Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesEddie Redmayne is really loving his wedding ring.
"It's amazing," he told me at the BAFTA-LA Tea Party for the Golden Globes. "I'm such a fiddler. I have something else to fiddle with now. I think from the second I was married, my brother saw me just fiddling away. It's so wonderful."
Unfortunately, Redmayne and his wife of about four weeks Hannah Bagshawe weren't actually together when the Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday. He was in an L.A. hotel room while Bagshawe was back home in London at work.
She was the first person Redmayne called. "It was sort of a screaming tennis match, as it were," The Theory of Everything star said at the Critics' Choice Awards. "I don't think there were any words until she was like, 'I have to go do my accounts. But I'm too excited to work.'"
Redmayne picked up a Golden Globe on Sunday for his work as legendary physicist Stephen Hawking.
Redmayne's Oscar-nominated co-star Felicity Jones says she reached out to Jane Hawking, Hawking's first wife who she plays in the film. "I texted Jane today and I just said thank you," Jones said. "I feel like she's so much a part of the making of this film. They both were. And they are such incredible people that's it's nice to share it with them as well."
Julianne Moore was on a plane from New York to Los Angeles when she scored her fifth Oscar nomination. A couple of flight attendants congratulated Moore and then she spent the next five hours "returning emails," the Golden Globe winner said
Like those already mentioned above, Michael Keaton has had a non-stop whirlwind award season. "At this point, you don't try to be organized," said Keaton, nominated for his work in Birdman. "You just got to roll with it and go wherever the wind blows ya."
The Oscars will be handed out on Feb. 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood during a live telecast on ABC.