“I wore similar clothes, I shaved my head, but his accent I didn't go near. His wry sense of humour comes through as he describes the external factors that helped his performance. Giamatti, who rustles a sweet wrapper on the table throughout the interview, would rather sell himself short. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a fine performance, the movie is interesting, and I think the guy who plays Robert Oswald is really good in it.” I don't think I gave a good enough performance like that. When told that Landesman feels he should get another supporting actor nomination, he says: “That's nice of him to say, but I don't think that's true. The experiences have seemingly left the actor weary of awards talk. He would finally receive a Best Supporting Actor nomination in 2005 for his turn playing boxing manager Joe Gould in Cinderella Man. “I didn't expect to get nominated so it was like everybody else was way more disappointed than I was, so that was really weird, talking to these people and not knowing what to say to them to take their disappointment away that I didn't get nominated.” “That was an odd dilemma to be in,” he says. It was a major surprise when Sideways director Alexander Payne and cast-members Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen were nominated for Oscars, while Giamatti, the star of the show, was ignored.
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