Patrick Marber was home in London when the Academy Award nominations were announced. Apparently a realist more than an optimist ("It's my first nomination, maybe my only"), he did not have great expectations that his name would come up in the adapted screenplay category for "Notes on a Scandal."
"I turned my phone off. I didn't want to know. And if, 15 minutes' time after the nominations announcement, it looked busy, that was good news. And it was very busy.
"I remember this day two years ago when I didn't get nominated for 'Closer.' And the difference between the silence of no nomination and the noise of a nomination is dramatic. This, I have to say, is a bit more fun."