Dame Helen heads British Oscar line-up
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Your support makes all the difference.Dame Helen Mirren leads a surprisingly strong British contingent for this year's Oscar nominations.
She is favourite to land the best actress award for her role in The Queen.
Britons dominate the category - there are also nominations for Dame Judi Dench as an embittered schoolmistress in Notes On A Scandal and Kate Winslet as a frustrated mother in Little Children.
Peter O'Toole picked up his eighth Oscar nomination - and his first in 24 years - at the age 74 for his performance as an ageing actor who falls for a young woman in Venus.
The Queen is a contender for best film alongside Babel, The Departed, Letters From Iwo Jima and Little Miss Sunshine.
And there are two British nominees for best director - Stephen Frears for The Queen and Paul Greengrass for United 93, his harrowing depiction of the last hours aboard a doomed 9/11 flight.
Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen is nominated for best adapted screenplay.
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