Thanks so much to Willian for the head’s up on these new behind the scenes stills from Rooney’s days working on “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”

004 x Movie Images – A Nightmare on Elm Street: BTS Stills

More reaction coming your way from the newly minted Oscar nominee! Here’s Rooney talking to E! Online. Thanks to Lu for the head’s up on this one!

Video under cut due to autostart. Click below!

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LOL this is hilarious.

Nominated for actress: “I knew there was a very small chance,” Mara said from her home in Los Angeles after receiving the news from her mother. “I was very surprised, and I feel very honored and humbled to be a part of a list of women that I’ve looked up to for a while.”

Source: LA Time

“I was sleeping and my phone started going crazy,” recalled Rooney Mara. The movie had been skirting around the edges of the awards season and was one of those questions marks on pundits’ radar. “I knew there was a small chance but I wasn’t expecting it. I don’t know about the politics of (awards) but it came late in the game and it seems to me that a lot of the movies that got the awards came out early. I feel really honored and humbled to be on the list.” One of the first people she talked to was Tattoo director David Fincher. While Mara kept most of the details of the conversation to herself, she revealed that she told him, “I could not have done it without him and he should feel responsible for the nomination and take pride in it.”

Source: THR

Rooney Mara wasn’t as definitive, though she was certainly calm and cool on the phone. She said she was asleep at home in Los Angeles when the Oscar nominations were announced this morning. “I knew it was a very small possibility,” she said “but there’s so many incredible female performances this year and I really wasn’t expecting it, so it was kind of an amazing surprise to wake up to.”

C’mon, she was really asleep? “Yes I was,” she insisted. “I just didn’t want to watch. I knew my mom would be watching and she came running up and told me.”

In keeping with other nominees today, she took the diplomatic route. “I feel incredibly honored to be on a list with these other women, who I look up to and have been inspired by,” she said.

Ms. Rooney has been trying to get used to the awards-circuit chitchat, but added, “I’m not so good at this part of it — I’m quite shy.” She would reveal that despite plaudits for her red-carpet turns, she’s mainly interested in comfort — “so that’s sort of what I look for in what I wear” — and that her next project would be with Terrence Malick.

Oh, and that she’s excited to be nominated but she just doesn’t show it: “I’m jumping up and down on the inside, I promise.”

Source: New York Times

Watch Rooney’s name announced as an Oscar nominee from this morning! I also added a couple of pictures of her face up on the big screen with the other nominees. Such an exciting day!

002 x Miscellaneous – 01.24.12: Oscar Nomination Announcement

WOW. In a bit of shocking news this morning, Rooney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”! HUGE CONGRATS TO ROONEY!!

Here’s Rooney and Daniel on Le Grand Journal in Paris, plus an extra interview they did on the same day. They are dubbed, but you can still hear them underneath the translation. :) Caps soon!

Rooney is nearly unrecognizable in a new photoshoot in the February issue of W Magazine, which features the Best Performances on film in 2011. Congrats to Rooney on being in the company of people like Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, “Dragon Tattoo” co-star Christoper Plummer and fellow rising stars like Elizabeth Olsen and Shailene Woodley. I’ll try to get an HQ scan up soon!

Rooney Mara In The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
“For a year, I was Lisbeth Salander—I only wore black; I lived her life. Before this movie, I didn’t even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and my eyebrow and nipple were pierced. The only thing that concerned me was riding the motorcycle. I wasn’t nervous about the anal rape scene, but the motorcycle had me worried.”

001 x Photoshoots – 2012: W Magazine

Rooney and Daniel taped a segment for Paris talk show Le Grand Journal when they were there on January 3rd, and today the show aired. The video is not available yet (will post it here as soon as it is) but here are some stills of them on the show!

007 x Public Appearances – 01.03.12: Le Grand Journal (Paris)

Here’s Rooney being interviewed on the red carpet at the Golden Globes tonight. Refresh this post for new additions!

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