Oscar reactions: 'My heart started thumping!'

January 24, 2007 Del Toro said had it been released earlier, the score might have been different, but the beauty of it is, whoever saw it at the time certainly loved it enough to produce this variety of nominations. There may be no typical way to receive notification that you have received a best actress Oscar nomination, but Helen Mirren discovered that she had been tapped for "The Queen" in "a most extraordinary way." While waiting on hold for an interview with NBC's "Today" show during a break between filming scenes for Iain Softley's "Inkheart," she was listening to the live feed of nominations and unknowingly came in during the middle of best supporting actress.

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