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NEW YORK -- Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman said she's not paying attention to early Oscars talk about her latest role as the domineering and manipulative titular character in Margot At the Wedding.

Entertainment Weekly's holiday-movies preview predicts both Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, who plays Margot's bride-to-be-sister in the film and is married to Margot director-screenwriter Noah Baumbach (The Squid And The Whale), have a shot at getting an Oscar nom.

"I think you just want to do good work," Kidman told reporters yesterday. "I'm basically interested in working with complex, really, really good directors (Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are on her current wish list) and that results, sometimes, in great films. Sometimes that results in films that were reaching high and didn't get there."

The 40-year-old actress said she had admired Baunbach's work before shooting Margot. "I just thought he was an original voice in American cinema and I was very, very honoured to be asked to be a part of this group."

Kidman, dressed elegantly in an all-black winter ensemble of black coat, black dress, black tights and black heels with her long strawberry locks in curls, was only scheduled to be in The Big Apple to do press for Margot for a few days before returning home Down Under, where she's still filming the epic Australia with her Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann.

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