CAREY MULLIGAN TIPPED FOR OSCAR NOMINATION

British actress Carey Mulligan looks a dead cert for a best actress Oscar nomination after her new film, An Education, got rapturous applause at the prestigious Telluride film festival.
Bleak House and Northanger Abbey star Mulligan, 24, plays a teenager in the 1960s coming-of-age drama written by Nick Hornby, co-starring Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina.
The film, which won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, opens next month, with Mulligan tipped for Hollywood stardom.
“Comparisons since the Sundance debut to Audrey Hepburn are not without merit,” said Los Angeles Times commentator Pete Hammond
“Oscar nominations are assured for Mulligan and perhaps Alfred Molina, who is wonderful as her father.”
Mulligan introduced the screening, with director Lone Scherfig, and admitted she was nervous, in part because Brenda Blethyn, who played her mother in her first role in Pride and Prejudice, was in the audience.
Hammond also predicted a third Oscar nomination for Blethyn, after Little Voice and Secrets and Lies, for her performance in London River – but only if it finds an American distributor before the end of the year.
Mulligan is keeping a foot on both sides of the Atlantic as her career takes off, and winning roles alongside A-list stars.
She appeared in Public Enemies with Johnny Depp and the yet-unreleased The Greatest, which also screened at Sundance, with Pierce Brosnan.
In January she will be seen with Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire in Brothers, directed by Jim Sheridan, and she is currently filming Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, with Shia LaBeouf, whom she is also said to be dating.
But she has also finished work on the British drama Never Let Me Go, with Keira Knightley, her acting mentor ever since they starred together in Pride and Prejudice, and will star in the remake of Brighton Rock next year, with Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite.