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The Favourite has been nominated for more than 270 awards and has already won 118.
It claimed seven BAFTAs, with Olivia taking the Best Actress award and Rachel winning Best
Supporting Actress. The film’s dark humour has also made it a hit with critics and a smash at the box office.
Rachel said: “I didn’t really know when we saw the final film that it was going to be a tragic love story, a political thriller, an absurd comedy, a ridiculous farce. The genres go on.”
Olivia and Emma, 30, are also up for Oscars for their roles. And Rachel isn’t surprised at all. She said: “There’s this giant close-up on Olivia Colman’s face as she realises she’s wheelchair-bound and she has gout and she’s not agile and she can’t dance.
“Watching her face turn from enjoyment to envy to just utter tragic pain on a dime like that… she is such an extraordinary actress.” MAHERSHALA Ali says his years playing basketball helped to make him a Hollywood success.
The star of hit drama Green Book was so good at sports at college it landed him a scholarship.
And now he’s on track to win his second Oscar in just three years. Mahershala, 44, said: “In basketball there’s a sense of everyone touching the ball, everyone contributing. There are only five people on the team, so you can see what everyone else is doing.
“I think there’s this spirit of collaboration in sports. Of course there are celebrities or stars of sports.
“But Michael Jordan knows he wouldn’t have won the championship without real role players.
“I think sports in general – especially team sports – nurture you as far as stepping in and doing this work and prepare you for working with other people.”
Mahershala became a global star in 2016 when he won an Oscar for his turn in Moonlight.
He is expected to secure another win for Best Supporting Actor next weekend for his performance as pianist Don Shirley.
But being in big demand means he is struggling to make sure his characters don’t become too similar.
He said: “I have to mourn characters. You have to shed it and let it go. You have to shed those characters and in some way, shape or form create space between projects so you can avoid character-bleed and somehow those attributes don’t make it into your next project.
“I don’t ever want any of that. I try as best I can to make space to let each project to live in its own time.”
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Brits look set to miss out on Oscars Richard glory. Olivia Colman, are all E Grant and Rachel Weisz of them are nominated but none is tipped bookies’ favourites. Roma Rami to win Best Picture while Mahershala Malek, Glenn Close, are all
Ali and Regina King expected to pick up acting gongs on Sunday. OSCARS bosses have scrapped plans to dish out awards during ad break There was a backlash after it was announced the results fo Cinematography,
Action Film Editing, Short, and Makeup Hairstyling and wouldn’t be show live. But now show chiefs have agreed to reverse their decision.