to my bed, I saw a gold statue, and I realized then that it was really true. It's such an unusual, strange path that my life has had. The line 'How did this happen?' has many different meanings in my life. Virginia Woolf uttered it in her darkest period, and I've certainly uttered it in my darkest periods-and I've had my share — but I also utter it in my most joyful times. You just go, 'How did this happen?' "
by teamnicole.com
Nicole: 'I Felt Guilty About Being Here'
It was the end of the strangest Oscar week in history.
On Sunday night the stars filed into the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Some of them didn’t want to be there. A lot of them didn’t show. Nicole Kidman told me she understood.
"I felt so guilty being here," Kidman told me at the Governor’s Ball following the ceremony. She was seated between her parents, her daughter Isabella having gone to bed right after Kidman’s big win for best actress in The Hours.
"What did I say in my speech?" she asked me over bites of Wolfgang Puck’s magnificent dinner. "I wanted to say how life had changed after September 11."
"I was crying," Nicole’s mother interjected. "But you musn’t keep telling people you need my approval. I love you, dear. You have my approval!"
"Oh mother!" Nicole whispered.
It was that kind of night for Kidman, whom I also talked to in the Kodak just as we took our seats before the show. She did not think she would win — really. With fellow nominees Julianne Moore and Renee Zellweger within earshot she said, "It’s going to be Renee, you’ll see. But it’s fine and I’m very happy for her."
She was wrong. of course. Kidman’s reference to Sept. 11 during her speech was one of several that alluded to current events or addressed them straight on. Best actor Adrien Brody literally stopped the orchestra to add on a bit about peace and about a friend of his in the Marines.
Earlier in the evening, at the swirling party in the large bar area outside the awards, Brody had to scramble to find a sandwich and a drink. His mother, famed photographer Sylvia Plachy, was at his side. After the show, when he was finally able to get some dinner, Brody and his parents sat quietly at the Governor's Ball just trying to adjust to what happened.
"I didn’t plan the extra speech," he told me, "it just happened." Plachy, like Kidman’s mom, was still wiping away the tears.
Of course, Brody’s biggest moment in the show was not the speech but the huge surprise (and deep) kiss he gave presenter Halle Berry when he arrived at the microphone. Berry was clearly shocked, although it was such an unbridled, honest moment she couldn’t object too much.
"What did she say?" Adrien asked me at dinner.
This is what Halle told me: "I just went for it. I knew that feeling of being out of your head."
Her husband, singer Eric Benet, looked kind of stunned when she was talking to me about this. Benet seemed much different than he did one year ago. His long hair is cut short and he had kind of a dazed look in his eye. He just nodded and smiled when Berry was describing the kiss. Tabloid stories about him over the last year would suggest that he’s not in a position to complain.
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