Streep plays down awards season talk

Meryl Streep has played down her awards nominations for 'Doubt' as she feels they detract from the film.

The 59-year-old Oscar-winning actress plays strict nun Sister Aloysius in the powerful drama written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, which received multiple Golden Globe and Bafta nominations.

And Streep is facing double competition from Kate Winslet who is nominated twice for the best actress Bafta for 'The Reader' and 'Revolutionary Road'.

Streep said: “I have to say it’s just so much more fun to publicise a film in July. Because you talk about the film you don’t talk about the horse race which is almost like a different thing altogether.

“It has to do with marketing and jockeying between studios and campaigns and it’s a political thing.

“Having said that I think Kate Winslet is great. I’m glad she wasn’t in three movies this year.”

Winslet gave a very emotional speech after winning the best actress Golden Globe last week, apologising to Streep and the other nominees, but forgetting Angelina Jolie’s name.

Asked for her tips on accepting awards, Streep joked: “You mean, assuming that I won’t be one?

“I don’t have any tips. You’re out of your own body in that moment when they call your name. So I think everybody makes a fool of themselves in their own way.

“The ones who are the happiest are the ones who are sitting home laughing ’Look at them. Oh man!’.

“It’s a beautiful position to be on the couch. But it’s hard to manage your emotions, that’s all.”