Golden Globe nominations 2013: Nicole Kidman scores dual nods
Nicole Kidman scored a pair of Golden Globe nominations Thursday for two divergent performances that showcase the Oscar winners versatility and willingness to tackle challenging even potentially degrading roles in the name of drama.
Drafting on her dual Screen Actors Guild award nominations Wednesday, Kidman scored a Golden Globe nod for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture for her turn as a hot-to-trot Southern belle in The Paperboy and one for best performance by an actress in a mini-series or motion picture made for television portraying a war correspondent in the HBO biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn.
In director Lee Daniels The Paperboy, which divided critics when it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and has grossed less than $700,000 at the box office, Kidman plays a sexed-up Southern Barbie with a beehive bouffant and a penchant for steamy correspondence with prison inmates.
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Her brave performance includes some of the years roughest movie sex (vis-a-vis John Cusack portraying a murderous ex-convict), a telepathic sex sequence (that plays out like a bonkers version of Sharon Stones Basic Instinct leg-crossing scene on Viagra) and a sequence in which the actress! appears ! to urinate on Zac Efrons aspiring journalist character after he is stung multiple times by jellyfish.
As an exercise in contrasts, in Hemingway & Gellhorn, Kidman plays Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingways paramour-turned-third-wife and literary muse during many of the 20th centurys historical turning points -- the Spanish Civil War and the storming of Normandy among them. Its a full-bore, scenery chewing performance for which Kidman swears and swaggers and is shown engaging in no small amount of frenzied public lovemaking with co-star Clive Owen.
As an actor you look for roles that are rich, complicated and that stretch you, and this year I was blessed to find two, Kidman said in a statement. To have the chance to play them was a gift in itself and to then be acknowledged for this was the icing on the cake.
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