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Oscar night fright
'I was totally stressed, beyond nervous' says Hollywood veteran Lauren Bacall, of her Oscar nomination for the Barbra Streisand film The Mirror has Two Faces. 'I did my best - trying to look relaxed as though I was enjoying myself. I doubt I was very convincing'. When Kevin Spacey came out with the envelope in his hand, Bacall said her heart was pounding so loud, she thought she would faint. The winner was Juliette Binoche, for The English Patient. 'I felt so badly for my children. I felt very alone,' Bacall said afterwards.
Forget the ceremony - even at the 2004 Oscar rehearsals, Renee Zellweger was suffering from such an attack of nerves that a friendly celebrity escort attempted to console her. 'She was looking really worried, so I tapped her on the shoulder, said I thought she'd win and that my fingers were crossed for her. Then I gave her the luck of the Irish,' says Carl Leon. 'Renee smiled and thanked me, then of course she won best supporting actress for Cold Mountain.'
Sofia Coppola always looks unruffled and serene, even when accepting her best original screenplay Oscar, which she won for Lost in Translation. In fact, she told reporters: 'I'm really very shy and my nerves make my stomach do somersaults whenever I have to get up in front of a crowd - to say nothing of a billion people at the Oscars! So, my way to handle it is to talk slowly and seem like nothing bothers me - but it's just because I'm a basket case when it comes to things like that.'
Much to the amusement of media commentators, fragile beauty Gwyneth Paltrow broke down in tears during her Oscar speech, after winning the best actress award for Shakespeare in Love. Even now she hides her Oscar statuette away, rather than be constantly reminded of the trauma of the evening. At first, she kept it in storage. Now she says: 'I keep it tucked away at the back of the bookshelf in my bedroom because it weirds me out.'
Oscar-winner and superstar Tom Hanks will never forget his first Oscar nomination, for his starring role in the film Big. 'Oh, that was a rough one. Oh, boy' he says, of his Academy ordeal. 'I was essentially nobody. But you get out and there's a riot going on. It's the most glamorous, well-dressed riot you've ever seen. And as soon as you put on the monkey suit, boy, all the nerves start jangling.'
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